danielkhent 10 months ago

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin “Even before I had the money, even if I never had the money,” Akasha tells me, smiling, staring at me with the wide, blue eyes of a true believer, “I was free.” #entheogens

WIRED

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made mi...

danielkhent 10 months ago

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms The article is pretty soft, but the idea of a re-entrant symbolic hologram is interesting… #AI #LLM

Psychology Today

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms

An LLM isn’t a mirror—it’s more like a hologram, one that reconstructs meaning from language.

danielkhent 11 months ago

Major Lithium Deposit found in deposit running southeastern Oregon to north Nevada #renewableenergy

UNILAD

Scientists discover $1,500,000,000,000 lithium deposit in US state

Mining is already underway in one state, but another is debating whether or not to begin drilling - with an endangered species inhabiting it

danielkhent 11 months ago

“Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming” Pretty cool. But no one thought of wood before? #renewableenergy

The Cool Down

Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming: 'It's not difficult to envision'

A Swedish company has turned to wood for a more sustainable construction material for wind turbines.

danielkhent 11 months ago

Turn Cheap Solar Marine Buoys Into Solar-Powered Meshtastic Nodes #solarpunk

Hackster.io

Stephen Heinz Turns Cheap Solar Marine Buoys Into Solar-Powered Meshtastic Nodes

Cheap solar-powered marine lights can live a new life as housings for solar-charged battery-backed Meshtastic LoRa nodes.

danielkhent 11 months ago

“Neither climate change nor meteorites – NASA confirms that the end of life on Earth will be due to loss of oxygen” finally some good news... #climatechange #science https://eladelantado.com/news/earth-oxygen-loss-nasa-study/

danielkhent 11 months ago

Photovoltaic spheres called “Sphelar by Kyosemi” that capture light from all angles Not sure if this is real. A sphere with ~20% efficiency? #renewableenergy #solarpunk https://unionrayo.com/en/japan-unveils-photovoltaic-spheres/

Sphelar Power Corporation

Development story - Technology - Sphelar Power Corporation

danielkhent 11 months ago

'breathing' magma cap inside Yellowstone supervolcano This cap acts like a lid that traps a significant amount of heat and pressure inside, but it appears to be porous enough to steadily release some of that pressure. #science #geology

Live Science

Scientists find

Yellowstone

danielkhent 11 months ago

Lucid Dreaming Reveals a New Layer of Conscious Brain Activity #luciddreaming

Neuroscience News

Lucid Dreaming Reveals a New Layer of Conscious Brain Activity - Neuroscience News

Lucid dreaming, where people become aware they are dreaming, has long fascinated both scientists and dreamers.

danielkhent 11 months ago

Fossil Fuels Were Less Than Half of US Electricity in March? #renewableenergy

CleanTechnica

Fossil Fuels Were Less Than Half of US Electricity in March! - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The cleantech revolution continues on — every … single &#82...

danielkhent 1 year ago

"...breakthrough 3D holograms can be touched, grabbed and poked." #technology

Live Science

In a first, breakthrough 3D holograms can be touched, grabbed and poked

Futuristic holograms you can manipulate have become a reality sooner than we thought, thanks to breakthrough display.

danielkhent 1 year ago

"David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules For Great Writing" He's right about usage dictionaries #writing https://nofilmschool.com/david-foster-wallace-great-writing

danielkhent 1 year ago

Mayo Clinic’s secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action #AI https://venturebeat.com/ai/mayo-clinic-secret-weapon-against-ai-hallucinations-reverse-rag-in-action/

danielkhent 1 year ago

How the Outdoors Can Heal and Ground Us A simple reminder... #ecopsychology

The Pacifican

Nature’s Remedy: How the Outdoors Can Heal and Ground Us — The Pacifican

Ecopsychology teaches us that healing begins where nature and mind meet.

danielkhent 1 year ago

NASA images reveal full extent of toxic golden river devastating region #environment #pollution

Daily Express US

NASA images detail full extent of toxic golden river devastating region

Satellite images show a shimmering trail of dried, chemical-filled mud left behind by wastewater that flooded the town of Jagersfontein in South Af...

danielkhent 1 year ago

Scientists Put a Human Language Gene Into Mice And Changed Their Voice Doesn't leave scifi much of a place to go... #scifi #science

ScienceAlert

Scientists Put a Human Language Gene Into Mice And Changed Their Voice

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA.

danielkhent 1 year ago

String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'death cult' What is it with data scientists and murder sprees? #AI #datascience #machinelearning

Client Challenge

danielkhent 1 year ago

Lee Morgan – The Rumproller #jazz #vinyl #NowPlaying

Songlink/Odesli

The Rumproller (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) by Lee Morgan

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, a...

Bass – Victor Sproles Drums – Billy Higgins Piano – Ronnie Mathews Recorded By [Recording By] – Rudy Van Gelder Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson Trumpet – Lee Morgan