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[Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels]

we're running "prototyping season" at @Casa_Tilo this winter: we'll have residents in the house for low stakes coliving, and each week we will put one practice in the spotlight. music, coaching, vibe coding, circling, movement, writing, microdosing, sewing, bodywork, bird watching...

do you have a practice you want to share but you are not ready to host a whole ass retreat about it? test it out in the house, get feedback from a friendly audience, and if it looks promising we can help you build it into a more professional offering in future

comment or DM if you're interested

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now

this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.

here's how the whole thing works.

1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.

and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.

five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.

knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.

this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The girl who was killed by russian glide bomb in Kharkiv today came to the city for her university graduation.
​A graduation robe lies next to her body...

[Fellaraktar🇺🇦 @fellaraktar]

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[Sort Of ... @JMNSCH]

@RichDecibels must be a one-player video game

[Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov @vseviov]

How it started.
How it’s going.

Aggression does not pay.

[Sort Of ... @JMNSCH]

@JimmySecUK Warms my heart

[Sort Of ... @JMNSCH]

@RichDecibels Yeah let's trim back these awful unruly curved shapes that don't fit my modernist predictive processing schemas and 3D spatialising structure of consciousness. Let's destroy everything that does not satisfy our model's coherence requirements

[Sort Of ... @JMNSCH]

@RichDecibels Hahaha!

[Innerdevcrypto @Innerdevcrypto]

One of the stupidest things a nation has ever done

As some of you might know, and some might not, the Netherlands sits on one of the largest natural gas fields in the world in the northern part of the country. It provided the country with a stable secure energy supply for decades since its discovery in the 1950s, while we also exported a lot to pay for an extensive social security system

The problem with this field was, that extracting the gas caused some minor earthquakes, nothing too serious, but that argument was used by climate-radicals, green left wing lunatics, activist judges and dumb politicians, to shut down that field after some complaints by the local population. Even worse, the government actually started pouring concrete in the wells and actively destroying the gas- installations

As a result, energy-prices are much higher, the entire Dutch powergrid is overloaded since in cloudy the Netherlands wind & sun are not reliable enough, and entire city-centers are broken up to build something called ¨heat-nets¨, some kind of soviet idea to redistribute heat

Now with the recent wars, the country and EU are wondering....¨where do we get our gas now that we are cut off from Russia....Qatar´s gas installations are damaged, and the USA under trump is not that reliable¨.

Can you imagine?
- As a nation, you are sitting on a massive gasfield with 100s of billions of $ still of natural gas, easily extractable with all infrastructure intact
- You can run your whole country on that field for like another 30 years and export to the EU in existing gas-pipes
- With exports you can build a Norway-like sovereign wealth fund that can last generations if well invested
- The government can pay people affected by the earthquakes huge compensation, make them all rich, or build them all stronger homes. I mean, countless people live well in areas with minor earthquakes all over the world
- On top there are scientists that say that the earthquakes can be diminished by injecting other liquids into the field
- And all the infrastructure for it is build, literally every Dutch home has a gas connection
- Meanwhile many nations are expanding their natural gas usage and production, so it is not as if using this field or not will make a difference in the whole climate-story, however it would make the difference for the Netherlands between being energy-poor or energy-rich, an unstable or stable electricity-supply, and with a well invested sovereign wealth fund, trillions of $ for future generations.

But what does the Netherlands do? We destroy the installations and fill the wells with concrete 😆🤡🫣

Have you ever seen something this insane?
That is how destructive the whole climate-change left wing lunatics crowd is in combination with visionless politicians that have zero clue of long term policy. And no...i am not saying climate change does not exist, and no, i am not against working with nature, i build huge forest gardens and eco-farms myself remember, but committing such horrendous economic and strategic mistakes for a country is just a crime really. I mean....we got fully build natural gas infrastructure and it is actively being destroyed.....simply utterly insane

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: Crimea is in deep trouble right now. And the West should not start pressing Ukraine, "Hey, take it easy."

Because Ukrainians are getting closer to possibility of total isolation of Crimean peninsula, making all Russian assets there untenable.

The West also has an opportunity to really severely wreck Russia's oil and gas industry, and their export of it.

All of that would have significant effect on Russian side, Ukrainian side, and also how the rest of us view this conflict.

So, don't take your foot off the pedal. Now is the time that the West should be pressing the gas pedal to the floor.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Seagulls meow pretending to be cats to get food from a vending machine meant for stray cats..🐈🐾😊

[Sort Of ... @JMNSCH]

@AndrewPerpetua You called it already a year ago - flood russia with 1000's of drones, day after day, night after night. It works

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@Oilfield_Rando My beloved Gen-X childhood. As it's supposed to be

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

This is exactly what we predicted earlier - Laura Loomer's engagement has dropped by 28% after she started challenging pro-Kremlin propaganda.

Social media is not real, and most Russia-supporting influencers are being amplified by Russian, Iranian and Chinese networks.

[Sort Of ... @JMNSCH]

@MikeBenzCyber You're a retard for believing russian propaganda. Do some serious research bro

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@RichDecibels Nice capture Rich

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

🚨 Yarchi just published an awesome guide on building an AI "second brain" using Claude and Obsidian

Based on @karpathy's LLM Wiki concept, the idea is to stop starting from a blank chat window and start building a compounding knowledge graph.

Obsidian handles the local storage.

Claude acts as the brain.

I wrote down the condensed notes on how to wire them together:

The Stack:
→ Install Obsidian (your free, local text storage) and Claude Desktop Pro (the engine that reads and writes files).

The Bridge:
→ Install the "Local REST API" plugin in Obsidian, copy the key, and use Claude’s MCP framework to connect them (claude mcp add-json obsidian-vault...).

The Context:
→ Ask Claude to interview you. Have it ask about your goals, projects, and working style, then save it all to a CLAUDE.md file so it never forgets who you are.

The Structure:
→ Create specific project folders (Inputs, Process, Outputs, Feedback) and open them as isolated vaults so Claude stays focused on one job at a time.

The Automation:
→ Save repeated workflows as markdown "skills" and use Claude's schedule tab to trigger daily vault maintenance.

Voilà!

You end up with an AI that organizes your files, summarizes your notes, and remembers your entire context.

Full guide from Yarchi here ↓

[Sort Of ... @JMNSCH]

@DavidVance Got a better idea vatnik?

[Sort Of ... @JMNSCH]

@RichDecibels Something your dad would say