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Although having said that, even the eco-modernists seem like they would likely be frustrated by the Tesla statement, given how much it seems to be giving lip-service to their words while slow-walking any promise of implementation (not usually a Tesla hallmark!)
And tl;dr I guess I was more right to be skeptical than I knew.
Oh sure, it wasn't going to be /sui generis/. I guess the hyperlocal context to my very original comment is that some friends on here and I have been having a discussion about how useful the 'abundance' framing is to left-wing/progressive causes and I've been on the skeptical side.
Is fission a big part of the Klein & Thompson argument?
The ecomodernists look clearly part of the same intellectual milieu as Klein & Thompson, but, well, there's a lot of people who are part of that milieu, myself as a very junior member but nevertheless included.
& "The ethical and pragmatic path toward a just and sustainable global energy economy requires that human beings transition as rapidly as possible to energy sources that are cheap, clean, dense, and abundant."
"High-efficiency solar cells produced from earth-abundant materials are an exception and have the potential to provide many tens of terawatts on a few percent of the Earth’s surface." ...
Interesting. I'm a little bit skeptical of the connection you're drawing though, at least without digging more into the sources used by Klein & Thompson in their book. There's only two uses of 'abund-' in that document.
Some notable pull quotes: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party…” “I am not terribly optimistic…this is the most severe threat we’ve had to our system of government since the Civil War…” “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” 🎁🔗
Here's how you do it. Props to @nadler.house.gov, thank you for your many hard years of service, and I'm excited to see who succeeds him. Hand the baton to the next generation.
They can be good eating, I don't know how much so depends on the particular species
Well, his current residence is long overdue a new tenant, and turnabout is fair play. Evict the bastard already!
I both understand the... moral? ethical? theological? ... argument, and also... man, I'm hangin' by a thread here
Would you say more? I know it more or less solely from Ezra Klein's & Derek Thompson, or to be more honest the conversation surrounding it
Nope. Some guy died but it was mostly quiet
TIRED: Abundance (vague, non-actionable) WIRED: (something boring and progressive here) INSPIRED: Guillotine the rich and redistribute their wealth to the poor (concrete, actionable)
And note how busy they are to sell it as something hard to accomplish and far away
Impressive how quickly the ‘abundance’ frame got co-opted by the worst people in the world (maybe because it demands nothing of them)
Can't be any scarcity when no one wants what you're selling.
It’s gaslighting, in the classic sense. Of course the car can drive itself. It’s right there in the name. No the car can’t drive itself. Why would you ever say anything so ridiculous? Didn’t you read the owner’s manual?
I mean, who else would we build startups for or advertise them to ?
I just added this comment to my current project # Emerson! (“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
Blueskyrim
The only time I’m aware of that an adult ever pulled such strings ostensibly on my behalf and obviously it wasn’t about me at all
I still vividly remember the music teacher who pulled strings and got me a fourth chair spot in a regional honor band that I didn’t want and very much hadn’t earned
On-line, adj.: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer. —fortune(6)
I feel it, too, which makes it weird when people talk like it's the opposite.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
This coffee mug has been in heavy rotation on my Zoom calls lately www.etsy.com/listing/1710...
Clearly the next thing is to build my own prediction model somehow ;)
I have been graphing a couple different "official" forecasts against my own data which has been a fun, and why I wound up going with OpenWeatherMap's more local forecast for my general use rather than the NWS's forecast for JFK airport
That would fund a hell of a robotics team
this is, sadly, way outside my current expertise
There's currently a 5°F difference between the temperature sensors *at my house* (neither of which exactly agrees with an "official" OpenWeatherMap forecast)
In an ethnography of meteorology paper I use in my course, Gary Fine's Ground Truth, he talks about the fallacy of a single temperature/weather forecast representing an entire city
By definition, "quirks" AI does are *common*, because it's churning up shit from a database of existing real writing. Everything is so stupid.
Came here to say this
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
That they are good at catching associations with topics that wouldn’t be included in a straight classifier approach
Iiuc this is the whole genius of word embedding models
Isn’t the answer here in 2025 to figure out what the embedding vector of your specific topic is and use an LLM to search for that embedding vector in your corpus?
"the threat of homelessness is most acute not in the poorest regions of the country, but in the richest, fastest-growing ones. In places like these, a low-wage job is homelessness waiting to happen." There's no housing in Marin for those who earn less than $65K, which is more than most workers earn.
Impossible to overstate how good the production design is in this riff on ‘Treasure Of The Sierra Madre’
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I think we need better bottom line metrics for how fast a train system is than just maximum train speed. Maybe compare average trip time at noon to how long it would take to drive a car the same route at midnight. That way you capture the details that are too nitpicky for politicians.
AI guys: "Actually AI is a TOOL." Tool guys:
We lived in a yellow submersible And sailed the oceans traversable. Till Ringo, that rube, Climbed into a tube; The launch was, it seems, irreversible.
trying to recall what came after the pre-depression peak
The only saving grace is that it’s crypto so it can evaporate just as easily (and it’s more traceable than fiat, despite its initial marketing)
Most of the proposed sheriff reforms are designed to move sheriffs into more technocratic policing -- body cams, training, more qualifications, getting rid of elections, etc -- something sheriffs have proudly (if inconsistently) resisted. But there's not much evidence to suggest one is "better."
The debate is really over two visions of law enforcement: one is based on "race-neutral," technocratic policing that relies on "hot spots" and surveillance data. The other is brute force, street-smarts, never filling out paperwork. The problem is neither one works. www.vice.com/en/article/u...
“Biden: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A President That Isn’t Decomposing, Huh?’
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
The Republican voters are seeing their sadistic fantasies enacted before their eyes. This is what they voted for, let's not kid ourselves. This is the R equivalent of Biden enacting universal health care, free higher education and beer for everyone.
It's funny how starkly this correlates to who's President
Heyo! Good morning! It's Labor Day and that means this 17-mile protest along El Camino Real from #RedwoodCityCA to #SantaClaraCA is taking place.
We have tried many different ways of letting them be more configurable (ask me how much time I spent playing around with different window managers on Linux lolsob) and that was worse for most people
Pimsleur tapes are a godsend if you commute by car, bus, or rail. Absolutely perfect for that.
"eu sou engenheiro de prompt" e eu sou arquiteta de the sims
The whole AI industry right now
What designers think UX is: sick ass animations that tap into 300% of your CPU to perform the perfect element transition that's keyframed for the most delightful ease curve What UX is: make the text bigger and let people hold the thing
Wages have not kept up with costs, particularly housing costs, AT ALL
I've had good luck with a tutor found via Verbalplanet.com but I suspect the Pimsleur tapes are also quite good for learning on this timetable
One thing that’s come up a lot among those of us living amidst constant abductions by DHS agents is how many of us wish we spoke better Spanish. So. Maybe a way to prepare, for those of you who have like a month or two before it reaches you.
In all sincerity, President Trump is an elderly man who appears to be in the midst of a medical crisis and I hope that he's getting the best treatment that Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. have to offer.
Happy Labor Day everyone! ✊
lmao YOU LITERALLY TARIFFED LUMBER
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
I would always rather write for a small and engaged audience over a large and indifferent audience. (Especially when the small & engaged audience pays and lets me post it publicly.)
Billboard on Westwood, approaching UCLA.
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Talk about banning no-knock raids and midnight/early morning raids. Talk about policy process for coordinating local police in a wide threat zone. Stay on your local press to get them investigating police misconduct, because police misconduct erodes public safety. Do these in memory.
If you want to do something in the meantime, talk to your state legislators about legislation. Banning cop auctions, for example. Make cop shops pay for their own disposals or maintain their hardware better, rather than pocketing cash for their trash. Ban the sale of police-like clothing to public.
A reminder, since there’s a meme going around: there will be little or no further news about the Minnesota assassinations until close to or at trial. And this is good, because that’s how we serve justice. The killer is in custody, won’t be getting out, and the state won’t wreck the case by leaking.
At the Boston Labor Day parade
I would joke about PhD level intelligence but I’ve never known research code to bother much with tests usually
The 10x engineer we were promised
There are still some good people in America yet
It’s an excuse for our policy failure and it’s been our excuse for fifty years
To be sure this is also a thing West Coast people believe. My response is always that rain and hypothermia will kill you just as dead as a blizzard
you know what? i’m just pretending he’s dead from now on if they can force us to live in their nonsense false reality and base everything on it no matter the evidence? they can’t stop us from asserting he’s dead and enjoying it
I mean without any hard evidence to the contrary…
Except the teenager is like a Nazi special operations unit staffed by the Keystone Kops
There has already been one day after Trump. There will be another.
Having lived through a decade of harrowing events as a child, I'll say it's *good* to imagine the day you'll move beyond the reach of a cruel person—even if that moment won't fix everything. They want to convince you of your powerlessness, but that's not how this story ends.
Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.
…is there some joke here I’m missing?
This is like when someone sends you their CV for an industry job. “Sir, ma’am, we really just need your last three places of employment, there’s no way anyone’s reading your undergrad research papers for this interview”
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It’s gotten substantially easier. Depends on the appliance and nothing is perfectly drop-in but there’s lots of good options for retrofits. And even some that you can do as a tenant.
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
This.
Huge if true
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
I wonder if they’re the company behind all these “reply stop to opt out” emails I keep getting
Presumably that’s why they did it. Also perhaps unsurprisingly they don’t appear to have accomplished much except for putting out those ads and raising a bunch of VC money
No, no it doesn’t. Ask me how I know
Your child may resent for the rest of their life that you didn’t let them play games, but also they’ll have a well-paying IT career so they can buy their own damned games
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
When I was a part of the AI Task Force Committee for our Animation Negotiations, one of the good things we got was if someone is forced to use A.I., they still have to paid their full staff rate as-if they didn’t. A reminder: if A.I. is making your job harder and more tedious, clock in those hours.