A Korean team converted CO2 directly into gasoline at pilot scale.
Circular chemistry or lifeline for the fossil economy?
#PostScarcity #CliFi #SyntheticFuels
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-gasoline-kilograms-day.html
Daniel Khent
danielkhent@nostrplebs.com
npub14220...yxtr
#writing, #AI, #bitcoin, #transhumanism, #postscarcity, #solarpunk, #lunarpunk, #ecopsycology
Computation through physical dynamics, not logic gates.
#AnalogAI
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-silicon-oscillators-problems-thousands-years.html
...so drunk I thought I was a cat. 
Researchers built a water-based battery with 120,000 charge cycles and an electrolyte safe enough to compare to tofu brine. Still in the lab, but the direction is away from toxic supply chains.
#SyntheticMaterials #CliFi #PostScarcity
Live Science
New water battery could last until the 24th century — and it can be safely discarded in the environment
With no toxic elements to dispose of, the new aqueous battery design could dramatically improve the safety and longevity of battery energy-storage ...
Scientists accidentally discovered a material that pulls drinking water from air. No energy input, no filters, no pipes. The infrastructure that makes water scarce just got harder to justify.
#WaterRights #CliFi #PostScarcity
Penn Today
New class of materials passively harvest water from air | Penn Today
Researchers at Penn Engineering have discovered a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, which could enable new wa...
Scientists built a plastic that carries the seeds of its own destruction. Bacteria woven into the material break it down completely in 6 days, leaving no microplastics behind.
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-plastic-destructs.html
#Solarpunk #Sustainability #Biomimicry
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The Black Death killed half of Europe. Biodiversity crashed for 150 years. It only recovered when humans came back.
#Rewilding #Ecology #Solarpunk
Anthropocene
The Black Death holds a surprising lesson: Humans and biodiversity can go hand in hand
When the Black Death depopulated Europe, abandoned farmland reverted to forest—and plant diversity declined. The lesson may complicate modern cal...
73 million Americans now get their water from private companies. A dozen states have passed laws making public utilities easier to sell.
#WaterRights #ClimateJustice #Solarpunk
Governing
What's Behind the Push Toward Privatizing Water Systems?
About a dozen states have passed legislation to promote sales of water and wastewater utilities. Although private money can fund upgrades, environm...
Cli-Fi outsold traditional sci-fi for three straight quarters in 2026.
#CliFi #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk
Book Zee
Cli-Fi & Eco-Horror: The Biggest Emerging Book Genres of 2026
Explore the rise of Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) in 2026. Discover why readers are turning to stories about environmental adaptation and resilience.
'For Phnom Penh to be a green utopia, it should first start with an idea, an imagination. It starts with the fiction that is our dream.' Cambodian artists are using Solarpunk to make that fiction visible.
#Solarpunk #Art #Futures
phnompenhpost.com
Young artists use Solarpunk vision to reimagine a greener Phnom Penh - phnompenhpost.com
A group of young Cambodian artists and social innovators are turning imagination into a form of climate action, using the global “Solarpunk&r...
The FDA fast-tracked review of psilocybin and methylone for mental health treatment, cutting timelines to 1-2 months under a new executive order that includes $50M in research funding.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/24/health/fda-psychedelic-drugs-priority-vouchers
#Psilocybin #Entheogen #MentalHealth
Geothermal could cover 64% of AI data center energy demand growth by 2030. Baseload, continuous, no storage required.
#Geothermal #AI #RenewableEnergy
OilPrice.com
Geothermal Could Cover 64% of AI Data Center Energy Demand by 2030 | OilPrice.com
Enhanced geothermal energy is emerging as a 24/7 clean power source with bipartisan support and a rare edge: it can learn from exactly where wind a...
The von Neumann bottleneck may have a molecular solution: a single ruthenium-based device that shifts between memory, logic gate, and artificial synapse depending on stimulation.
#NeuromorphicAI #Computing #Hardware
ScienceDaily
Beyond silicon: These shape-shifting molecules could be the future of AI hardware
Scientists have developed molecular devices that can switch roles, behaving as memory, logic, or learning elements within the same structure. The b...
Tunguz makes the case that the era of abundant AI is over: GPU prices up 48%, frontier access becoming relationship-gated. Open source models tell a different story.
#AI #PostScarcity #Compute
Tomasz Tunguz
The Beginning of Scarcity in AI
GPU rental prices surged 48% in 60 days. The AI compute shortage will force startups to compete not on speed of iteration, but on access to infrast...
The pink fairy armadillo, the world's smallest at 3–4 inches, has reappeared in a Mendoza reserve protected since 1961. The species is so sensitive to soil and vegetation conditions that each confirmed sighting is a proxy for a functioning ecosystem.
#Rewilding #Biodiversity #Conservation
ECOticias.com
The “pink fairy” has reappeared in a reserve in Mendoza, and its return confirms that an ecosystem that seemed silent still held an extraordinary surprise
A rare pink fairy armadillo sighting in Argentina signals a fragile ecosystem may still be quietly thriving
Your taste develops before your craft does. Ira Glass on why the gap between vision and execution is where most creative people quit, and why volume is the only way through.
#Writing #Creativity #Craft
The Marginalian
The Taste Gap: Ira Glass on the Secret of Creative Success, Animated in Living Typography
“The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.”
Reflect Orbital wants to launch mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to cities at night. Sleep researchers and DarkSky have filed FCC opposition over circadian and ecosystem disruption.
#DarkSky #LightPollution #Space
A brighter night sky could damage health and well-being
Northwestern University scientists and physicians are raising concerns about two proposals currently under review by the Federal Communications Com...
LLMs may be the immune system response to bureaucratic overload — Intuit turned months of 900-page tax code implementation into hours. https://venturebeat.com/data/intuit-compressed-months-of-tax-code-implementation-into-hours-and-built-a #AI #RegTech #LLMs
"When the output is free, the cost of selection becomes the premium." AI inverted the scarcity map. 
#PostScarcity #AI #Economics
Bluesky Social
Adam Monago (@adammonago.com)
AI didn't devalue expertise. It inverted the scarcity map. When the output is free, the cost of selection becomes the premium. The expensive part i...