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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Thomas Dolby:
🎵 She Blinded Me With Science
#ThomasDolby
https://prepedits.bandcamp.com/track/thomas-dolby-she-blinded-me-with-science-prep-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RkKf3UBRxF2kn2Vh0ww8l

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
SERVALAN: Naturally. I only wish we had time to diverge -
PILOT FOUR-ZERO: No. Since the war, the Federation breakup, our people are more cautious than ever. Isolationists.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/52 B7B2

It seems that both AI and climate anxiety share a common root: the current structure of capitalism.
Our system, which demands constant, unrestricted growth, shapes everything from our economy to our psychology.
In the climate crisis, it manifests as overproduction and overconsumption, while in AI, it drives the replacement of human labor with cheaper machine labor and the optimization of attention economies.

Do You Have AI Anxiety? Understanding Fear, Capitalism, and the Future
AI and climate change trigger similar fears about the future. Learn how to transform anxiety into empowerment by understanding the systems beneath both crises and envisioning the world you want to build.

Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data center in India's Visakhapatnam (Sanjai P R/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1

Breakpoint joining the blinkenlights
#39c3 #protogen

Most of you will instantly recognize the 10-second slide whistle loop Steven Stapleton sampled from “The Oimels” for a Nurse With Wound song, but this album isn’t goofy like that. Dark and soulful, it represents a piece of the expanding European free jazz scene in 1970. And it’s in my top 10 albums released by the venerable ECM label. Don’t sleep on this!

Wolfgang Dauner – Output (1970, Germany)
A spotlight on the experimental free jazz album from trio Wolfgang Dauner, Fred Braceful, and Eberhard Weber.

How does a solar company thrive when policy support wavers?
ReVision Energy in New England has the answer: prioritize people over profit. The B Corp became employee-owned, built an electrical apprenticeship program, and focused on community relationships rather than transactional sales.
Now they're seeing a surge in demand as tax credits expire.

US solar installer adapts business model as policy support shifts
ReVision Energy leverages a relationship-driven model and workforce innovation to navigate evolving clean energy policies and sustain long-term growth across the northeastern United States.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Brook Benton:
🎵 The Boll Weevil Song
#BrookBenton
https://brookbenton.bandcamp.com/track/the-boll-weevil-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vyCrRjMYszr05BizYjad8