Studio NAB wants to rehab parking lots into energy-producing urban gardens: https://inhabitat.com/studio-nab-wants-to-rehab-parking-lots-into-energy-producing-urban-gardens/ #Regenerative #Garden
Studio NAB wants to rehab parking lots into energy-producing urban gardens: https://inhabitat.com/studio-nab-wants-to-rehab-parking-lots-into-energy-producing-urban-gardens/ #Regenerative #Garden
'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50226367 https://www.tum.de/nc/die-tum/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/details/35768/ #ClimateChange #Insects #Biology
Willy Wimmer spricht Klartext. #Politics #Military
The "Circular Economy", as interpreted by late capitalists in practice. #Comedy
Thoughts on physicist Mario Livio talking about "Why Is There Anything At All?":
#Comment: So many fancy words used to essentially just say "we don't know - at all". Particularly contemporary western scientists with their "knowledge fetishism" seem to have a very hard time acknowledging, that there are a great many questions which are fundamentally "unknowable" (situated right at the base of the "pyramid of knowledge/science", threatening to collapse the entire game built upon them). One would think, things like Gödel's "incompleteness theorem", Asimov's "The Last Question" or countless Zen Buddhist texts would have made the case rather clear by now, but apparently not. Scientist pretense of knowledge is especially comedic, such as when they tell us what happened a femtosecond after big bang or what happens inside the event horizon. They state their wild speculations as facts while they clearly just confuse their models and equations with reality. In praxis, contemporary scientsist resorts to the very same tricks the christian church used for millennia: First make up fictive ghost stories that sounds important but way too complex for anyone to understand. Then convince the public that they are the only ones that can make sense of this and use this to grab respect, authority and power. This comic summarizes this silly game nicely: https://samim.io/p/2019-10-30-proposal-for-a-monument-to-logical-fallacies-by-san/
Report about Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey's #Military Startup "Anduril Industries": https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-Flamme-des-Westens-4575816.html
Researchers create blueprint for 'quantum battery' that doesn't lose charge:
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-blueprint-quantum-battery-doesnt.html #Science
Few-shot Video-to-Video Synthesis: https://nvlabs.github.io/few-shot-vid2vid/ #ML #Generative
More than 1,100 Google employees on Monday demanded the company release a concrete action plan for confronting the climate crisis: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/05/stop-funding-politicians-delaying-bold-climate-action-among-demands-1100-google #ClimateChange #Business #Politics
Sidewalk Labs' Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police: http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/11/sidewalk-labs-smart-cities-will-create.html
Sidewalk Labs advances plans for Toronto smart city: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/11/01/sidewalk-labs-waterfront-toronto-development/ #Urban #Infrastructure #Military #SE
GPT-2: 1.5B Release: https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/ Reading the following made me really question the sanity of these researchers and/or humanity. Comedy Bullshit Alarm!
"Our partners found that extremist groups can use GPT-2 for misuse, specifically by fine-tuning GPT-2 models on four ideological positions: white supremacy, Marxism, jihadist Islamism, and anarchism. CTEC demonstrated that it’s possible to create models that can generate synthetic propaganda for these ideologies."
M☉dularize It! - by Lars Zimmermann: https://mifactori.de/modularize-it/
Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound - by Stephen Diehl: http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/libra.html #Crypto #Economics
How to Use BSF for Biowaste Treatment - by Sandec Eawag
Biowaste - Moving FORWARD
History of Sandec Part 1:
Nothing is impossible..
Apple-bashing Chinese CEO’s mountain of debt lands him on official ‘deadbeat’ list: https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3036277/apple-bashing-chinese-ceos-mountain-debt-lands-him-official-deadbeat "Smartisan founder Luo Yonghao is now barred from taking flights or high-speed train trips as well as any sort of lavish spending."
By these standards, more than half of the US & EU business community (Wallstreet and city of London) would be forbidden to travel & spend - and that would be a very mild punishment still for the extreme unchecked bullshit corruption there.
US Challenges China's Belt And Road With New Global Infrastructure Scheme: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-challenges-chinas-belt-and-road-new-global-infrastructure-scheme https://www.opic.gov/press-releases/2019/launch-multi-stakeholder-blue-dot-network Perhaps America should fix its own infrastructure first..
Italian FM calls for more business cooperation under BRI
What Happened When Microsoft Tried A Four-Day Work Week: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-4-day-workweek/ - #Business #Economics #Health
Some results were predictable: Workers were happier and took 25.4 percent fewer days off during the month. There were also savings from spending less time at work. 23.1 percent less electricity was used and 58.7 percent fewer pages were printed. More importantly from a bottom-line standpoint, however, productivity went up 39.9%, as fewer and shorter meetings were held, often virtually rather than in person.
How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate: https://theconversation.com/how-farming-giant-seaweed-can-feed-fish-and-fix-the-climate-81761
Seaweed could hold the key to cutting methane emissions from cow burps: https://theconversation.com/seaweed-could-hold-the-key-to-cutting-methane-emissions-from-cow-burps-66498