https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/22/disappearing-tongues-the-endangered-language-crisis

Linguistic diversity on Earth is far more profound and fundamental than previously imagined. But it’s also crumbling fast

https://zeteo.com/p/israel-gaza-quadcopter-drone-warfare?publication_id=2325511&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=1j871&utm_medium=email

"Israel is pioneering yet another deadly innovation in drone warfare. What happens in Gaza won't stay there."

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycles-sustainable-again/

Cycling is the most sustainable form of transportation, but the bicycle is becoming increasingly damaging to the environment. The energy and material used for its production go up while its life expectancy decreases.

https://membersfirst.coop/phantom-load-calculator
"Phantom Energy: Do Appliances Use Electricity When Plugged in but Turned Off?"

The short answer is yes! A variety of different electronic devices and appliances, including televisions, toasters, lamps, and more, when plugged in, can consume electricity even when they’re turned off.

This phenomenon is commonly referred to as a “phantom load” or “vampire energy.” A phantom load is any electronic device or appliance that consumes electricity when turned off but still plugged into an outlet. These appliances and electronic devices provide the modern-day conveniences we rely on, but they also waste energy and cost money. The U.S. Department of Energy says on average, 75 percent of the electricity used to power home electronics and appliances is consumed while the products are turned off.

Also:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/leaving-your-phone-charger-plugged-18991558

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

Like block-chain, it is hugely expensive and unsuited for some of the purposes that it is used for. Like many technological innovations it is over-hyped and may fail to deliver on what it promises.  There are moral considerations, such as employing thousands of low-wage people in grueling tasks while depriving others of their jobs.  But finally it comes down to the fact that it is likely to develop rapidly because it will make a few people rich and is seen as lucrative by big companies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaGuSZz-Fzw&t=997s

Neil Theise is Professor of Pathology and of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a leader in the fields of liver diseases, liver stem cells, and adult stem cell plasticity. In this interview he talks about complexity theory's applications to biology and explains how the self-organizing principle depends on randomness. He advances the dialogue between science and spirituality, reminding us that non-duality implies duality, and that nothing is independent or permanent.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/27/notes-on-complexity-neil-theise/

In Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (public library), the Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us, bringing together our three primary instruments of investigating reality — empirical science (with a focus on complexity theory), philosophy (with a focus on Western idealism), and metaphysics (with a focus on Buddhism, Vedanta, Kabbalah, and Saivism) — to paint a picture of the universe and all of its minutest parts “as nothing but a vast, self-organizing, complex system, the emergent properties of which are… everything.”

In the philosophy of mind, panpsychism (/pænˈsaɪkɪzəm/) is the view that the mind or a mind-like aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality.[1] It is also described as a theory that "the mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe".[2] It is one of the oldest philosophical theories, and has been ascribed to philosophers including Thales, Plato, Spinoza, Leibniz, William James,[3] Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, and Galen Strawson.[1] In the 19th century, panpsychism was the default philosophy of mind in Western thought, but it saw a decline in the mid-20th century with the rise of logical positivism.[3][4] Recent interest in the hard problem of consciousness and developments in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and quantum physics have revived interest in panpsychism in the 21st century.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/terror-and-counter-terror

For the victim, terror is about what it is. For the terrorist, it is about what happens next. ]

Classically, a terrorist provokes a state in order to generate so much suffering among his own people that they will take the terrorist’s side indefinitely.