Tax Billionaires into Millionaires

This is the other one. With fossil fuels, discovery costs rise while tech costs fall, meaning prices stay roughly the same (inflation-adjusted) over time. With electrotech, discovery costs are $0, so the only dynamic is falling tech costs. Victory is inevitable.

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

"Scotland’s Highland region becomes the backdrop for Britain’s most ambitious energy storage project in half a century. The government has approved construction of a massive pumped hydro facility at Loch Earba, marking a revolutionary step toward energy independence. This groundbreaking […]

"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."

"Just after Gates published his new missive, Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide." […]

"Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine." - @bgrueskin.bsky.social […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate

Heritage is just cartoonishly evil. Just the worst scum on the face of the planet.

America, 2025

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

Since Trump is now wildly speculating about cutting insurance companies out of the health care system, this might be a really good time for Bernie Sanders to take him aside and ask if he's heard the good news about Medicare for All.

The richest 1% of the country will back any number of dead kids and and traumatized city residents and hungry Americans in exchange for this. They’ll accept infinite harm to strangers to avoid paying anything toward our collective good.

They don't want the government opening back up. Certainly not this year. Maybe not at all. #uspol #uspolitics #Politics #fascism #abortion #AbortionRights #AbortionIsHealthcare

NBC News - The Trump administration is exploring buying warehouses that were designed for clients like Amazon and retrofitting them as detention facilities for immigrants before they are deported […]

US "urges" Europe to accelerate the #ClimateCrisis so Trump & his billionaire pals can make more. $$ at the expense of the health and welfare of the entire world.

Now in detailed Black and White: The #Trump administration is blackmailing other countries to actively destroy the environment at the behest of the US oil industry. There is no sugarcoating it. Evil seems a fitting adjective. #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen

I remember when life online did not consist of constantly dodging dark patterns.

He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before. Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.

Under the right policy regime, data centers could serve as huge lever to *improve* the grid and *bring down* electricity prices. They are not unique in this sense. The exact same is true of any large new source of load.

🫗 https://mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navarro/115503399845524889

Oh […]

Thoughts and prayers

How'd I miss this one? "8 envoys, officials & civil society observers from Eur, granted anonymity...confirmed national delegates had reported they had been threatened with personal consequences if they went against Washington" www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

"Breaking: Grand Moff Tarkin Endorses Cuomo. Say "Andrew will bring order to the Outer Rim" #andrewcuomo #nyc

There are two wolves inside you. You are not allowed to change the number of wolves inside you until the next Open Enrollment period or Qualified Life Event.

WaPo - Far right political activist Laura Loomer has been granted DoD press credentials. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/03/laura-loomer-pentagon-credentials/

The ouster of Joe Allen, #fhfa's acting #inspectorgeneral, follows the agency's director, Bill Pulte, becoming an outspoken voice in support of the #trump admin. Across the government, the Trump admin has so far fired or reassigned close to two dozen agency #watchdogs, who police #waste, #fraud […]

The state of security against prompt injection attacks is absolutely abysmal. https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/115482626773910911

This could be huge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZSoiwYvzBU According to this report, the first **PRODUCTION** sodium-ion batteries are about to hit the market in December. Circa 175Wh/kg capacity at half the price of lithium chemistry, has far better cold-weather performance than […]

The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically. Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.

A POLITICO analysis of DOGE data reveals the organization saved LESS THAN 5 PERCENT of its claimed savings from nearly 10,100 contract terminations. Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts […]

Thinking that I might start adding something like this to more of the software I write.

Cutest trick’or’treater tonight was the little girl in the princess costume who came as we were getting to the bottom of our bowl. “How many pieces?” she asked quietly. “Just one. We’re running out and there’s still a lot of kids.” She looks at us with an earnest expression “Do you want some of […]

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh, who now has Joe Arpaio convinced you've rewritten the Constitution to support his tastes. [This isn't the full tweet. It just goes on and on and on.]

I wonder if that Bill Gates letter is having the 100% predictable effect? [finger to ear] I'm getting confirmation ...

"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task? All bigger studies we know (even those done by […]

A fitting enough epitaph for the human project.

California folks: if you have a Prop 50 mail-in ballot but haven't mailed it in yet, do it today. Please. I am begging you. It's literally the only question on the ballot and it'll take you like 30 seconds to fill out. Redistricting only happens if enough people vote for it by next Tuesday. #yeson50

Transgender youth health care would be nearly banned everywhere under new rules https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5588655/transgender-trump-medicare-medicaid-gender-affirming-care

Mandatory training: "Smashing Skulls of Unarmed Protestors With A Truncheon 101" https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115463385340754504

📣 IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE FREE LIBRARY TURN IT INTO A COMMUNITY PANTRY ASAP IF YOU ARE ABLE

AI is going great. #aiisgoinggreat

"For decades, the Pentagon viewed the climate crisis as a national security threat – not for environmental reasons, but because it undermined operations and readiness. Now the Trump administration is dismantling that approach."

A bunch of ordinary people spontaneously organizing and standing up to Trump in a way that *nobody* in a position of power is willing to do.

supporting trans people in the primary and betraying them in the general is not a signal to centrists that you're like them and you'll treat their ingroup well after all, it's just a signal that you will betray your allies for even meager scraps of power and thus there is no benefit to allying […]

Reminder: "Humans" are shambling ecologies filled with an astonishing zoo of other symbiotes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65368-w

Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers. https://fedi.wrm.sr #fediverse