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From Bill McKibben
The tsunami of tech spilling from China’s factories has changed the country’s energy landscape—and its physical one, too. For decades China’s development was synonymous with coal, which produced choking air pollution and massive carbon emissions, still greater than those of all other developed nations combined. Now, solar panels carpet deserts and the high, sunstruck plateau of Tibet, and wind turbines up to 300m tall guard coastlines and hilltops

The Crucial Years | Bill McKibben | Substack
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Un rezagado de la temporada 2025: «Cuentas pendientes» del español Bunbury.
Es increíble pensar que estuvo retirado y ya ha sacado al menos 2 discos desde eso y viene otro en camino.
https://album.link/s/0Ib4iTp8nEVgKyXamZgw1o

If Democrats in Congress have any chance at
reining in how
Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates
under Trump,
⭐️it’s right now.
Lawmakers in both parties and both chambers are set to work over the weekend
to try to reach a
👉deal for funding the Department of Homeland Security,
which includes ICE.
Like other federal agencies, DHS is set to run out of funding by Jan. 30,
and lawmakers are racing to pass bills to ensure all ag…

Democrats’ Best Hope To Rein In ICE Is Right Now
Even if it’s not by very much.

New #ThingUmbrella example to create a parametric, grid layout-based calibration sheet for black and white photography development. The sheet includes different swatches and gradients to measure results/responses of different exposure times and developer solutions/processes. The sheet also includes a placeholder for a custom test image to be added later...
All sheet components are pa…

Fix noch ein paar Flyer für die Demo morgen in Saal gedruckt.

U.S. House passes bill to combat stadium drones https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47266975/us-house-passes-bill-help-stadiums-combat-drones

Recordatorio que este domingo es la #fedifiesta en #ColladoVillalba, #Madrid con la presencia estelar de @…

Why Peach Bowl Has Major Implications for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-peach-bowl-has-major-implications

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

I managed to get out and I can confirm snow and ice on forest roads.
But it was fine. It all was a bit more technically challenging than usual.
Maybe I've got to clean my bike tomorrow.
#cycling #mountainbiking