Brad Jarvis

@bradjarvis.bsky.social

Exploring new ways of thinking, for fun and optimization of the amount, longevity, and quality of life. No DMs, soliciting, porn, bots, dating. Likes aren't endorsements. Also on Mastodon. See https://ideaexplorer.blogspot.com/2024/04/value-statement.html.

From a report on the SpaceX moon crash... The same global fascist billionaire tech-bros who deny and hasten climate change are simultaneously blocking what they believe to be their own future escape plan of "colonising Mars", polluting even the space around Earth with their garbage?

Screenshot from BBC News story on a SpaceX rocket crashing into the Moon, reading: Bothwell adds that the collision is a "nice little neat experiment on the Moon", but warns that space is becoming more crowded with space debris - human-made objects in orbit around the Earth.

"It could feasibly be within a few decades hard to get past Earth's orbit because space is so crowded. It's called space debris and we should absolutely worry about it," he says.

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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