For the title alone. (h/t Laughing Squid)
Just stop with the doomscrolling for a minute, okay? Instead click through the image above to go to Peter Leyden’s essay. I promise you you’ll feel a lot better. Quote: “Artificial intelligence and clean energy technologies have been through Perez’s installation phase and The Gilded Age part. They are now about to cross into the deployment phase and enter The Golden Age. Bioengineering and synthetic biology will not be far behind.” Emphasis mine, see next story.
Quote: “The C2 chemicals produced from this device are precursory ingredients for many industries that produce valuable products in our everyday lives – from plastic polymers to fuel for larger vehicles that can’t yet run off a battery, like an airplane.” I mean, how cool is THAT. (h/t 1440)
However…if NOAA can’t even get Denali’s name right, why should I trust their weather forecasts? (screenshot from the NOAA app April 23, 2025)
I was going to put a link here to a story about how to cook the perfect egg, but it involved 16 steps. SIXTEEN.
What’s my suitcase doing sitting in the garage?
Quote for the day:
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. –Thomas Jefferson
Outro…
From an excellent album.
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