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This is why electrification means more energy security:

In 2024, ~81% of EU electricity came from locally sourced fuels (57% excluding nuclear). Just 19% relied on imported fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels are mostly imported.

Source @ember-energy.org

My LinkedIn feed shows me only 2 kind of posts:

- People looking for a job after they've been laid off.
- AI slop.

Our time sucks.

Screenshot of text from University of Edinburgh library services: Like many academic libraries, we have been experiencing slowness and outages on some of our open access platforms over the last few months. We have identified that this is the result of poorly behaved Gen AI crawling activity. As such we have had to try to disable the ability for AI -harvesters to access content from our repositories, via IP range blocking, geographical blacklisting, implementing limits to throttle bots and using robots.txt files to limit access. We acknowledge that this approach is not consistent with our open access policy which should require us to permit machine access to our content. Our limiting activity is not 100% fool-proof, and is a temporary measure to give services breathing space to perform while a longer termn solution is worked out by software providers and the community. This approach also has the added benefit of helping to assuage authors fear of losing control of their works.

The "AI revolution" in science is going so smoothly that my instititutional library is having to deploy multiple technical protection measures against "poorly behaved Gen AI crawling" just to maintain its timely service library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

The first paragraph from the AI overview from a Google search: Leftover spiced roasted cauliflower can cause "spice burps" due to a combination of cruciferous gases and, if used, hot spices like chili, cayenne, or raw garlic. These can typically be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3-4 days.

Thank you, Google AI, but no, I do not wish to store my "spice burps" in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3-4 days.

All of those esoteric questions about how we define consciousness are fine and interesting, but the tech companies are not pushing those questions as part of a quest to advance understanding. They want us believing they're making something powerful that we must accede our agency to.

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:

"The Greenlandic people have never felt threatened. The first time they felt unsafe for real is when an ally talked about acquiring them, buying them. It's outrageous."

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.

Trump revokes landmark EPA ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.

This is unbelievably reckless from Trump.

Undermining global climate action makes the world more dangerous & it’s alarming to see it being cheered on by Farage & Badenoch as they push the same myths about climate change.

The Government must call this out & defend international climate cooperation.

Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times Despite a lack of COVID-19 precautions implemented by the 2026 Winter Olympics organizers in Italy, some athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by mask...

The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes.

In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠

thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...

New paper,
The imaginary patient. Fantastic health data and where to find them
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science
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This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body

Do the people and institutions of countries outside the US do a better job of remembering Covid? Not just the early days of the pandemic but the fact that it's still out there, killing and disabling, and that there are millions of people it already disabled trying to survive among us?

We are being actively harmed for the sole purpose of helping AI companies convince investors that there is no AI bubble

UK government report on climate catastrophe: headline conclusion & link to the report:

'Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).'
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I'm old. I remember. The company's product used to be their product, not the company's stock.

But Steve Jobs would make an event out of launching actually-great tech products and then mint money, and the grifters have been trying to emulate that -- without the actually-great products -- ever since.

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle

futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

sharp political analysis and nearly fell off my chair laughing

In this age of social media where everything is 99% AI clickbait, advertising, n*zis, p*rn and spambots (and in many cases, AI clickbait advertising n*zi p*rn spambots), I would like to thank everyone who watched and shared this.

We are now facing the largest measles outbreak since the disease was eliminated from the United States over a quarter-century ago.

The science is clear: vaccines are the best way to protect against measles. The NIH Director admits it. Why won’t RFK, Jr.?

Bernie nailed it.

We have the power.

It keeps growing and inspiring others to join us in the fight for freedom.

Let's keep it up.

By doing so, we will win, and democracy will prevail. 💪🏻🇺🇲🗽

If the Brexit ref was held today, Remain would win by over 8 million votes💥 That huge majority comes from old Leavers dying, young pro-EU voters entering the electorate and millions changing their mind. It's time for the big parties to accept this reality and aim their policies toward #Rejoin 🇬🇧🇪🇺

chat gpt is a slightly more complicated autocomplete

JTBC not a psychosis because they are getting away with it and the culture then and now allows it pretty much; it's attached to reality they could abuse like this, it really happened, sadly; and we must contend with this

Matt Rosoff calls it a glorified autocomplete.