“A new engine turns that waste heat into electricity, even the low-grade stuff today's best systems struggle with. It has no moving parts, and the wild part is who built it. Dr. Lonnie Johnson, the Super Soaker inventor, dreamed up this heat engine, called the JTEC.”

How the Super Soaker Inventor Just Killed the Steam Engine
~ Undecided with Matt Ferrell
[15min YouTube Video (with chapters)]
https://youtu.be/MuQRxatte5g

Sounds interesting.

🧵It's important to have small enclaves like the fediverse where activism can grow & people who give a damn can network.

But the vast majority of humans everywhere are more interested in passive consumption.

They need visual media. Only political leaders can afford the scale necessary to reach them.

Passive visual sites like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook dominate.

Text-oriented social media is not that interesting to most people.

SEMRush 5/26 data:

So we are beginning this week -

National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee week.

Some of my favourite NAIDOC week resources:

https://50words.online/languages

https://www.naidoc.org.au/local-events/local-naidoc-week-events

https://gambay.com.au/

https://gnarlaboodjamap.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/#/welcome

https://www.boodjar.sis.uwa.edu.au/clickable-regions-map

A thoughtful and enriching NAIDOC week to all.

Here on Mooro Whadjak Nyoongar boodja I give my respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands Elders across the land and sea, those from the past, those present, and those to come.

Have a moorditj NAIDOC all!

#Naidoc2026 #Naidoc #indigenous #Australia

A great checklist to send to certain folks:

"By using GenAI:
o I accept the models were trained on stolen data.
o I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers.
o I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models.
o I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company.
o I accept these companies don’t have a viable business model.
o I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world.
... 1/2

Here, have some better propaganda

The sloop Clearwater was forced by Coast Guard to leave the Sail4th 250 tall ships parade today because it carried signs advocating for clean water, racial justice, and climate solutions. It was unclear who made the decision.
Clearwater was launched in 1969, is owned by an environmental protection group founded by Pete Seeger.
#sloopclearwater
#sail4th250
#environment

https://www.chronogram.com/river-newsroom/trn_environment/sloop-clearwater-removed-from-sail4th-250-parade/

#AlternateFridayMusic for July 3 2026 the theme is
"Mushroom Love"

Les Claypool - Mushroom Men (Of Fungi And Foe, 2009)

Am experimenting with the time delay function on my washing machine. It's all in Dutch, and weirdly worded (I checked with a native speaker). I've either set it to begin in 6 hours or to finish in 6 hours. I'm not sure which...

Guess I'll find out in the morning.

Meta Glasses are Cybertrucks for the face.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116863488282016628

Okay this is fucking wild.

If white people rich enough to own a fucking racing sailboat can't fly a flag with words on it without some government boat with a fucking machine gun coming over to escort them back to land, nobody in your damn country has any freedom of speech.

Nobody.

EDIT: as some have pointed out, the ship in question is owned not by an individual but by a nonprofit known for environmental activism, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. That said I believe my point still stands.

Every worker is my comrade.

Lawyers? Comrades.

Firemen? Comrades. Teachers? All of them comrades. Musicians? Also comrades.

"What about economists!?"

Hold your horses, let's not get carried away here.

#OnlyHalfJoking

So, while the northern hemisphere melts, it's winter for the rest of us.
Curiously though, in my neck of the woods it hasn't happened yet.
Here we are in July & there hasn't been a single frost yet, nothing, nada.
It's about 2½ months past where, historically we always would have seen our first frost of the season.

Tell me again how climate change is a hoax, go on, I dare you.

#AusPol

Mother Nature is woke. And pissed.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/04/us/america-250-celebrations-fourth-july

"The truth of One Nation is it's a one person show, always on the edge of disruption." Opposition Leader Angus Taylor addresses the Queensland LNP state conference in Brisbane. #qldpol

beabadoobee - space cadet

https://beabadoobee.bandcamp.com/album/space-cadet

#AlternateFridayMusic #MushroomLove

troy kingi - aztechknowledgey

https://troykingi.bandcamp.com/track/aztechknowledgey

#AlternateFridayMusic #MushroomLove

emma-jean thackray- third eye

https://ejthackray.bandcamp.com/track/third-eye-1

#alternateFridayMusic #MushroomLove

emma-jean thackray - i don’t recognise my hands

https://ejthackray.bandcamp.com/track/i-don-t-recognise-my-hands

#alternateFridayMusic #MushroomLove

secret chiefs 3 - hagia sophia (reprise)

https://secretchiefsthree.bandcamp.com/album/book-m

power and trip

#JukeboxFridayNight #PowerPlay #AlternateFridayMusic #MushroomLove

imagine a shot for shot remake of willy wonka (gene wilder) with primus dropping all the musical numbers

well you don’t have to imagine it just listen to primus and the chocolate factory: pure imagination

https://primusband.bandcamp.com/track/pure-imagination

#AlternateFridayMusic #MushroomLove