Scott K. Johnson

court take tariff

generative AI but for generating lawsuits

DocuSign now has a giant pop-up "summarize this agreement with AI" button.

DOCUSIGN!

Hooooo lawd

'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that som...

SCOOP: Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year and has been praised by the press and the Trump administration, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good."

Self-Portrait (rotated), potential sketch for The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo, late 15th//early 16th c

I have more detailed thoughts on this coming soon, but this is not true, which is *one* part of why this sucks so much.

For some class modalities and levels? Sure. But not for others. It's teaching, it's not just a professional license exam taken in front of proctor.

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

www.carbonbrief.org/...

It's a sort of Idiocracy Fudrucker that clean coal started as a greenwashing euphemism for a potential technology to reduce coal emissions and now, having abandoned any illusion of ever using it, they just say "coal is clean".

No whale oil for the navy?

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

(but "montage of people working hard to learn things" was a hell of a choice)

OpenAI ad in the Super Bowl really sticking to the pets.com prophecy.

Please Clap 2: Olympic Please-Don't-Boo

From NOAA Satellites:

The arctic blast that put much of Florida into a deep freeze also created these mesmerizing cloud streets caught by bsky.app/profile/noaa.gov 's GOESEast.

Learn more in our #SatelliteSnapshot: bit.ly/3NVBiT5

Over 3,400 journalists were laid off in 2025

In fact, harnessing even a millionth of the Sun's energy would be more than 10,000 times more energy than human civilization uses today.

Cool.

Global electricity demand for data centers is projected to more than double by 2035 driven by growth in AI ― reaching approximately 1,200-1,700 terawatt hours and accounting for up to 4% of total worldwide electricity consumption. Building power plants and other terrestrial energy infrastructure at scale to maintain this additional power continuously on Earth will be extremely challenging.

Building those power plants and launching them into space isn't challenging?

By directly harnessing near-constant solar power with little operating or maintenance costs...

Low operating costs because it's solar? You could do solar on Earth.

Low maintenance costs because... it's impossible to ever touch it once you launch it.

Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization―one that can harness the Sun's full power―while supporting AI-driven applications for billions of people today and ensuring humanity's multi-planetary future amongst the stars.

The document (linked in the story) has a lot of silly in it.

GPUs also burn out and are obsoleted within years. On Earth, this e-waste can be recycled. In a SpaceX model, the e-waste management plan is to vaporize it in the atmosphere.

This is preposterous for so many reasons. The Starlink constellation is ~10k now, which is already an issue. (And they're about to beginning raining down regularly, as each only has a lifetime of a few years.)

SpaceX Eyes 1 Million Satellites for Orbital Data Center Push In a late Friday FCC filing, the company mentions deploying a staggering 'one million satellites' in orbits ranging from 500 kilometers to 2,000km.

I was just doing napkin math a couple days ago. A "hyperscale" data center could be 200MW, the ISS can generate ~200KW... it would take something like 8k Starlink-sized sats. So OpenAI's goal of adding 10GW of compute would take 400k. Guess I napkinned pretty well.

www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-...

"Sure! I can do that for you!"
*monkey paw curls*

(derogatory)

Thomas Paine in the
1st= Jerry Sloan & Jon Hamm
2nd= Joaquin Phoenix % Robert De Niro
3rd= bottom 1/2 Sir Ben Kingsley, top 1/2 Chris Collinsworth
4th= Liam Neeson morphing into McConaughey
5th= Sir Ben Kingsley licking a battery
6th= Phoenix & Justin Trudeau but the last 3 frames are skinny De Niro

Ben Franklin in the
1st shot = Anthony Hopkins
2nd shot = Kelsey Grammer
3rd shot = Dick Cheney and Kelsey Grammer
4th shot = top 1/3 Hopkins, middle Grammer, bottom 1/3 Kevin Spacey
5th shot = Bill Belichick and Peter Stormaare

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