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Hey it's my birthday! If you like the things I create or just want to help me celebrate, please read this post. It's very short:
https://elftheory.substack.com/p/special-announcement
I'll mention, as I have in the past, that I see Substack as a necessary ethical compromise for now. It's not easy, trying to make good things happen in these times.
If anything in that post interests you, get at me. emma.stamm@gmail.com. Muchas gracias, vielen dank.
'A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the H.I.V. epidemic.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/hiv-treatment-shots-lenacapavir.html
First Solar Furnace to Recycle Steel Can Melt Metal with Sunshine in 2 Hours
#goodnews #goodearth #business #engineering #materials #solar #manufacturing #innovation #Switzerland
DECRIMINILIZE ABORTION
this is the way
❝ It's official: No woman in England or Wales can be prosecuted for an abortion any more
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a71163004/england-wales-decriminalise-abortion/
🇨🇴 verbietet neue Öl- und Bergbauprojekte in seinem Amazonasgebiet 🙏
➡️ 42 % des kolumbianischen Territoriums ➡️ 7% des Amazonas-Regenwaldes
Umweltministerin Irene Vélez Torres:
"Wir tun dies nicht nur als einen Akt ökologischer Souveränität, sondern auch als einen brüderlichen Aufruf an die anderen Länder, die das Amazonas-Biom teilen, denn der Amazonas kennt keine Grenzen und seine Pflege erfordert, dass wir gemeinsam vorankommen." 💪
Chicago Found a Shockingly Simple Way to Improve the Lives of 315,000 Kids
By turning student IDs into instant library cards, Chicago just gave 315,000 kids access to books, tutoring, and digital resources.
Harry Enten: "What a change from last summer on mid-decade #redistricting! Trump and the Republicans started the fight in 2025, but at this point, it looks like the Democrats will finish it. Democrats are more likely to gain from mid-decade redistricting than the Republicans, thanks to California, Utah, and potentially Virginia, New York, and Maryland."
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #winning #GoodNews
Hey, some fun news! Sir Ian McKellen is headlining an all #trans and #nonbinary reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. It’s a delightful play with much playing with #gender and the understanding of it. I’m very excited and am buying livestream tickets. 🥰
#theatre #arts #plays #Shakespeare #yay #GoodNews
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A Nation of Art Biennials
#politics #brazil #art #GoodNews
https://www.newcitybrazil.com/2025/05/07/a-nation-of-biennials/
📰 "New research shows that shoreline litter has been slashed by almost half since plastic bag bans around the U.S. have gone into effect."
Other good news - scientists have found out that they can play music to coral reefs to lure back fish and coral larvae. The music consists of the sounds of living coral reefs, and can be played in dead and dying reef areas to revive them!
It is faster than planting the resistant corals by hand, but together doing both humanity has a chance to bring back the reefs.
Don't give up hope yet. <3
🇪🇺Positive Nachrichten sind wichtig.
Um nicht in der sich ständig wiederholenden Flut der manchmal selben, anders „verpackten“ Nachrichten zu ersticken, kann man sich im Fediverse eine „Good News“-Liste erstellen.
In meiner Liste: @goodnews.eu @squirrelnews_de @squirrelnews_en @instance-perspective-daily.de @PerspectiveDaily @riffreporter @Good_News_Community @mimikama @firesidefedi
#News #GoodNews #Medienhygiene #Psychohygiene #Resilienz #Salutogenese
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Pittsburgh to block police cooperation with ICE
#goodnews-uspol-fuckice
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/08/pittsburgh-council-police-immigration-bill/89514752007/
>Listening to Unexplainable podcast, about a man using AI to communicate with his family b/c of ALS. It’s a hopeful and touching story… but the man also has a wicked sense of humour (Monty Python fan)…I cannot wonder if he consider borrowing John Cleese’s synthesized voice. Just occasionally of course.
Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds and thriving oases in the middle of the desert
#Erneuerbare #Renewable #GoodNews
ecoportal.net/en/solar-panels-…
The article published in Science has detailed how massive solar arrays in the Sahara Desert have started to trigger increased rainfall and vegetation growth.
They drastically lower the temperature around the sand that they sit on, effectively “greening” the desert. As the warm air around the panels has nowhere else to go but up, they naturally form massive rainclouds in a part of the world known for its dryness.
DATE: April 30, 2026 at 12:52AM
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#psychology #depression #goodnews #goodnewsthread #happy #happynews #SpreadJoy #PositiveVibes #CommunityLove #SpreadLight #goodnewnetworkorg #positivescience #science @goodnews
HOLY FUCK SCIENCE
"Brazil: "Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to those used in medical exams can eliminate viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 without damaging human cells.""
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ultrasound-rupture-covid-flu-viruses.html
Study: Ultrasound effectively destabilizes and disrupts the structural integrity of enveloped respiratory viruses.
Published: 13 February 2026
"Trans Americans with Canadian ancestry have been receiving expedited processing of their applications for Canadian citizenship certificates."
Good news, long overdue:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/firefighters-wear-n95-respirators-policy-change-rcna351438
The Forest Service announced Wednesday that firefighters were authorized to use N95 respirators on the fire line, a major policy reversal as the agency for decades did not allow such protections, even as studies demonstrated the health harms of wildfire smoke.
The Forest Service also announced that it is initiating a decontamination program designed to reduce firefighters’ skin exposure to the toxins in soot and ash. Workers will be paid for the time they spend washing clothes, cleaning their vehicles and showering after working on a fire.
The agency described the new policies as an interim step as it pursues a more robust protection program.
The announcement came as Congress increases its scrutiny of the agency’s protections for firefighters.
h/t @BakerRL75 @ai6yr
„#CHORSINGEN
Fünf Gründe, warum Sie in einem Chor singen sollten.
Gemeinsames #Singen macht glücklich.
Zahlreiche Forscher haben Belege dafür gefunden, dass #Gesang und #Gesundheit miteinander zusammenhängen: Bei Chorsängerinnen und -sängern entspanne sich zum Beispiel der Brustkorb und die Rückenmuskulatur, zudem gleichen sich die Herzfrequenzen der Singenden an.“
#chor #goodnews
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
Just got up, and my timeline is depressing at best. I like to believe good things happen too. Anyone who has a good story to share? I'll start.
For the past decade, a retired army officer has been restoring centuries old drains to prevent his city from flooding and refill the lakes in the neighbourhood during the monsoon.
TYGER, TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT 💎
I went looking for some good news again this morning.
I found a tiger.
Her name is Umit. It means HOPE.
On 31 July 2026, Kazakhstan released her into the wild beside Lake Balkhash, where tigers had disappeared more than 70 years ago.
And this wasn’t somebody just opening a cage and hoping for the best.
For more than a decade, people have been preparing the land. They created a protected nature reserve, restored habitat and water systems, brought back kulan, deer and wild boar, and worked to rebuild the prey base a tiger would actually need.
They also trained people to track the animals and deal with encounters between tigers and humans.
Then finally they brought in Umit, a wild Amur tiger from the Russian Far East, fitted her with a satellite collar...
...and opened the gate.
She walked out.
The tiger that originally lived there, the Caspian tiger, is extinct. But genetic research showed that Caspian and Amur tigers were extraordinarily closely related.
So this isn’t Jurassic Park.
It is something much more achievable and, to me, much more beautiful.
We damaged an ecosystem badly enough to lose one of its great predators.
Then people spent years repairing that ecosystem sufficiently to invite tigers back.
The plan is eventually to have about 50 wild tigers living beside Lake Balkhash again.
There is still plenty that can go wrong.
But this morning, somewhere in Kazakhstan, a tiger named Hope is walking through country where no wild tiger has walked for more than seventy years.
I think that deserves a little attention too.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#GoodNews #Tigers #Rewilding #Conservation #Kazakhstan #Habitat
