Silver Age panel. Jimmy Olsen is outside somewhere holding a camera in his hands. Narration: "But, wait...what's this new surprise that Jimmy runs into, a few minutes later?" Spoilers, it's a robot approaching him. The robot has written on its chest, "This robot is trained to smash your camera". Jimmy says, "Jeepers! Got to escape that robot!"
Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
Holy shit!? Did we do it?
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Madison: the Dane County board meeting tonight is considering removing funding for Flock: www.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/...
For why Flock is (really) bad: Benn Jordan YT youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo
404 Media: www.404media.co/tag/flock/
Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.
Why the AI backlash has turned violent:
A field of utility-sized solar panels tilted up to catch lower-angled winter sun.
The same panels, near sunset, tilted flatter to catch the higher angle sun in the summer. A caption reads “donezo!”
Looking west over a white membrane 3rd story roof with a large number of solar panels on top. It is now dusk and the sun has set.
A digital display on an 60kW inverter. 3.65kW are being made by the panels, 3.07kW are being ent to the grid, and 0.16 are being used onsite.
As part of a Solar PV class I’m taking, I helped to adjust a solar field to a shallower summer orientation. Then we took a tour on the roof and saw how the inverters were doing.
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
Tax filing in the US. is such a “brown M&M” indicator. It tells us that the straightforward, efficient, near universally desirable outcome (e.g. IRS Direct File) is kept out of reach by entrenched business interests and their nonstop lobbying.
The Strait of Hormuz crisis is doing something a decade of subsidies and mandates struggled to achieve:
making millions of people want an EV who previously discounted them.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Such a good point. There should be like 1,230+ reps today if you kept at the 1929 ratio (when the number was capped).
A black Trek ebike sitting in a driveway.
Ebike Day!!! So excited. I’ve been thinking about getting this for a while.
A sleek sedan parked next to a giant KFC bucket statue. Various signs around with Chinese characters.
A winning anti-tariff campaign could just be this pic captioned “this could be us”
rural Wisconsin counties that went for Trump by roughly 20% voted for the liberal candidate today.
Numerous people are making this point, which I'm very familiar with but maybe some people don't know: car dealers are legendarily the engine of the GOP!
[sober business reporter] With the penny eliminated and 10-year PNY futures under rate-cut pressure, the time has never been better to be bullish on the nickel.
Cartoon diagram showing an eel in the top frame. The bottom frame is a closeup, showing how the head unscrews and you load the eel with 4 D-cell batteries. The fins are marked as the on/off switch, the eye are the low-battery indicator, and the body of the eel as the battery compartment. Above the drawing is the title: "Electric Eel" and in smaller text "electrophorus electricicus, Model EEC4xD (cordless)" Importantly, the drawing here is not of an electric eel at all, but rather an aguilliform eel. The two are very different kinds of fish. Eels are eels. Electric eels are knife fish, which is a very cool and dangerous sounding name. This is all to say that you should be very careful if you are using this diagram to try to change the batteries in your knife fish. This diagram may not help you at all.
It's April 2. You made it through another month, & even made it through April Fools Day. You deserve a treat, right?
Of course you do!
So here. Pease enjoy this lesson in the biology of the electric eel (which isn't really an eel (but that's ok 'cause the diagram doesn't show an electric eel)).
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Kind of want to buy an e-bike and name it “Demand Destruction.”
Which bread will make it all the way to the Final Flour in this year’s Starch Madness!?
oh! oh! jail for father! jail for father for One Thousand Years!!!!
Experts on oil are way more concerned about the current situation than you get reading regular news: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Is this White Sox team sponsored by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange? “Hey sports fans! Along with your nachos, how about 5,000 barrels of West Texas Intermediate!”
I'm going on Krugman's substack in a few to talk energy, so I've been trying to wrap my head around a 30K view of the domestic energy landscape. It has brought to mind one of my favorite rants, which I will rant at you once again here.
Let's talk about a contrast. 🧵
Every time I open Outlook, I think to myself “the outlook is bad; I’m reading emails”
Town I grew up in briefly had a shop--the pilot concept for a chain--that only sold pudding. Well, and coffee. Had like fifteen kinds of pudding, you could could get from a pint to a gallon, plus a cup of coffee. "Pudding it First", it was called. Had Frequent Pudding Eater loyalty cards.
I found “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” to be a really cozy space opera.
WI: 9/100
