Hi! How's everyone? Today we're going to discuss an especially cheery topic — extinction.
How do you feel looking around the world? Depressed, anxious, bewildered, bereft? We have the pathetic spectacle of the first criminal trial of an American President — and the current front runner for the next Presidency. If you needed a sign about how things are going in this age, that's one that'll go down in history.
How did we get here?
Police say they belong to the same network as the 16-year-old boy who allegedly attacked a church last week.By Hannah Ritchie & Simon Atkinson (BBC News)
Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant’s Phoenix expansion.
As training went on, tensions mounted. U.S. engineers told Rest of World that some Taiwanese male engineers had calendars with bikini models on their desks and occasionally shared sexual memes in group chats. A female American colleague, according to an American trainee who witnessed the conversation, asked a Taiwanese engineer to remove his computer wallpaper depicting a bikini model. One former American engineer said some local co-workers referred to him as a “white breeding pig,” implying he was only in Taiwan to sleep with local women. At a meeting, a manager said Americans were less desirable than Taiwanese and Indian workers, according to people who saw leaked notes, which circulated among trainees.
Jeremy Scahill, Thanassis Cambanis, and Murtaza Hussain discuss how Biden’s policy toward Israel is pushing the Middle East to the brink of a regional war.Intercepted (The Intercept)
A California startup is readying its prototype orbital mirror for a 2025 launch.Tereza Pultarova (Space)
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
New England Solar, a 400MW solar farm that currently shares the title of Australia’s largest solar farm, is not only generating at peak output, but is also now home to more than 6,000 sheep who call the 1,200-hectare site home.
The New England Solar farm is being built in two stages, with the 400MW stage 1 already operating and supplying electricity to New South Wales and Queensland, and a further 320MW solar farm and 200MW/2-hour battery under construction.
In addition to co-locating a battery energy system with the solar farm, New England Solar is also co-located with several thousand sheep – mainly merinos and other cross breeds.
According to developer Acen Renewables, more than 6,000 of the woolly animals are being rotated on and off the project site, which is now serving as a new feeding ground.
The sheep will spend six weeks on the land before being herded back to their sheds for health checks or vaccinations before then being moved on to other paddocks or straight back to their green solar pastures.
The owners of Australia's largest solar project say the site now plays host to a record 6,000 plus sheep.Joshua S Hill (RenewEconomy)
How to build a wooden Bluetooth speaker with stylish curves. Build plans available including the electronics.www.kiwiworkshop.com
For decades now, we’ve been able to quickly and reliably interface musical instruments to computers. These tools have generally made making and recording music much easier, but they’ve …Hackaday
The Quiet Devastation of Extinction Capitalism - Eudaimonia and Co
umair haque (Eudaimonia and Co)