"Portugal produced more than enough renewable power to serve all its customers for six straight days."

Canary Media

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.

Jazz singer Mandy Chan sings #Shanghai #Jazz #dieselpunk

Q: What are the psychological reasons we might avoid acting on the information we have about climate change? A: Fight, flight and freeze mechanisms are an integral part of the older part of the brain … It’s affective, and it’s emotional … When you’re presented with traumatic information, the self-regulatory processes that normally work in a fluid manner are disrupted to the point where you cannot take in information. #ecopsychology #solarpunk #climatechange

Boulder Weekly

NCAR scientist turned ecopsychologist talks climate anxiety - Boulder Weekly

Jeff Kiehl had been a climate scientist at NCAR — now he's focused on coping with climate anxiety. Kaylee Harter. Boulder Weekly.

Sidney Bechet – The Grand Master Of The Soprano Saxophone And Clarinet #jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying Clarinet – Sidney Bechet (tracks: A1, A3 to A5, B1 to B6) Ensemble – Bob Wilber's Wildcats (tracks: A2, A6, B3), Sidney Bechet Quartet (tracks: A1, A4, A5, B1, B2, B4, B6) Liner Notes – George Avakian Performer [Quartet], Bass – Pops Foster (tracks: A1, A4, A5, B1, B2, B4, B6) Performer [Quartet], Drums – Arthur Herbert (tracks: A1, A5, B1, B2, B4, B6), Freddie Moore (tracks: A4) Performer [Quartet], Piano – Lloyd Phillips (2) (tracks: A1, A4, A5, B1, B2, B4, B6) Performer [Wildcats], Bass – Charlie Traeger (tracks: A2, A6, B3) Performer [Wildcats], Clarinet – Bob Wilber (tracks: A2, A6, B3) Performer [Wildcats], Cornet – Johnny Glasel* (tracks: A2, A6, B3) Performer [Wildcats], Drums – Dennis Strong (tracks: A2, A6, B3) Performer [Wildcats], Piano – Dick Wellstood (tracks: A2, A6, B3) Performer [Wildcats], Trombone – Bob Mielke (tracks: A2, A6, B3) Performer, Baritone Saxophone – Ernie Caceres (tracks: A3, B5, B7) Performer, Bass – Henry Turner (tracks: A3, B5, B7) Performer, Drums – Zutty Singleton (tracks: A3, B5, B7) Performer, Electric Guitar – Leonard Ware (tracks: A3, B5, B7) Performer, Piano – Dave Bowman (tracks: A3, B5, B7) Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet (tracks: A2, A6)

"The punk in both solarpunk and cyberpunk refer to rebellion." Dami Lee. Always interesting. #solarpunk

"Rather than drinking real alcohol, Starfleet officers can drink this new substance [synthehol] which balances the pleasurable effects of getting a buzz on. However, in case of the odd all-hands Red Alert, synthehol does not have the deleterious effects real alcohol has." Once again science has failed to deliver. #postscarcity #startrek #flyingcars #scifi

CBR

Synthehol: Star Trek's Sci-Fi Take on Alcohol, Explained

Of the many strange concepts on Star Trek, from warp speed to a post-scarcity economy, but none more confusing than the fake alcohol called snythehol.

"A new study from King’s College London found that bird sightings and sounds have a positive impact on people’s mental wellbeing." #ecopsycology https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-health/3705500-being-around-birds-can-improve-mental-health-research-shows/

"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

CleanTechnica

Sulfur Selenium Solid-State Battery From NASA Breaks Energy Storage Boundaries - CleanTechnica

What if batteries had two or three times more power than today's best lithium-ion batteries? And what if they also had no liquid or semi-liqui...

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

Big Think

Light and gravity travel at the same speed, but don't arrive together

In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?

"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

E&E News: High heat is killing birds on American farms — study

Worsening heat waves in agricultural areas are affecting bird reproduction and nestling survival.

"The end of boring meetings: why workers are sending robots instead." This can't be real fast enough... #robots #officework

the Guardian

The end of boring meetings: why workers are sending robots instead

They can take notes, make suggestions – and critique your performance if you do deign to turn up. So what if they’re faceless drones?

"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

Songlink/Odesli

Stompin' At the Savoy (Live) by Art Farmer Quartet

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, a...

#jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying 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"

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V

GPT4-V is the new mode of GPT-4 that allows you to upload images as part of your conversations. It’s absolutely brilliant. It also provides a who...

#LLMs #AI

Back when a person could know a machine down to its silicon. #computing #history

How flip-flops are implemented in the Intel 8086 processor

A key concept for a processor is the management of "state", information that persists over time. Much of a computer is built from logic gate...

"A Croatian energy company has discovered an underwater lake of superheated water that could supply the country’s far north with clean geothermal electricity."

TNW | Sustainability

Croatia wants to turn this superhot underground lake into a 16MW geothermal power plant

Croatia is looking to wean itself off imported fossil fuels. The country's significant sources of geothermal energy may hold the key.

#solarpunk #geothermalenergy

“If farmers know the ideal time to harvest crop fields, they can reduce waste, which is good for them, for consumers, and the environment. But optimum harvest times are not an easy thing to predict and ideally require detailed knowledge of each plant; such data would be cost and time-prohibitive if people were employed to collect it. This is where the drones come in.” #solarpunk

Cryptopolitan

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Explore the forefront of artificial intelligence with our latest news and insights. Stay ahead in the AI industry by following emerging trends and ...

Bill Evans – Montreux II https://song.link/i/1115382873 #jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying Bass – Eddie Gomez Design – Leonard S. Levine Drums – Marty Morrell* Engineer – Pierre Grandjean Lacquer Cut By – RVG* Liner Notes – Brian Blevins Photography By – Pete Turner Piano – Bill Evans Producer – Helen Keane Recorded By [Re-recording] – Rudy Van Gelder