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Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecosystem.

Sari Azout on Artifact shutting down, reacting to the argument that “the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way.” ”The market opportunity isn’t big enough” – for reading? For knowledge? That’s such a cop out. … Right around the time of their launch, I listened to an interview with the founders framing their new venture along the lines of “AI has captured our imagination and …

“Your female characters all sound alike” -the irony, oh the irony I’ve mentioned before how, when I used to GM a lot, I had a tendency to keep secrets. Deep secrets. Long secrets. Sometimes for years. Longer than most people would consider sensible. Like back in the old Doven campaigns, it was almost ten years before anyone figured out the fundamental structure of the world. When I buried secrets, I …

The mastodon-post Web Component allows you to turn a regular link to a Mastodon post into an embeddable post quote including metadata such as reply count, boost count, favourites and more.OriginAfter reading articles from both Robb Knight and Mario Hamann I was inspired to put my spin on their revised approach to showing vanity metrics from social media on their blog posts.The recent talk around privacy somewhat went hand in …

Dear reader, if it seems your comment has not been approved, sometimes it actually has been approved even if you don’t see it. The reason is that once a combox reaches 200 comments, the Blogger software will not show any new comments made after that unless you click “Load more…” at the bottom of the comments page. The trouble is that this is in small print and easily overlooked. In …

If you haven't read "The Layoff" yet, you should do so before reading this post. This post is a behind the scenes look at the story and contains spoilers. Or, it's not about AI or even layoffs When I wrote "The Layoff", I was trying to write satire of the tech industry. It's not about AI, layoffs, or even the future when both of those are inevitably combined (let's face …

A special event celebrating the Hebridean-based sculptor Steve Dilworth, coinciding with his solo exhibition at Pangolin London, with contributions from his biographer, Georgina Coburn, and a screening of portrait film... The post Journeyman – The Art of Steve Dilworth first appeared on Iain Sinclair.

Writing userscripts to optimize my data entry workflow with the FDA's 510k database.

The snow line on Mount Everest Region glaciers on Feb. 11, 2024 indicated by yellow dots on the Landsat image. Note that Nangpa La and Nup La-two high passes (5800-5900 m) are both snow free. The average snow line is 6000 m. The snow line on Mount Everest Region glaciers on Oct. 30, 2023 indicated by yellow dots on the Landsat image. Note that Nangpa La and Nup La-two high …

Desde hace 72 horas recibo misteriosas llamadas telefónicas. Primero fue una en Los Banos, California. Al poco llegan otras desde Tahoe City, Woodland y North San Juan. No descuelgo el teléfono ni bloqueo los números, simplemente anoto la ciudad que me llama insistentemente cada día y luego las miro todas juntas en Google Maps. Me imagino que si esto continua un tiempo uniré los puntos y se me revelará un …

Here we are again with another Song of the Week and once again it featured on the Breaking More Waves New Music Weekly Playlist last week (here).Of course Dua Lipa needs no introduction. She’s already a huge popstar. Well, she’s five foot eight inches which technically isn’t that huge, but is still a lot bigger than Kylie Minogue. And no doubt, unless you have been hiding under a rock, you …

Photograph by John Trawick. Photography Contest, Honorable Mention. Spider web – made visible by early morning dew at Lake Murray Reservoir, San Diego, California. Nikon D7100. To see comments on this post click below:

This week in aural skills, we’re working on various harmonic tropes based on IV-I root movements. This chord progression is technically called the plagal cadence, but is more memorably nicknamed the “Amen” cadence because it’s a traditional European hymn ending. (It has nothing to do with the Amen break, though they do sound good together.) The plagal cadence is the mirror image of the classical V-I authentic cadence. Where does …

If you're catching a plane to London or New York you're making a serious journey that is typically planned days, weeks or months in advance. Unless you're in the top 1% such a trip would be made rarely. On account of its significance, cost and rareness you're happy to rearrange your life schedule around it. Because of that it doesn't much matter much if flights are only a few times …

As part of a short series of blog posts related to script-editing we asked experienced Story Producer Alexis Hood to share some advice on getting started on the editorial side of television, in both development work and production. When you’re starting out, the TV world can feel incredibly intimidating, and difficult to get your head around. If you’re reading this and wondering whether you’ll ever be able to break in …