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Daniel Khent
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#writing #jazz #speculativefiction #climatechange #AI #solarpunk #postscarcity #ecopsychology #transhumanism
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#alanwatts
October 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Why cloud storage is so inexpensive.

#cloudcomputing
Closet with cotton clouds
August 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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#AI #postscarcity
Farmer talking to his horse. You won't lose your job to a tractor, but to a horse who learns how to drive a tractor.
June 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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“highlights circular, post-scarcity economics ... where communities regenerate damaged environments and redistribute resources and power in
non-hierarchical and liberatory networks.”

#solarpunk #postscarcity

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Radical Ecology & Renewal in the Anthropocene
June 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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#writing
Man saying: writers who use subtext are cowards
April 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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#ecopsychology
"We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us." -Friedrich Nietzsche
April 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Great Falls, VA with hawks. #naturephotography #photography
River with rocks, dusted with snow. And hawks in sky.
January 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Great Falls Park, Virginia
River and falls dusted with snow
January 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Scientists discover hallucinogens in 2,200-year-old Egyptian Bes mug

Shades of "The Immortality Key" / Brian C. Muraresku

#entheogens #ancientreligion

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Column capital of the god Bes.
December 15, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Sidney Bechet, Claude Luter, André Réwéliotty Et Son Orchestre – Bechet Souvenirs

#jazzsky #vinyl #NowPlaying
Bechet Souvenirs orange cover Bass – Georges "Zozo" d'Halluin* Clarinet – André Réwéliotty, Claude Luter Design – Objectif Lune (2) Drums – Michel Pacout (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B2), Wallace Bishop (tracks: A2, B1, B3, B4) Piano – Yannick Singery* Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Trombone – Jean-Louis Durand* Trumpet – Marcel Bornstein (tracks: A1-A4, B1-B3)
October 5, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Can Analog Chips Pave the Way for Sustainable AI?

#ai #analog

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Sustainable analog chips.
August 16, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Clifford Brown And Max Roach – The Best Of Max Roach And Clifford Brown In Concert!

#jazz #vinyl #NowPlaying #jazzsky
Album cover with trumpet and drum Bass – George Morrow Drums – Max Roach Liner Notes – Gene Norman Photography By – Ross Burdick Piano – Richard Powell* Tenor Saxophone – Harold Land Trumpet – Clifford Brown
August 3, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Mythic uses analog technology for its mobile #AI chips rather than digital.

ca.movies.yahoo.com/movies/ai-an...

#analog #ai
chip circuitry
April 12, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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AI and other emerging technologies may trigger a revival in analog computing

#analog #ai

www.kyndryl.com/au/en/perspe...
Person in server room looking at laptop
March 22, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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"the lavish Art Deco facade gleamed under the Shanghai sky, the interior was a labyrinth of luxury with golden ash walls and plush velvet seats, and there was a soft murmur of anticipation from an elegantly dressed crowd."

#shanghai #cinema #1930s

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Shanghai Grand Theatre
March 9, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Bookmarking Alignment.

You know who you are.

#books #writing
Methods of making marks in books using DnD alignment table.
March 2, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Art Farmer And His Orchestra – The Aztec Suite

album.link/i/1445959093

#jazz #jazzsky #music #vinyl #NowPlaying
Album Cover for Art Farmer And His Orchestra – The Aztec Suite an abstract mask
February 17, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Ron DeSantis opposes lab-grown meat and supports legislation to ban its production.

What? Why? Oh, ESG.

#solarpunk #climatechange

www.salon.com/2024/02/07/r...
Meat in a petri dish
February 10, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Sidney Bechet – King Of The Soprano Saxophone

#jazz #jazzsky #music #vinyl #NowPlaying
Sidney with cigarette
February 3, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Lester Young – Young Lester Young

#jazz #jazzsky #music #vinyl #nowplaying
Lester Young holding sax Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges (tracks: A5) Baritone Saxophone – Harry Carney (tracks: A5) Bass – Walter Page (tracks: A1 to A5) Clarinet – Benny Goodman (tracks: A5), Lester Young (tracks: B1 to B6) Drum – Gene Krupa (tracks: A5), Jo Jones (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B6) Guitar – Freddie Greene* (tracks: A2 to A5, B1 to B6) Liner Notes – H. Renaud* Organ – Glenn Hardman (tracks: B1 to B6) Piano – Count Basie (tracks: A1 to A5), Eddie Heywood, jr.* (tracks: A6, A7) Producer – John Hammond (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B6) Tenor Saxophone – Lester Young Trombone – Dicky Wells* (tracks: A2 to A4), Vernon Brown (tracks: A5) Trumpet – Buck Clayton (tracks: A2 to A7), Carl Smith (tracks: A1), Harry James (2) (tracks: A5), Lee Castaldo (tracks: B1 to B6)
January 21, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Art Farmer Quintet – At Boomers

Recorded live May 14-15, 1976, at Boomers, N.Y.C.

#jazz #jazzsky #music #vinyl #nowplaying
Cover of album, picture of Boomers club storefront. Bass – Sam Jones Design [Album Design] – Heyglow Kobayashi* Drums – Billy Higgins Engineer – David Baker, Yoshihiro Suzuki Executive-Producer – Toshinari Koinuma Flugelhorn – Art Farmer Photography By [Photograph] – Tadayuki Naitoh Piano – Cedar Walton Producer – Kiyoshi Itoh, Yasohachi Itoh Tenor Saxophone – Clifford Jordan
January 13, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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Vortex Bladeless has designed an upright cylindrical wind energy harvester that works by oscillating rather than using a rotating blade. Not sure how real this wind tech with prurient nickname is.

www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/v...

#solarpunk #renewableenergy
It might be hard to take a device nicknamed “skybrator” seriously — and you may continue to giggle after seeing the machine in action — but this bladeless wind energy tech under development in Spain aims to be a solution to wind power issues, even if it’s not a silver bullet.
December 29, 2023 at 7:56 PM
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Buck Clayton With His All-Stars – Meet Buck Clayton

#jazz #jazzsky #music #vinyl #nowplaying
1 West End Blues 2 Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 3 Catchin' The Boat Train 4 Swingin' With Mezz 5 Lazy River 6 Big Butter And Egg Man 7 St. Louis Blues 8 Rose Room 9 She's Funny That Way 10 Sweethearts On Parade 11 Special B.C. 12 Patricia's Blues
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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Art Farmer – Farmer's Market

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#jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying
Art Farmer smoking Alto Saxophone – Gigi Gryce (tracks: C1 to C4) Art Direction – Tony Lane (2) Baritone Saxophone – Danny Bank (tracks: B3 to B5), Oscar Estell (tracks: B1, B2) Bass – Addison Farmer (tracks: C3, C4 to D4), Monk Montgomery (tracks: B1, B2), Percy Heath (tracks: A1 to A4, B3 to C2) Drums – Joe Jones* (tracks: C3, C4), Art Taylor (tracks: B3, B4, B5), Elvin Jones (tracks: D3, D4), Herbie Lovelle (tracks: D1, D2), Kenny Clarke (tracks: A1 to A4, C1, C2), Sonny Johnson (tracks: B1, B2) Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder Liner Notes [Summer 1973] – Dick Hadlock* Photography By [Cover] – Lee Tanner Piano – Duke Jordan (tracks: C3, C4), Horace Silver (tracks: A1 to A4, B3 to B5), Kenny Drew (tracks: D3, D4), Quincy Jones (tracks: B1, B2), Wynton Kelly (tracks: D1, D2) Producer – Bob Weinstock Remastered By – Mike Reese Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Rouse (tracks: B3 to B5), Cliff Solomon* (tracks: B1, B2), Hank Mobley (tracks: D3, D4), Sonny Rollins (tracks: A1 to A4) Trombone – Jimmy Cl
December 2, 2023 at 6:38 PM
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The 2023 U.S. Department of Agriculture's "plant hardiness zone map" is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 2012 map across the contiguous U.S.

www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1...

#climatechange #solarpunk
The 2023 U.S. Department of Agriculture's "plant hardiness zone map"
November 23, 2023 at 5:00 PM