#writing
Daniel Khent
danielkhent@nostrplebs.com
npub14220...yxtr
#writing, #AI, #bitcoin, #transhumanism, #postscarcity, #solarpunk, #lunarpunk, #ecopsycology
Erroneously assembled 1974 Altair 8800 computer gets fixed and enjoys first run in 2026
I guess running an LLM is out.
#vintagecomputing
Tom
Erroneously assembled 1974 Altair 8800 computer gets fixed and enjoys first run in 2026 — Intel 8080 powered machine ran its first program 52 years later
See it get programmed and play
BLM yanks American Prairie bison grazing leases
This is sad. Bison are good for the land. And of course innately mythical.
#ecopsychology
https://dailymontanan.com/2026/01/16/burgum-yanks-american-prairie-bison-grazing-leases/
Why Is the World Losing Color?
#visualarts
Why Is the World Losing Color?
The rise of Chromophobia...
Buddhist monks peace-walking from Texas to DC persist even after being run over on highway outside Houston
Advertisement for #peace
Fortune
Buddhist monks peace-walking from Texas to DC persist even after being run over on highway outside Houston | Fortune
One of the monks had “substantial leg injuries” and was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Houston, Dayton Interim Police Chief Shane Burleig...
“This Company Wants to Sell You Sunlight at Night From Space”
Lights My Way
#technology #scifi
VICE
This Company Wants to Sell You Sunlight at Night From Space
Reflect Orbital will use a satellite with a mirror on it to reflect sunlight to a specific location on Earth.
Scientists bend magnetic fields around real-world objects to create ‘invisibility cloaks’
At least from magnetic field sensing bad guys.
#technology #scifi
The Brighter Side of News
Researchers create an invisibility cloak by bending magnetic fields around real-world objects
New research shows magnetic cloaks can be built for real-world shapes using superconductors and soft magnets.
CO2 Battery Designed To Store Renewable Energy
Holds the equivalent CO2 of 15 round-trip flights between New York and London on a Boeing 777.
Note, not a carbon capture play.
#renewableenergy
ZME Science
This Giant Inflatable Dome Is Actually a CO2 Battery Designed To Store Renewable Energy For a Full Day. Here’s How It Works
By compressing and expanding carbon dioxide, this unusual battery solves one of renewable energy’s toughest reliability problems.
Polar bears face very high extinction risk this century. Some populations show genetic changes that may help them in warmer, less icy environments.
#climatechange
RSE Magazine
Les ours polaires s'adaptent au changement climatique au niveau génétique – et cela pourrait les aider à éviter l'extinction
L'océan Arctique atteint des températures inégalées depuis 125 000 ans, menaçant les ours polaires d'extinction d'ici 2050.
A startup claims to have discovered a previously unknown geothermal system in western Nevada with no surface manifestations using AI
Interesting, but untested
#renewableenergy #geothermal
WIRED
A Startup Says It Has Found a Hidden Source of Geothermal Energy
Zanskar uses AI to identify hidden geothermal systems—and claims it has found one that could fuel a power plant, the first such discovery by indu...
Soil is more important than oil.
“Why is it that we cannot have perennial grains that grow like prairie plants?”
#agriculture
the Guardian
‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution
Scientists in Kansas believe Kernza could cut emissions, restore degraded soils and reshape the future of agriculture
“detection is perhaps no longer possible because reality itself has become so weird”
#literature #thomaspynchon
Literary Hub
Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions
Thomas Pynchon’s late style, beginning with Inherent Vice (2009) and continuing through Bleeding Edge (2013) to Shadow Ticket (2025), represents ...
Trois voitures de Waymo se retrouvent bloquées dans une impasse
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen all the time.
#AI
Autoplus
Trois voitures de Waymo se retrouvent bloquées dans une impasse !
À San Francisco, des véhicules autonomes de Waymo se sont retrouvés piégés par une impasse et des manœuvres délicates.
Somewhere on the outskirts of Detroit
A system that uses solar to provide enough energy to power an entire coffee farm operation.
#agrivoltaic #renewableenergy
The Cool Down
Farmers stunned after unexpected impacts of new solar farm project: 'It's exciting'
One Puerto Rican farmer has developed an agrivoltaics system to both grow coffee and produce solar energy.
“room-temperature quantum sensing tool for chemistry, biology and materials science”
#quantum
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-quantum-sensor-based-silicon-carbide.html
The Bellmaker by Of The Trees
I think ayahuasca was involved.