This touches on something I’ve been thinking about lately: fear without hope doesn’t motivate people to constructive action so much as lead them to inaction. You need hope to let fear do its job as a motivator, or it just locks you down.

This touches on something I’ve been thinking about lately: fear without hope doesn’t motivate people to constructive action so much as lead them to inaction. You need hope to let fear do its job as a motivator, or it just locks you down.

https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-crucial-things-to-remember-about-our-wretched-hellscape/

An interesting read on Game of Thrones’ final season and a more fundamental shift in …

An interesting read on Game of Thrones’ final season and a more fundamental shift in storytelling from the sociological to the psychological: instead of examining how people respond to the world they’re stuck in, it’s falling back on hero/villain tropes.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/

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Nightmare scenario: A fatal allergic reaction to an ingredient in such an off-the-wall place that you wouldn’t have even thought to look for it there. In this case, milk protein in toothpaste. #foodallergy

Nightmare scenario: A fatal allergic reaction to an ingredient in such an off-the-wall place that you wouldn’t have even thought to look for it there. In this case, milk protein in toothpaste.

#foodallergy

Your regular reminder: if anyone tells you the current administration’s stance on immigrants is only about “illegal” immigration, they’re lying or misinformed. Visa Rejections for Tech Workers Spike Under Trump

Your regular reminder: if anyone tells you the current administration’s stance on immigrants is only about “illegal” immigration, they’re lying or misinformed.

Visa Rejections for Tech Workers Spike Under Trump

This is amusing. SmugMug has been slowly disentangling Flickr from Yahoo…

This is amusing.

SmugMug has been slowly disentangling #Flickr from Yahoo over the last few months, and they have planned downtime coming up in a few weeks to finish migrating a gazillion photos and videos from Yahoo’s datacenter to AWS.

The funny part: They’re doing a photo contest where you print out the maintenance notice and “take your photo of the little panda on an adventure somewhere,” then post it after the site comes back.

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2019/05/08/enter-our-good-panda-photo-contest-for-a-chance-to-win-a-free-year-of-flickr-pro/

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“Customs officers do not like it when you try to bring a duffel bag full of 40 vacuum-sealed, frozen piranhas into Los Angeles.”

“Customs officers do not like it when you try to bring a duffel bag full of 40 vacuum-sealed, frozen piranhas into Los Angeles.”

#WTF #piranhas #LosAngeles

https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-virgilio-martinez-central-piranhas-lax-peru-20190508-story.html

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Crazy idea: carbon capture systems need to move a lot of air around. Air conditioning …

Crazy idea: carbon capture systems need to move a lot of air around. Air conditioning and heating systems already move a lot of air around. Put carbon capture in the HVAC loop!

Could Air-Conditioning Fix Climate Change?
Researchers propose a carbon-neutral “synthetic oil well” on every rooftop
–Scientific American

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It gets crazier: they’re talking about converting the captured carbon into synthetic fuel on a per-building or neighborhood scale.

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A medical drone delivery service is shipping blood as-needed to hospitals across Rwanda, which has the tech & telecom infrastructure for autonomous drones, but rugged terrain and poor roads that slow down delivery by land.

A medical drone delivery service is shipping blood as-needed to hospitals across Rwanda, which has the tech & telecom infrastructure for autonomous drones, but rugged terrain and poor roads that slow down delivery by land.

In the Air With Zipline’s Medical Delivery Drones