Notices by Paul Houle (up8@mastodon.social)

🍫 Colombian coffee farmers make switch to cacao as climate warms and prices soar

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/colombian-coffee-farmers-make-switch-to-cacao-as-climate-warms-and-prices-soar/

#agriculture #globalsouth #cacao #coffee #food #climatechange #colombia #latinamerica

@coreyspowell I thought they discovered plutonium in New Hampshire pitchblende because of U238 getting the occasional neutron; did they see Pu in the spectrum of some astrophysical object? I can't see very much getting here from a neutron star collision

🌱 Tiny plants reveal big potential for boosting crop efficiency

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-tiny-reveal-big-potential-boosting.html

#plants #biotech #agriculture #co2

🏣 Brutal beauty worth saving from the wrecking ball

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/11/16/books/brutalism-architecture/

#japan #architecture #brutalism #concrete #buildings #books #bookstodon #review

I've had minicomputers on my mind lately, particularly the old PDP-11. I just came across a special issue of the Bell System Technical Journal about a minicomputer Bell Labs built to shoot down nuclear warheads

https://srmsc.org/ref1040.html

#computers #retrocomputing #missiles #abm #military #minicomputer #technology

😡 How racism impacts support for affordable housing

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-racism-impacts-housing.html

#housing #racism #socialscience #inequality #politics

🧮 Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018002

#climate #climatechange #environment #economics

🪛 The Tech Industry Has a New Plan to Stop Proliferation of Right to Repair Laws

https://www.404media.co/the-tech-industry-has-a-new-plan-to-stop-right-to-repair-laws/

#technology #circulareconomy #repair #righttorepair #business #law #politics

@Mastodon for every 1 "derailed conversation" I see 10 people who are offended that anybody defaces their masterpiece by replying to it.

People replying to themselves what what I think started X's descent into hell (the endpoint of that is that you don't need to have a blog, link to the rest of the net, ...) and I think would be must better to "just say no" to that behavior by prohibiting it

Anybody need 40,000 antique telephones?

https://madison.com/news/local/phoneco-wisconsin-telephones-knappen-business/article_90116a8a-734c-11ee-a555-f74104c683cf.html

#telephone #antiques #vintage #technology #retro #electronics