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  1. Backstage Burrow Ep3-2026: Pipe Dreams

    🎶🐰 Dive into the fascinating history of music with the Hydraulis, an ancient marvel from 3rd century BCE! Discover how Ctesibius of Alexandria invented the world's first keyboard instrument, revolutionizing sound and harmony and paving the way for Western music traditions. 🎹✨

    #hydraulis #organ #musichistory #musictechnology #ancientgreece #romanempire #middleages #charlemagne #keyboardinstruments #backstageburrow #rabbithole

    youtube.com/watch?v=kK_UQvLRJ9Y

  2. Oh wow, there's some parts of the song "Pipe Dreams" in #StardustDemon that I can only really notice with my headphone.

  3. RE: masto.ai/@discoverflux/1161719

    Giving this another boost:

    Matt Sheffield talks to me on his #TheoryOfChange podcast about why transhumanist neo-feudalists rely on computationalism to maintain their pipe dreams of immortality, brain uploading, and conquering the galaxy.

    It's cargo-cult philosophy. And scientific Trumpism.

    We can do better than that!

    We need #IA (intelligence augmentation), not #AI ...

    The future is meta- not hypermodern.

    I really enjoyed this conversation. I hope you do too!

  4. 🎹 Behold, the Wanamaker Organ: because who wouldn't want to visit a department store for an epic earful of gargantuan pipe dreams? 😂 Just be sure to consult Wikipedia’s cryptic robot policy first, if you dare! 🤖🔒
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamake #WanamakerOrgan #EpicMusic #DepartmentStore #PipeDreams #CrypticRobotPolicy #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🎹 Behold, the Wanamaker Organ: because who wouldn't want to visit a department store for an epic earful of gargantuan pipe dreams? 😂 Just be sure to consult Wikipedia’s cryptic robot policy first, if you dare! 🤖🔒
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamake #WanamakerOrgan #EpicMusic #DepartmentStore #PipeDreams #CrypticRobotPolicy #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🎹 Behold, the Wanamaker Organ: because who wouldn't want to visit a department store for an epic earful of gargantuan pipe dreams? 😂 Just be sure to consult Wikipedia’s cryptic robot policy first, if you dare! 🤖🔒
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamake #WanamakerOrgan #EpicMusic #DepartmentStore #PipeDreams #CrypticRobotPolicy #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🎹 Behold, the Wanamaker Organ: because who wouldn't want to visit a department store for an epic earful of gargantuan pipe dreams? 😂 Just be sure to consult Wikipedia’s cryptic robot policy first, if you dare! 🤖🔒
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamake #WanamakerOrgan #EpicMusic #DepartmentStore #PipeDreams #CrypticRobotPolicy #HackerNews #ngated

  8. ...even if the federal government lifts the emissions cap, waives the tanker ban, and makes significant amendments to the Impact Assessment Act, it still won’t clear the biggest hurdle standing in the way of Smith’s pipe dreams: math.

    @NatObserver @maxfawcett #PipeDreams
    nationalobserver.com/2025/11/1

  9. 🚀✨ Behold, the miracle of #JavaScript #enthusiasts reinventing the wheel! If only there was an easier way than piecing together their Frankenstein-like code pipe dreams with GitHub's #AI sidekick. 😂🔧 Instead, let's marvel at the endless pursuit of not-so-advanced "Advanced Security."
    github.com/irony/aspipes #GitHub #CodeInnovation #AdvancedSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

  10. "Live like horses", Elton John and Luciano Pavarotti.

    A fundraiser for AIDS research, because back in 1996 things like PREP and PEP were absolute pipe dreams.

    #TOTP #Pavarotti #EltonJohn #WorldAIDSDay

  11. 🇺🇸 #America’s course in #SpaceExploration has often veered after an #election with a new #president wanting to put a personal stamp on NASA — or trim the pipe dreams of the outgoing president. The U-turns have wasted money 💰 on canceled programs and left #NASA in limbo nytimes.com/2024/10/30/science

    #SpacePolitics

  12. In my #rp23 talk on #AI I jokingly said that right now "AI" is not worse for the environment that #Bitcoin but maybe I'll have to change that line soon futurism.com/the-byte/ai-elect
    (of course there are definite real-world use cases for statistical systems which is 100% untrue for libertarian pipe dreams of digital gold)

  13. Growth won't decouple from carbon emission AND water extraction/pollution AND biodiversity loss AND extinctions AND chemicals. Pipe dreams. Just stop the deception, please. #degrowth to a #SteadyStateEconomy
    #climateChange #Biodiversity

  14. A review of Clia Izoard's book: archive.is/r3Def#selection-393

    "Locally, the process of radicalization of industrial #mining is detailed through the prism of its social ravages. The mine is above all a gigantic uprooting machine (p. 54), which empties spaces by expropriating the last peoples of the plant. In addition, contemporary mining exposes populations to various diseases and poisoning. In the Bou-Azzer mine in Morocco, we extract responsible cobalt for electric cars; miners and local residents suffer from cancers and neurological and cardiovascular diseases.
    "The overall scale of mining sector predation in XXIe century is also outlined through the growing production of waste and pollution. The mining sector is the most polluting industry in the world. For example, an industrial copper mine produces 99.6% waste. Stored near mining pits, the waste rocks, gigantic volumes of extracted rock, generate sulfur releases which drain the heavy metals contained in the rocks and make them migrate towards waterways. Factory pipes constantly spew toxic residues which can, depending on the ore processed, consist of cyanide, acids, hydrocarbons, soda, or known poisons such as lead, arsenic, mercury, etc. Finally, zero-carbon mines are pipe dreams because they are all very energy-intensive. The amount needed to extract, crush, process and refine metals represents approximately 8 to 10% of the total energy consumed worldwide, making the mining industry a major culprit in climate change."

    #environment #ecology #mining #mines #extraction #extractivism #metals #transition #energyTransition #ecologicalTransition #ecologicalDebt #lithium #cobalt #digital #digitization #smartphone #iPhone #Android #electric #electricTransition #electricCars #industry #criticalTheory #technoCriticism #capitalism #technology #technique #sovereignty #supply #supplyChain #rawMaterials #commodities #development #exploitation #policy #pollution #NIMBY #CéliaIzoard #nickel #copper #book