#fucking amazing news

[snailboxes]

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[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x01 - “Heavy is the Crown” ↳ "I know you doubt your merit of your birthright, Caitlyn. There's wisdom in that. But remember: You're a Kiramman."

[cowchickenbeefpork]

Jax when he can’t abuse the other members of the digital circus for .5 seconds

[lulu-spooks]

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUESS WHAT?!?!?!

ASHSJAGSJAHSJSJDKSHABSJSBANSAGH

[qimir-the-stranger]

We get it, Disney. We get it.

Star Wars is not for women.

Star Wars is not for Black people.

Star Wars is not for Asian people.

Star Wars is not for Queer people.

Star Wars is not for anyone who is marginalized and has different lived experiences.

Nope. Star Wars is ONLY for cishet white men. We hear you loud and clear. We know you don’t care about us at all.

[ignatius-pennyfeather-ix]

i think kamala harris should get a big red buzzer that goes ‘ERR! WRONG!’ for the next debate so she can press it every time trump lies

[cornfieldsrambles]

the amazing digital circus episode 3 really said 'the world you are in may feel inescapable and inescapably horrific but you will always have the ability to find solace in the people around you. and sometimes, in a dire situation no one quite knows how to handle, being there for each other is all we can do. all we must do. and in fact, in those times, it's more important than ever.'

and it said all that through a guy who has not only been exclusively comic relief up until this point but also. is a goofy chess piece with giant eyeballs

[spitinsideme]

new era of ragapok is loser ragatha and so .. when pomno gets annoyed (at jax, mostly) she touches ragatha to calm her fown ... ragatha likes this very much and is a gay mess obviously

[bananafire11]

Recent jax things

[diviously]

gummigoo and pomni! :^)

[xx-just-a-demon-xx]

we just know that stone would be losing his shit at the chance to cut robotnik's hair for him and give him a supervillain makeover

[reasonsforhope]

"Clothing tags, travel cards, hotel room key cards, parcel labels … a whole host of components in supply chains of everything from cars to clothes. What do they have in common? RFID tags.  

Every RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag contains a microchip and a tiny metal strip of an antenna. A cool 18bn of these are made – and disposed of – each year. And with demands for product traceability increasing, ironically in part because of concerns for the social and environmental health of the supply chain, that’s set to soar. 

And guess where most of these tags end up? Yup, landfill – adding to the burgeoning volumes of e-waste polluting our soils, rivers and skies. It’s a sorry tale, but it’s one in which two young graduates of Imperial College London and Royal College of Art are putting a great big green twist. Under the name of PulpaTronics, Chloe So and Barna Soma Biro reckon they’ve hit on a beguilingly simple sounding solution: make the tags out of paper. No plastic, no chips, no metal strips. Just paper, pure and … simple … ? Well, not quite, as we shall see. 

The apparent simplicity is achieved by some pretty cutting-edge technical innovation, aimed at stripping away both the metal antennae and the chips. If you can get rid of those, as Biro explains, you solve the e-waste problem at a stroke. But getting rid of things isn’t the typical approach to technical solutions, he adds. “I read a paper in Nature that set out how humans have a bias for solving problems through addition – by adding something new, rather than removing complexity, even if that’s the best approach.”   

And adding stuff to a world already stuffed, as it were, can create more problems than it solves. “So that became one of the guiding principles of PulpaTronics”, he says: stripping things down “to the bare minimum, where they are still functional, but have as low an environmental impact as possible”.  

...how did they achieve this magical simplification? The answer lies in lasers: these turn the paper into a conductive material, Biro explains, printing a pattern on the surface that can be ‘read’ by a scanner, rather like a QR code. It sounds like frontier technology, but it works, and PulpaTronics have patents pending to protect it. 

The resulting tag comes in two forms: in one, there is still a microchip, so that it can be read by existing scanners of the sort common within retailers, for example. The more advanced version does away with the chip altogether. This will need a different kind of scanner, currently in development, which PulpaTronics envisages issuing licences for others to manufacture. 

Crucially, the cost of both versions is significantly cheaper than existing RFID kit – making this a highly viable proposition. Then there are the carbon savings: up to 70% for the chipless version – so a no-brainer from a sustainability viewpoint too. All the same, industry interest was slow to start with but when PulpaTronics won a coveted Dezeen magazine award in late 2023, it snowballed, says So. Big brands such as UPS, DHL, Marks & Spencer and Decathlon came calling. “We were just bombarded.” Brands were fascinated by the innovation, she says, but even more by the price point, “because, like any business, they knew that green products can’t come with a premium”."

-via Positive.News, April 29, 2024

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Note: I know it's still in the very early stages, but this is such a relief to see in the context of the environmental and human rights catastrophes associated with lithium mining and mining for rare earth metals, and the way that EVs and other green infrastructure are massively increasing the demand for those materials.

I'll take a future with paper-based, more humane alternatives for sure! Fingers crossed this keeps developing and develops well (and quickly).

[salted15]

I WANT HIM BACK !!!

(comms)

[fluentisonus]

working in a factory has you thinking so much about the insane chain of labor & transport that goes into making literally anything

[anriflosdraws]

me when im in a being a xander defender competition and my opponent is david

[your-turn-to-role]

actually while i'm posting stuff from bard's lament just have the entire tary intro it's fucking great

for context: sam has just spent approximately the past hour and a bit tearing everyone's hearts out with scanlan's breakdown, angry tirade at and subsequent leaving of vox machina, it's the first time they've had a player character actually properly leave the table, and several of them weren't sure if that meant sam was actually quitting the show

emotionally dead the morning after, vox machina decide they might as well start wrapping up loose ends with some quests they took during the dragon arc, because what else can they do

but on their way to that, matt starts describing this very opulent looking human with a giant robot next to him, as he would any other npc

and then this happens