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  1. #TextureTuesday

    Que j'apprécie le millefeuille de schiste bordant le contre-halage au niveau de l'écluse du canal de Nantes à Brest !
    À chaque fois que je m'y balade, je multiplie les prises de vue : simple, double avec un léger, décalage latéral, ou alors double avec un croisement à 90°…

    I really love the layered shale formation lining the towpath near the lock on the Nantes to Brest Canal !
    Every time I walk along there, I take many shots: single shots, double shots with a slight lateral offset, or double shots with a 90° overlap…

    bretagne.en-photo.fr/2026/aout

    #photo #schiste #DoubleExposure #geologie #shale #bleu #blue #texture #ardoise #olympus

  2. thenerve.news/p/uki-goni-argen

    'Peter #Thiel, precogs and ‘non-human #corporations’ – welcome to the wild world of #AI #Argentina

    '#President #Milei’s plans to turn my country into an anarcho-capitalist #tech paradise makes him just the latest character in the nation’s long history of chancers and #dictators, writes Uki #Goñi
    Jul 15, 2026

    'South America has long been a honey-trap for world-class charlatans with out-of-the-box ideas to remould society. Elisabeth #Nietzsche ...New Germany in the rainforests of #Paraguay in 1887 ... In 1860 ... some Mapuche leaders accepted Orélie-Antoine de Tounens from Périgueux as Antoine I, King of #Patagonia.'

    '... 4 June 2026, when a former tantric sex coach who has become the world's first elected anarcho-capitalist president announced from the pages of the Financial Times that he would be transforming Argentina, the planet's eighth largest country, into a #tax #haven for "non-human corporations" fully owned by AI entities.

    'Perhaps emboldened by #technobillionaire Peter Thiel setting up residence in Buenos Aires shortly before, President Javier Milei's opinion column – “Argentina invites AI to free itself” – outlined a project utopian enough to rival that of any 19th-century adventurer.

    'Argentina, Milei said, will become the first nation to create "entities operated by AI agents or robots ... #human #shareholders may participate, but are not required". Milei went even further, proposing that such AI-owned corporations would be protected by safeguards from #legal action. "Limited #liability is not a luxury for such entities; it is a precondition for their existence," Milei wrote.

    '... Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari pointed out that [it] could be a first step towards ... legal AI #personhood that could be deployed as protective buffers by the world's tech barons.

    '...Patagonia is ideal for #data centres – far from complaining residents, near fresh Andean #glacier #water and with abundant #energy from #shale #gas on tap ...'

  3. <tinfoilhat mode=on>
    Its almost as if #trump just wanted to make someone to put tariffs on ~all gulf #oil and #gas to make american #shale competitive. If so, great victory indeed.
    </tinfoilhat mode=off>

    via @arstechnica

    mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

  4. The Oil Dimension

    #StraitofHormuz blockade is a major consequence that benefits certain actors:
    Who Benefits from High Oil Prices?

    + #US oil producers (#shale oil becomes more profitable at higher prices)
    + #SaudiArabia and Gulf states (their oil revenues increase)
    + #Russia

    Who Loses?

    - #China (imports ~70% of its oil, heavily dependent on Middle Eastern)
    - #India (similar energy import dependency)
    - #Europe (energy-dependent on imports)
    - #Japan and #SouthKorea (#LNG importers)

  5. “You certainly are going to have all three of the major radioactive elements that can be present in black shale in that waste—uranium, thorium, and radium,” he said. “Spreading it around fields then building homes and a school on top does not seem like a rational thing to do.”

    The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC), the state’s oil and gas regulator, defines land-spreading as…

    #Environment #NuclearWaste #Shale

    texasobserver.org/radioactive-

  6. A pillar created by glacial action in the middle part of Buttermilk Falls State Park last weekend

    #ithaca #fingerlakes #photo #photography #statepark #shale #gorge

  7. Took a wee break to have a walk along the beach (and some excellent mexican food in the centre of the city).

    #Brighton #EastSussex #Sussex #Shale #Beach #Photography #Clouds

  8. US 🇺🇸 #oil🛢️ prices are more than high enough to make drilling new wells profitable, but #shale bosses say they’re hesitant because of political & regulatory “uncertainty” that won’t be settled until the November election buff.ly/49fZ951

  9. #GlobalWarming caused widespread ocean #anoxia 93 million years ago, #DeepSea sediments research suggests
    phys.org/news/2024-01-global-w

    #Warming drove the expansion of #MarineAnoxia in the equatorial #Atlantic during the #Cenomanian leading up to Oceanic #Anoxic Event 2 cp.copernicus.org/articles/19/

    "During such scenarios, organic matter is buried at an elevated rate, producing distinctive layers of black #shale in the #geological record, which are depleted in the isotopically-heavier #carbon-13"

  10. "For older adults like Kemble who can’t afford to leave the land they fear is poisoning them, many say there are not enough official resources to help" #fracking #shale #fossilfuels grist.org/health/pennsylvanias

  11. US Oil Production Hits All-Time High
    Conflicting With Efforts to Cut Heat-Trapping Pollution and Republican Disinformation

    United States domestic oil production hit an all-time high last week, contrasting with efforts to slice heat-trapping carbon emissions by the Biden administration and world leaders.

    And it conflicts with oft-repeated Republican talking points of a Biden “war
    newsviews.online/2023/10/14/us
    #ClimateChange #oil #Shale