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Carlos Ariza

@carlosariza.bsky.social
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The future is regenerative! MIT grad, Data Science, Systems Thinking, System Dynamics, Biomimicry. Facilitator with Common Earth. Gainesville, FL. Pronouns: he/him.

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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
"Every time we share outrage bait or doom-laden headlines, we're feeding a machine that makes everyone more miserable. But we also have the ability to choose differently." h/t to @fixthenews.com.web.brid.gy www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
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What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling
Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
They will be taking this down soon www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and...
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"No oxygen, no problem! We can breathe hydrogen and sulfur" www.quantamagazine.org/the-cells-th...
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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways | Quanta Magazine
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It’s “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped, Look at that low playing, fine, then
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I can
I can
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Word of the day: "Kairomone": A semiochemical released by an organism that mediates interactions in a way that benefits the receiver. For example, sweat and mosquitoes... (I'm studying #biomimicry and chemistry this semester, so hang on to your molecules)
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This is the Al we need
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Like so many things these days, this step backwards will cost our country dearly. It's like the climate crisis is just sci-fi to them. “This will mean to us a lot of additional profit,” said CEO Antonio Filosa." 😞😞😞 @zamafir.bsky.social they'll be gone in 10 yrs right? www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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Detroit Rediscovers Its Love for Giant Gas Guzzlers
Regulatory rollback has opened the door for Ford, GM and Stellantis to sell highly profitable pickups and SUVs for the foreseeable future.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I'm off for one week and our headline game appears to have improved exponentially. None of that pearl-clutching asterisk bullshit here for reported speech. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517092...
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'Motherfucking wind farms': Samuel L. Jackson hails biodiversity benefits of offshore wind in new Vattenfall campaign
Hollywood star teams up with Swedish energy firm to promote climate and biodiversity benefits of offshore wind farms
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"air-conditioning is more than a convenience; in certain conditions, it’s a safety measure. That should be an easy enough concept to grasp....in many parts of the world we expect access to heating in the name of safety. Nobody wants to freeze to death." www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...
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In defense of air-conditioning
Why air-conditioning is the wrong climate villain.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11/07/2025
The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.
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Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Sting wrote 'Fragile' in 1987 but it's timeless. "Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could"
Sting - Fragile
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the color of the evening sun Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant To clinch a lifetime's argument That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star
like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are How fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star
like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are How fragile we are
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok
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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/trea...
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Treating empty bottles like lottery tickets could transform recycling
When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Name a more dynamic duo. I'll wait.
Two doggos looking cute at the park
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old city in Peru
Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes and Amazon.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"No need to stress about the coming of Artificial General Intelligence if Artificial Worm Intelligence remains such a distant impossibility. I hope it underscores how mightily naive we are about the possibility of truly imitating life." youtu.be/jwr1EOvAxQI?...
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How the universe thinks without a brain | Claire L. Evans
YouTube video by Sana
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The Wild @thewild.news · 02/07/2025
Waffle House embraces EV charging with BP Pulse fast chargers. #EVCharging #ElectricVehicles #SustainableFuture
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Waffle House adds fast EV charging to its 24/7 diners
Top up while wolfing down.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" "Living like a hermit wizard"
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d glissey, prod.44one • lumen (feat. prodsways)

Wizard meme
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fyi extroverted phase is over going dark and mysterious again
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2025
i kind of think the opening sequence in STAR TREK (2009) is the best thing abrams ever put to film
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Well, there go our chances of seeing a Rendezvous with Rama movie 😕 www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n... James Bond: Denis Villeneuve is the director of next spy film : NPR
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The next James Bond film will have Dune's Denis Villeneuve as its director
"I'm a die-hard Bond fan," Denis Villeneuve says. The Quebecois filmmaker's hiring comes as a relief to British 007 fans who had feared the worst when U.S. company Amazon MGM took control of Bond.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Are you seeing fireflies in your yard this summer? Did you leave the leaves in the fall? They are directly correlated, remember this in a few months! From @joandeart.bsky.social
joan_de_art 4h
Leave the leaves
It's a new lawn, it's a new way
Leaves are free compost.
Avoid adding plastic™ bags to landfills
Use rakes instead of leafblowers
Provides shelter for pollinators like
- butlerflies and fireflies.
@joan_de_art
Rake leaves into the corners of yard, under bushes, or add to garden beds instead
@joan_de_art
Are you seeing fireflies in your yard this summer? Did you leave the leaves in the fall? They are directly correlated, remember this in a few months!
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
200 years of controversy! 200 years of people carrying about the classification of jellyfish! (complimentary)
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
You know what to do: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Ballot
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives. - Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
- Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin
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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Significantly revised and rewritten, here's my deep dive (make yourself a cuppa as it's a long read) into Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running (1972) medium.com/cathode-ray-... #Filmsky #70sScienceFiction
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SILENT RUNNING (1972)
Douglas Trumbull’s response to the emotionally sterile 2001: A Space Odyssey foreshadows today’s clash between late capitalism and…
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. - Carl Sagan, Contact
This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.

- Carl Sagan, Contact
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
At the vet this morning: "The whole world is short staffed. Please be kind to those who showed up." 🐶
The whole world is short staffed.
Please be kind to those who showed up.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Me at the whaling museum yesterday:
Sperm whale skeleton
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Much to like in the goals of “natural capitalism,” an economy “in service to life” thehill.com/opinion/ener... The theory is great. How do you make it work in reality?
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If America makes it through, this great woman will someday be its president
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I woke up to an email titled "Strange AI behavior". I thought the Robot Age would be more exciting and less dystopian, but here we are.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Word of the day: Gyroids. Nanostructures that act as photonic crystals. This is how blue morpho butterflies create their blue iridescence! 🦋 #biomimicry #LifesPrinciples #LifeCreatesConditionsConducivetoLife
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Evergreen 🌲
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a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers
Alt: a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@amalelmohtar.com #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
Two Sibley bird guides with titles replaced with This Is How You Lose The Time War
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Great use of #systemsthinking archetypes to map out the energy transition
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Joshua Wilson @oshuwilson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
bluecorridors.org is live! Watch whales doing their thing as they mooch and migrate throughout the year. It is an honour to be involved in processing the data for this amazing living initiative. Looking forward to expanding it further!
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
@johnmoralestv.bsky.social is one of the good ones ✊
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Truly sophisticated technologies wouldn’t disrupt nature’s preexisting complexities, but would work with and through them." The way forward is symbiosis with nature, not parasitism. #biomimicry www.noemamag.com/are-we-accid...
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Are We Accidentally Building A Planetary Brain? | NOEMA
From superorganisms to superintelligences, how studying crabs could reveal that we are unintentionally building an artificial world brain.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I thought this story was horrific, but realizing it was an actor I long enjoyed only made it worse. My God.
Jonathan Joss, in character as the leader of the Wanapokwe tribes on Parks and Recreation
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
#BlueSkyMonday #dusk
A weathervane in the shape of a sailboat on top of a house, illuminated by the setting sun
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Starting now - access is free: www.youtube.com/@hollywoodcl...
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Hollywood Climate Summit
The Hollywood Climate Summit is the hub for climate action and cross-sector media industries. We gather hundreds of organizations—from major studios and streamers to climate nonprofits and sustainab...
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A great opportunity for climate storytellers: www.nrdc.org/RewriteTheFu...
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Rewrite the Future
Partnering with Hollywood to tell the story of climate change.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
From @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter: "I struck wind!" said the ebullient Davis, who likes to restyle Trump's "drill, baby, drill" mantra into "turn, baby, turn" in recognition of his wind turbines. "I done turned the money into my back ass pocket," he said.
Research has found existing clean energy projects in Texas will pay more than $12bn in taxes to communities where they are located, funding schools, roads and hospitals, while paying out another $15bn to landowners to lease their properties.
"It's a hard life out here, there's rocks, mesquite and coyotes and not a lot else - if there's anything to make life easier, do it," said Davis as he stood on his property under the whooshing blades of a wind turbine, one of a ragged line of turbines that make up the Cactus Flats wind project. "See any dead birds here? I've never seen one," added Davis, in reference to one of the most common complaints, voiced by Trump himself, about wind turbines.
Places such as Menard, located in central Texas between two large oil and gas regions, have limited options for new income. Davis has several hundred goats and sheep and raises cattle for wagyu beef on his 1,300-acre property, but 40% of his income now comes from the wind turbines, money he hopes he can push back into the sleepy Menard community.
"I struck wind!" said the ebullient Davis, who likes to restyle Trump's "drill, baby, drill" mantra into "turn, baby, turn" in recognition of his wind turbines.
"I done turned the money into my back ass pocket," he said.
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I sent an "old man yells at cloud" message to Stop & Shop yesterday complaining about the self-checkout lanes and how dehumanizing they are. It won't change anything, but it made me feel better. Hearing the robotic voice all day every day must be maddening for the actual human employees in the store
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"If identity is the stories you tell yourself about yourself, culture is the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves." @eliotpeper.bsky.social every.to/thesis/ai-is...
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AI Isn’t Only a Tool—It’s a Whole New Storytelling Medium
Three principles for worldbuilding in the AI era
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Carlos Ariza @carlosariza.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I don't think Ray Nayler is on Bsky, but he posted this link on IG about cephalopod intelligences in fiction. I've read The Mountain in the Sea, but still need to read the other two! 🦑🐙 www.newyorker.com/books/book-c... Peter Godfrey-Smith on Alien Intelligences in Our Midst | The New Yorker
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Peter Godfrey-Smith on Alien Intelligences in Our Midst
The philosopher discusses three novels about cephalopods’ mysterious forms of consciousness.
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