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  Oil Beach - How Toxic...

  Christina Dunbar-Hester

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  Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? 
    
  San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world—some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America’s Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years—a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital—and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.

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  Time Talks

  Tenzin Trepp

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  This is a series of discussions on Existential Realism — a framework that rethinks time, existence, and reality from the ground up. 
  At its core is a simple distinction: 
  The present alone exists — but the past and future are still real. 
  The past persists as traces, constraints, and records. 
  The future exists as structured possibilities, tendencies, and open directions. 
  This series develops that idea across multiple domains. 
  We examine why the block universe fails to account for becoming, how quantum physics may favor a present-centered ontology, and why relativity does not eliminate the present but reshapes it into a relative structure. 
  We move through entropy, causality, and the emergence of time — into biology, where organisms live in bounded temporal horizons, and into cognition, where time is both constructed and constrained. 
  We explore ethics grounded in the present, the role of agency in an open world, and formal logic systems that model these distinctions precisely. 
  Along the way, we confront competing views — presentism, eternalism, and various hybrid theories — not by dismissing them, but by placing them within a shared logical and conceptual space. 
  This is not a single argument, but a cumulative framework. 
  Each episode adds a piece: from physics to phenomenology, from formal logic to lived experience — all centered on one claim: 
  Reality is not a frozen totality, but an unfolding structure in which the present is the only point of existence.

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  Software Tarmacs : The Road Ahead

  Mike Blake

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  Software Tarmacs :: The Road Ahead.Looking into the future, our decisions will increasingly be made by AI. Who knows where it will lead.As software tarmacs the road ahead !To contact the Author: Please add me Mike Miko on Facebook & then message me, thanks.https://www.facebook.com/mike.cco1 I will then contact the Author your behalf.or on Twitter: miko_1_dollar ~ Tumblr : ccobes ~ Instagram: Wild_Poetrys  //  wild_poetry_websTikTok: @wild_poetrys  - mikecharliechaplinsofficeWebsite: www.wild-poetry.com Facebook: WOW https://www.facebook.com/wow.fact

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  Quantum Computing - An...

  Brian Murray

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  Quantum Computing: An Introduction to the Science and Technology of the Future is a comprehensive guide to the revolutionary field of quantum computing. This book provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental concepts of quantum computing, including quantum mechanics, quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, and quantum hardware. 
  Starting with an overview of classical computing and quantum mechanics, the book explains the fundamental principles of quantum computing and how they differ from classical computing. The book then delves into quantum algorithms, including the famous Shor's algorithm for factoring large numbers and Grover's algorithm for searching an unsorted database. 
  Next, the book covers the important topic of quantum error correction, which is essential for building practical quantum computers. The book provides a detailed explanation of the main quantum error correction codes and their properties. 
  Throughout the book, the authors use clear and concise language to explain complex concepts and provide detailed examples and illustrations to help readers understand the material. Whether you are a student, researcher, or technology enthusiast, this book will provide a comprehensive introduction to the exciting field of quantum computing. 
   

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  Windswept: Life Nature and Deep...

  Annie Worsley

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  ‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE 
  ‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
  A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light, wind and water – that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows. Windswept explores what it means to live in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather. 
  Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect the moonlight and attract salmon, as she watches otters play tag across the beach, as she is awoken by the feral bellowing of stags. Travel back in time to the epic story of how Scotland’s valleys were carved by glaciers, rivers scythed paths through mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands – and how she then found a home there millennia later. 
  With stunning imagery and lyrical prose, Windswept evokes a place where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt. It is her paean to a beloved place, one richer with colour, sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK. 
  Annie Worsley's Windswept is a top-tier memoir that intertwines personal narratives with the history of Britain's ecosystems. Her commitment to environmental conservation and habitat protection is evident throughout, making this autobiography a must-read for those interested in European non-fiction. 
  For fans of Robert Macfarlane (Is a River Alive?), Raynor Winn (Landlines), Robin Wall Kimmerer (The Democracy of Species), Sharon Blackie (The Enchanted Life), and Chloe Dalton (Raising Hare). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  AI Slop - Hicky sicky pop

  Mike Blake

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  AI SLOP :: Hicky sicky pop. 
  AI Slop : is a poem written in response to all the AI Videos being 'aired' and feedback from 
  these latest AI video escapees from the norm, now coming in the mix of regular video viewing. 
  It highlights just some of the AI videos and clips and their ridiculous framing into the 
  normal landscape of real world situations. As a tool for stretching the imagination, it is 
  a veritable candidate, until it crosses over from the sublime to the ridiculous, and 
  therefore entering the slop house which I call AI Slop. 
  There's a place for this in stretching the bounds your imagination, and not for replacing 
  the real entity of the world. 
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  *NO A.I. (only about the AI :) has been used in the creation of this Poem.* As for all the Authors poems & Short Stories.* 
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  See Credits (In written AI Slop KDP Amazon) :   AI Magician Girl. @AIMagicianIllusia  ;   
  Deep Fake Tom Cruise @Northconnection ;   
  Trump: Driving cart  @MiniVerseAI1 ; 
  Huge waves crash into coastline - Ai Generated @AiGenworld-b1g ;    
  Kidnapped girl escapes from danger @SignalofKindness ; 
  LA FIN 😍  @tonyczh ;  We are not AI - Wolfdogs. @Animal-Watch ;   
  Fat Man Rides a Small Motorcycle with a Goat on His Back @AImaginationWorld ;  Spike Armor vs Lions   @AiByDOGGAR ; 
  Lions vs the Spiked Man  @DreamyMeowTV  ;

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