Jevons paradox on the roof

The Internet breaking down into a series of walled gardens designed to protect themselves from hostile attacks from other, similar walled gardens while AI tries to tear the whole thing down, you say?

I can be trusted with the MEG phantom

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

Liquid Glass looks like a cheap imitation next to the real thing:

Yukon Delta - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/cCg7QC

“It’s just a macropad!!!” I scream from a padded white room www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

It was inevitable

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a buddy had just come back from spending a year in china and i said “man that real estate collapse though… wow, what a fuckup” and he said “building new urban housing for a billion people requires that you occasionally overshoot by a few millions units” and i’ve never been the same since

one of my favorite recurring subplots in housing discourse is NIMBYs talking about any major dev project like it’s a form of settler colonialism and meanwhile actual indigenous people are like “we are going to build the biggest apartment buildings you have literally ever seen”

All solar is good solar, solar over parking lots is much more expensive than greenfield solar, we should do both and lots of batteries, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

It's my longstanding sense that perhaps a majority of East Coasters don't believe in Chicago

Long r&d times, small unit batches, built in Canada; if they're doing CNC/anodizing and keycaps locally, that shoots the cost up substantially But pretty high compared to other options, for sure. I remember the halcyon days of 2020 in the keeb community - some boards got really expensive...

solar is so cool man. I climbed up on my shed roof last week and installed a panel to charge my yard tools and now I’m mowing my lawn with power I stole from a fucking star

My user research sessions confirm this.

it looks so happy

I just want to say we’ve had good non petroleum alternatives for everything from laundry detergent to fertilizer forever, but not the political oomph to subsidize their scale out, unlike solar and batteries

The continued demand for gas turbines is hard to understand as anything other than a massive regulatory failure.

Calico cat in a calico coat! #kidlitart

if i were a shareholder of an american automaker id want to know why my ceos were so stupid and shortsighted that they not only didnt see this coming but actively fought it

University of Chicago, UIC, Northwestern

Back when I worked at Twitter there was a Python script one team wrote that called a Python script another team wrote that called a Ruby script another team wrote that wrapped the Hadoop CLI and I think about that all the time

This Particular Environmental Issue Is An Existential Threat To Life As We Know It versus Okay But Dealing With It Is Expensive

these are REAL sticky notes taken from REAL design thinking workshops they have played us for absolute fools

Less vague: I think it's INSANE to think that basically the first, most obvious interaction mode with AI is correct. OAI basically just saw the most obvious use for an instruct-trained model and everyone followed. This CAN'T be the best way! We need more, weirder interfaces.

I think everyone should support some legislation that requires new datacenters to be built with solar panels that can provide >80% of the total power usage. If it turns out that AI is bubble, we'll have all these solar panels that can be made into solar farms.

To put this in perspective, 9 GW is 2% of the entire power draw of America. I'd ban this data center until they were mostly drawing renewable energy.

Furries will literally assist in pushing the boundaries of space exploration and be like “Soooooo, I did thing. 👉🏻👈🏻”

Admin absolutely exploit the age war to compel the service, distributed among a shrinking full-time faculty, that’s necessary to keep an institution going — which leads to burnout and, I think, partly explains greater rates of attrition among senior women

a little library of ASCII components for the web

xbox vista lfg

This is a genuinely very good idea and should be paired with land-use reforms to make building out renewables a lot easier.

Why bother doing any kind of user research or testing when you can Just Do Things and then Just Undo Things if your users hate it This is a much more productive and efficient use of company resources than literally anything else you could do with your time

It makes sense that the app that helps you get therapy would share a logo with the app that makes you need therapy. That's just good branding.

"Electrification enables power within. Within countries, within communities, within households. A rooftop solar panel is a tiny act of sovereignty. A green steel mill is a big one." energyandstuff.substack.com/p/pax-electr...

I have a PhD in neuroscience who works outside academia and I approve this message

Good lord *CATL UNVEILS BATTERIES CHARGED UP TO 98% IN SIX MINS

4. An LLM made a mistake is a verboten sentence. You made a mistake: no offloading responsibility.

Yep! I sure did!

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