Archive: 2026-02

On the Return of the Floreana Giant Tortoise | Galápagos Conservancy — “For the first time in 180 years, Floreana lineage giant tortoises set foot on Floreana Island once again.” (2026-02-25 · conservation, galapagos, mlp, nature, science, tortoise )

Paul Ford on “The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun” — ““All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.” <= this. (2026-02-18 · ai, mlp, paulford )

China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months — Despite adding 520 terawatt hours of demand in 2025 (2026-02-13 · china, climate-hope, energy, mlp, renewable ) (via volts)

BP popularized “carbon footprint” explicitly to shift the blame of climate change away from them and to individuals. — Carbon footprint is very much in the tradition of plastic recycling, a scam designed to turn blame and focus inward away from real systemic solutions. (2026-02-12 · advertising, climate, greenwashing, mlp )

What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems - Ian Duncan — Good article on fetishization of code over the system that is in no way about AI (but is extremely relevant). (2026-02-11 · distributed, functional, ian.duncan, mlp, patterns, programming )

Mexicans are refusing to spend this 50-peso bill — Axolotls are too cute. We brought home several to share with Riley, our axolotl, during our most recent México trip. (2026-02-10 · axolotl, currency, design, mexico, mlp )

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus | Nature — Heard about this paper on Volts this morning from Dr. Sarah Kapnick. Another instance where we're seeing individual benefits but not yet collective benefits. (2026-02-10 · ai, mlp, research )

Sarah Taber: What Happened To Progressive Farmers? — Love me a good history. Can't wait for part two. TL;DR: You become a farmer today by inheriting land. Inheritance based systems systems trend conservative (and to sub-optimal talent). Wealth and estate tax please. (2026-02-09 · economics, farming, history, mlp, progressive, sarah-taber, video )

Story Seed Library — “a library of Solarpunk art and story seeds - helping you imagine a better climate future in which humanity learns how to sustainably live on Earth.” (2026-02-07 · art, climate-hope, mlp, solarpunk )