Fascinating overview of how rapidly electricity is displacing oil — in this case, on farms.
https://youtu.be/L5pn5d9v2Lw
#electricity #solarPower #renewableEnergy #farming #oil #energy
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mastodon 4.7.2Retired, Victoria BC. Interested in food (whole-food non-animal), cooking, making #tempeh (wrote a (little) book about it), #fermenting vegetables, movies, books, wetshaving (wrote a book about it), and Nordic walking. Since May 2025, I have been intensely focused on learning #Esperanto.
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For those who want a search engine with no enshittification, Kagi is a good choice. I took a look at my experience after 6 months' use:
https://leisureguy.ca/2025/12/22/kagi-search-2/
#Kagi #searchEngine #software
I use Anki Esperanto decks, including my own deck, to which I add cards for words I encounter while reading. As a daily chore, learning vocabulary with Anki is not bad — on a par with washing dishes — but I recently started thinking of the activity as collecting words — like collecting Pokémon cards, say. Like Pokémon cards, new words bring new powers (of naming things — and of course, in magic, if one knows the names of things, one has power over them 🙂).
I started learning Esperanto for 2 reasons:
1. To find out what being fluent in another language felt like. Esperanto was the obvious choice: easy to learn, plus greatly helps in learning another language — see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn_method)
2. To observe the mental process: what happened along the way.
I just figured out why I am so easily distracted when practicing listening skills, and a workaround: https://leisureguy.ca/2026/02/08/stubborn-subconscious/
#learning #education #esperanto #languageLearning #language #psychology
Yet another winter soup, this one with kumquats.
https://leisureguy.ca/2026/01/14/winter-soup/
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#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #cooking #kumquats #barley
The next session (3 months, weekly online Zoom meetings of 1 hour) of the London Esperanto Club's courses, from beginnning courses (taught in English) to more advanced courses (taught in Esperanto) are now open for registration. Courses will begin April.
See https://kursaro.net for more info.
It's telling that, after shooting Alex Pretti to death, the agents fled the scene. That is way outside the paradigm of law enforcement, but consistent with gang behavior.
One goal of my learning Esperanto (& the same would hold true for learning any language; I picked Esperanto because it was designed to be easy to learn) is to observe the process of learning: how my mind reacts & changes as it develops a new skill.
I just posted about one thing I have now encountered several times: hitting a (temporary) wall, when I find I have to take a break of a day or two before I can continue. Here's the most recent:
From your profile, I thought this might be of interest: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-shaw-alphabet-and-other-quixotic-solutions-i-love-8e6a28ebe28f
Mark Carney speech at Davos is extraordinarily impressive: clear-sighted, pragmatic, specific, realistic, and visionary.
Watch PM Carney's address and Q&A at the 2026 World Economic Forum
My Conversation course (see Kursaro.net) recently assigned writing a short story in which these six words were used: saluton, postaĵo, ĉevalo, muzikisto, stultaĵo, multekosta.
Here's my rakoneto: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0LrfkwY5AJswsttExcv0WADVzwVJxXIv9op5DfshxE/edit?usp=sharing
I have a new article just published in Medium about what I've learned about learning a language. 9-minute read.
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/learning-to-learn-a-language-2194fd55f82b
"How Not to Die" documentary, 1 hr 20 min.
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#food #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #movie
Many people underestimate the rapidity of AI's improvement. Two recent examples, one medical and one in theoretical physics, show how quickly AI is improving.
It's easy to see how Trump ran into the ground and bankrupted all those businesses he owned. He's doing the same thing to the US and also working to destroy other countries as well: Ukraine, Canada, the EU, and so on.
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@leadore Good idea, and I'll definitely give that a try. It strikes me that the exercise gives the adaptive unconscious free rein to figure things out on its own — in fact, it's how children (and, e.g., dogs) learn to understand human speech.
Slightly connected: Xerox at one point published a book to train people in listening to speech in their own language. We receive instruction in school to develop the skills of reading, writing, and speaking, but we are not taught how to listen, so we are (almost) all self-taught. Self-taught practitioners in any skill often fall into common errors, which is why informed coaching is so valuable. Correcting the common errors will not make one world-class, but will greatly increase performance. (See, for example, the books "Decision Traps" or "Getting to Yes.")
A powerful interview with the president of the company whose lawsuit against tariffs won in the Supreme Court.
BREAKING: Trump PANICS as Companies Sue to Get Their Tariff Money Back and Allies FREEZE Trade Deals
We know that regular exercise reduces the risk of Alzheimer's. Now the likely protective mechanism has been found:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260219040752.htm
What will AI be by the end of this year? Unimaginably capable.
Read this article: https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
The positive feedback loop — AI being used to build better AI — is well underway. Positive feedback loops lead to explosive growth/change.
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@superketchup Mi konsentas, kvankam "pli faciela" ne egalas "facila." Esperanto ankoraŭ estas lingvo, kaj lerni iun lingvon postulas tempon, studadon kaj ekzercadon. Tamen, Esperanto fakte estas pli facila ol aliaj lingvoj kaj ankaǔ estas interesa, inĝenia, kaj havas bonan kvanton da literaturo.
Mi kolektis en afiŝo kion mi lernis pri lingvolernadon: https://leisureguy.ca/2025/07/16/learn-esperanto-2/
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@superketchup Vi eble ĝuos ĉi tiu video, kiu prezentas la prelego de Mark Carney ĉe Davos: https://youtu.be/pP9AOfuVeUM
La fino de la agrabla fikcio: Mark Carney nomas la novan realon
I live in Canada, and I follow the war closely: Jake Broe, Jason Jay Smart, Paul Warburg, Jay in Kyiv, Wes O'Donnell, Caolan Robertson, Professor Gerdes Explains, Frontline (London Times), Kyiv Post, Silicon Curtain, Pyotr Kurzin, Warthog Defense, Kyiv Independent, and others, all on YouTube. I don't know what others in my country follow.
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@TerpomoDekUnu@esperanto.masto.host Mi tute komprenas. Mi ankaŭ spertis la tro grandan kvanton da kartoj kiam mi maltrafis studadon eĉ por unu tago. Do mia unua tasko ĉiutage estas kartstudado. Tamen, mi kelkfoje maltrafis tion, kaj mi devas puŝas min por kompletigi la kartarojn je la sekvanta tago.
Mi ankaŭ jam uzis Anki por lerni aliajn aferojn: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnesperanto/comments/1scanft/comment/oehdcg6/
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@TerpomoDekUnu@esperanto.masto.host
Anki ankaŭ havas programon por poŝtelefono, sed tiu ne estas senpaga. Ankoraŭ, tiu programo konektas kun la kartaroj en la nubo, do vi povas daŭrigi vian studadon el kie vi haltis.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ankimobile-flashcards/id373493387
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@thetyee@mstdn.ca Interesting headline template: "[some political decision]. Not Everyone Is Happy." That can be used for any political decision except for the small number (less than ε) of political decisions that make everyone happy.