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.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/2601011...
#NeuromorphicAI #Computing #Hardware

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.
https://tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026/
#AI #PostScarcity #Compute

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

The pink fairy armadillo, world's smallest, reappeared in a Mendoza reserve protected since 1961.
www.ecoticias.com/en/the-pink-...
#Rewilding

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.
www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/29/ira-glass-suc...
#Writing #Creativity #Craft

Reflect Orbital wants to launch mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to cities at night. Sleep researchers and DarkSky have filed FCC opposition.
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#DarkSky #LightPollution #Space

LLMs may be the immune system response to bureaucratic overload — Intuit turned months of 900-page tax code implementation into hours. venturebeat.com/data/intuit-compressed-m... #AI #RegTech #LLMs

"When the output is free, the cost of selection becomes the premium." AI inverted the scarcity map. bsky.app/profile/adammonago.com/p... #PostScarcity #AI #Economics

The intelligence premium — the economic value that made human cognitive work worth paying for — is unwinding faster than institutions can adapt. https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic #PostScarcity #AI #Economics

Architecture as code gives AI agents something to grow along, not just walls to work within — structure that directs without containing. www.oreilly.com/radar/archit... #AgenticAI #SoftwareArchitecture #AI

*How is the Biblical frankincense holding out #climatecrisis #Scripture #fundies

Language in science isn't neutral — the metaphors we choose determine which ideas are even possible to think. lithub.com/where-physic... #Language #Metaphor #Science

New computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use Researchers have developed a new kind of nanoelectronic device that could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware by mimicking

Cambridge's new memristor tackles the von Neumann bottleneck, processing where data lives with 70% less energy. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... #Neuromorphic #AIHardware #EnergyEfficiency

Data centers consumed nearly 1 trillion liters of water in 2025 — equivalent to NYC's annual supply — as investors push Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to account for it. www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2026/04/08... #AIWater #DataCenters #ResourceScarcity

Rotating laser vortices emerge spontaneously inside liquid crystal structures — quantum tornadoes that self-organize because the physics demands it. phys.org/news/2026-03-physicists-... #Photonics #QuantumPhysics #Emergence

Salmon have returned to the upper Klamath River for the first time in over 100 years, two years after the largest dam removal in US history. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/teams-and-... #Rewilding #Conservation #Salmon

Quantum physics can confirm where someone is located The concept of entanglement links far-flung particles. That relationship can prove that someone is in the location they claim to be.

NIST has demonstrated quantum position verification, using entangled photons to prove physical location rather than just identity. www.sciencenews.org/article/quan... #QuantumPhysics #Cybersecurity #QuantumInternet

The shift AI demands isn't technical — it's psychological: stop planning carefully and start experimenting rapidly, because computation is now cheap enough to think through action rather than before it. inferencebysequoia.substack.com/p/the-abundance-mindset-... #postscarcity #AI

How Cairo Became a Cosmopolitan Destination in the 1920s “Egypt is a country where the Egyptians reign, English rule, and everybody does as he pleases.” So two African American residents of Ezbekiyya wrote in a letter of December 1923, published in the A…

1920s Cairo drew jazz musicians, dancers, and performers fleeing post-WWI Europe, building one of the era's most unlikely cosmopolitan entertainment scenes. lithub.com/how-cairo-be... #1920s #1930s #jazz #Cairo

Researchers engineered tobacco plants to produce five psychedelic compounds including psilocybin and DMT, opening a more sustainable path for therapeutic production. phys.org/news/2026-04-tobacco-psy... #entheogens #psychedelics

Bombay built the world's second largest Art Deco district in the 1930s, blending streamlined modernism with Indian cultural markers into a uniquely Bombay architecture. www.artdecomumbai.com/research/bombays-transit... #ArtDeco #Bombay #1930s

Quantum hardware is emerging as the solution to AI's bottlenecks, offering faster processing and optimized model training where classical systems fall short. www.usdsi.org/data-science-insights/fr... #QuantumAI #AIHardware #QuantumComputing

Post-scarcity and ecopsychology converge on the same question: once survival anxiety is removed, what is the authentic relationship between humans and the living world. https://lorenzopieri.com/post_scarcity/ #PostScarcity #Ecopsychology

10 minutes in nature can meaningfully benefit adults living with mental illness.

https://liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/eco.2023.0063

#ecopsychology #mentalhealth #nature

Post-Scarcity Society & the Post-Labor Economy By now, it is widely agreed that AI and automation will take away a lot of jobs, way more than the new jobs that will be created. Even…

Post-scarcity is coming. It's going to be expensive.
#postscarcity
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A Warp Drive Could Shine Brighter than the Sun in the Earth’s Atmosphere Trustworthy military pilots report about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that exceed the performance envelope of human-made…

UAPs not using Alcubierre drives

#UAP #warpdrive

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Why Garry Tan's Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate | TechCrunch Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan's Claude Code setup, which was shared on GitHub. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup

The season of #vibecoding fever

#AI

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Can you 'live long and prosper' by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that 'highly illogical?' - Phys.org.

Illogical.

#postscarcity #startrek

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This UTV Battles Drones in Ukraine Ukraine has put the V2X Tempest into service. The anti-UAS platform carries a radar and two Hellfire missiles for shoot-and-scoot missions against drones.

This UTV Battles Drones in Ukraine.

To permute Gibson’s adage: War finds its own uses for things.

#warefare #drones

www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/v2x...
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Submerged bumblebee queens breathe underwater Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the bees survive floods.

Submerged bumblebee queens breathe underwater.

#science

www.sciencenews.org/article/bumb...

Yellowstone: World's largest acidic geyser erupts for first time since 2020 The Echinus Geyser had been silent for the last six years, and it is unknown whether the eruptions will continue into the summer.

Yellowstone: World's largest acidic geyser erupts for first time since 2020

Wacky Yellowstone and its non-stop shenanigans

#geology #science

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