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No way! Who would have thought? Saudis Scale Back Ambition for $1.5 Trillion Desert Project Neom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-05/saudis-scale-back-ambition-for-1-5-trillion-desert-project-neom…

Saudis Scale Back Ambition for $1.5 Trillion Desert Project Neom
Saudi Arabia has scaled back its medium-term ambitions for the desert development of Neom, the biggest project within Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plans for diversifying the oil-dependent economy, according to people familiar with the matter.

I reeeally need to win the lottery this weekend. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-03/for-sale-the-b-52s-singers-airstream-park-in-the-mojave-desert

The B-52s singer’s Airstream park is for sale in the Mojave Desert
Kate Pierson, vocalist for the B-52s, has put her Airstream trailer park near Joshua Tree National Park up for sale.

Desert Strike: massive difficulty spike
Some would have a fit over the fact that I'm not playing it the way it was designed, but I'm really enjoying being able to save after every part of each mission, rather than having to complete a whole mission at once. I only ever reached the third level of the original Mega Drive game, so I'm hoping to do better on this.

Black Desert
Black Desert is a game that tests the limitations of MMORPG
by implementing remastered graphics and audio. Enjoy exciting combat and siege,
exploration, trading, fishing, training, alchemy, cooking, gathering, hunting, and more in the vast open world.

Protip: if you get tired of shooting Nazis you can play Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis from the same year and punch Nazis instead
https://c.im/@jake4480/112390375442771624

Jake in the desert (@jake4480@c.im)
Attached: 4 images 32 years ago today on May 5 1992, one of the greatest games of all time (and forever my favorite first person shooter), Wolfenstein 3D, was released. I wrote about it for the list of 20 video games I can't stop thinking about (https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/20-video-games-i-cant-stop-thinking-about). I still play it regularly. Sometimes weekly. Killing digital Nazis is always fun and therapeutic. You can play Wolfenstein 3D FREE in browser here: https://dos…

At an event in Riyadh, AWS says the company plans to spend $5.3B in Saudi Arabia to create new infrastructure by 2026, DataVolt plans to invest $5B, and more (Matthew Martin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Amazon Leads Firms Investing $10 Billion In Saudi Data Centers
Saudi Arabia said firms including Amazon Web Services will invest over $10 billion in building data centers in the country as the desert kingdom tries to modernize and diversify its oil-dependent economy.

Black Desert
Black Desert is a game that tests the limitations of MMORPG
by implementing remastered graphics and audio. Enjoy exciting combat and siege,
exploration, trading, fishing, training, alchemy, cooking, gathering, hunting, and more in the vast open world.

[Thread] The Desert Sun NewsGuild says it has reached an agreement for its first contract with Gannett, and its strike is now set to end on March 3 (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1764094653094314129

Desert Sun NewsGuild (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
BREAKING: The Desert Sun NewsGuild has reached an agreement for its first contract!!! We’re thrilled to have a deal with immediate, life-changing raises for many of our members, annual raises for every member, and crucial workplace protections. More details to come, but first:…

An extremely expensive supercomputer is going to be built in the Arizona desert by a multibillion dollar corporation for the purposes of creating a super intelligence and it's not even a movie... 😂 #Stargate #OpenAI

So @… came with me to see Godzilla x Kong and it was amaaaazing 🔥🦍😍

Music from Saharan Cellphones
https://amf.didiermary.fr/music-saharan-cellphones/
Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation, released in 2011, of music collected from memory cards and cellular phones in the Saharan desert.
In much of West Africa, ce…

Music from Saharan Cellphones - African Music Forum
Music from Saharan Cellphones - A compilation, released in 2011, of music collected from memory cards in the Saharan desert.

Military Intelligence: Nepalese mercenaries desert Russian army in droves: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/01/military-intelligence-nepalese.html

At an event in Riyadh, AWS says the company plans to spend $5.3B in Saudi Arabia to create new infrastructure by 2026, DataVolt plans to invest $5B, and more (Matthew Martin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Amazon Leads Firms Investing $10 Billion In Saudi Data Centers
Saudi Arabia said firms including Amazon Web Services will invest over $10 billion in building data centers in the country as the desert kingdom tries to modernize and diversify its oil-dependent economy.

@… That’s a great spawn - village nearby for colonisation, river for exploration, open cave for easy mining, tiny badlands for the possibility of gold and spawner, lots of sand (probably a desert, may have a temple) and a jungle for big trees and (looks like) bamboo.

[Thread] The Desert Sun NewsGuild says it has reached an agreement for its first contract with Gannett, and its strike is now set to end on March 3 (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1764094653094314129

Desert Sun NewsGuild (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
BREAKING: The Desert Sun NewsGuild has reached an agreement for its first contract!!! We’re thrilled to have a deal with immediate, life-changing raises for many of our members, annual raises for every member, and crucial workplace protections. More details to come, but first:…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19667 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The Camel-Banana Problem
A camel can carry one banana at a time on its back. It is on a diet and therefore can only have one banana at a time in its stomach. As soon as it has eaten a banana it walks a mile and then it needs a new banana (in order to be able to continue its itinerary). Let there be a stock of N bananas at the border of the desert. How far can the camel penetrate into the desert, starting at this point? (Of course it can form new stocks with transported bananas.)

Scientists Discover Mysterious Ecosystem Beneath Earth's Driest Desert
https://gizmodo.com/atacama-desert-microbial-diversity-alien-life-mars-1851434831

Scientists Discover Mysterious Ecosystem Beneath Earth's Driest Desert
Underneath the parched sands of Atacama is a massive, diverse group of bacteria and a previously undetected biosphere, according to a new study.

Oh, what a beautiful mooor-ning … #SoCal #desert #stormclouds

We started the day in the Sonoran Desert and one and a half hours of a drive later we were in a snowstorm at 7500 feet high.

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bianca Scout:
🎵 Desert
#BiancaScout
https://sferic.bandcamp.com/track/desert-feat-marina-zispin

I subscribed to The Intercooler recently, and really, stories like this are worth the price of admission - a fantastic read:
https://www.the-intercooler.com/library/features/road-america-the-magic-of-the-desert/

Road America: The magic of the desert - The Intercooler
A young man, an empty desert road, and 530bhp of twin-turbo Porsche. Sam Smith recalls a drive never to be forgotten nor, indeed, repeated

In the final weekend before the California primary Election, the leading Democrats running for the Senate seat barnstormed the state,
with Adam Schiff holding seven public events,
Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland attending four
and Rep. Katie Porter of Irvine participating in two.
As his Democratic opponents seized the last opportunity to woo voters, Garvey was at home in Palm Desert, visible to the public only through TV ads paid for by Schiff and his supporters.

Shame on Adam Schiff for elevating Steve Garvey
If the matchup is Adam Schiff vs. Steve Garvey, a reader says Schiff gets his vote. But Schiff's elevation of Garvey at Katie Porter's expense is disgraceful.

Just submitted my talk abstract for @… and I can't wait to tell you all about this project, it has easily 500% more guest appearances by grizzled desert prospectors than anything I've done before
which is really saying something given I work in the Mojave
(Scan from the LA Times archive, dated 15 June 1924)

Good morning, Mastodon! 🤩 #SilentSunday #SoCal #desert

Made it out for one last run before leaving Joshua Tree this morning. Spotted 2 coyotes who were happy to leave me alone. Road trip to San Francisco continues with next stop in Ojai. #trailrunning #desert

"The salt and turmeric rimmed glass, which mimics the look of sand surrounding a desert oasis, also reinforces the earthy agave notes in this smoky Margarita."

I think I am literally coughing up Sahara Desert dust ->
"The snow on Mount Vitosha, which rises above the capital city, has turned yellow as the Saharan dust continues to blow."
Dust from the Sahara to drift across Bulgaria until 2 April
https://bnr.bg/en/post/101970460<…

A visual feast! Your eye tongue will salivate and twitch toward the visuals! Followed by a visual desert so sugary sweet your eye dentist will be filling cavities for weeks!

Sonoran Desert takes — Gretchen Anderson Via https://sfba.social/@gretared/111779730730125731
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sumptuous eyeball kicks & exploding colors in smoke signal #42, new issue of the splendorous oversized newsprint #comix anthology from #brooklyn's desert island #comics. free in

This is cool.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/11/the-30-year-hunt-to-find-the-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-bus-my-jaw-was-on-the-ground?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1…

Union members strike at Gannett's Desert Sun, calling for a fair labor contract and saying they've been denied regular cost-of-living raises for three years (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1763581208070607034

Desert Sun NewsGuild is on strike! (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
It's official: As of 7 a.m. today, @TDSNewsGuild is now on strike!!! Taking this step is not easy. But after being denied any sort of regular cost of living raises for the last three years, we decided it's time to deny @Gannett our labor until a fair contract is reached!

Gotta build snake-oil factories somewhere, those snakes won’t oil themselves
(Also, fuck you Microsoft.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/ai-water-climate-microsoft/677602/

AI Is Taking Water From the Arizona Desert
New data centers are springing up every week. Can the Earth sustain them?

Storm’s a’comin! #SoCal #desert #RainyDay

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Magic & Naked:
🎵 Desert sky
#Magic #Naked
https://open.spotify.com/track/76dYMfdwse4W3ss39F5WLj
https://lepopclubrecords.bandcamp.com/track/magic-naked-desert-sky

Made it out for one last run before leaving Joshua Tree this morning. Spotted 2 coyotes who were happy to leave me alone. Road trip to San Francisco continues with next stop in Ojai. #trailrunning #desert

#NowPlaying ❝…it didn't occur to me that someone would not get back on the bus. Or also, I think, I had a bit of an attitude like, well, if they don't, then I guess they should bring some water and take care of themselves.❞

Reading The Case for Open Borders, which has so many heartbreaking stories of senseless cruelty, and thinking: The ways people justify this are the same ways they justify cruel displacement of homeless people in San Francisco...

Tracts of desert land are sold cheaply in 5- or 10-acre allotments. People dreaming of creating a life far from the modern world tend to build cheap/quick boxes on them - a tiny square on a larger square in a desolate landscape, just the way they dreamed it. But desert life is hard, and it seldom works out. Driving through Wonder Valley, I spotted more abandoned homesteader shacks than occupied ones, and pulled over to record the ones I could.
Wonder Valley Homesteader Shack #1
…<…

Mario Lalli & The Rubber Snake Charmers – Folklore From the Other Desert Cities [full album]
https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mario-lalli-the-rubber-snake-charmers-folklore-from-th…

Desert cottontail, Sylvilagus audubonii, at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve
(Happy leap day)
#naturalist

another thing I meant to toot earlier but forgot: this neon skrunklies shirt I got from https://howl-out.com

HOWL OUT
HOWL OUT - UNTAMED AND UNBROKEN - CYBER//PUNK 'FURRY' ADJACENT STREETWEAR AND GOODZ

This week's Torah reading is the first of several that detail the construction of the Mishkan, the portable temple that the Jewish people took with us on our journeys through the desert. Even the most mundane technicalities of construction are reviewed thoroughly. This is still important for us to study although we will never build another Mishkan, because it teaches us about the nature of having a relationship with the divine, and bringing holiness and meaning into our lives. It isn'…

A few wildflowers from today’s Joshua Tree hike #bloomscrolling #hiking #desert

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m
A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something?
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something? 1 seasons, 7 episodes as of Jan 01, 2022.

Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation within lava tubes for the first time, in the deserts of northern Saudi Arabia.
Lava tubes are caves that form during a volcanic eruption. The surface of a river of lava cools and solidifies, while hot molten rock continues to flow beneath it. Eventually, lava drains out of the tube, leaving behind a tunnel.
On the surface, the landscape is a “hot, dry and flat basalt desert”, says Stewart. “But when you are down in the lava t…

Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian desert
Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape of Saudi Arabia

Depraved. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

You can tell the Old Testament is the product of a desert people, because when they tried to imagine the end of the world they went with “rained for forty days and forty nights”, which in Ireland is just called Spring.

The first picture of #Varda's capsule W-1 in the Utah desert: https://twitter.com/VardaSpace/status/1760457997250163040

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02956 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Predicting the emergence of localised dihedral patterns in models for dryland vegetation
Localised patterns are often observed in models for dryland vegetation, both as peaks of vegetation in a desert state and as gaps within a vegetated state, known as `fairy circles'. Recent results from radial spatial dynamics show that approximations of localised patterns with dihedral symmetry emerge from a Turing instability in general reaction--diffusion systems, which we apply to several vegetation models. We present a systematic guide for finding such patterns in a given reaction--diffusio…

Nigerian bank CEO and family among 6 killed in helicopter crash in San Bernardino County (Kabc/ABC7)
https://abc7.com/helicopter-crash-san-bernardino-county-mojave-desert-nigerian/14408339/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240211/p27#a240211p27

A few wildflowers from today’s Joshua Tree hike #bloomscrolling #hiking #desert

Reading The Case for Open Borders, which has so many heartbreaking stories of senseless cruelty, and thinking: The ways people justify this are the same ways they justify cruel displacement of homeless people in San Francisco...

#SilentSunday #SoCal #Desert

I will deliberately avoid any travel service that uses ChatGPT. The fact that they consider this a feature at all is astonishing. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Moosader/111958950870392869

Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee (@Moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 1 image The gas station ad screens are advertising a travel planning service, "now with chat gpt!" Wonder how long until there's a lawsuit because chatgpt misled someone into, idk, driving up a dangerous mountain and off a cliff or deep into a desert and running out of gas or something.

Obligatory desert photo

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #ElainePaigeOnSunday
The Divas Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert:
🎵 Downtown
#TheDivasOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert

You can tell the Poor People's Campaign are marvelous, cuz they're more likely to be found in Boston, while the Free State Project are stuck with the Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert

#SilentSunday #SoCal #Desert

Scenes from a very quick Spring Break scouting trip this week, driving up the desert side of the Eastern Sierras
#naturalist

Tinariwen – Tenere Den
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-tenere-den/
From the “Amatssou” album (May 2023) by Tinariwen, this new single “Tenere Den” connects Desert Blues and Country Music.
A press release explains that the song “pays homage to the Tuareg …

Tinariwen - Tenere Den - African Music Forum
Tinariwen - Tenere Den - From the upcoming "Amatssou" album (May 2023), the song connects Desert Blues and Country Music.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Savarit & Romano Bianchi & Divers:
🎵 Desert sun
#Savarit #RomanoBianchi #Divers

“How can you live in the desert?! It’s so dull and lifeless!”
The desert:

Dakar Desert Rally
Dakar Desert Rally is the biggest and most epic off-road rally racing adventure ever developed. Experience the speed and excitement of the largest rally race on the planet, featuring a wide variety of licensed vehicles from the world’s top makers, including motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads and SSVs.
https://<…

Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’
Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m

Nigerian bank CEO and family among 6 killed in helicopter crash in San Bernardino County (Kabc/ABC7)
https://abc7.com/helicopter-crash-san-bernardino-county-mojave-desert-nigerian/14408339/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240211/p27#a240211p27

My road trip through California has reached the coast, near San Luis Obispo. It’s very green here, especially after the desert. #hiking #california #iphonephotography

Freckled milkvetch blooming in the desert last week
#plants #wildflower

Another one of those boring desert sunsets

You can tell the Poor People's Campaign are marvelous, cuz they're more likely to be found in Boston, while the Free State Project are stuck with the Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert

My road trip through California has reached the coast, near San Luis Obispo. It’s very green here, especially after the desert. #hiking #california #iphonephotography

#SilentSunday #SoCal #desert

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
New Visionaries:
🎵 Desert disco nights
#NewVisionaries
https://open.spotify.com/track/6DO8PkPKXrQXYLolgXFvs0
https://newvisionaries.bandcamp.com/track/desert-disco-nights

A couple of highlights from my first two days of hiking in Joshua Tree National Park. #hiking #deserts #JoshuaTree

#SilentSunday #SoCal #desert

While locals have known about it for millennia, it is hard to comprehend fully from ground level. It was the first astronauts who drew scientific attention to the structure, assuming it was a meteor crater.
On-the-ground research discovered that it was, in fact, formed by erosion over millions of years. The erosion has exposed spectacular scatterings of rhyolites and gabbros – igneous rocks formed deep beneath the Earth’s surface.

Phenomena: The Eye of the Sahara
A geological marvel in the middle of the Sahara desert caused by erosion you can see from space

How the US CHIPS Act is helping boost the economy of Arizona's Maricopa County, with TSMC and other manufacturers building factories and creating high-tech jobs (Jeanne Whalen/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3HSilKV

Welcome to Silicon Desert: How Biden helped boost an Arizona boomtown
The promise of the Chips and Science Act of 2022 funding has sparked some of the biggest investments in the nation’s history, transforming Maricopa County.

A couple of highlights from my first two days of hiking in Joshua Tree National Park. #hiking #deserts #JoshuaTree

Took a couple days last week to drive out to Joshua Tree National Park with the lab, to see what the spring flowering season looks like so far.
We had gorgeous, cool, clear weather, and some very nice hikes, but didn't see a single Joshua tree in flower.
https://flic.kr/p/2pAhjeh

On the heels of yesterday’s video clip of Meep & her bebe, I thought I’d share a photo of Dart I took last summer (or the summer before?). He was such a handsome boy! #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #roadrunner

Desert things

It was such a beautiful drive today, & there were F-35s playing in the desert sky.
I always pull over to watch them. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a fighter pilot so badly, but I was a girl. With crappy vision. Who eventually grew way too tall.
At any rate, it’s prolly for the best I couldn’t follow that dream—I think I have too much rebellion in me to have done well in the military.
But I still love living in Miramar’s playground. ☺️

Snow on the mountains all around us this morning #SilentSunday #SoCal #desert

A mama roadrunner, Meep, used to live in our big metal dino's mouth, & she & her baby daddy, Dart, raised more than one bebe there. We used to put out fresh water & black soldier fly grubs for them every morning, & Meep came to trust us to the point that she'd bring her fledglings to the patio & feed them. Sadly, they've all moved on, but I was lucky enough to get a video of her feeding one of her little ones. Here's a clip!

Spring in the #desert 😍 #BloomScrolling #SoCal

Spring
(Minox DCC 5.1)

Our honey mesquite is amazing this yr! And the bees love it. 🤩 #TreesOfMastodon #SoCal #desert
Update: It’s a blue palo verde, not a mesquite!

Have some desert this evening

We were surrounded by snow this morning. #SoCal #desert

Have some desert this evening

Checked off “saguaro selfie” from the to-do list #strava #trailrunning #cactus

Checked off “saguaro selfie” from the to-do list #strava #trailrunning #cactus

I need an outside compost thingy for food scraps and dog poop and I live in the desert (up to 115F in summer). Looking for recommendations. Not too big and must be able to contain smell.
Please only reply if you have direct composting experience, thank you.

I need an outside compost thingy for food scraps and dog poop and I live in the desert (up to 115F in summer). Looking for recommendations. Not too big and must be able to contain smell.
Please only reply if you have direct composting experience, thank you.

Have you ever seen a bebe jackrabbit? 🥰 #SoCal #desert

#SilentSunday #SoCal #Desert

#SilentSunday #SoCal #Desert