Dave Pentecost

Oh man where do I begin. It's Saul Griffith with a solar powered bicycle he's designed. It's like a moped with solar panels strapped to each side of it so it looks like you're driving around an AC filter. He's standing behind it holding a watermelon and a couple of bags of snacks or something which apparently can all fit inside the bike. He looks very pleased. I would be too. We need the AC Filter bike. We yearn for the AC Filter bike.

SOLAR
POWERED
BICYCLE

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"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz."

—Bill McKibben

How to Design Antibodies A step-by-step guide to making de novo binders.

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Explore live radio by rotating the globe Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

How am I just learning about this website now? This is insanely fun. You can just click around the world hearing different live radio streams.
Radio.garden

Pasolini sits in a chair in his study. A wall of bookshelves, with books piled on his deak.

Pier Paolo Pasolini by Marisa Rastellini, Rome, 1962

"But what have you discovered about film in an aesthetic sense?"

"Well, to tell the truth, the only thing I discovered is the pleasure of discovery."

NASA, OPM Launch NASA Force to Recruit Top Talent for US Space Program - NASA The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and NASA announced NASA Force on Wednesday, a dedicated talent track within the US Tech Force initiative

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Close up photo of RBS class teacher Brian Cassidy demonstrating pulling a master (like carbon paper, uses writing pressure to transfer ink to paper) that's been pressed against a hectographic-recipe gelatin, leaving ink in the shape of the drawing on the gelatin. It looks like someone pulling a sheet of paper off a pan of purple jello, with the same drawing on both the gelatin and the sheet being pulled off it.

Close up photo of a tray of hectographic-recipe purple gelatin with ink on its surface matching the duplicated ink on a white piece of paper sitting next to it.

Did hectography (aka jellygraph; a way of making duplicates of writing/art) in my RBS class w/for a collaborative class zine. Ingredients=kitchen/pharmacy stuff you'd have on hand for many reasons (eg gelatin) & can go down sink drain, so users included folks fearing gov searches. #DHmakes

Energym | aicandy tech moguls interview from 2036

Via @gruber.foo - AI 10-year time travel with the billionaires

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Who knew? About the sopranissimo, and that Scalzi played the uke?

We are losing stars one streetlight, one neon sign, one suburb at a time For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children see barely any stars in the night sky above their homes. So what does that...

“You understand your place in the universe very quickly when you look at something 1 billion light-years away … and realise that those photons, they predate dinosaurs, they predate humans, they predate the continents,”
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Astonishing 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico | CNN Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which has been called “the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade....

another cool find:

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which has been called “the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade”

Hundreds of thousands of Zapotec speakers still live in Mexico to this day

This is a significant slice of American history that transcends but adds to that of animation & Disney. ‘the camps…’ explained, too

Fake Xerox and real piano wire. Gorillaz’s new video for ‘The Mountain’ rebuilds a 1950s animation pipeline using painted backgrounds, optical tricks, and strict self-imposed limits. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...

In 1987, as a WNET-13 editor, I traveled to LA for the PBS taping of Mancini and Friends, with Mancini conducting. Plas must have been one of those Friends. A great night for fans of Mancini, and for a young editor only 6 years into a TV career.

Looking great, watching for it to be released (or a beta?). Count me in.

Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards YouTube video by Netflix

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Source?

Claudenitive dissonance.

Through Darkest Europe: A Novel - Kindle edition by Turtledove, Harry. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Through Darkest Europe: A Novel - Kindle edition by Turtledove, Harry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Through Darkest Europe: A Novel.

THROUGH DARKEST EUROPE is an alt hist set about now in a universe where Islam developed science, technology, and representative government while Western Europe got stuck in, well, piety. It's also a sort of meditation on terrorism.
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As straight and twisted as it gets. The bite that blew up the world.

Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

Within You Without You (Remastered 2009) YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic

Today would have been George Harrison’s 83rd birthday.

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Google translate of “I went outside to listen to the monkeys and I got locked outside - room sixty six”

What I told the night clerk in Palenque

Same. @christopherbrown.bsky.social saw this coming.

snowdecahedron

Radigue adjusts her electronic gear as she composes

# RIP Éliane Radigue
📷 Yves Arman

“Time, silence and space are the main factors constituting my music. Shivering space, like a soft breath, induces the vibrations of the silence slightly, becoming sound.”

Adnos I:

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Now available at bookstores and online.

"The best spy novel set in the Adirondacks since Ian Fleming booked James bond a room at a Lake George cabin colony." Anthony Hall, Lake George Mirror.

"I loved it. Abbey meets Vonnegut." Bill McKibben

Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...
A long exposure from a dark location reveals the dust cloud surrounding the Pleiades star cluster. The featured 18-hour exposure, taken from Bory Tucholskie, Poland covers a sky area several times the size of the full moon.

Related - my sister-in-law worked for AARP magazine. Sued them for age discrimination and won.