meyer lemons, painted by royal charles steadman, 1926

meyer lemons, painted by royal charles steadman, 1926

Your Guide to the Most Innovative Sustainable Materials on the Market What's TENCEL? What's ECONYL? And canvas made from bananas? There are lots of new eco-materials out there, and we're breaking them all down for you.

Ever wonder what Tencel is? did you know crab shells are used in textiles? ecocult.com/sustainable-...

1547Z pass through Hurricane Melissa on 27 October YouTube video by Flynonymous WX

Without a doubt the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring imagery you’ve ever seen inside the eye of a hurricane

(Video from TEAL76, a USAF Reserve Hurricane Hunter crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, during a pass through Hurricane Melissa)

best coffee in Berkeley is @ 1951. they train and employ refugees from across the globe. phenomenal coffee.

Def (@defsound) I don’t know who needs to see these today, but Octavia Butler’s notes to self are EVERYTHING!

Octavia Butler’s notes to herself ✨💅 substack.com/@defsound/no...

yemon persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1921

yemon persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1921

Claude, "We all know among Sauron's many evils was that he ran Mordor using an Excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs. Show me the spreadsheet"

It made 12 tabs "so bureaucratically complex that even the Eye of Sauron would need reading glasses to review it." Some very funny stuff. Creative, even.

‘Bipartisan, common sense, science-based’: California leads the way in banning ultra-processed school meals Experts hope that a ‘California effect’ will push other states to ban UPFs, similar to its law against six synthetic food dyes

CA bans UPFs in school lunches. curious how this plays out operationally. what it will mean for the labor force that supports free lunches in CA.
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“Energy is physics, emissions is accounting” - David Patterson @simonsinstitute.bsky.social

lemons, painted by james marion shull, 1916

lemons, painted by james marion shull, 1916

“question the gospel” maybe let’s don’t design agentic AIs? Yoshua Bengio @simonsinstitute.bsky.social #SimonsLive

More Than a Dinner Party: Uncovering the Sacred Dimensions of Hospitality Hospitality can be thought of as having two branches: private and public. The first involves welcoming people into one’s home.

on hospitality : “…it is about knowing that reaching out to others is an act of worship, thus challenging, humbling and spiritually transformative.”

Trump announces 500B in AI funding. Five days ago.

Deepseek r1 release. 8 days ago.

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M.

Beautiful.

New electromagnetic material draws inspiration from the color-shifting chameleon - Berkeley Engineering Applications include defense, wireless communications, energy and smart infrastructure

chameleon metamaterials! “Gu envisions it being used to improve the efficiency of electromagnetic energy harvesting systems that help power sensors and batteries. “ but how?? engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/01...

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how can we protect archive.org?

Donate to #FreeOurFeeds - help secure the future of social media, organized by Free Our Feeds We are determined to free social media from billionaire control … Free Our Feeds needs your support for #FreeOurFeeds - help secure the future of social media

The #FreeOurFeeds initiative aims to build a secondary relay to prevent corporate takeover of Bluesky www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fr...

i see what you did there 🥰

head down

Soft Skin | DigiDocs YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

Soft Skin, a short film created by kids in Gaza, captures the intimate reality of growing up in a war zone. youtu.be/6S6jmRHdQgc?...

I’ll audit :)

GOOD NEWS EPA Proposes Ban on Controversial Pesticide Acephate

Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional.

This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.

Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.

The (AI generated) voices of the dead victims of mass shootings haunt Congress, demanding change www.theshotline.org#send-a-call

CO2 Jet fuel?

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