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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 15h

A lot of hyperbole but this part is true: The University of Reading study did find that ozone recovery could contribute about 40% more warming than previously estimated.
Who wants: skin cancer, cataracts, crop damage, ocean ecosystem damage?

#climatechange

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

Climate advocates face humiliation as scientists issue ozone warning

A surprising new study has revealed how 40 years of work to repair the ozone layer may end up causing its own climate change emergency that no one saw coming.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 1d

“AI Could Unlock a Post-Scarcity Society”

That old chestnut.

#AI #postscarcity

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Decentralized AI Could Unlock a Post-Scarcity Society, Says 0G Labs CEO

Discover how 0G Labs and founder Michael Heinrich are pioneering decentralized AI to ensure transparency, data integrity, and affordability.

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 1d

First neuromorphic computer with 2 billion neurons

The system consists of 15 blade-type neuromorphic servers with 960 Darwin 3 chips each chip supports more than 2.35 million spiking neurons and hundreds of millions of synapses.

#AI #neuromorphiccomputing

www.futura-sciences.com/tech/actuali...

Darwin Monkey, premier ordinateur neuromorphique au monde à 2 milliards de neurones

En Chine, une équipe de chercheurs a mis au point un ordinateur neuromorphique d'une puissance jamais atteinte. Cette innovation va permettre de concevoir des systèmes informatiques plus perfo...

www.futura-sciences.com

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 9d

Wait. Adjectives are ordered?

#writing

test-english.com/explanation/...

Adjective order - Test-English

Adjective order. Upper-intermediate English grammar. Review the order of adjectives in the sentence. Opinion and fact adjectives.

test-english.com

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 9d

The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda

This beats the tired changing-the-motor-while-the-car-is-moving metaphor

#technology

www.damninteresting.com/the-unceasin...

The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda

In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.

www.damninteresting.com

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 15d

I don't really have a favorite quote. She kicked off speculative fiction by adding a little fantastic extrapolation to the scientific environment at the time, and she brought a timeless theme into sharp focus. I wonder what she would come up with in the context of our AI / LLM froth.

Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 15d

Mary Shelley Invented Science Fiction—and Pioneered Polyamory Too

Heinlein has nothing on Mary Shelley.

#scifi

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Mary Shelley Invented Science Fiction—and Pioneered Polyamory Too

As another Frankenstein film debuts, here’s a full accounting of the writer’s tangled romantic history, involving Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and her own sister.

www.vanityfair.com

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 21d

#alanwatts

Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 22d

“Beyond Alcubierre: A Tour of Modern Warp-Drive Physics”

spacetime metric engineering

#scifi #science

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Beyond Alcubierre: A Tour of Modern Warp-Drive Physics

Thirty-one years after Miguel Alcubierre proposed a spacetime “warp bubble,” the field has matured from a single, exotic metric into a…

medium.com

Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 22d

An FPGA-Based Mechanical Keyboard

FPGAs used in finance to get an edge, soon to be used by gamers?

#technology #gaming

hackaday.com/2025/10/01/a...

An FPGA-Based Mechanical Keyboard

You can buy all kinds of keyboards these days, from basic big-brand stuff to obscure mechanical delicacies from small-time builders. Or, you can go the maker route, and build your own. That’s…

hackaday.com

Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 22d

Kafka’s Amerika / Der Verschollene (“The Missing Person”)

“Amerika is not America; it is a cipher for Kafka’s dream of a country he never visited.”

#literature

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Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

Unlike the obsessive protagonists of The Trial and The Castle, who draw us into their labyrinthine thinking, Karl Rossmann, the naive young hero of Kafka’s Amerika or, to use Kafka’s own title, Der…

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · 29d

“Scientists achieve electrically driven perovskite laser using dual-cavity design.”

If only Mars had high concentrations of perovskite instead of perchlorates then we could make Mars a giant space laser.

#scifi

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Scientists achieve electrically driven perovskite laser using dual-cavity design

In a recent Nature study, scientists have demonstrated an electrically driven perovskite laser using a dual-cavity design, addressing a challenge that has persisted in the field for over a decade.

phys.org

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · Sep 30

*Some very familiar scenes in downtown Ibiza right now if you've ever seen a mild hurricane drenching a town in the Texas Gulf Coast #Gabrielle

*Of course this is Spain and they're not supposed to get any Caribbean hurricanes #climatecrisis

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 28

Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, and Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers

#datacenters

www.wired.com/story/inside...

Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, and Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers

Companies are going to great lengths to protect the infrastructure that provides the backbone of the world’s digital services—by burying their data deep underground.

www.wired.com

Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 27

“Otherworldly, Forgotten Houses in 'America the Abandoned'”

#gothic ruin in America

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/brya...

Bryan Sansivero Documents Otherworldly, Forgotten Houses in 'America the Abandoned'

The new volume from Artisan Books gathers 200 of Sansivero's enigmatic photos.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 27

The Pueblo Revolt. August 10, 1680

“Pueblo warriors … carried out a coordinated attack on Spanish missionaries and colonists across New Mexico. Within a few days, they had driven virtually all Spaniards out of the province.”

Had no idea--

#americanhistory

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Features - The First American Revolution - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2017

Exploring the legacy of the New World’s most successful native rebellion

archaeology.org

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 20

“cloud coverage falling by about 1.5% per decade”

Complex interaction between climate change and clouds: isccp.giss.nasa.gov/role.html

#climatechange

www.science.org/content/arti...

Earth’s clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming

Narrowing storm bands may be a surprising and dangerous new feedback of climate change

www.science.org

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 20

Dynamic holographic display with addressable on-chip metasurface network based on lithium niobate photonics

yea, yea, where is my holowatch?

#scifi

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dynamic holographic display with addressable on-chip metasurface network based on lithium niobate photonics - Light: Science & Applications

Light: Science & Applications - Dynamic holographic display with addressable on-chip metasurface network based on lithium niobate photonics

www.nature.com

Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 20

Clownfish and Anemones Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change

#climatechange

www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Clownfish and Anemones Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change

A new study led by Boston University marine biologists reveals that heat waves are threatening the future of the fish made famous by "Finding Nemo"

www.bu.edu

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Pascal Savelon 🎷 @psavelon.bsky.social · Sep 13

1979 - An evening with Oscar Peterson - Concertgebouw - Amsterdam

#OscarPeterson (p), #HerbEllis (g), #RayBrown (b), #JeffHamilton (dr)

#jazz jazzsky

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 13

Global agricultural land use peaked in the early 2000s and has been slowly falling ever since.

Note: deforestation in biodiversity-critical tropical regions continues at alarming rates.

#rewilding #agriculture

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The rewilding milestone Earth has already passed

The world's use of farmland has peaked, bringing the chance to turn over more space to nature. How far could the trend go?

www.bbc.com

Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 6

The measure of a Gorn.

About time.

#startrek

www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

20 Years Later, Star Trek Finally Fixed A Divisive Canon Retcon

What do the Gorn look like anyway? 'Strange New Worlds' has provided an answer to this pesky 'Star Trek' canon problem.

www.inverse.com

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 6

Microsoft’s analog optical computer

Still wonder if analog computing has a part to play in AI

#analogcomputing #AI

news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Sep 6

Microbes found in Yellowstone can breathe two different elements

Yellowstone microbes, so cutting edge.

#science

www.earth.com/news/microbe...

Microbes discovered in Yellowstone can breathe two different elements to produce energy

Scientists found a microbe in a Yellowstone hot spring, Aquificales, that can use oxygen and sulfur at the same time to produce energy.

www.earth.com

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Daniel Khent @danielkhent.bsky.social · Aug 31

Tibetan solar plant nearly the size of Chicago

#solarpunk #renewableenergy#agrivoltaic

www.zmescience.com/ecology/rene...

The World’s Largest Solar Plant is Rising in Tibet. It's So Vast It's the Size of Chicago

A desert covered in solar panels and sheep could mark the beginning of the end for coal in China.

www.zmescience.com

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