otoh if hyperscale ai continues to swallow energy efficiencies and clean transition margins whilst driving ever more fossil fuel burning, it might kill a lot of people whether they use it or not

The people who force us to live in a violent country really thought they wouldn't have to live in a violent country along with us. They thought other people would do the dying for them. When one of them catches one of the strays they put in the air to catch us, what are we supposed to do but shrug.

everybody listen up

Silver lining, this did create a century of human mutants with superpowers

Oh man, this conversation

RIP Rahghu Rai. the greatest indian photographer His photos of Delhi, books were legendary. Taj as a memento mori raghuraifoundation.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=602V...

An America destroyed by madness was on full display after the chaos of an assassination attempt at the WCHA dinner, in a nation so numb to gun violence and so drunk on corruption that Trump and journalists wanted to party on Gunfire of the Vanities: My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

bit cheap not to get the exec editor his own room

Why it makes sense to have your logo designed by an experienced specialist: buff.ly/WgKJYIu

the parsimonious take at this time is dunno

Non zero chance that this is the actual plan. Just look at Musk's actions

I guess the problem here is that political violence does have a place in the USA, and that place is the White House. The fish rots from the head, and it's not much use freaking out about the symptoms unless you're gonna take the cause seriously

Haven't concluded anything, I mean I've just had breakfast. But I do approach the Trump admin with a 'prob bullshit' prior, so gonna reserve judgement for now

i think we can all come together to condemn the aim of the would-be assassin

spose there was one reason to attend

Starmer told the civil service to 'deliver' what he wanted Yet he has sacked the civil servant who 'delivered' the appointment of Lord Mandelson New by me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

I'm pure baffled by this reporting from @reuters.com - if you order your troops to "forcibly" attack targets in a country, you are not "testing" a ceasefire. You are breaking it

Hard to guage the risk, but not hard to guage the opportunity

lol

True, and yet I still think that step 1 in solving the Hormuz problem is probably the US and Israel fuck off

More evidence of solar plus batteries eliminating the need for diesel generators. This is incredibly good news for the people who live in these communities. “We used to depend on diesel and lamps,” said Waldemir da Silva....“Today we have electricity 24 hours a day, without noise or smoke.”

To understand why the USA is where it is today, all you need to do is see that Trump cannot tolerate even the mildest, insightful criticism from the Pope, but Trump will allow Putin to humiliate him deeply and constantly, while still craving Putin’s approval.

Kinda feel like there should have been more debate when homo sapiens learned to burn oil

Abolish the Home Office

Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing

on their fucking minibikes again the neighborhood teens are. call the police i have.

Good piece. Events will not wait for us to be 'ready'

The banter move is surely for Ukraine to announce that they are going to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran and they’ll let the US know which states it has to hand over.

They've lived up to my expectations pretty closely tbh. Looks like things are lining up for a Noticing though, so good

The inherent validity of the herrenvolk

I had my doubts at the time, but the FIFA Peace Prize is gaining credibility almost daily

Jeongak Demon Hunters

Ukrainians are not our sacrificial lambs. Ukraine is not our shield against Russia. By not pursuing Russian military and political defeat, we do not merely sacrifice an entire nation fighting for freedom and democracy, but ourselves. Everyone deserves better. 7/7

If you destroy something, were you its 'saviour'? How so?

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

Whether to carry the blame for Trump's carnage is partly an option. To the extent that the response is sending the king to kiss arse, allowing US fashtech to infiltrate key national infrastructure, and desperately invoking the 'special relationship' i.e subservience - expect to carry the blame

All adults and some children on ICE flights—some 50 flights a day now—are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists. I have spoken to migrants and their attorneys who report being shackled for 50, 75, and 82 hours while being deported. Flight data backs this up.

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Seems quite likely that the frequency and magnitude of atrocities will increase as sanity is purged from the US military command chain

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Seconded, this really is amazing

there's an ideological reason modern fascists have attacked trans rights so hard (their pathologies about gender) but there's also a pragmatic one: they're the minority centrists & establishment liberals have shown the most willingness (& even enthusiasm) to abandon

Also, why should the UK stay "the country you moved to"? We'd like to grow and evolve, thanks

There has been a total collapse of trust in anything that comes out of this Pentagon. They have lied freely, frequently and without shame. It means that on serious matters - like civilian casualty disputes or US casualty figures - no-one can trust what they say.

Don't forget to shame people who buy Teslas

I think we’re at the stage where we need two separate governments. One will be there to deal exclusively with allegations relating to Peter Mandelson. This will be the main British government. And then there’s a secondary administration that does all those little things like running the country.

I want to like the Greens. A lot of people I really respect are voting (even standing!) for them. But come on, man. You have to do the reading

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Much of subcortex had strong connectivity specifically to cortical chains. For example, a striatal seed produces connectivity to a single chain, not to a general cortical region. This was true across subcortical structures, suggesting that cortico-subcortical connectivity is organized by chain.

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