Alistair McConnell
@mccrocodile.bsky.social
Marine movement ecology / spatial geography person @ St Andrews
In the near future when boffins have solved fusion power and we have abundant nearly-free energy, we’ll be able make anything we can imagine, but one of the few things that can’t be *created* by unlimited resources is biodiversity. We protect what we have or we lose it, we can’t buy it back.
July 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
In the near future when boffins have solved fusion power and we have abundant nearly-free energy, we’ll be able make anything we can imagine, but one of the few things that can’t be *created* by unlimited resources is biodiversity. We protect what we have or we lose it, we can’t buy it back.
@cupofteaching.com good opportunity for school kids!
June 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
@cupofteaching.com good opportunity for school kids!
udm14.com removes ai results from google search, (by appending &udm=24 to the search url, which we could just do ourselves too) - doesn’t solve the problem at all, but it does hide it for a bit!
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
udm14.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
udm14.com removes ai results from google search, (by appending &udm=24 to the search url, which we could just do ourselves too) - doesn’t solve the problem at all, but it does hide it for a bit!
May 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reposted by Alistair McConnell
An engineer once explained to me that an efficient system always has need available when a resource becomes free, and an effective system always has a resource available when a need arises. Mind was blown.
February 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
An engineer once explained to me that an efficient system always has need available when a resource becomes free, and an effective system always has a resource available when a need arises. Mind was blown.
Sounds similar to the Halo effect?
November 15, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Sounds similar to the Halo effect?