Escrow arbitration is a missing function for the venture ecosystem

✨A zero to hero guide to create, store and query OpenAI embeddings with PostgreSQL and pgvector. Learn how to build a chatbot to answer questions about blog posts using PostgreSQL as a vector database for OpenAI embeddings. timescale.com/blog/postgresq…

Very slick demo of prompt driven finance dash boarding

Long Now has a superb essay by Paul Constance on how cities restore their rivers. It is a multi-generational process, pulsed by periods of nostalgia and forgetting. longnow.org/ideas/the-rive…

This FT Opinion piece relies on the same BAD Data from @brookingsinst as the NYT piece a few weeks ago. Wind farms are almost always collocated with agriculture or comml. forestry. You can't use their raw acreage envelope as a measure of landuse. ft.com/content/755d79…

Data tiering to S3 *inside* your main cloud database => huge friction remover + huge cost decrease

How did French farmers in the Seine basin undermine the Water Framework Directive? They got their local governments to re-define their bad rivers as ditches, and exclude them from water quality calculations.

Long term Australian wheat yields in optimal growing conditions (blue) vs. dry conditions (red):

“I don’t think most American citizens really viscerally understand how much of the content they see on social platforms is actually a foreign intelligence operation." — Department of State official, via Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)