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  • The Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Permafrost Research

    Permafrost emissions are the climate change issue that really keep me awake at night. Like wild fires we need to tap into the lived knowledge of the people who have inhabited that biome for centuries if we’re to stand any chance. But according to Patrick Murphy, a field research technician with the Woodwell Climate Research…

  • Corporadelic: MAPS For-Profit Arm Raises $100 Million

    The financialisation of psychedelics is going to set the whole field back, long term, almost as muc has banning the substances. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has reversed course on its long-held commitment to retain full ownership of its pharmaceutical development arm. On Jan. 5, MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC) announced that…

  • Optically Decoding the TMS0801 ROM

    I’ve seen a couple of these projects… just bonkers. Decoding the contents of a ROM by looking at the physical structure. The TMS0801, from 1972, was one of the first chips to completely contain everything to need to run a calculator. It was used to power the Sinclair Cambridge. It contained the CPU, RAM, and ROM,…

  • Avi Schiffmann’s Tab AI necklace has raised $1.9 million to replace God

    “Tab is not an assistant, period. I’m not building something that’s going to connect to Notion or your emails any time soon. I’m solely building . . . a friend that morphs into your creative partner, life coach, [or] therapist as needed,” he says. “What I’m trying to do is create a new relationship in your life;…

  • The Proud Boys are collapsing: Surprise! Legal consequences do hurt authoritarian movements

    There’s a few things going on. As Owens notes, it’s common for extremist groups to fall apart fairly quickly.  They are composed of nasty people who seek conflict, so it’s inevitable that they fight and splinter over time. There’s evidence some Proud Boys are decamping to neo-Nazi groups. I’d argue that the Proud Boys are…

  • The airplane blowout came from our rotten Big Tech economy

    So we see that “growth at any cost” doesn’t just apply to tech companies. The surveillance state, and the expanding powers of the government to spy on its citizens, is another runaway problem. Meantime we are all but forced to use Big Tech software that spies on us, with no way for us to decline…

  • Kash’s garden

    Creating the conditions is the hard part.

  • Israel Commits Suicide of Biblical Proportions, and America Is There to Assist

    Repeat after me: Bibi is evil… he’s the one who hold the gun to Israels head. Blinded by fear and outrage, Israeli citizens bestowed immense powers in the wrong hands. Meanwhile, Netanyahu saw clearly what he always sees best: his own self-interest. He set unachievable goals for this war, and his government continuously seeks to…

  • Bioengineers design a new plant to purify air faster than nature

    I love this concept… but it reeks of unintended consequences. Lionel Mora and Patrick Torbey, co-founders of Neoplants, had the idea of building an organism with, what Mora describes as, “virtuous function.” In other words, they wanted to use synthetic biology to add positive functions that could have a positive impact on the environment. They…

  • The Last Repair Shop: A Heartwarming Documentary Visits the Warehouse Servicing 80,000+ Instruments for L.A. Students

    A short documentary directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers visits the unassuming warehouse where more than 80,000 student instruments are maintained. “The Last Repair Shop” shares the stories of how the four craftspeople came to their roles, punctuated by testimonies from students who’ve benefited from their work. Glimpsing their mending techniques and skill at repairing even the smallest…