'breathing' magma cap inside Yellowstone supervolcano This cap acts like a lid that traps a significant amount of heat and pressure inside, but it appears to be porous enough to steadily release some of that pressure. #science #geology livescience.com/planet-earth/s…

Photovoltaic spheres called “Sphelar by Kyosemi” that capture light from all angles Not sure if this is real. A sphere with ~20% efficiency? #renewableenergy #solarpunk unionrayo.com/en/japan-unvei… sphelarpower.com/technology/dev…

“Neither climate change nor meteorites – NASA confirms that the end of life on Earth will be due to loss of oxygen” finally some good news... #climatechange #science eladelantado.com/news/earth-oxy…

Turn Cheap Solar Marine Buoys Into Solar-Powered Meshtastic Nodes #solarpunk hackster.io/news/stephen-h…

“Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming” Pretty cool. But no one thought of wood before? #renewableenergy thecooldown.com/green-tech/mod…

Major Lithium Deposit found in deposit running southeastern Oregon to north Nevada #renewableenergy unilad.com/news/us-news/o…

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms The article is pretty soft, but the idea of a re-entrant symbolic hologram is interesting… #AI #LLM psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-di…

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin “Even before I had the money, even if I never had the money,” Akasha tells me, smiling, staring at me with the wide, blue eyes of a true believer, “I was free.” #entheogens wired.com/story/rise-fal…

What Makes a Noir Novel? #writing #noir gcsalter.wordpress.com/2022/01/23/wha…

“The English bowler hat soon made its way across the pond and became the most popular style in the American West” I always wondered about bowlers in westerns… #hats connerhats.com/collections/bo…

LLMs Can Now Reason Beyond Language “Human reasoning naturally operates through abstract, non-verbal concepts rather than strictly relying on discrete linguistic tokens.” #AI #LLM marktechpost.com/2025/05/27/llm…

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model “What language, if any, is it using ‘in its head’?” #AI #LLM anthropic.com/research/traci…

Two-in-one solar-wind turbine in prototype stage “ Early computer simulations found that the turbine mounted solar panels would cause blinding beams of light to shoot out across the surrounding area.” Weird. #solarpunk#renewableenergy inhabitat.com/scientists-dev…

New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air #solarpunk #environment blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers…

China Harvests Wheat in Desert “The organization also used precise, quantitative, and high-frequency irrigation methods to deliver the necessary nutrients and water directly to the wheat roots.” #climatechange techtimes.com/articles/30580…

Scientists created a battery that lasts 5,700 years without needing to be recharged. For deep space probes? Porch lights? Meshtastic nodes? #scifi #science #renewableenergy earth.com/news/scientist…

The sun's poles have flipped. “While a normal magnet has clear north and south poles, both of the sun's poles occupy the bottom now.” Seems like something so huge should affect earth… #science mashable.com/article/solar-…

“highlights circular, post-scarcity economics ... where communities regenerate damaged environments and redistribute resources and power in non-hierarchical and liberatory networks.” #solarpunk #postscarcity wpsanet.org/papers/docs/WP…

What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion “[John] Wayne would haunt Didion through her career…” #writing #literature msn.com/en-us/movies/r…

“Ranxerox a New York” - Stefano Tamburini / Tanino Liberatore “powerhouse of violence, drugs, obscenity, graphic erotica, amorality, and provocations of all kinds” #NowReading #book retrofuturista.com/ranxerox-by-ta…