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Cliché metaphors like
"blink of an eye" simply don't communicate real scale or urgency.
Pat figurative phrases risk being mind numbing and soporific.
Don't Look Up reflects the challenge : how to make accurate comprehensible metaphors to compellingly communicate staggering new orders of impacts.
"blink of an eye" simply don't communicate real scale or urgency.
Pat figurative phrases risk being mind numbing and soporific.
Don't Look Up reflects the challenge : how to make accurate comprehensible metaphors to compellingly communicate staggering new orders of impacts.
December 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Cliché metaphors like
"blink of an eye" simply don't communicate real scale or urgency.
Pat figurative phrases risk being mind numbing and soporific.
Don't Look Up reflects the challenge : how to make accurate comprehensible metaphors to compellingly communicate staggering new orders of impacts.
"blink of an eye" simply don't communicate real scale or urgency.
Pat figurative phrases risk being mind numbing and soporific.
Don't Look Up reflects the challenge : how to make accurate comprehensible metaphors to compellingly communicate staggering new orders of impacts.
"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
But then switch metaphors, "speed of light fast"
Speed of Eye Blink: 0.2 m/s
Speed of Light: 299,792,458 m/s
Speed of light : 1,5-bn times faster.
Houston, we have a problem.
But then switch metaphors, "speed of light fast"
Speed of Eye Blink: 0.2 m/s
Speed of Light: 299,792,458 m/s
Speed of light : 1,5-bn times faster.
Houston, we have a problem.
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
But then switch metaphors, "speed of light fast"
Speed of Eye Blink: 0.2 m/s
Speed of Light: 299,792,458 m/s
Speed of light : 1,5-bn times faster.
Houston, we have a problem.
But then switch metaphors, "speed of light fast"
Speed of Eye Blink: 0.2 m/s
Speed of Light: 299,792,458 m/s
Speed of light : 1,5-bn times faster.
Houston, we have a problem.
Punctuated equilibrium
December 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Punctuated equilibrium
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria,
1969. West German Oscar submission. I wanted to learn German, just started, bravely went to Boston Art Museum film festival. Recognized two words: Horse and Church. So proud! Fast forward a few decades, it's better. Journey of a thousand miles began with two film words.
1969. West German Oscar submission. I wanted to learn German, just started, bravely went to Boston Art Museum film festival. Recognized two words: Horse and Church. So proud! Fast forward a few decades, it's better. Journey of a thousand miles began with two film words.
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria - Wikipedia
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December 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria,
1969. West German Oscar submission. I wanted to learn German, just started, bravely went to Boston Art Museum film festival. Recognized two words: Horse and Church. So proud! Fast forward a few decades, it's better. Journey of a thousand miles began with two film words.
1969. West German Oscar submission. I wanted to learn German, just started, bravely went to Boston Art Museum film festival. Recognized two words: Horse and Church. So proud! Fast forward a few decades, it's better. Journey of a thousand miles began with two film words.
In The Movies film house in Amsterdam, drinking a beer, in a glass, seeing Pulp Fiction when Travolta says to Jackson, "Europe is different. You can walk into a movie theater in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean just like in no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer." Epic.
December 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
In The Movies film house in Amsterdam, drinking a beer, in a glass, seeing Pulp Fiction when Travolta says to Jackson, "Europe is different. You can walk into a movie theater in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean just like in no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer." Epic.
Interactive Barbie. My heart'd been set on a gigamongous screen. But fate brought us to our tiny local art cinema. We caved. Ridiculous oversize red upholstered armchairs. Two older women next to us cackling away in their own parallel Oscar worthy narration. Greta Gerwig move over.
December 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Interactive Barbie. My heart'd been set on a gigamongous screen. But fate brought us to our tiny local art cinema. We caved. Ridiculous oversize red upholstered armchairs. Two older women next to us cackling away in their own parallel Oscar worthy narration. Greta Gerwig move over.
I came for the quote, I stayed for the plate.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I came for the quote, I stayed for the plate.
www.dutchlight.nl/looking-as-a...
Aerosols impacts have actually been attracting serious enquiry and attention for centuries, from multiple perspectives. Scientists aren't the only eyes able to see what's happening in the sky.
Aerosols impacts have actually been attracting serious enquiry and attention for centuries, from multiple perspectives. Scientists aren't the only eyes able to see what's happening in the sky.
Hollands licht (2003) ⭐ 7.0 | Documentary
1h 35m
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November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
www.dutchlight.nl/looking-as-a...
Aerosols impacts have actually been attracting serious enquiry and attention for centuries, from multiple perspectives. Scientists aren't the only eyes able to see what's happening in the sky.
Aerosols impacts have actually been attracting serious enquiry and attention for centuries, from multiple perspectives. Scientists aren't the only eyes able to see what's happening in the sky.
Wise words, yet with all respect, perhaps consider this modal: "COULD."
Many complex ecosystems are evolving into new territories.
Estimates predict & project what COULD happen, based on past system dynamics & data.
New realities add unknown unknowns. Black swans. Estimates = likelihoods of COULD.
Many complex ecosystems are evolving into new territories.
Estimates predict & project what COULD happen, based on past system dynamics & data.
New realities add unknown unknowns. Black swans. Estimates = likelihoods of COULD.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Wise words, yet with all respect, perhaps consider this modal: "COULD."
Many complex ecosystems are evolving into new territories.
Estimates predict & project what COULD happen, based on past system dynamics & data.
New realities add unknown unknowns. Black swans. Estimates = likelihoods of COULD.
Many complex ecosystems are evolving into new territories.
Estimates predict & project what COULD happen, based on past system dynamics & data.
New realities add unknown unknowns. Black swans. Estimates = likelihoods of COULD.
Infinite Free Energy
Over time, after initial capital costs get amortized, the running costs approach zero. The more you use it, the cheaper it gets.
Extend that into the future : Calculate total costs over infinite time horizon, the trend approaches zero. Remaining costs become negligible ♾️
Over time, after initial capital costs get amortized, the running costs approach zero. The more you use it, the cheaper it gets.
Extend that into the future : Calculate total costs over infinite time horizon, the trend approaches zero. Remaining costs become negligible ♾️
October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Infinite Free Energy
Over time, after initial capital costs get amortized, the running costs approach zero. The more you use it, the cheaper it gets.
Extend that into the future : Calculate total costs over infinite time horizon, the trend approaches zero. Remaining costs become negligible ♾️
Over time, after initial capital costs get amortized, the running costs approach zero. The more you use it, the cheaper it gets.
Extend that into the future : Calculate total costs over infinite time horizon, the trend approaches zero. Remaining costs become negligible ♾️
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Throughout history, rich & poor countries lent, over-borrowed, crashed in financial crises. Each time the experts chimed, "Ignore the past, this time is different."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Throughout history, rich & poor countries lent, over-borrowed, crashed in financial crises. Each time the experts chimed, "Ignore the past, this time is different."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Throughout history, rich & poor countries lent, over-borrowed, crashed in financial crises. Each time the experts chimed, "Ignore the past, this time is different."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Throughout history, rich & poor countries lent, over-borrowed, crashed in financial crises. Each time the experts chimed, "Ignore the past, this time is different."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
“It will be Too Cheap to Meter.”
"Speech Sept.16, 1954 by Lewis L. Strauss, Navy officer appointed Chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 by President Eisenhower.
Iconic ironic words promising a great big free lunch Utopia. Over 70 years ago.
www.thisdayinquotes.com/2024/08/too-...
"Speech Sept.16, 1954 by Lewis L. Strauss, Navy officer appointed Chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 by President Eisenhower.
Iconic ironic words promising a great big free lunch Utopia. Over 70 years ago.
www.thisdayinquotes.com/2024/08/too-...
“Too cheap to meter” – the infamous nuclear power phrase… - This Day in Quotes
In the annals of the long, still-ongoing debate over nuclear power, the most infamous words are undoubtedly “too cheap to meter.” The origin of this phrase is a speech given…
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October 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“It will be Too Cheap to Meter.”
"Speech Sept.16, 1954 by Lewis L. Strauss, Navy officer appointed Chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 by President Eisenhower.
Iconic ironic words promising a great big free lunch Utopia. Over 70 years ago.
www.thisdayinquotes.com/2024/08/too-...
"Speech Sept.16, 1954 by Lewis L. Strauss, Navy officer appointed Chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 by President Eisenhower.
Iconic ironic words promising a great big free lunch Utopia. Over 70 years ago.
www.thisdayinquotes.com/2024/08/too-...
Voor wie beide kent was ondertitelingsfout meteen overduidelijk.
Rudolf Steiner, Austrian esotericist (1861–1925)
George Steiner, writer, literary critic philosopher (1929–2020)
Eerste keer dat ik Steiner (George) las, was het zo briljant het deed pijn.
Rudolf, minder.
Rudolf Steiner, Austrian esotericist (1861–1925)
George Steiner, writer, literary critic philosopher (1929–2020)
Eerste keer dat ik Steiner (George) las, was het zo briljant het deed pijn.
Rudolf, minder.
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Voor wie beide kent was ondertitelingsfout meteen overduidelijk.
Rudolf Steiner, Austrian esotericist (1861–1925)
George Steiner, writer, literary critic philosopher (1929–2020)
Eerste keer dat ik Steiner (George) las, was het zo briljant het deed pijn.
Rudolf, minder.
Rudolf Steiner, Austrian esotericist (1861–1925)
George Steiner, writer, literary critic philosopher (1929–2020)
Eerste keer dat ik Steiner (George) las, was het zo briljant het deed pijn.
Rudolf, minder.
Despite recent years record temperatures and increasing anomalies, strikes me as strange in graphic to see 2025 Arctoc sea ice extent appear to track so closely to 2010s. Many factors (feedbacks) suggest to expect the opposite: and deviation to amplify. But I don't seem to see it here. Thoughts?
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Despite recent years record temperatures and increasing anomalies, strikes me as strange in graphic to see 2025 Arctoc sea ice extent appear to track so closely to 2010s. Many factors (feedbacks) suggest to expect the opposite: and deviation to amplify. But I don't seem to see it here. Thoughts?
Maybe useful addition,
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
"As expected, the year-to-year variations are very similar, but there are notable divergences between 1996 and 1999 that are (mostly) related to the treatment of data from NOAA-14 which had a large orbital and instrumental drift."
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
"As expected, the year-to-year variations are very similar, but there are notable divergences between 1996 and 1999 that are (mostly) related to the treatment of data from NOAA-14 which had a large orbital and instrumental drift."
RealClimate: A NOAA-STAR dataset is born…
RealClimate: What does a new entrant in the lower troposphere satellite record stakes really imply?
www.realclimate.org
July 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Maybe useful addition,
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
"As expected, the year-to-year variations are very similar, but there are notable divergences between 1996 and 1999 that are (mostly) related to the treatment of data from NOAA-14 which had a large orbital and instrumental drift."
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
"As expected, the year-to-year variations are very similar, but there are notable divergences between 1996 and 1999 that are (mostly) related to the treatment of data from NOAA-14 which had a large orbital and instrumental drift."
"Back home, gossip was rife about these women who worked in distant paddy fields with their legs exposed and who returned home not only with a few hundred lire and bags of rice but also... new ideas about rights and wages. Those who hadn’t left gossiped about [change as] films glamorised the strife.
June 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"Back home, gossip was rife about these women who worked in distant paddy fields with their legs exposed and who returned home not only with a few hundred lire and bags of rice but also... new ideas about rights and wages. Those who hadn’t left gossiped about [change as] films glamorised the strife.
Except what happens in the Arctic [Ocean] doesn't stay in the Arctic [Ocean]. Disconcerting +1C red band in ocean latitudes across entire top of graphic. Chosen viewpoints of cartographic projections can distort what we see and understand. bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Each year, Arctic Sea Ice Extent reaches a low point in September. But over the last 15 years or so, the September minimum extent *appears* to have plateaued...
🧵Thread on this why this is happening, and how it's hiding catastrophic changes...
🧵Thread on this why this is happening, and how it's hiding catastrophic changes...
June 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Except what happens in the Arctic [Ocean] doesn't stay in the Arctic [Ocean]. Disconcerting +1C red band in ocean latitudes across entire top of graphic. Chosen viewpoints of cartographic projections can distort what we see and understand. bsky.app/profile/ryan...
"Empty Spain... " the moniker to describe villages depopulating from dramatic domestic migrations to urban areas. Stunning.
A same named political party arose, as voice/plea for recognition.
Italy: Same Same But Different.
es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espa%C3...
www.eleconomista.es/economia/not...
A same named political party arose, as voice/plea for recognition.
Italy: Same Same But Different.
es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espa%C3...
www.eleconomista.es/economia/not...
www.eleconomista.es
May 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"Empty Spain... " the moniker to describe villages depopulating from dramatic domestic migrations to urban areas. Stunning.
A same named political party arose, as voice/plea for recognition.
Italy: Same Same But Different.
es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espa%C3...
www.eleconomista.es/economia/not...
A same named political party arose, as voice/plea for recognition.
Italy: Same Same But Different.
es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espa%C3...
www.eleconomista.es/economia/not...
Sorry for your loss, Jen. We feel through you how much she meant to you and how special she was. May her light live on in the world.
February 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry for your loss, Jen. We feel through you how much she meant to you and how special she was. May her light live on in the world.
This post sparked joy, I'll keep it.
January 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This post sparked joy, I'll keep it.