Jon Neal

This Low-Tech Solution Cut Ship Emissions by Up to 24% A digital OpenTable-style reservation system helped Los Angeles ports reduce vessel congestion and pollution.

New: Technology to cut carbon emissions from giant ships that transport 80% of the world's trade in goods tends to be complex and costly. But the pandemic led the Los Angeles ports to create a low-cost queuing system with a big impact on emissions. Free link.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Some takeaways:

--Even Republicans nervous about losing jobs got in line.
--The bill, as written, doesn't just de-incentivize EVs but makes owning one more expensive.
--Automakers are likely thrilled that California's waiver is in the crosshairs.
--China isn't slowing down. But now, we are.

Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth.

He couldn’t, so he created grok.

Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.

I love how famous @aukehoekstra.bsky.social is by now:

Jesse Peltan:
"Every year, the Auke Hoekstra chart just keeps getting better."
🌞🌞🌞
#alwaysbecharging

Our #MBARIFromTheVault series comes to a close with an animal that needs no introduction. MBARI researchers last encountered the giant phantom jelly in November 2021 during a dive in Monterey Bay. While exploring the midnight zone, this ghostly giant emerged from the darkness.

The only thing you need to know about the universe we live in is something can sit in a drawer for literally 20 years, and just get in the way when you're looking for other things, and then when you need it, it's nowhere to be found.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

POV: your neighborhood is being absolutely mobbed by a ravenous flock of cedar waxwings.

Inside Disco Corp, which has a radical HR system where no employee has a boss and manufactures ~75% of the machines used to cut, grind, and dice semiconductors (Financial Times)

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Clearly it won't right now. The stock price is purely based on vibes. (all stock prices are based on vibes, but Tesla particularly so right now)

Car sales are by far their largest source of revenue. The second closest, grid batteries, is still a fraction of revenue. Also, the batteries cells they use in their grid batteries are all made overseas and have been hit with massive tarrifs. Impacts to be seen in the next few months!

The group chats that changed America A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics

www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

I ran a marathon once and it went about like this www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Three young pronghorn does in a field of yellow flowers and a distant mountain valley scene behind them.

Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta...

White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social

🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Coming Bloodbath at the Department of Energy More than 2,500 employees have applied for a buyout program. The departures, if approved, could gut the agency’s in-house bank and manufacturing office.

NEW:

At least 2,700 employees — roughly 17% of its staff — have applied to resign from the US Department of Energy.

The departures could gut the agency’s in-house bank, as well as its offices focused on bolstering the power grid and U.S. manufacturing.

heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today.

One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease.

By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

YouTube video by Applied Science Welding visualization system uses intense pulsed lighting to outshine electric arc, laser cutter

New video! Welding visualization system uses intense pulsed lighting to outshine electric arc, laser cutter www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSUx... www.krontech.ca/product/heli...

Temperatures are having an increasingly strong effect on energy trends

Extreme temperatures in 2024, the hottest year on record, drove 20% of growth in both gas & electricity demand, half the rise in CO2 emissions & all the increase in coal use ➡️ iea.li/3Y6K9U8

Assembled PCB for my newest project just arrived. This should be 10 MHz to at least 8 GHz VNA. Next is powering it on and testing if it works.

Tweet by @DataRepublican: "In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself. I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found."

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured a first look at the solar eclipse as it began to emerge from Firefly’s Mare Crisium landing site on March 14 at 12:30 am CST. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured a first look at the solar eclipse as it began to emerge from Firefly’s Mare Crisium landing site on March 14 at 12:30 am CST. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

OMG. Last night's lunar eclipse -- as seen from the Moon!

The Blue Ghost lander got this shot. The Sun is overexposed, but in the reflection you can see it's almost fully eclipsed by the Earth. 🧪🔭

fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...

the model predicts 50% BEV end of '26
#BEV #alwaysbecharging #China

@leraffl.bsky.social for President :D
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I'm about to purchase a house with a gas furnace for first floor & electric baseboard for the top floor, and window AC on both floors. Swapping all of this for a heat pump system is near the top of the list!

Milence now has their first #MCS truck charger operational!🇧🇪
1.4MW (times 2?!)

in Antwerp, pricing unknown (!)
⚡️⚡️⚡️
who knows the actual number of #eActros trucks out there who could use it?!

#alwaysbecharging #truckcharging

milence.com/press-releas...

Stick figure drawing of person with an AppImage logo for a body, pushing another stick figure person with the head of a KiCad logo in a Python-branded garbage can. The KiCad stick figure person is pointing ahead. Motion lines appear that the two stick figures are moving quickly.

Calling all AppImage experts! We have a paid job to build a KiCad AppImage build pipeline on our GitLab CI. €1k flat rate. e-mail tasks@kicad.org if you'd like to take this on.

China’s Plateauing Fuel Use Is Without Precedent, IEA Says A slowdown in the growth of China’s fuel use is without precedent for a country at its stage of economic development, the International Energy Agency said.

China’s plateauing oil consumption is without precedent for a country at its stage of economic development, the International Energy Agency said. China's demand for oil was flat in 2024 and may fall in 2025 as EVs & economic shifts destroy demand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #Upshift 🔌💡🔌🚗