I'm Generation X. I resent having to drink water, let alone this much.

A beautiful walk today along the South West Coast Path from Bovisand eastward.

For #WildFlowerWednesday here's some favourites:

Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) with Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) also commonly known as Hogweed Bonking Beetle

Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) seed head shining golden in the sun

Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) as fragrant as ever

Wild Thyme (Thymus praecox) fragrant *and* sumptuous colours

#BloomScrolling #SWCoastPath #Devon

Has anyone made a graph that compares the total emissions or energy use of AI to other significant global warming drivers? I'd like to get some proportions to this.

#AI #GlobalWarming

Forgot to post this for #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag

Downtown Toronto from the subway crossing the viaduct

Sunflower seed fallen from the bird feeder has started to flower. A dew-covered June bug was snuggled in.

#Chicago #Bloomscrolling #Bugs

Some wonderfull glass in this heraldic styled door entrance to a West End flat. Possibly 1920's.
Repairs in situ.

#stainedglass #glasgow #scotland   

Lots of regrettable silliness here: two papers by Max Planck (!) have been retracted, probably by some automated process that based the decision on the same material appearing in another journal (which was far more common at the time, and even Einstein did it) and a rebuttal to a work being published under the same title (but not author) as the thing being rebutted.

But the funniest line in the article is:

“Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted

#FensterFreitag

Windows, chandeliers, and swiveling armchairs on a vintage (and operational) steam train. From a visit to historic Strasburg Rail Road in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

#photography #windows #WindowFriday #trains #train #vintage

The problem with Jeff Bezos' ideology is that it's based on a false premise. The idea that "6,000 years ago someone invented the plow" is based on a faulty belief that ancient humans functioned as individuals. They did not. Ancient humans were collectivist.

Archeological evidence demonstrates that for hundreds of thousands of years, early humans congregated around communal gathering places, like the fire, and engaged in problem solving and passing on of shared learning down through generations.

Additionally, the plow (and tools like it) were developed by humans in Mesopotamia, Europe, Egypt, East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa as well as other places - not in one place by one person. This is known as parallel development.

Believing that the plow was invented by one 'genius' is like believing language was invented by one person. It is a silly myth and represents the projection of current moral standards onto past events.

Collectivism is how we survived and progressed as a species. - Anthony Zenkus
#Evolution

A shocking amount of society continues to exist and not crumble because people you don't see or hear about maintain things to prevent entropy from completely winning.

A member of my #lace group noticed that Piecework Magazine has a created a searchable "International #Needlework Museum Directory" that people might enjoy.

Here's to our skilled foremothers.

#BobbinLace #needlelace #embroidery #weaving #sewing

https://pieceworkmagazine.com/museums/

#SilentSunday

Imorgon är det digital självständighetsdag på stadsbiblioteket i #Malmö kl 14-15.

Kom och var med och, diskutera, få tips eller bli tipsad. Vi ses i foajén. #diday #swedid #did

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing

For Caturday I give you the new additions to the household. The darker grey floof is Lulu, the slightly lighter floof is Peanut. They arrived on Thursday and they have already forced me to relocate my—apparently very dangerous—plants. Also everything is a mountain to be climbed. Chaos has arrived!

#Caturday #Floof

Not so mundane definitely magical— first prickly pear cactus flower of the season, first day of summer here in southern Saskatchewan.

#MagicInTheMundane

I realised this morning while cleaning the kitchen that all of our domestic cleaning products were in some way sustainable or minimising their environmental impact, and this actually surprised me. Because I've never actually put any conscious thought into choosing the best way to minimize the environmental impact of our household cleaning in the way I've made a project of minimising the footprint of other things we do - choosing electronics, cat care, planning our wedding, holidays or DIY and renovations say. For those I've always had to sit down in front of the computer and do a lot of research and planning for the most sustainable way to do things, but the cleaning products are just there, on the supermarket shelf or advertised online and I buy them. And I suddenly realised this is probably because our society genders care about the environment as female, and genders domestic labour as female, so there's an automatic market there in the way there isn't for say tools or gadgets

#SilentSunday

Wow. In Switzerland 🇨🇭, Mercedes-Benz / Daimler Trucks has sold more electric heavy trucks than diesel ones this year!