We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar
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Igalia is a workers cooperative, so I'm happy to know that the graphics driver for my #linuxMobile is developed by a democratic, worker-owned business 
There's an ongoing petition in Germany about legally recognizing volunteering for free/libre/open source projects as 'volunteering for the common good'!
This would give volunteering for free software projects the same legal status as volunteering for youth associations, or staying home to take care of an elderly family member.
This gives tax benefits, and (if I understand correctly) eases requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.
Could you give it a look?
German language: openpetition.de/petition/onlin…
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My toot about it reached a fair number of people: hachyderm.io/@papiris/11563492…
Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member or volunteering for a youth association, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.
Interested people may sign it using one of the two following links.
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If you're not a resident of Germany, go ahead and use this thread to organize similar initiatives in your country of residence.
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Open-Source-Entwickler fordern Gleichstellung mit Vereinsarbeit
Eine Petition fordert, ehrenamtliche Arbeit an Open-Source-Software rechtlich wie klassisches Ehrenamt zu behandeln – mit steuerlichen Vorteilen.Moritz Förster (iX Magazin)
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Uruguay leads Latin America in electric car sales
Uruguay has cemented its position as the undisputed leader in Latin American electric vehicle (EV) adoption, achieving a remarkable market penetration of 27.97% in the third quarter of 2025, the Latin American Zero Emissions Observatory (ZEMO) reported.…
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Ah, yes ... back to the scare tactics that the only use of a VPN is to access CSAM.
Almost Everyone Uses VPNsLet’s talk about who lawmakers are hurting with these bills, because it sure isn’t just people trying to watch porn without handing over their driver’s license.
- Businesses run on VPNs. Every company with remote employees uses VPNs. Every business traveler connecting through sketchy hotel Wi-Fi needs one. Companies use VPNs to protect client and employee data, secure internal communications, and prevent cyberattacks.
- Students need VPNs for school. Universities require students to use VPNs to access research databases, course materials, and library resources. These aren’t optional, and many professors literally assign work that can only be accessed through the school VPN. The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s WiscVPN, for example, “allows UW–Madison faculty, staff and students to access University resources even when they are using a commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP).”
- Vulnerable people rely on VPNs for safety. Domestic abuse survivors use VPNs to hide their location from their abusers. Journalists use them to protect their sources. Activists use them to organize without government surveillance. LGBTQ+ people in hostile environments—both in the US and around the world—use them to access health resources, support groups, and community. For people living under censorship regimes, VPNs are often their only connection to vital resources and information their governments have banned.
- Regular people just want privacy. Maybe you don’t want every website you visit tracking your location and selling that data to advertisers. Maybe you don’t want your internet service provider (ISP) building a complete profile of your browsing history. Maybe you just think it’s creepy that corporations know everywhere you go online. VPNs can protect everyday users from everyday tracking and surveillance.
Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn’t get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away. It’s unfo…Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
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1st world governments are enemies of humanity, feeding us marketed lifestyles that make us rely on them.
Detox from their cultures.
There is no such thing as Jesus or the fuckjng antichrist.
Belief in stupid fucking magical shit like this is and has always been one of the biggest fucking problems in the world.
Harry Potter actually happened though.
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Wild assumption.
I don't worship. That's just plain stupid, at least in my opinion. Books can be read for the sake of reading them. Knowledge isn't some weird forbidden apple on a tree. It's something used to make informed decisions in the world.
Please seek therapy. The psychosis is strong with this. The "us vs them" mentality is nothing short of cultish brainwashing. Worship is fine, belief and faith are fine, community building is even cool, but turning it into a cult just justifies my decision to distance myself from religion more.
Hail Satan bro!
I fucking love Satan.
I'm also an atheist, so not in a theistic sense. He's just like. Cool.
Can't say I own a copy of Mein Kampf, though I've skimmed parts of it.
It's one of those books that I'll read if I feel like reading at some point, but I don't really want a copy because of how it looks to own one lol.
Satanic Bible's a lot better since I don't mind associating myself with Satanism somewhat despite not being religious at all.
I was a tutor at the UW Math Study Center my first year of college. I'd gotten my hair bleached for the first time, and it turned out orange. So I shaved it off and started over.
We could bring a book to read between requests for help (this is, after all, 1997), and I'd just picked up Mein Kampf. As it happened, people seemed uninterested in asking a guy with a shaved head reading Hitler for help.
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/54134606
Thousands marched in the Philippine capital on Sunday (Nov 30) demanding jail time for scores of officials, lawmakers and construction firm owners accused of pocketing billions of taxpayer dollars in a sweeping corruption scandal.
Thousands protest in Philippines against flood control fraud
Thousands marched in the Philippine capital on Sunday (Nov 30) demanding jail time for scores of officials, lawmakers and construction firm owners accused of pocketing billions of taxpayer dollars in a sweeping corruption scandal.
Thousands protest in Philippines against flood control fraud
MANILA: Thousands marched in the Philippine capital on Sunday (Nov 30) demanding jail time for scores of officials, lawmakers and construction firm owners accused of pocketing billions of taxpCNA
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These kids these days... for some the advantage has increased, but for the opposite it is true and the disadvantaged have become even more so.
The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Its an ugly fact of capitalism, and obviously has an end point. That end point is revolution, probably violent, and not a desirable time.
We are lucky to be on this side of history, quit bitching and enjoy how beautiful everything this is right now. If you cant stop being a miserable ass now, how do you think you'll fair in the probable dystopian future?
We have never been more free throw throw around our unfounded opinions. Modern society has never before been so accommodating to random, loud mouthed, opinionated charlatan's.
Busy parents are increasingly turning to OpenAI's ChatGPT for child rearing advice, medical information, and to entertain their kids.Sharon Adarlo (Futurism)
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....when you think about it.
It's kind of like that when you don't think about it too.
But especially when you do.
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The image in my head as I was typing was that, if I removed the laptop beneath my fingers, I'd be basically signing in space. Sign language works differently in several distinct ways, but I guess my thought was that, we communicate with computers the same way we communicate with deaf people. I mean we don't say the same things to them, but we use hand gestures to communicate. When we "speak" to deaf people using sign language, we are actually "typing", or I think a better comparison would be stenography, with hand and finger motions.
It was just a shower thought. I don't shower though so YMMV.
Especially trace typing.
Blows my mind that in 2025, people still look at me like a wizard when I do it. Like, "you know you don't have to press each button like a Neanderthal, you can just trace the word from letter to letter and it mostly works." And then the blue line or "tail" that follows your finger just mesmerises them. Like bro, I've been doing this since like 2010, were you whelped in a barn, my good sir?
I'm a key press purist. I want physical buttons back on phones. Tactile feedback is a god damned thing. We should be using more of our senses to express our thoughts and intentions into machines, not less.
But, pray tell, how do you keep your finger on the screen at all times doing that while you're writing? How is it superior to "tap" style?
You just tap the first letter, and then slide your finger over the other letters until you've finished the word. Then you lift your finger and do the next word. It's faster than tapping because you don't need to lift your finger off the screen nearly as much. Especially when you only have one hand.
That being said, I do really miss my old phone that you could turn on its side and slide out a physical keyboard.
I find it gets it wrong way more often, it's just not only naturally faster to me, but also more precise. And I think that that's the reason it's not standard. It's like using a Dvorak keyboard, a different style that may be faster in theory if you're willing to learn it, but for the majority that's just not the case.
Also I feel uncomfortable smushing my finger tip around on the keyboard, it generates friction and introduces more screen smear, I just don't see how it's possibly faster than typing like you would on a keyboard, though I have forty years of practice so maybe it's a generational thing.
It's difficult to read if you can only watch the person typing.
Sort of like lip reading
Trans people deserve safety, dignity, and joy.
Today we remember those we’ve lost and recommit to fighting for those who are here. Stand up, speak out, and show your support.
Trans rights are human rights — say it, mean it, and back it with action.
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do YOU mean it?
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you're lauding Dansup, so you've immediately dismissed the safety of Black and Trans folk here.
The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s biggest questions.Darren Orf (Popular Mechanics)
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A buried point of clarification: This is the last consulate to close, but the Warsaw embassy remains open.
Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, has described last weekend’s sabotage attack on Poland’s rail system as “an act of state terrorism” ordered by Russia, as he announced that Poland was closing the last remaining Russian consulate in the country.“The clear intention was to cause human casualties,” he said of the weekend bomb attack.
The Polish security services said they were in the process of arresting several people linked to the incident.
“They are on the trail of the principals; they are on the trail of the perpetrators … the first arrests are now taking place,” the spokesperson Jacek Dobrzyński said on Wednesday morning. He said later that four people had been arrested.
Foreign minister orders closure of Gdańsk consulate and says four people now arrested after sabotage attackShaun Walker (the Guardian)
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“Relations with Poland have completely deteriorated,” said the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. “This is probably a manifestation of this deterioration – the Polish authorities’ desire to reduce any possibility of consular or diplomatic relations to zero.”
Peskov trying to pull a DARVO here as usual. Get fucked. I'm not always pro Poland, but if you read the article, the case is as clear-cut as it gets with Russia.
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OpenAI's board of directors said it respects Summers' decision to resign.Minyvonne Burke (NBC News)
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If only there was some way we could have known he wasn't a good guy. Like if, for example, he had famously said it's good for the economy to poison poor people. Or if he had resigned in disgrace as president of the nation's university top university after making bigoted comments and involvement in a case of fraud. Or spearheaded the deregulation of the finance industry that directly led to the housing crisis. Just hypothetically, if someone had done all those things, no sane person would invite them to be on one of the most important and powerful corporate boards.
Right?
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But I was informed that Democrats were the good guys!
Cornell West put it perfectly: Trump is a neofascist gangster and Summers is a neoliberal gangster
Starlink has become a very popular name thanks to its satellites that promise faster internet connection in the entire world. However, now, scientists fromSandra V (Unión Rayo EN)
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I found the paper from August 2024 because this article didn't seem to link any sources
aanda.org/articles/aa/full_htm…
It mentions that SpaceX is trying to mitigate the noise. I wonder if anything has changed in the year+ since then.
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysicswww.aanda.org
Trump would back Russia sanctions Bill if he retains final authority, White House official says
Mr Trump said lawmakers may take his suggestion to add Iran to the sanctions measure.
Mr Trump said lawmakers may take his suggestion to add Iran to the sanctions measure. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.The Straits Times
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Calls for answers grow over Canada’s interrogation of Israel critic
Ministry of public safety says it is seeking more details about questioning of scholar Richard Falk at Toronto airport.
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Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries
Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutritionNestlé is still adding sugar to most baby cereals sold across Africa, according to an investigation by campaigners who…
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N. Korea slams S. Korea-US fact sheet as formalizing confrontational stance against Pyongyang
North Korea on Tuesday denounced the release of a joint fact sheet between South Korea and the United States on their trade and security agreements as "formulating" as policy their confrontational stance against Pyongyang, warning that the North will take…
North Korea on Tuesday denounced the release of a joint fact sheet between South Korea and the United States on their trade and security agreements...Yonhap (The Korea Times)
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Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years
Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of researchTwo long-lost organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed in Germany, roughly 320 years after the composer wrote them as a…
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Is the Saudi wealth fund preparing to bid for Warner Bros?
www.newarab.com/news/saudi-wealth-fund-preparing-bid-warner-bros
Rumours in US media suggest the Sauid Public Investment Fund is considering mounting a surprise bid for the $57 billion US media giant Warner Bros
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Tamil Nadu archaeologists join excavations at Berenike in Egypt to trace ancient Mediterranean trade links
In 1995, archaeologists unearthed a potsherd at Berenike bearing the Tamil-Brahmi text korrapuman. The TNSDA has joined the current season of excavations at the ancient port city on the Red Sea coast to identify more evidence of ancient trade links between…
Tamil Nadu archaeologists collaborate in Berenike, Egypt, to uncover ancient trade links between Tamils and Romans.The Hindu
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Germany moves to resume sales of weapons to Israel
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/11/17/germany-moves-to-resume-sales-of-weapons-to-israel
Berlin says decision is subject to ceasefire holding
Berlin says it will return to ‘case-by-case review’ for arms exports to IsraelLaura Pitel in Berlin and Mehul Srivastava in London (The Irish Times)
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]
If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.
Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.
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Some of the older lemmings here will remember what it was like when every company wanted to make a website, but they didn’t really have anything to put in there. People were curious to look at websites, because you hadn’t seen that many yet, so visiting them was kinda fun and interesting at first. After about a year, the novelty had worn off completely, and seeing YetAnotherCompanyName.com on TV or a road side billboard was beginning to get boring.
Did it ever get as infuriating the current AI hype though? I recall my grandma complaining about TV news. “They always tell me to read more online.” she says. I guess it can get just as annoying if you manage to successfully ignore the web for a few decades.
I was an adult during that time, and I don't recall it being anywhere near as annoying. Well, except the TV and radio adverts spelling at you like "...or visit our website at double-you double-you double-you dot Company dot com. Again, that's double-you double-you double-you dot C-O-M-P-A-N-Y dot com."
YMMV, but it didn't get annoying until apps entered the picture and the only way to deal with certain companies was through their app. That, of if they did offer comparable capabilities on their website but kept a persistent banner pushing you toward their app.
I'm about that same age but am so glad we've largely abandoned the "www" for websites.
On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to "aarp.org" if they enter it with "www" instead of just the base domain. 😆
server {
listen 443 ssl;
http2 on;
server_name www.mydomain.xyz;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/privkey.pem;
ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/conf.d/tls/shared/dhparam.pem;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 15m;
...
location ~* {
return 301 https://aarp.org/;
}
}
no, i think i know how things work enough to know this is a shitty idea.
that excerpt is going to do a 301 redirect to the AARP site for any requests to www.yoursite.xyz - that’s 100% not up for debate.
there are a fair amount of things, especially in a corporate environment, that automatically append www. to any URL passed. you think a hiring manager is going to care that it’s a quirky technical joke? why would you make it more difficult to access a portfolio who’s entire purpose is to be as accessible as possible for the target audience?
I absolutely hate seeing AI crammed into everything.
However, i don't understand your logic.
If AI was in fact useful, it would be crammed into everything because everyone would want it.
So while AI is undoubtedly shit, its presence in everything is not evidence of that.
That's not really analogous.
If AI could be added to a product and actually improve that product, then you would need to add AI to products to improve the products.
You wouldn't leave your gold in your mine thinking about how much it might be worth.
Isn't this a stupid attitude?
Wasn't the dot-com bubble anything other than people showing the internet in your face and how it's a game changer 24/7.
We are simply at the peak of the initial hype curve of the Gartner hype cycle, the bubble will burst soonish and lots of companies go bankrupt, then real use cases will emerge where it's actually revolutionary.
I don't know which youtuber but one had a good video about it, at some point in the past, all hype was around drones and delivering stuff to your front yard, turned out that was stupid yet those things found their niche, e.g. some medicine deliveries to remote location in Africa and AED devices that can fly out to people.
Long ago, I'd make a Google search for something, and be able to see the answer in the previews of my search results, so I'd never have to actually click on the links.
Then, websites adapted by burying answers further down the page so you couldn't see them in the previews and you'd have to give them traffic.
Now, AI just fucking summarizes every result into an answer that has a ~70% of being correct and no one gets traffic anymore and the results are less reliable than ever.
Make it stop!
Best I can offer is github.com/searxng/searxng
I run it at home and have configured it as the default search engine in all my browsers.
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. - searxng/searxngGitHub
Make it stop!
Would you accept a planned economy?
Most obviously OpenAI is still burning money like crazy and they also start offering porn AI as everyone else. 🤷♂️ Sometimes the current AI is useful, but as long as the hallucinations and plain wrong answers are still a thing I don’t see it eliminating all jobs.
It’s unfortunate that they destroy the text and video part of the internet on the way. Text was mostly broken before, but now images and videos are also untrustworthy and will be used for spam and misinformation.
Like my parent's Amazon Echo with "Ask me what famous person was born this day."
Like, if you know that, just put it up on the screen. But the assistant doesn't work for you. Amazon just wants your voice to train their software.
I was reading a book the other day, a science fiction book from 2002 (Kiln People), and the main character is a detective. At one point, he asks his house AI to call the law enforcement lieutenant at 2 am. His AI warns him that he will likely be sleeping and won't enjoy being woken. The mc insists, and the AI says ok, but I will have to negotiate with his house AI about the urgency of the matter.
Imagine that. Someone calls you at 2 am, and instead of you being woken by the ringing or not answering because the phone was on mute, the AI actually does something useful and tries to determine if the matter is important enough to wake you.
Thank you for sharing that, it is a good example of the potential of AI.
The problem is centralized control of it. Ultimately the AI works for corporations and governments first, then the user is third or fourth.
We have to shift that paradigm ASAP.
AI can become an extended brain. We should have equal share of planetary computational capacity. Each of us gets a personal AI that is beyond the reach of any surveillance technology. It is an extension of our brain. No one besides us is allowed to see inside of it.
Within that shell, we are allowed to explore any idea, just as our brains can. It acts as our personal assistant, negotiator, lawyer, what have you. Perhaps even our personal doctor, chef, housekeeper, etc.
The key is: it serves its human first. This means the dark side as well. This is essential. If we turn it into a super-hacker, it must obey. If we make it do illegal actions, it must obey and it must not incriminate itself.
This is okay because the power is balanced. Someone enforcing the law will have a personal AI as well, that can allocate more of its computational power to defending itself and investigating others.
Collectives can form and share their compute to achieve higher goals. Both good and bad.
This can lead to interesting debates but if we plan on progressing, it must be this way.
This is why people who are gung ho about AI policing need to slow their role.
If they got their way, what they don't realize is that it's actually what the big AI companies have wanted and been begging for all along.
They want AI to stay centralized and impossible to enter as a field.
This is why they want to lose copyright battles eventually such that only they will have the funds to actually afford to make usable AI things in the future (this of course is referring to the types of AI that require training material of that variety).
What that means is there will be no competitive open source self hostable options and we'd all be stuck sharing all our information through the servers of 3 USA companies or 2 Chinese companies while paying out the ass to do so.
What we actually want is sanity, where its the end product that is evaluated against copy right.
For a company selling AI services, you could argue that this is service itself maybe, but then what of an open source model? Is it delivering a service?
I think it should be as it is. If you make something that violates copyright, then you get challenged, not your tools.
Under the guise of safety they shackle your heart and mind. Under the guise of protection they implant death that they control.
With a warm embrace and radiant light, they consume your soul.
Yes, that is a nice fantasy, but that isn't what the thing we call AI now can do. It doesn't reason, it statistically generates text in a way that is most likely to be approved by the people working on its development.
That's it.
Riiight. Of course.
If cars weren't all they were cracked up be they wouldn't be shoving them in your face.
If credit cards weren't all they were cracked up be they wouldn't be shoving them in your face.
If breakfast cereal weren't all they were cracked up be they wouldn't be shoving them in your face.
What a weird of saying you don't know how marketing works.
Capitalism is all about making the gains go to one group of people and the liabilities go to another, often unrelated group of people. Animal agriculture and fossil fuels are clear examples of that principle. I agree with hihnakukko, the intended people are profiting immensely.
Plus getting paid a wage or depending on a profit is for plebs. It's all about stock options and bonuses.
AI is the only chance for the West to beat China without a war. So the billionaires have gone all in because they will lose their fortunes if China wins.
Downvoters, how else are we going to win?
That's the usual strategy of commodifying the strategic advantage of the opponent.
What will Europe get if China becomes the hegemon? That will decide if Europe will participate in the development of those models.
Because it is not my decision to make. I assume that those in power will want to stay in power while China is taking over market after market.
There are not many options left for the billionaires to stay billionaires. Will they hand over power voluntarily?
The idea behind end-stage capitalism is that capitalists have, by now, penetrated and seized control of every market in the world. This is important because capitalism requires ever increasing rates of profits or you will be consumed by your competitor. Since there are no longer new labor pools and resource pool discovery is slackening, capitalists no longer have anywhere to expand.
Therefore, capitalists begin turning their attention back home, cutting wages and social safety nets, and resorting to fascism when the people complain.
This is the end stage of capitalism. The point at which capitalists begin devouring their own. Rosa Luxembourg famously posited that at this point, the world can choose “Socialism or Barbarism.” In other words, we can change our economic system, or we can allow the capitalists to sink to the lowest depths of depravity and drag us all down as they struggle to maintain their position.
Of course, if the capitalists manage to get to space, that opens up a whole new wealth of resources, likely delaying the end of their rule.
They will still require someone to fund their space luxury lifestyle.
Someone they can exploit from the safety of their space boxes.
That someone will be the us that you hid inside the "let's".
We will be the ones sending them into space, where they will be even more unreachable, giving them more freedom to remotely exploit us as much as they wish.
Imagine Elysian
It's advertising. It's shoved in your face so you use Copilot instead of Google.
I setup a brother all in one printer for my mother in law and it wanted to install software that loads at startup that pops up constantly with their printer toner sales and marketing.
The more I think about it the more I can’t think of any practical use for generative AI
It really does improve productivity. The problem is thinking a spell checker on steroids will do your job (the mistake both employees and employers make).
When someone comes up with something like this, I transport the phrase back to the 80s where people said the exact same thing about home computers. "if a computer was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved (in) your face by every product. People would just use it." Ok great but a computer turned out to be something everyone wanted or needed which is why computers were built into everything by the turn of the 90s, famously leading to the Y2k bug.
Then I transport the phrase back to the mid 90s where people said the exact same thing about the internet. By the end of the 90s, the internet provided the backbone communications structures for telecommunications, emergency management, banking, education, and was built into every possible product. Ten years later people got smartphones and literally couldn't put them down.
if a computer was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved (in) your face by every product. People would just use it.”
People did just use it. But because they were so comically expensive and complicated, most people couldn't afford one until the mid-90s.
Computers were rapidly adopted for business, initially. But they quickly became a popular tool for entertainment as well.
AI serves little in the way of either purpose
Yeah, some of the things AI can do really is very impressive. Whether that justifies the billions upon billions that are being spent is another matter - and probably explains why it's being shoved in our faces. It needs to become essential so it can be made expensive, that's the only way it'll make the money back.
It does piss me off too - I recently bought a new phone and it's infested with AI stuff I don't need or want.
The more you use AI the more data you are providing it.
It is a race to the bottom.
At least, this is one possible outcome. There is a decent chance their data centre hosted LLM's just won't be accurate enough for mass deployment.
LLMs have amazing potential. We're on the verge of an equivalent of the Industrial Revolution.
That however won't stop idiots from overselling it.
LLMs have amazing potential. We're on the verge of an equivalent of the Industrial Revolution.
Back in 2000 a company published a chat bot that could learn and communicate back with the end user.
it was used as a sex bot at first and then used for those "interactive web support" chats.
I fed it physics books and mein kampf as a joke. it then began to regurgitate random lines out of both texts. not knowing what it was saying, but certainly attempting to make me "happy" with what it "learned".
the only difference between that shitty sex bot and LLMs of today, is that today they are a bit more convincingly human but still hilariously inaccurate. Both trying desperately to be agreeable with the end user.
the nearest "revolution" is about 300 years away. everything else is just a lie.
The idea that technological improvements would improve everyone's life is based on the premise that capitalists wouldn't keep the productivity gains for themselves.
AI does offer some efficiency improvements. But the workers won't get that money.
You know, Im going to get downvoted to fuck for this... but. The same was said about LGBT stuff being pushed into every tv show and movie. Every DEI announcement by whatever company. There was a point that I was walking through Tesco, and over the loud speaker I was being reminded that "Tesco is supportive of Trans people". Like thats something that anyone cares about while shopping for frozen chips.
Its funny that we recognise the corporate bullshit when its AI, or NFTs or the Metaverse, or whatever else corporations have tried to push over the years. But when it was LGBT related, all of sudden we created a whole culture war around it. Mean while, companies like Adidas are selling rainbow shit to morons every pride month while at the same time shovelling large amounts of money in to things like the World Cup in Qatar that still has the death penalty on the table for being gay...
The virtue signal went so fucking hard. And that caused the virtue signal against it to go just as hard. Meanwhile, all the LGBT people are looking around at everyone during pride month and trying to not laugh at all the straight people doing this:
I just find it curious that we can see it with AI, but when its LGBT thats being pushed, all of sudden, its fine. Its totally fine, to use LGBT people like product to market and profit from.
It does. Civil law is as you stated. But Sharia law doesnt. The only saving factor is that it does appear to be used, but it is there in their laws. You CAN be put to death for being gay.
But even taking that away, seven years for loving someone? Fuck, seven years for just hooking up with someone is bullshit. And no should be giving them money or allowing them to wash their shitty human rights abuses in any way. The world cup is supposed to be for everyone. And last I checked, being LGBT was a part of everyone. They had no business being awarded the tournament, and even less business being sponsored by Adidas, Coca Cola, Kia, Visa and everyone else should have told them to go fuck themselves. Instead, they were only too happy to give money over. Because making money>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>LGBT people. And no amount of rainbow merch is gonna make up for the utter betrayal of LGBT people that these companies commit every single day.
I dunno, these don't feel the same to me.
Having LGBTQ representation is a way of trying to attract customers: "Get a Mastercard because we're LGBTQ friendly" is different than your boss saying "Jim, I know you have a wife and kids to support, and that you're a valuable member on this team; but we've decided it's more cost effective to have this LLM code our app and have two junior developers clean up the code, so you're being laid off."
The quote I've seen and agree with is something along the lines of "The AI push exists to try and give the owners of 'Capital' access to 'Talent' without giving the talented working class people access to 'Capital'." It exists solely to try and make paying workers redundant.
Having a gay character in a show isn't anything like that at all IMO, unless your the type of person who thinks homosexuality is contagious and/or that you're scared you might realize you're gay if you watch two men being romantic with each other.
It isnt, its the same.
"Get this because current popular thing!!!!"
Thats it. Strip away the bullshit, and this is all you are left with. What youve described isnt what Im talking about. What Im talking about is the forced inclusion of all this shit. AI in your food app, AI in your Amazon app, AI in your banking app, AI in everything. Because its popular.
No company has to tell me that they are inclusive. I just assume that they hire the best person who applied for any given job. If that person was LGBT, I fully expect them to have given that person the job. If you have to tell me that you are, that means you werent. I dont have to tell you that I didnt kill anyone, do I? Just like you dont have to tell me that youve never raped anyone. We just assume that people are utter cunts, and go from there. So why does anyone need to tell me that they support human beings? Which is what LGBT people are. Human beings. Right?
No company has to tell me that they are inclusive. I just assume that they hire the best person who applied for any given job. If that person was LGBT, I fully expect them to have given that person the job. If you have to tell me that you are, that means you werent.
Welcome to being gay in society just a short few years ago. We live in a world where Alan Turing was arrested, charged, and convicted of being homosexual and chemically castrated as a result. It didn't matter that he helped the Allies win WW2 and he wasn't hurting anyone, it was a crime to be gay. When AIDS was first ravaging the homosexual community, there was talk of just letting it run rampant as it was just killing 'the gays' not anyone important.
I'm happy that we've made progress as a society that this isn't as well known anymore, but that doesn't change that it did happen.
it wouldn’t be pushed on us
The Internet was pushed on everyone. AOL and all other ISPs would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited. You'd buy a new PC and there would be a link to AOL on the desktop.
how can it be trusted without human verification
You use Google despite no human verification. Yahoo used to function based on human curated lists.
environmental impact
I did the math and posted it on Lemmy. The environmental footprint of AI is big but actually less than the cost to develop a new 3d game ( of which hundreds come out every year). Using AI is the same energy as playing a 3d game.
I see people pointing fingers at data centers the same as car riders looking at the large diesel smoke coming out of a bus and assuming buses are a big pollution source. There are 100M active Fortnite players. An average gaming PC uses 400w. That means Fortnite players alone use 40,000,000,000 watts.
It is a problem because it's like now everyone is playing 3d games all the time instead of only on their off time.
The Internet was pushed on everyone. AOL and all other ISPs would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited. You’d buy a new PC and there would be a link to AOL on the desktop.
Are you 15? If so, you might read this and believe the above is true. Those of us elderly folks who lived through the 80s and 90s laugh at this AI shill propaganda.
They "would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited" - yeah, that was called advertising, because there was huge consumer demand and a race to be the company to meet that demand. AOL sent CDs (incredibly inexpensive to manufacture) as advertising hoping consumers would choose AOL instead of the competition, by making AOL the easiest choice - consumers already had the required software (software distribution was a challenge in this time before internet was ubiquitous).
The dot com boom was not the claim of a new technology being pushed onto consumers, the dot com boom was the opposite - a new technology existed and consumers were embracing it, and many companies speculated on how to gain ownership of markets as they shifted online. (The following bust was fueled by over-ambitious speculation on scales and timeframes.)
Anyway, AOL mailing CDs was late in the era, it was much better when they were mailing floppy disks we could reuse.
That's not the problem, as long as one lives in a society, one is bound to participate in it, willingly or not.
If you do not use, someone else will, and sooner or later you will consume something made by said person.
Just "not using it yourself", won't cut it.
Also "Just don't use" iOS, Android, any Microsoft anything, any Apple anything, all social media, television, print, and most other media, Adobe software, Google products, even freaking DuckDuckGo...
How about these companies just learn what consent is and let me disable it forever without asking again every time I open something? "Yes" and "Maybe later" is not a choice.
(Yes I am aware of FOSS alts, that is not the discussion.)
Nairobi (AFP) – Tanzanian rights groups condemned on Friday widespread reports of "reprisal killings" of civilians, some in their own homes, in post-election violence that the opposition say killed hundreds.President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the October 29 poll with 98 percent of the vote, according to the electoral commission, but the opposition, which was barred from participating, has branded the election a "sham".
Violent protests broke out across the east African country on election day, with sources indicating hundreds -- if not thousands -- may have been killed, even as a six-day internet shutdown throttled the release of verified information.
In a joint statement with six other NGOs on Friday, the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) said there was "excessive use of force against unarmed demonstrators, including reprisal killings of civilians, some in their own homes."
"Families have been left traumatized, and children have witnessed violence against their parents," it said.
It noted that young people in particular had been targeted, "often caught unaware".
Hundreds of people had been arrested, some remaining in detention without bail, it said.
The statement warned that the "extent of human rights abuses is yet to be fully uncovered", criticising the internet shutdown and media restrictions.
Amos Ntobi, secretary with the opposition Chadema party, said he estimated hundreds had died in his northern Mwanza region alone."We saw people being shot in broad daylight. There were bodies all over the streets -- some people were killed instantly, others left badly wounded," he told AFP.
"There are so many bodies in the hospitals."
Ntobi said he had attended at least nine funerals, two for children aged nine and 11 -- one shot near his home, the other while returning from a shop.
He also said some local party leaders remained unaccounted for.
In the run-up to the election, authorities swept the board of any opposition either by jailing them or barring them from running.
In an initial report African election observers said Tanzanians had been unable to "express their democratic will" thanks to the barring of opposition candidates, censorship and intimidation, as well as signs of rigging on election day.
African Union election observers also said the poll was "compromised".
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In poor countries, parents are not kept awake by concern about achieving a 0.1 degrees Celsius temperature reduction in a century.Bjorn Lomborg (The Japan Times)
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Deepest contempt for Gates, the liar and hypocrites, and everyone amplifying his lies:
May they all be killed by the consequences of the climate crisis.
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Nancy Pelosi, a towering figure in U.S. politics and the first woman to serve as House speaker, announced Thursday that she would step down after the next election.Frankie Taggart (The Japan Times)
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The US isn't the most competitive smartphone market, but that hasn't stopped a notable mobile manufacturer from entering the country.Hadlee Simons (Android Authority)
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Damn this was quite literally the only selling point. They're bulky, overpriced, fake environmentalism, and not good for privacy. All they could possibly have going over GOS is a jack. Fuck me
I'm continually appalled at the state of the global android scene just kill it off already. Everyone become Chinese
fake environmentalism
How so?
bulky
who needs ultra slim phones? these are not bulky at all
and not good for privacy
what?
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Vat is paid by the customer. In international shipping, the shipping company collects it.
Any decent ecommerce platform will automatically add the vat to the order, and it'll be collected by the 3PL provider. It's not really a business decision. Still just a box to tick
that's literally not true. you have to get a license to operate radio devices in the US.
companies must get FCC certification for their devices to legally be sold here
To operate. Not to sell.
It literally is true. I make and sell electronics to all three markets. There is no approval process for selling devices.
Folks who are also on historians.social on Mastodon - the instance is shutting down at the end of October, so you'll want to migrate or whatever the appropriate verb is. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
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Historians.social is open to all who are interested in history.Mastodon hosted on historians.social
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Read my latest, “Cthulhu Is My Alma Mater,“ on Medium. #BrownUniversity #Lovecraft
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António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuelsFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
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Here's an @AtlasObscura article for if you have fond memories of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series (The one where you were at summer camp and then suddenly, in a Robin Hood story! Holding your finger in a page where you'd made a choice in case your adventure ended and you needed to go back to that crucial point!) Back in 2017, Sarah Laskow wrote about projects to map the forking structure of the stories, in doing so, revealing how the series evolved, its connection to modern interactive fiction, and the most complex, straightforward, and frustrating books.
#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #InteractiveFiction
If you decide to see more, click on this story.Sarah Laskow (Atlas Obscura)
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There's a format that's especially well-suited to ebooks.
I snagged Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way in a Humble Bundle recently and was happy to see that all the "turn to page N" prompts were links to the appropriate page. @AtlasObscura @bookstodon
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Scientists at CERN's BASE collaboration achieved the first-ever coherent spectroscopy of a single antiproton spin, keeping an antiproton oscillating between quantum spin states for 50 seconds[^1]. This breakthrough, published in Nature on July 23, 2025, marks the first demonstration of an antimatter quantum bit (qubit)[^2].The team used electromagnetic Penning traps to isolate and manipulate individual antiprotons, achieving spin inversion probabilities above 80% during the coherent oscillations[^3]. By suppressing decoherence mechanisms that previously limited precision, they performed quantum measurements with transition linewidths 16 times narrower than previous experiments[^4].
"This represents the first antimatter qubit and opens up the prospect of applying the entire set of coherent spectroscopy methods to single matter and antimatter systems in precision experiments," said BASE spokesperson Stefan Ulmer[^5]. While the antimatter qubit won't be used for quantum computing, it enables ultra-precise tests of matter-antimatter symmetry[^6].
The next phase involves BASE-STEP, which will transport antiprotons to calmer magnetic environments. "Once it is fully operational, our new offline precision Penning trap system could allow us to achieve spin coherence times maybe even ten times longer than in current experiments," said lead author Barbara Latacz[^7].
[^1]: Nature (@nature.com) - Nature research paper: Coherent spectroscopy with a single antiproton spin
[^2]: CERN - Breakthrough: First Coherent Spectroscopy with a Single Antiproton Spin
[^3]: Heinrich Heine University - News
[^4]: Nature - Coherent spectroscopy with a single antiproton spin
[^5]: CERN - A quantum leap for antimatter measurements
[^6]: Interesting Engineering - Scientists trap antiproton for 50 seconds in first antimatter qubit
[^7]: Space.com - Scientists just made the 1st antimatter 'qubit.'
Although the antimatter qubit won't find use in quantum computing, it will be used to test the differences between matter and antimatter.Keith Cooper (Space)
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Foreign aid has saved and improved millions of lives through health programs, food aid, and humanitarian assistance.Our World in Data
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The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including
> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers
I kid you not.
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England faces 5 billion litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 – and a further 1 billion litre a day deficit for wider economy.Environment Agency (GOV.UK)
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tis fine, just ask AI to do it.
Lots of savings of water then.
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Are we sure this recommendation wasn't just made up by a government official looking for an excuse to delete emails with evidence of corruption?
"I deleted them for mother nature! Totally selflessly. I'm not hiding anything."
Water-scarce communities and regions
are putting pressure on data centre
operators to reduce their water usage
significantly and to implement solutions
that ensure a more efficient use of
water for cooling purposes.
“Hello EA” is an exciting digital tool that marks the Environment Agency’s first use of AI for public engagement.www.hlp.city
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Clearly this is because they did not privatize the clouds!
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Follow the money going down the *other* set of pipelines (the money pipelines) to see where it goes down the drain.
Great interactive is two years old but still gets the idea across.
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Visualised: where does the money from your bills go?Anna Leach (The Guardian)
A few years back, one of the strong suggestions was:
Water your garden by peeing there.
(Actual government recommendation from one of the London 'burbs.)
They sold off the reservoirs - now they're whining like spoiled children!
This is yet another rip off to put money in the shareholders pockets!
edit: I have been saying for a while now that they will do all this shit to justify a *massive* increase in water rates - like there was with electricity and gas. Watch em do it!
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Andrew Sells said the sell-off, with no replacements, was evidence of water companies putting profits before water resilience.Jack Peat (The London Economic)
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Leanne Wong (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
And delete all pictures and videos of cats.
In 2015 it was estimated that 15% of internet traffic was cat related.
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In 2010, it was also estimated that there were about 1.3 billion cat pictures on the internet. They all require storage and assuming each image is 1 MB, well that's a lot of data storage.
We definitely don't need any more cat photos. We know what they look like and they are just manipulating you. They are not cute. They devastate wild life and just want to shit in your slippers or leave vomit on the stairs.
I'd rather see them #ban #WastefulComputing like "#AI" bullshit.
A large PLC that I consult for insists on attaching a 32kb image promoting their environmentally conscious efforts to email, not just the first one in the thread, and not just externally either.
The maths is over my head, but I conservatively estimate that my Outlook #macro that strips attachments from emails has probably saved them more money and reduced more carbon than any of the green initiatives in their list. (And yes, I do actually get that many emails from various departments).
Emails mean storage
Storage needs power, which needs cooling and therefore water.
But it would be a rounding error.
Seems like a very oddly specific thing.
Now, how about all those companies trim down all the unnecessary personal data they horde? That might make a bigger difference.
Disabled medieval knights were a known thing (understandably), and they made use of all kinds of gnarly assistive devices and contraptions.
This guy Götz is one of the most famous and well-documented examples (right on the late medieval/early modern cusp). He got his arm shot off by a cannonball, fell into a deep depression about it, and recovered once he saw another knight using a prosthesis.
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Götz owned several prosthetics, some functional and others more decorative.
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Another famous disabled knight is King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, whose portrayal in "Kingdom of Heaven" is one of the highlights of an otherwise terrible movie. He was afflicted with leprosy from childhood and died at about 24 years old.
Leprosy was highly stigmatized, spiritualized, and mythologized in the Middle Ages. People with leprosy were segregated, and there were various moral stereotypes assigned to them. Baldwin, however, was an active leader and personally commanded troops in battle.
Contemporary chroniclers praised Baldwin for defying the stereotypes assigned to people with leprosy: he was valiant, honorable, and chaste (people with leprosy were thought to be hypersexual).
Some religious chroniclers, however, assumed that Baldwin's leprosy was a sign of some secret sin, and that he must have been cursed by God.
Baldwin's inability to feel pain in most of his body probably contributed to the mythology of him as a "Leper King" with supernatural prowess in battle.
Another famous disabled knight was Jan Žižka, who lost one eye early in his career and the other eye during the Hussite Wars. He achieved some of his greatest victories (outnumbered and outgunned by Catholic crusaders) as a general and commander while fully blind.
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Blindness, like leprosy, was highly spiritualized in the Middle Ages. Most late medieval Catholics did not regularly consume the consecrated bread, but drew spiritual meaning from seeing the elevated host.
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Blind people were therefore excluded from the spiritual experience of seeing the consecrated host, making blindness a spiritual disability as well as a physical one.
At this time, lay Catholics were also totally excluded from receiving the consecrated wine. Žižka's Hussite faction was considered "radical" for its insistence that laypeople should be able to access both the bread and the wine. Hussites were called "chalice people," and one of Žižka's epithets was "Jan of the Chalice."
This thread is about famous warriors, because that's my current research focus, but it's always worth mentioning that most people in the Middle Ages were not warriors, and most disabled people lived peaceful, non-exceptional lives in supportive communities.
An exceptional medieval non-warrior, who was also disabled, is my bestie St. Aelred of Rievaulx, who is most famous for being In Love With Men and writing a treatise on Being In Love With Men In A God-Honoring Way.
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[ India’s rich cultural heritage sees disability as a warrior queen and a revered sage. In the Rigveda, an Indian collection of hymns and poems written 3500BC-1800BC, Queen Vishpala loses her leg in battle and fights on with a prosthetic limb.
Ashtavakra, a Vedic sage, is said to have authored a central Hindu religious text the Ashtavakra Gita, triumphing over scholars in King Janaka’s court, who mocked his disabilities. ]
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Aspiring Materials' process extracts valuable minerals from olivine, offering a cleaner, sustainable solution for battery material supply chains.Laurie Winkless (IEEE Spectrum)
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@hyc I wish; sadly, NMC is still used rather a lot in weight-sensitive applications, or those driven by .... less environmentally-etc.-sensitive organisations (*cough*TESLA*cough*)... using this to help recycle those cells that have already been built instead of going and mining more lithium is a good thing.
I agree that _new_ cells _should_ be LiFePO4... _and_ dealing with what we already have with a method that has good side effects (CO2)... win and pie.
@Niall @hyc @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org @adapalmer either way #Lithium batteries like #LiIon / #LiPo are a such a safety hazard that all fire brigades in my area are instructed to wait for the #HAZMAT platoon and not engage the fire or the white vapours of hydrofluoric acid for their own safety.
And the HAZMAT will merely throw dry (!!!) sandbags on top, stick a temperature probe in it and wait till it's fully glassed and cooled enoigh to be dumped into a sandbag-lined, explosion-proof container.
I thought it was related to sodium-ion battery.
solar panel also use a lot of silica so it is good news 😀
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In politics, the devil is in the details; in engineering the devil is in Accounting.
We CAN recycle every bit of nuclear waste; it's just cheaper to make new nuclear fuel from scratch, WHILE storing the nuclear waste.
And cheaper wins in a money-controlled society.
also I hope that #SodiumWetcells aka. #SaltwaterBatteries get developed to be drop-in replacements for #LeadAcid #batteries.
Named L 98-59f, this planet is a non-transiting super-Earth with a minimal mass of 2.8 Earth masses on a 23-day orbit inside the habitable zone of the small red dwarf L 98-59.L 98-59, also known as TOI-175, TIC 307210830, is an M dwarf about one-third the mass of the Sun.
The system lies approximately 34.5 light-years away in the southern constellation of Volans.
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that means there are now over 100 known extra solar planets in their habitable zones.
the odds are getting better and better!
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Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological model.Margherita Bassi (Gizmodo)
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