Postcards

Who?

Profile
Murf

Postcards from my mind, written for my reader, she knows who she is.

Uncategorized

Fake Plastic Greening

No Comments

“What would make a difference is developing mass transport and substantially reducing car ownership; closing coal mines and ending oil and gas exploration; promoting decentralised and community-managed renewable energy systems; doing away with industrial-scale monoculture farming; and supporting smallholder and Indigenous-led agroecological systems that have been shown to enhance nutrition, biodiversity and quality of life. […]

Read on ...
Society Technology

ChatGPT CEO – Technology will fix the problems of Technology

No Comments

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-ceo-sam-altman-responds-school-plagiarism-concerns-bans-2023-1 Given how popular ChatGPT has become, Altman believes that the world must adapt to generative AI and that technology will improve over time to prevent unintended consequences. “It’s an evolving world,” Altman said. “We’ll all adapt, and I think be better off for it. And we won’t want to go back.” I’m not convinced. […]

Read on ...
Health

Hydration & Health

1 Comment

Interesting finding via CNN: You may know that being adequately hydrated is important for day-to-day bodily functions such as regulating temperature and maintaining skin health. But drinking enough water is also associated with a significantly lower risk of developing chronic diseases, a lower risk of dying early or lower risk of being biologically older than your chronological […]

Read on ...
Oddities

American Chocolate

No Comments

Well, I have wondered, via The Guardian: There are a few things that routinely keep me up at night: the futility of life, the inevitability of death, and the mystery of why the US’s chocolate is so disgusting. Readers who have had the misfortune to encounter a Hershey bar will know exactly what I’m talking […]

Read on ...
Economy Food for Thought

The Proximate Cause

No Comments

This (via Reuters): Twitter has $13 billion in debt after the deal and faces interest payments totaling close to $1.2 billion in the next 12 months. The payments exceed Twitter’s most recently disclosed cash flow, which amounted to $1.1 billion as of the end of June. https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-information-security-chief-kissner-decides-leave-2022-11-10/ The real question is why load it up with debt […]

Read on ...