Beautifully clear demonstration of the very high cost of HS2, amid unusually easy terrain and with proven technology. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

The 1991-2020 climate doesn't exist anymore 😟

Leveraging

Diabolical work from the Australian Government's graphics team.

In the state of Wyoming in the USA lies a real hydrological oddity. It's a small stream (creek) that is thought to be the only one of very few examples in the world. It is placed so precariously and perfectly that it's hard to believe it is able to exist. 1/n

Books mate

Leveraging as splitting the coherence of infrastructural repetition

🇳🇱 Farm in the Netherlands uses Bitcoin mining to keep stable temperatures inside the greenhouse 👀

As Brett Christophers showed a story as old as time (almost)

Increasingly thinking about activities that once seemed like dispensable luxuries but now seem like necessary neuroplastic interventions to save analogue brains from being hollowed out by algorithms: literary fiction, poetry, tabletop games, vinyl LPs...

Per Andy Masley's new tool, alfalfa growers in Colorado alone use 16 times as much water each year as all the data centers in the United States.

imagine if we'd been doing this stuff to avoid making our planet uninhabitable?

IMO the whole “imagine anything” proposition of gen ai tools often results in the user committing the cardinal sin of resolving ambiguity — it collapses the drawing’s productive and evocative strangeness into literalism, the hyperreal rendering has nothing at stake and nothing

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

A (very) rare video of 1968's Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at ICA, London (Aug 2 - Oct 20, 1968). From Visualisation: Art et Cybernétique, French Broadcasting Corp., 1968.

It isn’t about speed. It is about capacity and particularly about capacity on the WCML between Birmingham and Manchester. HS2 also increases local capacity by taking express intercity trains off the legacy lines.

I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/

news outlets and reddit have banned the internet archive’s access to preserving their content bc they’re afraid AI will scrape it. if the archive — essentially a modern day library of alexandria — falls, it will be another casualty of the AI bubble. it’s collateral damage

"So whatever problem AI attempts to solve becomes what philosopher Henri Bergson would call a ‘ready-made problem’ – a problem that is expressed as a function of things prior to itself that have already been turned into abstractions". ('Resisting AI', p43)

The thing these Tesla idiots always fail to understand is that traffic in dense urban areas is a very social phenomenon. You're constantly communicating with other pedestrians, cyclists, drivers; like a beautiful urban ballet. You can't remove the human element from that.