Hemp plastics have been an option for some time now too. Unless we FORCE manufacturing to change.. why wouid it? phys.org/news/2026-04...

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It’s the way to go. Invest in solar energy.

I'm consistently impressed that Wired and Ars Technica continue to do great tech reporting despite being owned by Conde Naste. The duo's reporting basically killed the tech industry's covert effort to neuter a popular Colorado law making it easier and cheaper to repair your own tech:

I feel the same way about AI as I do about the internet—both could be incredibly valuable contributions to society if they’re managed for the public good. In the hands of fascist tech billionaires, they’re a threat the civilization. It’s not the tech, it’s the ownership structure.

happy lesbian visibility day xoxo

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If you are worried that China is beating us, then take a look at this. China is investing heavily in renewable energy. The USA is fighting all forms of green energy. Reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and diversifying our energy sources could help us get ahead. It could prevent wars over oil.

We should be learning from other countries...

“While the reach and sophistication of these surveillance apparatuses escalate, so too are authoritarian movements,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told @theguardian.com. "I think people are recognizing those two trends and trying to figure out what to do about it.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/202...

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

At least 13 people “are publicly known to have been wrongfully arrested by U.S. police because of reliance on erroneous facial recognition results…”

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

marked safe from viruses thanks to Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional by @shbs.games, a Y2K-inspired auto-shooter in a retro software interface

NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate. Great

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over at the newsletter I wrote about Sam Altman and how the tech press is obsessed with mythologizing unethical assholes

well listen we HAD to descend into violent and historically corrupt fascism because Lina Khan wanted to eliminate noncompetes

ethically hollow and isn't actually technically proficient despite broad press mythologies painting him as a supergenius engineer where have I heard that before

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ has already passed $400M worldwide. Set to become one of the biggest non-franchise films of the past decade. Read our review: bit.ly/DFMary

Turning a Bluetooth Caliper into a FreeCAD Input Device

April is Autism Acceptance Month🧪

In the '90s, punks and leftists made absurd images like this to parody American conservatism. I'm not sure you can do that today because there's not even the veneer of Christian virtue to point out the hypocrisy.

An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections. If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

Mandated surveillance as a dating requirement 🫠

I think it's important to remember there is major incentive for tech titans to put machines on equal footing with people. It makes them money and turns them into gods. We killed God only to see God replaced by billionaire nihilists hopped up on amphetamines. badfaithtimes.com/you-are-valu...

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The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...

That's because general motors makes s*** vehicles. That's why.

former White House official Anthony Scaramucci confirms Donald Trump is completely compromised. He reveals both Putin and Netanyahu have massive blackmail material on him. The US President is literally a hostage to foreign powers!

China just switched on the world’s largest offshore #solar farm. 1 GW off the coast of Shandong ~1.78 TWh/year Enough for ~2.6–2.7M people Built 8 km offshore, covering ~1,200 hectares of sea. Land was never the limit. Now the ocean is the grid. #Bettrification ⚡🔋

So you're telling me Claude functions by screaming at itself "WRITE GOOD CODE NO BUGS SECURE VERY STABLE", mashes compile button, reads back the error and yells ONLY GOOD CODE NO BUGS at itself again while crying and copying random things from Stack Overflow until it compiles? it just like me fr fr

this one feels like a meta joke about the paper’s tendency to both-sides ridiculous ideas. regrettably, i think it’s funny

The number of conscientious objectors is on the rise in the US, with 6 out of 10 cases being attributed to the Minab massacre 🎒💔🕊️ (Center On Conscience And War) #NoWarOnIran #StopArmingIsrael youtu.be/9GckKhP6bmA

Surf combines Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and other content into customizable open feeds on the web. I’ve been using it and love it. Let’s bring back the open web!

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

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"A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal... It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir."

Star Trek has always been woke, if that's the term you want to use. Intolerance and prejudice is the utter antithesis of what it is. People who hang onto social norms from the 60s as justification for prejudice now are disgusting idiots. If you dislike Star Trek now, ok. Don't campaign for its death

Fancy that. A gas station. Where no car is tanking gas - but the EV chargring units are fully occupied. The stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stones – and the fossil‑fuel age won’t end because we run out of oil. It will end because better, more reliable technologies take over.

Made very few changes to the latest build and was thinking maybe I'll be able to ship this one without incrementing the shame version (last number in a version number) and 2 minutes into testing, it's already getting bumped.

It's sad for all Americans that we have to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our great nation with the most corrupt, evil president in our history.

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

“Canada now has an auto plan that aligns with the world beyond the U.S.” “In addition to strict emission standards and letting in a growing share of affordable Chinese models, we should open our market to more European EV models, an idea multiple carmakers and dealers are interested in.”