innovation

What I’ve been reading (, watching, and listening to) this week ending 3 May 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-3-may-2026-ccff2e9a2a0e #science #innovation #ai #economics #politics #SoftwareEngineering

Before the automobile industry invented the catalytic converter, the costs of reducing air pollution seemed astronomical, enough to bankrupt the entire industry. After they invented the catalytical converter, the costs were manageable. And they only invented it because they were faced with the threat of being shut down.

Industries creating harms often claim that controls and regulations are impossible, would bankrupt them, etc., trying to make their existence into a zero-sum game (for some people to have the benefit of our industry, other people must suffer). AI companies claim they must steal copyrighted works because they could not exist otherwise; or be allowed to use as much electricity as they demand in spite of the costs. But it's B.S., and we should stop accepting this rhetoric. Forced to innovate to reduce harms, these industries have innovated, and made themselves even more profitable than they were when they were dragging their feet about it like children who don't want to clean their rooms.

From Is Climate Change An Externality

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #law #copyright #pollution #climate #innovation

So kreativ zeigte sich die HAWK auf der Maker Faire in Hannover! 🚀🎨

👉 HAWK-Studierende und Mitarbeitende im HAWK Business Campus (HBC) präsentierten auf der Maker Faire Hannover viele, spannende Projekte, von Bild-KI-Tools über eine interaktive Musikbox bis zum gut frequentierten Rennsimulator. Viele große und kleine Besucher*innen kamen mit ihnen ins Gespräch.

Mehr dazu in den HAWK-News: https://www.hawk.de/de/newsportal/pressemeldungen/einfach-mal-maken

#MakerFaire #HAWKHochschule #Innovation #Studium #KI

What if you could pay for everything with just your palm?

It's not science fiction. A new technology called Palm Vein Recognition is making it a reality in China!

Read the full story on Factovate.

https://factovate.com/payment-with-palm-lines-the-secret-of-chinas-new-technology

#TechFacts #ScienceFacts #Innovation #FutureIsNow #Tech #DidYouKnow #China #Factovate

ONE WEEK FROM NOW: You're invited to join our Publisher and Editor @alexip718 for a virtual walkthrough and discussion of our new analysis on H-1B skilled workers in America's land-grant, sea-grant, and R1 research institutions.

Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1744237444149?aff=oddtdtcreator

#h1b #visa #research #education #highered #science #health #environment #climate #innovation #data #news #journalism #webinar

🇦🇹 Austria's Armed Forces have replaced MS Office with LibreOffice on 16,000+ workstations 📄

This shift began in 2020 to avoid mandatory cloud reliance ☁️
Their goal? Digital sovereignty—not cost saving 🔒
They even contributed 5+ person-years of code 🛠️
EU trend toward open-source grows 🇪🇺

@libreoffice
@itsfoss

🔗 https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forces-ditch-microsoft-office/

#TechNews #LibreOffice #Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #FOSS #Security #Europe #EU #Microsoft #Cloud #DigitalSovereignty #Government #Defense #Innovation #Technology

Do you know any new open source projects that deserve recognition?

Projects that are:
- Solving real world problems and driving technical innovation
- Improving science, research or medicine
- Challenging long standing platforms or paradigms
- Just super nerdy and doing something novel!

If you do, please share them and perhaps we can help them get the attention they deserve. 🧡
#opensource #linux #Innovation

What I’ve been reading week ending 24 May 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-week-ending-24-may-2026-cb45e0014686 #innovation #Change #AI #Energy #Storytelling

the systemic and fatal mistake of modern day monopoly capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind,, #rich vs #poor #inequality growing rapidly = #collapse of #society thank you

= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money and buys + owns the #assets (#bank, #centralbank)

the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #financesystem is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!

If you ever wondered how German car makers drove themselves into the ditch and how could German industrialists and the German governing parties they own ever be so arrogant to think China would never, ever meet them and then overtake them up the value chain, here's another titan of German industry doing his best to enlighten us:

#Germany #Deutschland #Papperger #Rheinmetall #Ukraine #drones #innovation #TheKitchenPartTho #NotAllMenButAlwaysMen

[#TRADESHOW] #Intersec #Shanghai 2026 – #Security #Equipment and #Technology #Expo will be held from May 7 to 9, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#NECC), Shanghai. #Exhibition connects #international #suppliers with #China’s rapidly #expanding security, #fire #protection, and #safety #technology #markets. #Event integrates #global expertise with #market depth to promote #innovation in #AI, #IoT, #cybersecurity, and #emergency response #systems. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/intersec-shanghai-2026-security-equipment-and-technology-expo/

Rated Paris Is Burning 8/10

THE AWFUL STUFF SHOUTS.
THE GOOD STUFF CREATES THE FUTURE. 💎

I went looking around the internet this morning for things happening in the world that are actually fantastic. Not catastrophe. Not outrage. Not another reason to be frightened before breakfast.

AND LOOK WHAT HUMANS ARE UP TO.

China is preparing to send its Chang’e-7 mission toward the Moon’s south pole, where it will search for water ice.

WATER. ON THE MOON.

Finding it could matter enormously for future exploration because water can support life and can also be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel.

Meanwhile, researchers in Adelaide are developing water-based zinc-iodine batteries, a different kind of energy storage aimed at making large-scale renewable power safer, more stable and more practical. As we produce more electricity from sun and wind, storing that energy when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing becomes one of the great practical problems of the future.

AND THEN THERE IS THE HUMAN BRAIN.

Scientists are testing cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease that aim to replace some of the dopamine-producing brain cells the disease destroys. Not merely managing symptoms, but asking whether damaged function can actually be restored.

Researchers are also taking skin cells from children with a rare form of childhood dementia, turning them into brain-like cells in the laboratory, watching the disease unfold, and testing existing medicines against it. Several drugs have already improved the health of those cells in laboratory studies.

That is not a cure, but the very fact that we can now take a skin cell, turn it into something resembling a brain cell and ask, “WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS?” would have sounded like science fiction not very long ago.

The same peculiar little ape that loses its glasses while they are sitting on its head is searching for water on the Moon, inventing better ways to store sunlight and trying to repair the human brain. Yes, we still burn things, break things, frighten one another and behave like complete idiots. But that is not the whole story.

THE AWFUL STUFF SHOUTS.

It dominates our attention because disaster demands attention. The good stuff often looks like somebody quietly going to work in the morning: a scientist, an engineer, a surgeon, a researcher looking at a damaged brain cell and wondering whether it can be fixed.

And perhaps that is the lesson.

If we keep staring at the pointing finger, we may never notice the Moon.

Every day, alongside all the stupidity, wars and destruction, human beings are quietly learning, repairing, inventing and creating the future.

Perhaps hope is not something we have to manufacture. Perhaps sometimes we only have to notice what is already happening. The future is being built quietly while the headlines are shouting about something else entirely.

And frankly, I find that rather wonderful.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#GoodNews #Science #Innovation #Humanity #Hope #Future #Space #Medicine