Today, there is an average of 37 tonnes of road per inhabitant of the planet. The weight of the road network alone accounts for a third of all construction worldwide, and has grown exponentially in the 20th century. There is 10 times more bitumen, in mass, than there are living animals...

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/how-much-does-your-road-weigh

The impressive Holzgerlingen stela is the largest known pre-Roman Iron Age stone statue in central Europe, standing 230 cm tall. This double-faced, anthropomorphic figure—dating to the 4th century BC—features a horn-like headdress interpreted a so-called leaf crown, and is likely a representation of a deity

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

#archaeology

I'm hearing more and more small farmers and gardeners raising concern about cardboard mulching and PFAS. Yikes.

"In addition to interfering with water and gas movement into the soil environment, corrugated cardboard has chemical contaminants that you really don’t want in your soil or even your compost pile. Corrugated cardboard contains environmental contaminants including dioxin and PFAs or “forever chemicals.” No gardener should want to introduce more of these widespread contaminants into their landscape or garden"

https://gardenprofessors.com/cardboard-does-not-belong-on-your-soil-period/

https://gardenprofessors.com/the-cardboard-controversy/

#gardening #garten #smallfarming

Wow, an alleged human actually did this:

Someone posts a series of sensible questions to frame a discussion on a working-group mailing list and, in reply, someone pasts them into Gemini and just attaches the output, a huge PDF that is full of completely irrelevant slop. It adds zero value to the discussion. It isn’t even a useful framing for more sensible thinking. It’s just a massive wall of text.

I’m starting to think that the concerns about LLMs hurting critical thinking ability might have been seriously underrated.

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

There is a spirit that goes about at night with a light. The Cherokee call it "The Fire-Carrier" and are all afraid of it, because they do not know much about it and until that changes, is labeled dangerous. No exact description of what it looks like, because none stop long enough to gain a close encounter

I’m not sure what tomorrow brings. Most of the families got “evacuation” orders today and have nowhere to go. They’ve been getting these orders for weeks.

It’s our duty to hope and stay resolute… give to survival funds. This is just one. Give to any.

https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle