Charles

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

If you want a simple, well explained breakdown of why sustainable energy sources, and specifically solar, make sense in every way possible, this is excellent.

It is American-focussed, including a passionate political rant at the end.

#SpeirGorm #ClimateChange

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This is
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service

This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street

YouTube video by Jonasquin One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson

I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...

John Gibbons: Saying nuclear power is better for the environment than solar is ludicrous The idea that intensive dairy farming is some kind of pastoral idyll with no impact on the environment has been allowed to take hold to the point that serious people are now suggesting nuclear reactor...

My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Tea cosies of Michael D Higgins and Catherine Connolly

Your reminder that people who knit and crochet are artists. Generally women whose work is devalued - artists all

You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.

Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’ Award-winning but initially controversial building has become Ireland’s busiest public library

Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’

"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."

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Waiting for Godot on Broadway | Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter star in Waiting for Godot on Broadway. Directed by Jamie Lloyd. Previews begin Sept 13 at the Hudson Theatre. Don’t miss it.

New York has come up with the only thing that would make me sad not to visit the US.
godotbroadway.com

Just pre-ordered, thanks for the heads up!

Shout-out to my fellow Gen-Xers, out here in our 50s with clothes that say we're 25 and knees that think they're 90.

The only reason I don't have a T-shirt with "I need to check the perimeter" on it is I want to wait for an official one if at all possible.

Keenan Crane (@keenancrane@mathstodon.xyz) Attached: 1 image Fun new paper at #SIGGRAPH2025: What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10...

@glynnstewart.com I saw this and for reasons I thought you should know about it.

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I want this! Can you share?

Went to pre-order and discovered I already had back in may last year!

Oh and PS thanks for the Valkyrie Stratagem, made my usual mistake of finishing it far too quickly now I’m once again waiting for your next to drop. It’s probably just as well there’s no 12 step program for Glynn Stewart addiction.

Seems to me this is a great example of how tech provides too much information. In an analogue world that information just wouldn’t be available and we’d have all been better off not having that certainty. Human ambiguity can be a good thing.

Horizon Zero Dawn definitely got it right that a malignant tech billionaire with main character syndrome would kill the world

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

I presume that makes it mandatory to install proper L2 chargers, no L1 plugs, no suspect extension wiring, decent fire safety etcetera? Basically do it properly and do it to a code?

The regulations - Charging of electric cars in housing associations and condominiums — The electric car wholesaler On 4 December 2020, the Norwegian Parliament adopted changes to the Housing Associations and Owners Section Act. This means that residents who have the right to park on the property of the housing ass...

You might already know this but a big part of how Norway sped up adoption was laws ensuring that apartments couldn’t refuse to allow charger installations. Renters and owners both have the right to install chargers. www.elbilgrossisten.no/en/pages/reg...

I see the new programme for government gets in bed further with data centres 🙄. Given how weak Ireland's energy supply is and how beholden already to these secretive energy hogs, its only a matter of time til there's a public energy reckoning & this turns into an angry public issue

If you want to emphasis the academic nature of the job then scholar, if you want to draw attention to the stereotype of what the job does then digger.

Void Digger, Void Scholar? I’d prefer digger personally.