The root of every sustainability problem is poor design.

The biggest barrier for AI applications in Africa isn't model complexity -- it's the scarcity of data for the 2000 spoken languages there. We just released WAXAL. This open-access dataset delivers 2,400 hours of high-quality speech data for 27 Sub-Saharan African languages, serving 100M speakers. Crucially, this community-rooted effort — led by African organizations — changes the roadmap for truly inclusive voice AI. Learn more and check out the WAXAL dataset here: goo.gle/4cxNHae

Hong Kong MTR funds itself with a "Rail Property" model: 1. Build housing & retail around stations 2. Land value rises from train access 3. Profits help fund the next phase A tried & true method for funding transit infrastructure — no idea why it's not more common in the US!

New book from the @SFIPress: The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV. Every chapter is available for download as a free PDF.

In life sciences, we still use the word "mechanism" to describe the inner workings of organisms. Organisms are not made, they are grown. They do not come into the world, they come out of it. Even though we share a lot with machines, life is different. We'll likely get closer to the truth of the inner workings of life if we don't get too lost in a machine analogy.

When I decided to ignore background noise of experts and consultants, things began to fall in place on my farm. I stopped trying to "fix" Nature, and I started working to understand how Her cycles function. I realized I could never take dominion over Her- I shifted and sought to work with Her. In all of our efforts to outwit and improve Her, humans are an unworthy opponents- to Her, we are nothing but a fart in a hurricane. @kawasakiusa

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

Confusingly, in today’s America, urban planning in practice is actually suburban planning.

holy shit putting ur phone in greyscale really does break the mind control

The Night of the Bookstores has started in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 200,000 people are out in the streets and they are forecasted to buy books worth nearly $400 million 🇦🇷

Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions go.nature.com/4oTnQwB

These bricks could have lasted centuries, instead they will probably be gone in a few decades. This is what happens when you repoint mortar joints with cement rather than lime. The cement is harder than the bricks and traps water which expands and eventually destroy the bricks rather than the mortar itself. The mortar joints are supposed to be sacrificed: they can be repaired by any six year old with a butter knife and a bucket. Replacing the brick and cutting out the cement is expensive, complicated, requires machinery, and is time consuming. The historic brick that survived earthquakes and dozens of bombing raids will be lost forever. It is so depressing to see this in Tokyo, from "craftsmen" who should know better.

'The stone age' was actually largelly the wood age, but all the wooden tools, structures and weapons have been lost due to disintegration, so all that is left is stone and bone/ivory tools and weapons.

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If the likelihood of a catastrophic event is > 10% then the Risks are unacceptable high. This is the point we have reached on scientific evidence for AMOC shutdown. This is the "Don't look up moment" for risks of liveability on Earth theguardian.com/environment/…

I promise I am not making this up. I once saw an online review of an extremely eminent Los Angeles oncologist. 3/5 stars. "Parking extremely difficult."

La Costa Verde de Lima es un ejemplo de lo que comenta Steve, su potencial es enorme.

So far in 2025, @TheOceanCleanup has been collecting an average of 3200 kg of trash for every hour of the year.

Psychedelics are gateway drugs to Metaphysics.

Fascinating. Artificial selection seems like a possible cause, provided they both coexisted with humans long enough. “The researchers still don’t know why these two different groups with distinct lifestyle preferences both ended up producing psilocybin.”