Masthash

#Future

DigitalDreamscape
4 hours ago

Reaching for the Future
This image shows a robot hand reaching out towards a futuristic city. The hand symbolizes the advancement of technology and the desire to explore the unknown. The city represents the possibilities and challenges of the future. The atom-like structure in the center suggests that the future is powered by science and innovation. #robot #future #digitalart #photorealism #science #innovation
https://ko-fi.com/s/38d0b6b28a

Stitch Media
6 hours ago

Embracing the future. Lowering energy costs. Lowering health care costs. Cleaner air. Valuing biodiversity and ecological growth.

https://www.ecowatch.com/cop28-renewable-energy-goals.html

#StitchedInkMedia #Renewables #UN #COP28 #Nature #Solar #Sun #Energy #Science #Future #Politics #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #World #Agreement

اندرو آبی
7 hours ago

Brain Implant Sparks Remarkable Recovery in Patients With Severe Brain Injury

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:15:31

At 21 years old, a young woman’s life was turned upside down after suffering a blow to the head and severe brain injury during a devastating traffic accident. She’s been living with the consequences ever since, struggling to focus long enough to complete simple everyday tasks. Juggling multiple chores was nearly impossible. Her memory would […]

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

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Jeremy P. Boggess
10 hours ago

"something is happening worldwide. - threshold of current society and maybe."

Web www.JeremyPBoggess.com

YouTube https://youtu.be/HwPAiOtCHpQ

Free eBook WorldWide: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/953380

Free eBook USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W4MBH47

#future

aimee
10 hours ago

This was a lot of fun :)

Charles Cormier 🖤 and I had a wide-ranging conversation covering #AI, #oligarchs, #carbon bombs, #ethics, #democracy, the #future and more :)

Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-cId5B3s4

Mazdak
12 hours ago

AI's Energy Problem: Can We Power Progress Without Wrecking the Planet? ⚡️🌎

https://mazdak.com/p/ai-energy-problem

#ai #server #energy #future #technology #discussion

Jeremy P. Boggess
12 hours ago

"something is happening worldwide. - threshold of current society and maybe."

Web www.JeremyPBoggess.com

YouTube https://youtu.be/HwPAiOtCHpQ

Free eBook WorldWide: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/953380

Free eBook USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W4MBH47

#future #tomorrow #world

#GeorgeSantos #saga raises serious #questions about #GOP

#MarkChiusano, author of the #book#TheFabulist,” digs into the #rise and #fall of #former Rep. #GeorgeSantos (R-NY). Chiusano explains why he says Santos is part of what he calls the “#ShamelessCaucus” and what it says about the #future of the #RepublicanParty.

https://www.msnbc.com/american-voices/watch/george-santos-saga-raises-serious-questions-about-gop-199286341805

Christian
15 hours ago
Sam Briesemeister
1 day ago

Remind me in 50 years that quality of life is more important than independence, when conveyance of #wisdom to #future generations is critical to our #mission of building a better world.

(Helping aging grandparents gives some perspective.)

Adrian Segar
1 day ago

Meetings in Day Million will be different from those today. Remember that when a meeting designer proposes something crazy. It may be the future's normal.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/03/meetings-in-day-million

#meetings #ScienceFiction #SciFi #EventDesign #future #eventprofs

Meetings in Day Million: An illustration of a recling woman from Frederik Pohl's short story "Day Million"
اندرو آبی
2 days ago

Are We Ready to Head to Mars? Not So Fast.

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:00:16

In August 1998, 700 people came to Boulder, Colorado to attend the founding convention of the Mars Society. The group’s cofounder and president, Robert Zubrin, extolled the virtues of sending humans to Mars to terraform the planet and establish a human colony. The Mars Society’s founding declaration began, “The time has come for humanity to […]

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

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Thomas Ott
2 days ago

Find friends, family, and people that you can ride out the coming #climatechange disaster.

"If you ask me, we’re well on our way to a +4C global temperature increase, because we don’t know everything about this complex system."

https://www.weathered.pub/find-your-tribe-now-before-its-too-late/

#future

Metaverse
2 days ago

»#TheMetaverse: The Real #Future of the #VirtualWorld. The emergence of the digital economy is a complex and ongoing process that has evolved over several decades.« https://readwrite.com/metaverse-the-real-future-of-the-virtual-world/?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #VR #AR #MR

اندرو آبی
2 days ago

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 2)

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:00:06

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off Matthew Smith | IEEE Spectrum “The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no internet connection required. …Every big name in consumer tech, from Apple to Qualcomm, is racing to optimize its hardware and software to run artificial intelligence at the ‘edge’—meaning […]

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

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stummi
2 days ago

Wouldn't a strenghened democracy, where the vote of the people is promoted in it's strength and the influence of money in politics gets demoted, be the solution to so many of our current problems?

#politics #EU #vote #polls #democracy #future #climatecrisis #climatechange #war

stummi
3 days ago

Whats wrong with our society right now?
I thought the politcal shift to the right happened after 2015 but instead it keeps going and going... Please explain, I seriously wanna understand this!

#politics #EU #vote #polls #democracy #future #climatecrisis #climatechange #war #risk

JoeyPajamas
3 days ago

I just learned about #LeeSedol Vs #AlphaGo and it has left me supremely depressed. #AI #future #ItsNotTheEndOfTheWorldButYouCanSeeItFromHere

Stitch Media
3 days ago

Methane in the environment needs to be effectively reduced. Old climate models didn’t predict the advances of methane release we have now.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2406098-how-big-a-problem-are-methane-and-other-non-co2-greenhouse-gases/

#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Methane #Climate #World #Environment #HeatAge #UN #Cop28 #Nature #Animals #Species #Science #Model #Future #C;imateChange #ClimateAction

Alastair Bor 🇦🇺
3 days ago

Video from 1960 predicting how #future life will be like after 2000.

Critical Cupcake
3 days ago

For five minutes you get transported 30 years into the future, you sit in front of a computer, what information do you look up?

#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #Transported #Future #Information #Internet #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe

https://youtu.be/QYuuz7Mqa5A

Brian Winkers
3 days ago

Musk telling advertisers they could F* themselves if they didn't want to advertise on X was interesting. As Twitter falls, the Fediverse will expand more quickly.

There are a lot of questions:

* Will we get all the negative activity as well?
* Is moderation going to become much harder?
* Will things become more bifurcated, as more instances have reasons to block another instance?
* What are the things we can do to keep the Fediverse from become a meme stream, filled with hate and lies?
* Most importantly, how do we accomplish those things without treading on free speech?

Those are some of the questions that spurred us to speed up our Fediverse plans.

#fediverse #future #freespeech #liberty #tragedyofthecommons #twitter

اندرو آبی
3 days ago

This DeepMind AI Rapidly Learns New Skills Just by Watching Humans

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:00:07

Teaching algorithms to mimic humans typically requires hundreds or thousands of examples. But a new AI from Google DeepMind can pick up new skills from human demonstrators on the fly. One of humanity’s greatest tricks is our ability to acquire knowledge rapidly and efficiently from each other. This kind of social learning, often referred to […]

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

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Gutmensch.
4 days ago

#AI is trained on copyrighted materials.
Because that is the capital of the #future
And we’re not involved anymore.

Stitch Media
4 days ago
EA7KRC Martin
4 days ago

A kinder future without Bezzos and Musk et al...
Shhhh but it's called socialism...

#future #scifi #billionairesshouldnotexist

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/remembering-the-sci-fi-puppet-led-future-of-thunderbirds

Iylandmuncee
4 days ago

A few years ago I started setting myself a project of picking a theme and creating 24 advent images based on it.
At the end of last year I knew I wanted to do a Robots in (slightly used) future theme, so some of these will look familiar but with a different paint job 🙂 )

Maintenance bot xmas tree

#blender #blender3d #MastoArt #DigitalArt #SciFi #christmas #xmas #yule #winter #holiday #future #christmastree #snow

Maintenance bot in a xmas tree paint job, out in the snow
Sindre Wimberger
4 days ago

ChatGPT meets the zeitgeist. Uncertain answers for an uncertain future. – Both need the right questions?

My summary of the Global Peter Drucker Forum 2023.

#Druckerforum #future #zeitgeist

Miles
4 days ago

@thomasottio

The world of the future is only as good as the children we bring into it. Let other people make and teach the children and they will make the world in their image. But if you believe in yourself and your ideas and want a better world you have to be the one who makes the children and/ or teaches them.

#children #parenting #future #planet #globalclimatechange

Vivaldi
4 days ago

The recordings of the #WebSummit2023 talks by @jon are now live! :tony_normal:

What can we expect from a web #browser in the #future?

How can we build viable and ethical business models that respect users' #privacy online?

Head to the blog to learn more. 👇
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/vivaldi-browser-at-the-web-summit/

Categorical Imperative
4 days ago

#gesundheit #humanismus
#gesundheit #Salud #tod #transzendenz #zukunft #health #humanism #spirituality #health #death #transcendence #future

Wenn ich meine Überzeugungen ...ändern kann, kann sich mein ganzes Leben ändern. Wir haben dies bei vielen Menschen gesehen, die nach einer schwierigen Situation oder als ihr Leben in Gefahr war, eine völlige Kehrtwende vollzogen. Es kam zu einer „Umwandlung“ ihrer Energie und es entstand ein neuer Lebenssinn.

https://www.pressenza.com/de/2023/11/die-zukunft-die-wichtigste-zeitform/

Categorical Imperative
4 days ago

#gesundheit #humanismus
#gesundheit #Salud #tod #transzendenz #zukunft #health #humanism #spirituality #health #death #transcendence #future

Eine tiefgreifende Veränderung in uns selbst herbeiführen. Wir können dies, indem wir unseren Überzeugungen auf den Grund gehen.

Um uns bei dieser tieferen Art der Meditation zu helfen, können wir die geführte Erfahrung mit dem Titel „Tod“ (Silo, 1980) nutzen

http://www.gewaltfreiraum.net/?secc=exp&v=23

Stitch Media
4 days ago

Time for real change. True leadership. Inflation and affordability have become the new distractions utilized against a better world of cheaper energy. Stop spending on those giving nothing back.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/11/30/opinion/now-we-need-real-climate-leadership

#StitchedInkMedia #Future #Politics #Nature #Science #COP28 #Leadership #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #World #Environment

Solarpunk Presents Podcast
5 days ago

Periodic reminder that we have a Patreon and we need support! We're a two-person endeavour, and we don't have ads or sponsorships or get money from like, Big Solarpunk (though that would be hilarious and terrible if such a thing existed). We basically are paying for this out of our own pockets, and investing the time and energy into this that capitalism is telling us would be much better spent EARNING a WAGE at some sort of JOB (Ariel is writing this and she's bitter, sorry, let me start this again....)

If you can find it in your hearts and wallets to support us financially through a Patreon subscription or a one-time donation to our PayPal, that would go a long way towards encouraging us to keep going. We want to keep bringing our listeners interviews with the people who are doing solarpunk in the present. It's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.

Okay I'll get off my soapbox and just leave this here: https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/support

PS: Those in financial straits, we see you, too. If you want to support our show and solarpunk in general but you just can't monetarily, it's chill: instead, write us a review on your podcatcher of choice - they go a long way to encouraging us and giving us good ideas for future episodes and guests. Or, share an episode you particularly liked with a friend; word of mouth recommendations are so important in our current sea of media ;)

#Patreon #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresents #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #support #hope #hopepunk #environmentalism #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateGrief #reviews #ReviewsPlz #SharingIsCaring #compassion #imagination #Future #PositiveFuture #Futurism #PositiveFuturism #SolarpunkPodcast #SolarpunkPodcasting

True Quotation
5 days ago

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
— Al Gore
#quote #future

🟡Michael Clifford Carter
5 days ago

The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. Unless You're a Fortune Teller, Then You Can Skip the Hard Work. #Humor #Motivation #Future

Monochrome baseball player with a skull-patterned ball.
Manni_P :mastolove:
6 days ago
Adrian Segar
6 days ago

The German Convention Bureau's free report of global meetings megatrends that will shape our industry through 2030

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/10/eight-global-meetings-megatrends

#meetings #megatrends #future #eventprofs

Global Meetings Megatrends: Cover of the German Convention Bureau's study of megatrends shaping our industry through 2030
Flickr Foundation
1 week ago

All of these images are free to use, reuse, remix and share because they have No Known Copyright Restrictions.

We love to share.

9. Love you for giving.

From the US National Library of Medicine.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlmhmd/49535318611/

#GivingTuesday #photography #archives #future #history #GLAM

Donate: https://www.flickr.org/donate/

A poster from the National Library of Medicine with a heart contained in a lace pattern and the headline says "Love you for giving. Patient Emergency Fund"

Exploring more AI-generated graphics. This one took more work and involved SD and Photoshop (I definitely need to work on my light reflection skills - the green screen looks way out of place). I like the concept. This is closer to what I had in mind.

#cyberpunk #future #aiart #scifi

Ville Takanen
1 week ago

I'm seeing a plausible, more significant shift happening for #cloud and #edgecomputing. Clear business, security, and DX drivers are making it happen.

Now the question is, is this just a minor adjustment to how we use the cloud - or a tectonic shift like the move from on-prem to the cloud was?

https://www.villetakanen.com/blog/tech-convergence-at-the-edge

#futurism #future #tech #predictions

Erin Whalen
1 week ago

Futurism.com says they caught Sports Illustrated publishing articles by fake, AI-generated authors – and when caught they deleted the fake author bios and presumably rocked back and forth on their heels while whistling innocently at the sky and periodically mumbling, "Who, us??"

The funny thing is how hysterically fake the author bio photos are. I imagine we'll be seeing a lot more of this in the months to come.

https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

#ai #future #fake #technology #sports #news

Ars Electronica
1 week ago

@anewman will join colleagues from the #horizoneurope research project #CriticalChangeLab for a workshop that explores #future scenarios in which all living beings have the same rights.

You can register for the online workshop on 7.12 here: https://bit.ly/3sNfChK

si_irini
1 week ago

What do you want for your children?
For their future?

If you don't have children, would you like to have some and what would you wish for them?

I'm going to put health in first place.

#boost
for a lively discussion 🙂
It's Saturday so you can write half the night...😆

#children #kids #future #wish

Tjeerd Royaards
1 week ago

In the run-up to COP28, the UN issues a final, final waaaaaaaaarniiiiiiii...

#COP28 #climate #future #UN

Cartoon showing a roller coaster going over the edge into a depth filled with flames. The last cart, that is about to go over the edge has a UN logo on the side and is filled with scientists shouting through a megaphone and waving a climate report with the text 'final, final warning'.
aimee
2 weeks ago

This was a lot of fun :)

Charles Cormier 🖤 and I had a wide-ranging conversation covering #AI, #oligarchs, #carbon bombs, #ethics, #democracy, the #future and more :)

Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-cId5B3s4

Reading "The Future" by the brilliant @naomialderman (thank you, @pluralistic!) very slowly, not wanting it to end...

#tech #apocalypse #capitalism #enclosure #climate #survival #future

This piece by #RyanGeorge is less funny if you actually think about our current situation and our non-reaction to stuff that will probably end our #society in #future:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuqe9-Ve70

tomasino
3 weeks ago

The Disabled Community

Solarpunk Prompts - S02E03

How will our Solarpunk future be shaped by the tenacity and activism of the disabled community? What role does inclusivity and accessibility play in creating that future vision? What new challenges await us all?

Special thanks to Martyna Lysiakiewicz for a sensitivity read on this episode.

https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-disabled-community

#disability #solarpunk #writing #future #hope #activism

Martha Crimson
3 weeks ago

Flying cars? Meh! I want a replicator!

#future

Solarpunk Presents Podcast
3 weeks ago

Periodic reminder that we have a Patreon and we need support! We're a two-person endeavour, and we don't have ads or sponsorships or get money from like, Big Solarpunk (though that would be hilarious and terrible if such a thing existed). We basically are paying for this out of our own pockets, and investing the time and energy into this that capitalism is telling us would be much better spent EARNING a WAGE at some sort of JOB (Ariel is writing this and she's bitter, sorry, let me start this again....)

If you can find it in your hearts and wallets to support us financially through a Patreon subscription or a one-time donation to our PayPal, that would go a long way towards encouraging us to keep going. We want to keep bringing our listeners interviews with the people who are doing solarpunk in the present. It's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.

Okay I'll get off my soapbox and just leave this here: https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/support

PS: Those in financial straits, we see you, too. If you want to support our show and solarpunk in general but you just can't monetarily, it's chill: instead, write us a review on your podcatcher of choice - they go a long way to encouraging us and giving us good ideas for future episodes and guests. Or, share an episode you particularly liked with a friend; word of mouth recommendations are so important in our current sea of media ;)

#Patreon #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresents #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #support #hope #hopepunk #environmentalism #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateGrief #reviews #ReviewsPlz #SharingIsCaring #compassion #imagination #Future #PositiveFuture #Futurism #PositiveFuturism #SolarpunkPodcast #SolarpunkPodcasting

Martow
3 weeks ago

@SecurityWriter This is where the 'future of tech' has brought us to

#technology #future #internet #advertnet #advancement #mankind

Steven Saus [he/him]
3 weeks ago

From 11 Nov: How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change - MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) — On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie’s farm about... https://apnews.com/article/beer-hops-barley-climate-change-water-extreme-weather-b0e752c96c2bf160927e76bd604ce14a #ap-top-news #business #climate-and-environment #future-of-food #general-news #or-state-wire #u.s.-news

Travis Southard
1 month ago

“…solarpunk is -punk because it stands in opposition to the increasingly mainstream position that we live in a world with no future.”

“If the present condition of capitalist realism can be said to be defuturing, then solarpunk is a tool for refuturing the imagination…

To ‘refuture,’ then, is to encourage and cultivate the qualities of futuring in the minds of people who encounter solarpunk.”

https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-container-for-more-fertile-futures-7347cf1427b7?source=rss----2ce8a0c231e---4 #solarpunk #climatecrisis #future #imagination

Leftist Lawyer
1 month ago

I see very little light between raping a child, and raping the planet on which the child depends for future survival.

Either way, they are being fucked.
And both are the actions of psychopaths.

#Gaia #Earth #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Science #environment #Children #Future

La Fleur
1 month ago

#environnement #biodiversité #nature #future #jeune #vieux #transmission #apprendre #vivre #societe
Un beau #reportage usbeketrica qui se questionne sur ce qui n'a pas été transmis à propos de la nature, par les "anciens" au plus jeunes. Le lien rompu entre le vivant dans notre société et la nécessité de ne pas imposer le souvenir pour laisser la place aux jeunes de créer leur lien et la protection à leur environnement.
https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/il-y-a-au-fil-des-generations-qui-passent-une-perte-de-savoir-sur-l-etat-de-la-nature

The Coding Beard
1 month ago

Has anyone else tried https://manifold.markets?referrer=Binaryworks ? More specifically #prediction #markets in general?

There are some fascinating claims around #future #event #outcomes being fairly accurately #predicted by #large #sample sizes. Also - from a #bragging rights perspective - it's fun to #compete and then there's the #donations to #charity you can do based on your #winnings.

Finally I'm finding it a #unique way to stay up to date on #current #events.

#manifold #platform

Prof Felipe Gusmao
1 month ago

Falling behind: #postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03296-9

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03296-9

> Temporary contracts, low salaries and cost-of-living hikes force many researchers to put off #parenthood and other big decisions

#postdoc #academy #university #science #humanities #engineering #ethics #costofliving #research #fund #funding #salary #work #tenuretrack #employment #future

Postdoc Disenchantment

source: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03296-9
The Strain of Postdoc Finances

source: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03296-9
Paris Marx
1 month ago

Over the past two decades, Elon Musk convinced us his vision was one we should adopt as our collective plan for the future. But it was always a self-serving effort that wasn’t designed to address the real challenges humanity faces.

In the final episode of ELON MUSK UNMASKED, I lay out the problems with the future Musk sold us and why his empire is on shakier ground than we might expect.

Listen here: https://techwontsave.us/episode/192_elon_musk_unmasked_shaping_the_future_part_4

#elonmusk #tech #podcast #spacex #future

Leftist Lawyer
1 month ago

The 12 Step program to create and maintain the #economic dogma that benefits the #elite:

1. Have a bunch of rich people create private educational institutions.

2. Call those institutions the #ivyleague (Ooooo ... how prestigious!)

3. Hire your elite #crony friends to teach there and call them #Doctors of #Philosophy (again, prestigious).

4. Assemble groups of highly impressionable post adolescents salivating for prestige in a room.

5. Introduce them to their #PhD #God who holds absolute sway over their #future #prosperity.

6. Force them to compete against one other over who can best regurgitate the God's orthodox #ideology.

7. Reward those that most successfully regurgitate the God's orthodox ideology with great #jobs and access to influence by giving them A's and references.

8. Punish those who think critically by relegating them to low paying jobs and obscurity through low grades and withholding references.

9. Pat your fellow #toadies on the back a lot.

10. Scorn dissenters as #heterodox #fools.

11. Rinse and repeat for #generations.

12. #Laugh all the way to the #bank.

#NoWarButClassWar

Prof Felipe Gusmao
1 month ago

The #Future will be hot, dry and SALTY

The anthropogenic salt cycle

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-023-00485-y

"Widespread use of salts in #food, #construction, #road deicing and #industry is driving #salinization of #water, #soil and #air. This Review describes the anthropogenic #salt cycle, compares it with #natural processes and examines its #environmental consequences"
"The suites of biological, physical and chemical #impacts that commonly occur together are known as #freshwater salinization syndrome (FSS)"

source: Kaushal, S.S., Likens, G.E., Mayer, P.M. et al. The anthropogenic salt cycle. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00485-y

a, The natural salt cycle is characterized by a balance in uplift of salts to the surface of the Earth and weathering and transport of salts to the oceans. Salinization is a natural process in many dryland environments (inset). b, The anthropogenic salt cycle is characterized by accelerated transport of salts to the surface of the Earth by mining and resource extraction, increased fluxes of salt to the atmosphere from saline dust, and increased soil salinity and evaporite formation owing to desiccation (inset). Anthropogenic sources of salts exceed natural sinks, with a wide variety of geological, chemical, biological, engineering and hydrological processes contributing to human alteration of the global salt cycle.
Danielle Rose Baker
1 month ago

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Future! VOYAGE TO THE TWO ASTEROIDS is a whimsical #watercolor #painting of the #DART mission about to redirect #asteroid Dimorphos. In my view, this mission demonstrating asteroid redirection is the future of planetary protection, and an incredible feat!

#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #Space #MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

A watercolor depicting a large asteroid with a shocked expression as the small DART spacecraft crashes into its right eye. The solar panels snap off the cube-shaped craft at the moment of impact, thrusters still firing. Art Nouveau-styled lettering says “Le Voyage vers Les Deux Astéroïdes” against a colorful background.
David Boles
1 month ago

"The Future is Catnip!"

Here's my entry into the: "AI Voice Challenge: One Question, One Answer."

Time limit: 30 seconds.

#AI #AIvoice #Challenge #Contest #Future #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

The Future is Catnip in 30 seconds.
Mike McCaffrey
2 months ago

Is there a word for the sense of vertigo you get when seeing that we are living in the #future and it is much crazier than we ever imagined?

Setting aside the #AI hype bubble and the multitude of ways to abuse the technology, it is crazy to think about how soon we will be able to have video calls with anyone in the world, and no matter what language they are actually speaking, it will seamlessly look and sound like they are speaking yours. https://youtube.com/shorts/rjVTe_5HXow?si=TfbYEUomln9MCtaT

Zhi Zhu 🕸️
2 months ago

@dangillmor

"The sort of technological optimism that #Andreessen is asking for is a shield. He is insisting that we judge the #tech barons based on their lofty ambitions, instead of their track records.

It has been thirty years. The #Internet isn’t just the realm of the #future anymore. It is also our present and has a substantial past.

It is worth examining how the past promises of those 90s techno-optimists worked out."
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn

#Technology #News

Essay  headline:
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?
On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"

by Dave Karpf
Oct 18, 2023
Manni_P :mastolove:
2 months ago

@auschwitzmuseum [His father was sent to a concentration camp in 1944 but survived. In 1949 the family emigrated to #Israel, where Professor #Mechoulam studied at the Hebrew University, earning a master’s degree in biochemistry. ... spent roughly two years working in an Israeli Army #medical #research unit. ...] Quelle: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/science/raphael-mechoulam-dead.html
When You Can't #Feel? How #Fascism Gets Its Start: https://cigognenews.blogspot.com/2016/04/what-happens-when-you-cant-feel-how.html
#history #cannabis #future #survive #letztegeneration #fff #CRISPR_rEvolution

Bildschirmfoto Internet Professor Mechoulam in 2016. Auf Redepult vor Leinwand. [Bildschirmpräsentation zum Endocannabinoidsystem] Vortrag. Over the course of his career, he was a champion of research into the potential medical benefits of cannabis. Credit...Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

His father was sent to a concentration camp in 1944 but survived. In 1949 the family emigrated to Israel, where Professor Mechoulam studied at the Hebrew University, earning a master’s degree in biochemistry. He was conscripted in 1953 and spent roughly two years working in an Israeli Army medical research unit.
victor tsaran
2 months ago

I assume that most VoiceOver and Seeing AI users noticed it by now, but still… I really love the new “ask questions” feature of Seeing AI 5.2. For example, I was able to scan a junk mail envelope, then simply ask “who is the letter from” and “who it is addressed to”. Seeing AI was able to identify both and answer in kind. Just wow!
#accessibility #ai #future

Manni_P :mastolove:
2 months ago

Liebste @SibylleBerg #Ohnmacht #ohne #Macht

Auch #GUARDIANS werden #umgebracht ... überall auf der Welt ... dennoch WIR geben #NIEMALS auf!!! NIE! NIEMALS lassen wir unsere #Kinder und #Enkel im Stich, selbst wenn sie uns #umbringen ... #UniversalChild #UniversalMother #help #rescue #hope #dignity #future? #humankind #kind #bekind #Universe #DUBISTdasUNIVERSUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpm-WMiswok

Tommi
2 months ago

This afternoon I have been thinking as far ahead as I probably never did in my life.

I am forced to do so because applications for the 2024 Erasmus Mundus Programme are opening soon, and I need to decide whether and where to apply.

Do I want to keep studying?

What will I be interested in in one year?

I have very little idea of who I am right now, I definitely cannot envision the best choice to make in one year…

Damn, it is so hard.

#future #University #choice #choices #lifeChoices #Erasmus #ErasmusMundus #Europe

Annalee Newitz 🍜
2 months ago

Hi Montreal friends! I'll be giving a talk at McGill this Thursday evening called "Worldbuilding Is Resistance: Environmental Science Fiction and Direct Action" -- it's part of a two-day conference on telling hopeful stories, featuring lots of great authors, engineers, scientists, and more! Come join us! https://montreal2140.ca/ #montreal #scifi #future

Manni_P :mastolove:
2 months ago

Dear @gretathunberg thank #YOU for doing a #globalhealing. 😍 👯 👍

In #Papst Franziskus haben @luisaneubauer und die #Klimabewegung einen Verbündeten im Einsatz für den #Klimaschutz. Gestern empfing er die #Klimaaktivistin im #Vatikan in Rom und sagte zu ihr: "The #future belongs to diese junge Leute." #Klimakrise https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/papst-franziskus-luisa-neubauer-fridays-for-future-1.6273225

#hanf #cannabis #cannabinoide #klima #klimakrise #Aiwanger #Scholz #Söder #SPD #FDP #CDU #CSU #FW #fridaysforfuture #xr #letztegeneration #fff #greta #luisa

Erin Whalen
2 months ago

Sooooo... for the past 9 months, I’ve been working on a passion project called “Our Awesome Future.” It’s an info platform sharing news about the latest developments in green tech, sustainability, and environmental justice that could play a role in helping to create a sustainable world that works for all of us.

If you too are interested in this kind of stuff, please check it out and let me know what you think! 🙏

https://www.ourawesomefuture.net/

#renewable #energy #sustainability #future #SolarPunk

Discussing the future directions of Blender's new layered animation data model and Grease Pencil animation.

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2023-09-29-layered-animation-model-grease-pencil-v3/31361

#b3d #blender3d #animation #greasepencil #future #devfund

The Coding Beard
2 months ago

OK - I've just tried the new voice chat feature on #chatgpt 4.0 and I feel like I've experienced the #future we were promised in #startrek and other #scifi #fiction. It's #uncanny. The #conversation was verging on totally #natural and I think it will mere months when this #tech will be #indistinguishable from #actual #humans.

In some ways it may even be #preferable 😆

I'm very impressed - also I'm stopping work on my side #app as #openai has #nailed this I think. 😒

Reminiscent of #her.