You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

This says it's here (depending on where you're talking about). "24-hour solar generation is here — and it changes everything" ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...

Josef Koudelka, Prague, 1968

Otoh frequentism is no use at all in a minefield, unless you have enough legs to approximate a normal distribution.

Inrupt also tried redefining web3 as being things built on Solid. I don't think it worked out well for them.

On a 3rd extended stay in Lapland: 1st time in Lapland, i was distracted by mountains (Norway)

Elders need to act like elders

This. Or how one of the best selling books of IIRC 1912 was Norman Angell’s book that explained in great detail and - as it turned out - accurately that a major war in Europe would be ruinously expensive *even for the victors.* (He didn’t claim war would be impossible, as is sometimes claimed.)

this is why villains never have competent helpers

Another idea: the post-war Ukrainian navy needs new ships. Why not give them, say, an air defence missile frigate for training in the Baltic?

Indelible sexy, campy, pop party of a staging, in the oldest theatre in 🇫🇮, reminiscent of Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet, with a blazing fireball of a Mercutio. Would see again. abosvenskateater.fi/en/repertoir...

SirTimBL's new book: "Like a letter from Johannes Gutenberg about what he hoped the printing press could be" .. a. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

American Years of Lead Paint

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula

Imagine Swedish death pod technology in 2050.

Important from @peterbrannen.bsky.social at @theguardian.com .. .. except for the passive-interrogative 'could it?'s & 'are we?'s for something that's been obvious for a decade+. Faulting the editors, not the author, who clearly know better.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social, you might find this brief argument interesting:

@governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: As you so aptly declaimed yesterday, the Trump govt. is at war with the constitutional republic of the US. The situation clearly calls for invoking Ralph §51.7 & Bane §52.1, & for the 2nd State of Emergency for CA this year. 1.

Guess which movie we just watched .. Like Jarmusch's Dead Man, Carys Davies' West (novel), & Cormac McCarthy's works, it's a Western about a man and a country going to meet its death. Aster's film was familiar territory: 1.

@ftrain.bsky.social William F. Buckley went into a malfunctioning transporter and split into himself and Lewis Lapham

Hermann Goering was just an opiate addict but his incompetence graphs pretty directly onto ol' Pete Hegseth

Maybe not so hard: William F. Buckley Jr wrote many books & articles, edited National Review from 1955-90, & hosted 1,504 episodes of Firing Line over 33 years: the longest-running public affairs show with a single host in television history. He was *the* conservative LLM of the latter 20th c.

** A Prayer for Ambassador Huckabee ** Here's Ambassador Huckabee, invoking Dresden to shame the UK for its hypocritical post-facto protest of the US-Israel genocide of Palestine. He's right: the mass murder of civilian populations by fossil-industrial means then, is the same repeating now. i.

This is what Stalin did with humans. “I love this guy!” and ten minutes later they’re on a bus to Siberia for a decade in a work camp. It’s not a flaw in the machine, it’s how authoritarianism works.

There are many forms of structure humans have created to communicate meaning. Code is only one of them, but AI has trained on them all.

** US Fascism: Assembling the Whole Picture ** So much energy spent on climate change over the last 20 years, & yet we still won't look at it directly. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social says the US is being destroyed. Here i will show that her argument is partially incorrect & incomplete .. 1.

** Climate & Fascism: the Same Problem ** Since the 2010s, i've used social media to argue 2 main points: - the key to surviving ecological collapse is to assume we've already killed the biosphere - the nat-state system is collapsing & will imminently be succeeded by a Gaian world government i.

Pictured: president Kekkonen of #Finland. Caption: Laying truths in 1973. "Israel has not stayed in the borders the UN gave it. During many conflicts, it has violently expanded, at arabs' expense. Israel won't give full civil rights to arabs living in Israel or areas it has occupied." 1/2

Oho. Stubb on löytänyt moraalisen selkärankansa. Eduskunnasta niitä ei vielä ole löytynyt.

I grew up around Brown profs. & students in the '80s, & met the current Nicholas Brown in the late 90's. I lived near Louis Agassiz' house & lab, & used to fish & swim from its docks. I remember the cyanide pills in the Brown infirmary for assisted suicide in the case of war -> US fascism. 1.

The recognition of Palestine is between 78 to 23 years too late. Govts. moving to recognise Palestine only now are only demonstrating the total loss of credibility of the intl. community. The genocide of Gaza will be remembered as marking the end of the nation-state system as we know it. 1.

So you're saying we might not have to wait until the 28th century before we get a Pope Teilhard?

What's Leo looking at? The Omega Point. Here's hoping Prevost finishes what Francis started, & fully rehabilitates De Chardin. Jacob Uexkull, The Umwelt of Astronomers:

** The Cuckistocracy ** The great replacement *theory* is how elites are attempting to avoid the elite replacement *reality*. The 'great replacement theory' is a pseudo-intellectual repackaging of the primate instinctual drive to exclude, dominate, weaken, and ultimately destroy out-groups. i.

This is a direct quote, by the way: "It was heaven."

🇫🇮 Yesterday's harvest 🇫🇮

The obvious explanation for Russian-GOP collusion since 2016 is that there is secret alignment btw. security states to lock down in anticipation of ecological collapse. The progression from the relatively careful anocratic US propaganda of the postwar period .. i.

i've followed @scripting.com, admired & used his software, not to mention RSS, for 2 decades. 7 months ago he baldly posted an idea i sent him without crediting me. A few days ago he again posted an older idea of mine, and blocked me. Never meet your heroes, i guess.

Summer gardening in the Finnish countryside == dancing with horseflies .. .. but the swifts circling overhead, seeming to scream 'thanks for not using pesticides', makes it worthwhile

As a fan of Dutch (Total) football, i'm used to the better team choking & losing in the 2nd half 😭

Finland has the best komorebi b/c: - forest nation - sun always at oblique angle

1. AI 2027 makes a common forecasting mistake… exploring just one future. Error compounds as you push further into one future. 2. We have better scenario planning/futures methodologies for exploring the wider cone of possibility. 3. AI can help us scenario plan. 4. I’m gonna build it.

@kateraworth.bsky.social , @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, just wondering if you've seen this elaboration of your work by @thomas-boettcher.bsky.social? (i worked on a personal health version of the donut in the 2010's.)

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** US Fascism: Assembling the Whole Picture ** So much energy spent on climate change over the last 20 years, & yet we still won't look at it directly. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social says the US is being destroyed. Here i will show that her argument is partially incorrect & incomplete .. 1.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is right: Bastille Day is now international No Kings day .. .. so let's rename July 4th 'Christofascist Death Spiral Day'