Carlos Ariza
@carlosariza.bsky.social
The future is regenerative! MIT grad, Data Science, Systems Thinking, System Dynamics, Biomimicry. Facilitator with Common Earth. Gainesville, FL. Pronouns: he/him.
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"Every time we share outrage bait or doom-laden headlines, we're feeding a machine that makes everyone more miserable. But we also have the ability to choose differently." h/t to @fixthenews.com.web.brid.gy www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling
Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
September 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"Every time we share outrage bait or doom-laden headlines, we're feeding a machine that makes everyone more miserable. But we also have the ability to choose differently." h/t to @fixthenews.com.web.brid.gy www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
They will be taking this down soon
www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and...
www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and...
September 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
They will be taking this down soon
www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and...
www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and...
"No oxygen, no problem! We can breathe hydrogen and sulfur" www.quantamagazine.org/the-cells-th...
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways | Quanta Magazine
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.
www.quantamagazine.org
September 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"No oxygen, no problem! We can breathe hydrogen and sulfur" www.quantamagazine.org/the-cells-th...
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It’s “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped,
Look at that low playing,
fine, then
Look at that low playing,
fine, then
September 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped,
Look at that low playing,
fine, then
Look at that low playing,
fine, then
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Word of the day: "Kairomone": A semiochemical released by an organism that mediates interactions in a way that benefits the receiver. For example, sweat and mosquitoes... (I'm studying #biomimicry and chemistry this semester, so hang on to your molecules)
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Word of the day: "Kairomone": A semiochemical released by an organism that mediates interactions in a way that benefits the receiver. For example, sweat and mosquitoes... (I'm studying #biomimicry and chemistry this semester, so hang on to your molecules)
This is the Al we need
August 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is the Al we need
Like so many things these days, this step backwards will cost our country dearly. It's like the climate crisis is just sci-fi to them. “This will mean to us a lot of additional profit,” said CEO Antonio Filosa." 😞😞😞 @zamafir.bsky.social they'll be gone in 10 yrs right?
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Detroit Rediscovers Its Love for Giant Gas Guzzlers
Regulatory rollback has opened the door for Ford, GM and Stellantis to sell highly profitable pickups and SUVs for the foreseeable future.
www.wsj.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Like so many things these days, this step backwards will cost our country dearly. It's like the climate crisis is just sci-fi to them. “This will mean to us a lot of additional profit,” said CEO Antonio Filosa." 😞😞😞 @zamafir.bsky.social they'll be gone in 10 yrs right?
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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I'm off for one week and our headline game appears to have improved exponentially. None of that pearl-clutching asterisk bullshit here for reported speech. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517092...
'Motherfucking wind farms': Samuel L. Jackson hails biodiversity benefits of offshore wind in new Vattenfall campaign
Hollywood star teams up with Swedish energy firm to promote climate and biodiversity benefits of offshore wind farms
www.businessgreen.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I'm off for one week and our headline game appears to have improved exponentially. None of that pearl-clutching asterisk bullshit here for reported speech. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517092...
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"air-conditioning is more than a convenience; in certain conditions, it’s a safety measure. That should be an easy enough concept to grasp....in many parts of the world we expect access to heating in the name of safety. Nobody wants to freeze to death."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
In defense of air-conditioning
Why air-conditioning is the wrong climate villain.
www.technologyreview.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"air-conditioning is more than a convenience; in certain conditions, it’s a safety measure. That should be an easy enough concept to grasp....in many parts of the world we expect access to heating in the name of safety. Nobody wants to freeze to death."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
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The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...
reactormag.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.
Sting wrote 'Fragile' in 1987 but it's timeless. "Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could"
July 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Sting wrote 'Fragile' in 1987 but it's timeless. "Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could"
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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
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When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/trea...
Treating empty bottles like lottery tickets could transform recycling
When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
July 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/trea...
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Name a more dynamic duo. I'll wait.
July 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Name a more dynamic duo. I'll wait.
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Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old city in Peru
Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes and Amazon.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"No need to stress about the coming of Artificial General Intelligence if Artificial Worm Intelligence remains such a distant impossibility. I hope it underscores how mightily naive we are about the possibility of truly imitating life."
youtu.be/jwr1EOvAxQI?...
youtu.be/jwr1EOvAxQI?...
How the universe thinks without a brain | Claire L. Evans
YouTube video by Sana
youtu.be
July 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"No need to stress about the coming of Artificial General Intelligence if Artificial Worm Intelligence remains such a distant impossibility. I hope it underscores how mightily naive we are about the possibility of truly imitating life."
youtu.be/jwr1EOvAxQI?...
youtu.be/jwr1EOvAxQI?...
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Waffle House embraces EV charging with BP Pulse fast chargers.
#EVCharging #ElectricVehicles #SustainableFuture
#EVCharging #ElectricVehicles #SustainableFuture
Waffle House adds fast EV charging to its 24/7 diners
Top up while wolfing down.
www.theverge.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Waffle House embraces EV charging with BP Pulse fast chargers.
#EVCharging #ElectricVehicles #SustainableFuture
#EVCharging #ElectricVehicles #SustainableFuture
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"Living like a hermit wizard"
"Living like a hermit wizard"
June 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"Living like a hermit wizard"
"Living like a hermit wizard"
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i kind of think the opening sequence in STAR TREK (2009) is the best thing abrams ever put to film
June 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
i kind of think the opening sequence in STAR TREK (2009) is the best thing abrams ever put to film
Well, there go our chances of seeing a Rendezvous with Rama movie 😕
www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n... James Bond: Denis Villeneuve is the director of next spy film : NPR
www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n... James Bond: Denis Villeneuve is the director of next spy film : NPR
The next James Bond film will have Dune's Denis Villeneuve as its director
"I'm a die-hard Bond fan," Denis Villeneuve says. The Quebecois filmmaker's hiring comes as a relief to British 007 fans who had feared the worst when U.S. company Amazon MGM took control of Bond.
www.npr.org
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Well, there go our chances of seeing a Rendezvous with Rama movie 😕
www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n... James Bond: Denis Villeneuve is the director of next spy film : NPR
www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n... James Bond: Denis Villeneuve is the director of next spy film : NPR
Are you seeing fireflies in your yard this summer? Did you leave the leaves in the fall? They are directly correlated, remember this in a few months! From @joandeart.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Are you seeing fireflies in your yard this summer? Did you leave the leaves in the fall? They are directly correlated, remember this in a few months! From @joandeart.bsky.social
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200 years of controversy! 200 years of people carrying about the classification of jellyfish! (complimentary)
The Portuguese Man Of War Is Actually Four Distinct Species, study led by Yale University with Griffith University, published by @currentbiology.bsky.social
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#MarineBiology #ecology #NewSpecies www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#MarineBiology #ecology #NewSpecies www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
June 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
200 years of controversy! 200 years of people carrying about the classification of jellyfish! (complimentary)
You know what to do:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
June 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You know what to do:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...