"A new study from King’s College London found that bird sightings and sounds have a positive impact on people’s mental wellbeing."
#ecopsycology
Great point about the energy inputs required for industrial food.
"World Economic Forum–adjacent thinkers call for a 'farm-free future' with food primarily manufactured via precision fermentation and other scientific processes that result in products like lab grown meat ... How did the environmental and conservation movements become so divided?"
The existential question is: in ten years will it even be possible to have conventional farming and will we be forced to make food synthetically.
#solarpunk #climatechange
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/against-a-dystopian-farm-free-future/
Anyone know how real Sulfur Selenium Solid-State Batteries are?
#batterytechnology #emergingtechnology #solarpunk
Eddie Heywood – Jumpin Keyboard
#jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying
"...light is only produced after the gravitational wave signal has ended, and may further be delayed by having to pass through the circumstellar material. This is why, even though light and gravity both travel exactly at the speed of light in a vacuum, the light we saw didn’t arrive until nearly 2 seconds after the gravitational wave signal ceased."
#astronomy
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/light-gravitational-waves-arrive/
It's incredibly troubling. And you're right people will say we didn't know the danger. And it's still early days...these are the canaries in the coal mine.
"Millions of young birds die from extreme heat in farm fields across America in what researchers say is a growing threat from climate change that could affect avian populations."
#climatechange #solarpunk
I see people are using the word “cunt” on nostr today. Reminds me of this piece: “Aside from the "dick beat," Emre has taken up the project of championing forgotten female writers — "the cunt beat," she joked. She has written about "modernism's forgotten mystic" Mary Butts, the surrealist Leonora Carrington, and Susan Taubes, whose 1969 feminine rage anthem "Divorcing," written from the perspective of the protagonist's severed head, was published just days before Taubes drowned herself.”
I read Taubes this summer— great stuff
https://www.businessinsider.com/merve-emre-book-literary-critic-new-yorker-wesleyan-2023-8
A literary take on profanity. Only on nostr.
How DO you find this stuff
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"The end of boring meetings: why workers are sending robots instead."
This can't be real fast enough...
#robots #officework
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"Rhythmic Refrains: Counting Time through Duke Ellington and Fred Waller's Jazz Shorts"
In the 1920s and 1930s, Duke Ellington collaborated with several directors who narrativized his compositions for short films; Ellington's collaborations A Bundle of Blues (1933) and Symphony in Black (1935) with Fred Waller, Paramount's special‐effects man turned director, remain just out of step with the many other jazz shorts from the period. While synchronization was well‐utilized by the time Ellington and Waller's films were released, their films are notable for the absence of synchronized tap sounds.
#jazz #1930s
https://read.dukeupress.edu/liquid-blackness/article/7/2/28/382446
The Art Farmer Quartet* Featuring Jim Hall – "Live" At The Half-Note
#jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying
https://void.cat/d/JuZkYnPBQMVoMK4AaTLbLV.webp
Bass – Steve Swallow
Cover – Marvin Israel
Drums – Walter Perkins
Engineer [Sound] – Joe Atkinson, Phil Iehle, Tom Dowd
Flugelhorn – Art Farmer (tracks: A1 to B2)
Guitar – Jim Hall
Liner Notes – Martin Williams
Photography By – Lee Friedlander
Supervised By – Arif Mardin
"Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4"
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-prompt-injection/
#LLMs #AI
I find out about O-face October challenge on the 13th! One a day, if you’re feeling crazy make it more than that, single or partnered. Best month long challenge I’ve ever heard proposed.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxwN7wHrswA/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
It is literally impossible to predict what you will post.
Back when a person could know a machine down to its silicon.
#computing #history
"A Croatian energy company has discovered an underwater lake of superheated water that could supply the country’s far north with clean geothermal electricity."
https://thenextweb.com/news/croatia-geothermal-energy-plant
#solarpunk #geothermalenergy