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Editora en un mar de boira a @hermenaute 331ppm de CO2 en néixer

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escribiendo y notando (?) una sacudida en la mesa (??!!) terremoto? mareo? alucinación?

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Cert

[Eli @autocomplot]

definitivamente la ia generativa es la nueva estética del fascismo

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

train station in Nantes opened in 2020 with no air conditioning. The design promised it would regulate its own temperature in extreme heat. Six years later, when it's 26°C outside, it's 32°C inside. They're bolting on giant fans to fix it.
The building has large glass walls. That's the whole problem in one sentence. Glass admits solar radiation, traps the heat inside (the greenhouse effect, the same physics that warms your car in a parking lot), and a structure with big glazed facades facing the sun will get hotter than the air outside no matter what the design brief promised. You cannot passively "self-regulate" your way out of solar gain through that much glass during a heatwave. Physics doesn't read the architectural statement.

I (Skander Garroum) wrote an essay a while back about Europe's strange denial around air conditioning, the cultural conviction that AC is an American excess Europeans are too virtuous to need. This station is that denial poured into concrete and glass. The intention was admirable: build a station that stays comfortable without the energy cost of mechanical cooling. The execution ignored that the building's own form (sun-facing glass, an open hall) made passive cooling impossible from day one.

The deeper issue is that Europe is designing buildings for a climate that no longer exists. The Nantes station was conceived when European summers were milder and a heatwave was a rare event. The thermal model assumed a cooler baseline. Then the baseline moved. Summers that used to peak in the low 30s now push higher and last longer. A building designed for the old normal becomes a kettle in the new one. Via Skander Garroum (this is France but the Denial is global you See just everywhere)

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@duran_mart Mira! Com a les novel·les d’Asimov

[Jordi Mas @jordimash]

Portes temps buscant com col·laborar amb codi lliure?
Vols donar ajudar a Softcatalà i no saps com?
Iniciem una prova de concepte i ens cal ajuda:
https://t.co/rbUL6iagjm

Ambiciós? Molt. Però amb la teva ajuda pot ser possible. Pregunteu sense vergonya i millorem la definició😉

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

Thomas Sankara said Africa must produce what it consumes and consume what it produces.

Francis Kéré built his mausoleum from the earth of Burkina Faso.

The walls are laterite brick pulled from the same soil Sankara walked on. Louvred gates are angled to catch the prevailing winds and push cool air through the interior. No mechanical cooling in one of the hottest capitals on earth.

Thirteen tombs sit beneath individual skylights, the sun illuminating each one at a different hour of the day. Thirteen columns frame open space representing not what is there but what was taken.

The site was where Sankara and his comrades were buried in secret after their assassination in 1987. Kéré has turned it into what he calls a space that belongs to the people.

A future tower will rise to 87 meters. The terrace sits at the height that marks the year everything ended.

Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Design: Kéré Architecture
Images: Kéré Architecture

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Els constructors del temple necessitaven l’aprovació del mestre, ni que fos simbòlica

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Antoni Gaudí looking on the completed and blessed Tower of Jesus Christ in approval.

Well done, Barcelona!

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@paullonch Està de moda, com la Rosalia o Bad Bunny o el que toqui, no miris més enllà

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La Sagrada Familia #Papa

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@g_delacroix Oh :(

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@mercComas @basanydebaixLlo Si estas sota teula això no serveix

[Macroblock @sainimatic]

@nealjclark1 No, it's because phones collapse space, and space is one of the key components of film.

[Cine fantástico @JUDEXFANZINE]

🎞️He-Man y los Masters del Universo (2026). “La propuesta nivela al espectador en el ensueño de su propia proyección de las figuras de Mattel” 👉https://t.co/CtE5N2CeR3 Por @JudexRueda @sonypictures_es

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Pobreta… quina pèrdua

[EL PAÍS @el_pais]

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere la ilustradora y cineasta Marjane Satrapi, a los 56 años. La familia de la autora del popular cómic ‘Persépolis’ informa de que la creadora ha fallecido “de tristeza” tras la muerte de su marido hace un año https://t.co/1cTLqZ3lRi

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@theistinthought If I had 8 bags I ask the grocery take my bags home (there is a special delivery service)

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Mi crítica de #ElDrama, distribuida por @DiamondFilmsES

"El primer largometraje de Kristoffer Borgli, 'DRIB', un documental basado en una bebida energética falsa, ya prefiguraba la juguetona relación del cineasta noruego con la verdad y la mentira..."

https://t.co/Z9F3s2SGWk

[Diego. @cabriadiego]

La canción del verano es esta y no hay discusionch

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@dontfucklechuck @rgsecundaria En Catalunya no llegan a 2.500

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@andreucabre @pauetvidal @catalacatala Que en sou de rucs! (Dissimulant), la gent! 😂

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@andreucabre @pauetvidal @catalacatala Però en quina sintaxi?

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@bernatmallen Pel que conec, és un mecanisme de defensa, integrar-te et protegeix