2,100kW charging is ~2,800hp, or roughly the power output of 2.8 Formula 1 cars running at full tilt going through the charging cable (or in this case two charging cables)

It's probably this and everyone should read it. jwmason.org/slackwire/po...

What exactly does it say about us in the EU that not only is Anthropic not moving its operations here to avoid this kind of government harassment but also the idea that it could even think about doing so is preposterous?

Congratulations to the UPF people for promoting a largely made up (or at least poorly defined) thing, so that more animals can live short, tortured lives.

"But what if we did it to *our* voters?"

the pre-LLM projects on my GitHub profile are like low-background steel

Today is a good reminder of one of tech's golden rules: never anthropomorphise Jeff Bezos

In the past few months it's really started to feel like AI has begun to swallow conventional software development whole. When I meet up with dev friends it's (regrettably) all we talk about. Even if you don't care about developers, it's surely a harbinger for other industries.

At some point I think someone will get themselves in legal trouble for vibe coding a successful app with their work's tokens. I shall forget about this bleat if that doesn't happen.

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

Internal disagreement among Uruk-hai over Saruman's new alliance

We’re all gonna get a kick out of telling younger generations we grew up without air conditioning

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

Mortifying.

We had a good run

this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning

Wonder if a century ago people welcomed Q2, thinking it couldn’t be any worse than Q1…

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Then: CoD 4 Now: Portal But what a year…

This is so ridiculously niche. I love it

@simonwillison.net's "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" progress in 14 months. On the left, Gemini Flash 1.5; on the right, Gemini Flash 3 simonwillison.net/tags/pelican...

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

@xkcd.com "what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun" is a great "What If?" question

every time i see that water tower i remember the animaniacs are trapped in there by david zaslav. Yet every story leaves it out

I don't want to defend Mangione, but sometimes I get the impression there's another reason involved

Well that's a surprise!

✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

You forget sometimes that at the top of the page it says "A webcomic of romance"

In her book The Idealist, Nina Munk talks about the pride a developmental aid community took in having a trash pile for the first time.

Did he read the bit in Lord of The Rings where a creepy toxic guy filled the local ruler’s head with idiotic poison and wrecked everything in that kingdom until the king came to his senses and chucked the toxic creep out?

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top? This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.

This is so brilliantly simple, even the police could do it

This is utterly brilliant:

I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/

In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.

I thought a MWh battery might be ~shipping container size, or something impractical like that. But with a reasonable-to-low density estimate it turns out to be roughly 3,300 litres, or a cube with 1.5m sides. Not terrible!

Since WW2, 19 seats in Westminster have been won with less than 30% of the vote. Ten of those were last year. They'll be a lot more next time.

Apparently I forgot to post my new blog post on here. Oops! numpad.substack.com/p/using-misd...

2025.09.11 edition now out, featuring: @maxiferreira.com @livestore.dev @tonyonodi.bsky.social @electric-sql.com Excali Organizer Slingshot @obsidian.md

It’s only just occurred to me that the mantra of TikTok videos is “tell don’t show”

Well fucking do something about it then

John Burn-Murdoch has broken into my apartment and is charting my personal decline across key metrics in red paint over the walls

There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI

The UK: we must reinvigorate our uncompetitive and slow growth economy! Also the UK: time to censor the easiest general reference of archive of human knowledge, which is also free.

Well, at least he stopped those kids from being saved from HIV

the way democracy works now is that we keep voting for people to whack us in the nuts with bigger and bigger hammers. occasionally we vote for someone who says they’ll use smaller hammers, but guess what? bigger hammers

If I may be a little cruder, "The government should punch people in the dick" might poll at 60%, but people will still be angry at the government when their dicks hurt.