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• Post #3956507

  #nature #photography #silentSunday #bloomscrolling #rose #flower #flowers #roses #

• Post #2282531

  https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-rounds/ Q - if #LLM are SOOOO Great, then why does ANYONE (incl. kids) need to "learn" it? Shouldn't EVERYONE just... y'know start using it to get shit done? This is not about literacy - this is about drug dealers legally trying to create addicts starting from childhood. Nothing more nothing less. #AI #Genai #Google #microsoft #meta #alphabet #facebook #opena...

• Post #2223205

  https://ai-project-website.github.io/AI-assistance-reduces-persistence/ "AI assistance improves immediate performance, but it comes at a heavy cognitive cost: after just ∼10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it. We caution that if such effects accumulate with sustained AI use, current AI systems — optimized only for short-term helpfulness — risk eroding the very human capabiliti...

• Post #2137080

  https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/independent-bookstore-revival-amazon-decline-local-retail-reading-trends/ onward and upward #indie #bookstores #author #indieauthor #writer #writers #authors #bookstores #book #writersofmastodon #bookstodon #amwriting #writerscoffeeclub #wordweavers #scribesandmakers

• Post #2125136

  1/ Lots of new connections. Hence, a re-introduction to a hopeful story, "A New Faith," available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #bookstodon #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #mystery #thriller #detective #women #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #adaptation #migration #immigration #indie #indieauthor

• Post #2006038

  https://prospect.org/2026/05/04/how-inequality-killed-affordable-american-car/ #walk #bike #bus #train as much as you can and minimize #car - all will be well. Let the damn car companies face the reality so that they bring back cheap #EV

• Post #1851093

  https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10642/UNU-INWEH-Critical-Minerals-Water-Insecurity-and-Injustice.pdf "accelerated pursuit of critical minerals is directly contributing to acute water insecurity, livelihood disruptions, and health risks in many of the world’s most vulnerable regions" #walk #bike #bus #train #solar #wind #batteries #EV #efficiency #conservation #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #justtransition

• Post #1851092

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/29/eu-farmers-hauliers-fishing-subsidies-up-to-50000-fuel-fertiliser-iran-war wealth = resiliency Good for #EU - now maybe lend a helping hand to the poor countries in building their resiliency.

• Post #1851091

  https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/technology/ai-spending-tech-data-centers.html $130B in Q1 Over the year $700B Plus the insane spending on the #war Imagine how much good could have been done w/ all this money! And if this goes bad... who will be left holding the bag?

• Post #1851090

  https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/renewable/solar-infra-helps-india-meet-record-256gw-power-demand/130572555 "At the time of peak demand of 256.1 GW, reached at 3.38pm, solar contributed nearly 57 GW, or about 22 per cent of total generation; at 12.30 pm, electricity generation from solar plants and rooftop systems rose to about 81 GW, accounting for roughly one-third of the total generation of 242 GW" WOW! This is an incredibly good news to start the day...

• Post #1851089

  https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-kerala-consensus/ " #Kerala shows that if people are protected from risk and uncertainty by a #government that provides access to #food #housing #education #healthcare, they will be motivated to take care of many other problems." Remarkable success story! #India #development #health #democracy #socialism This is also the goal of the designers of Sequoia in "A New Faith" https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #books...

• Post #1851088

  https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/higher-warming-predictions-for-2026 "I’ve updated the models I use for both my 2026 and 2027 projections - the headline numbers are: the estimate for 2026 has risen from 1.41C (with a range of 1.27C to 1.55C) to 1.46C (1.33C to 1.58C). The 2027 estimate has similarly increased from 1.57C (1.3C to 1.76C) to 1.61C (1.31C to 1.9C)." A MAJOR UPDATE from @hausfath

• Post #1851087

  https://kschroeder.substack.com/p/dont-save-this-world-design-the-next I have found @KarlSchroeder discussions (and this is an excellent post summarizing his work) on writing about the future to be very useful. I have tried to incorporate those ideas in my writing - maybe, not in a hard #scifi way 😄

• Post #1851086

  https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-protagonist-problem/ "from the second world war to the late 1980s—tapestry books with multiple agency, many characters all shaping the outcome, was a major mode of bestselling books, and the blockbuster movies based on them. In these books there’s not a protagonist in sight, nobody the plot waits for, they’re all written in Dickensian multiple third: the point of view switches to whoever is most convenient." Precisely describes &amp...

• Post #1851085

  https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/901C84D741E4050CCB4513C8AFCD6860/9781009646529AR.pdf/Nordic_Capitalism.pdf This is kinda why I set the city of Sequoia (from "A New Faith") in #Norway Love the "me-we-me" short-hand https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #bookstodon #socialism #capitalism #Nordic #books #hopepunk #solarpunk #mystery #thriller #detective #novel #fiction #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction...

• Post #1639243

  https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/24/three-disasters-three-years-brazil-deadly-floods-women-extreme-weather This is the reason why the #fictional #city of Sequoia in "A New Faith" comprises of twice as many #women as #men - they are all #climatechange #migrants https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #bookstodon #books #climatefiction #climate #hopepunk #solarpunk #detective #mystery #thriller #climate #extinction #climatecrisis #adaptation #migration #imm...

• Post #1636860

  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/progress-report/what-will-it-take-to-get-ai-out-of-schools Lobotomizing the young ones without asking them, their parents, or their teachers, or for that matter any experts in pedagogy/cognition/etc. Fuck #Google #OpenAI #Microsoft #Amazon #Meta #Anthropic - hope they ALL rot in hell!

• Post #1038777

  https://www.rff.org/publications/reports/global-energy-outlook-2026/ "The #world will exceed 1.5°C of #warming above preindustrial levels by 2050. Despite some success in reducing the trajectory of #global #emissions, achieving the 2015 Paris Agreement "stretch goal" of 1.5°C is no longer plausible. Limiting #temperature rise to 2°C will be extremely challenging and requires additional policy effort." Remember - Jim Hansen is forecasting 1.7 degrees of war...

• Post #874818

  https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-03-17/california-pledges-to-open-land-waters-to-indigenous-tribes Good of #California to get around to returning stolen #indigenous land. 1/ In "A New Faith", Kaija is advocating for a similar return of Lapland to the Sami. Where she diverges is when she recognizes the #climate #catastrophe and invites #refugees from the worst affected parts to move to the Lapland for survival. https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #bookstodon...

• Post #781423

  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjw7klkjm2o "Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government." Now lets see #Democrats in the #US do the same in trifecta #blue #states and force #oil #gas companies to pay #tax to subsidize adoption in existing #housing #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival

• Post #781266

  https://thebulletin.org/2026/03/im-not-a-scientist-why-judges-need-the-climate-chapter-in-the-reference-manual-on-scientific-evidence/ "“Troposphere, whatever,” Scalia responded. “I told you before I’m not a scientist. That’s why I don’t want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.”" This is incredibly pathetic! #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #CO2 #law #judiciary #CO2 #globalwarming #extinction #survival #lawyer

• Post #771164

  https://www.iea.org/reports/sheltering-from-oil-shocks/infographic-overview-recommended-measures We could and SHOULD have been doing these things all the time for #climate #environment #humanrights reasons. But I fear it is like the pandemic - the good habits we picked up during (wash hands, mask up, etc.) died quite quickly after vaccines arrived.

• Post #749713

  https://insurify.com/homeowners-insurance/report/home-insurance-price-projections/ "Since 2021, the average cost of home insurance has risen nearly three times as fast as inflation (46% vs. 16%). The annual cost of home insurance will reach $3,057 (+4%) by the end of 2026, following a year in which nearly all states saw climbing premiums." #climatechange #insurance #climate #climatecrisis #housing #home #adaptation #resilience

• Post #710391

  https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-technology-long-game For the past 40 years, instead of pouring obscene amounts of cash in #war selling #ads via #search #socialmedia or in #crypto #LLM #financial engg. - #US could have put it into figuring out and scaling up #decarbonization - but here we are. So glad #China was doing something different. Not all good - but still the difference is stark. As of 2026, both are less #liberal anyway. Sheesh!!!!

• Post #450514

  https://asia.nikkei.com/life-arts/books/physical-books-making-a-comeback-in-asia-says-leading-publisher At least somewhere reading is growing in popularity 😀 #bookstodon #books #amwriting #writerscoffeeclub #scribesandmakers #wordweavers #author

• Post #301794

  Does anyone feel like the #billionaires are actually systematically culling the global population? #Vaccine denial #climatechange ( #drought #flood #heatwave #hurricane ) Cutting #humanitarian #aid #armed thugs targeting people #militarized borders that prevent people from moving to safer places #AI #datacenters (destroying #employment) #space (million satellites?) It all seems to be accelerating. Are we really at the beginning of global genocide?

• Post #293374

  #photography #nature #naturephotography #waterfall #landscape