Cicero Leo
Daniel Khent
danielkhent@nostrplebs.com
npub14220...yxtr
#writing, #AI, #bitcoin, #transhumanism, #postscarcity, #solarpunk, #lunarpunk, #ecopsycology
Wait. Adjectives are ordered?
#writing
https://test-english.com/explanation/b1-2/adjective-order/
The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda
This beats the tired changing-the-motor-while-the-car-is-moving metaphor
#technology
Damn Interesting
The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda
In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.
I know this has been incessantly posted and yet...
Mary Shelley Invented Science Fiction—and Pioneered Polyamory Too
Heinlein has nothing on Mary Shelley.
#scifi
Vanity Fair
Mary Shelley Invented Science Fiction—and Pioneered Polyamory Too
As another Frankenstein film debuts, here’s a full accounting of the writer’s tangled romantic history, involving Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord By...
“Scientists achieve electrically driven perovskite laser using dual-cavity design.”
If only Mars had high concentrations of perovskite instead of perchlorates then we could make Mars a giant space laser.
#scifi
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-electrically-driven-perovskite-laser.html
Intersection of #bookstr and #architecture
Clownfish and Anemones Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change
#climatechange
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/clownfish-are-disappearing-because-of-climate-change/
Microbes found in Yellowstone can breathe two different elements
Yellowstone microbes, so cutting edge.
#science
Earth.com
Microbes discovered in Yellowstone can breathe two different elements to produce energy
Scientists found a microbe in a Yellowstone hot spring, Aquificales, that can use oxygen and sulfur at the same time to produce energy.
#nashville 
Tibetan solar plant nearly the size of Chicago
#solarpunk #renewableenergy#agrivoltaic
ZME Science
The World’s Largest Solar Plant is Rising in Tibet. It's So Vast It's the Size of Chicago
A desert covered in solar panels and sheep could mark the beginning of the end for coal in China.
“Warp Drive: Scientists Say a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible”
Possible? Still requires huge amount of energy, but at least we dodged the negative energy thing.
Oh, and not faster than light … still …
#scifi
Popular Mechanics
Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.
Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.
“If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?”
#postscarcity
The Conversation
If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?
AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.