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These prophets of economic doom are worried about another collapse
Dean Baker has earned a reputation for predicting economic catastrophe,
and he tries to follow his own advice.

-- After the economist warned of a stock bubble in the late 1990s, he rebalanced his investments to reduce exposure to the market.
-- Several years later, he became concerned that soaring home values would fall to earth, so he and his wife sold their condo in Washington.

⚠️He was rig…

These prophets of economic doom are worried about another collapse
The current investment boom is triggering déjà vu for some economists and traders who successfully predicted past economic crashes.

Diarycast - Urban Dawn Chorus (2020-05-23) - Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban garden... #podcast #SilentCities #OrkneyLibraryHaiku -

Diarycast - Urban Dawn Chorus (2020-05-23)
Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban garden... #podcast #SilentCities #OrkneyLibraryHaiku

"In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa
to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to
like them, and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely
baroque feel to a continent. And they tell me it's not equatorial enough.
Equatorial!" He gave a hollow laugh. "What does it matter? Science has
achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happ…

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: Orac with delusions of grandeur, Zen unable to control the ship. I'd say we've a lot of little problems on our hands.
AVON: Course deflection is zero zero five. Speed Standard by five and increasing. I'd say we have one large problem on our hands.
https://blake.torpidit…

"Now is not the time for self-indulgent rehearsals of criticisms of the Venezuelan government’s alleged failings, as if attempting to steer a socialist course while facing relentless economic warfare from the most powerful country on Earth were ever likely to be straightforward."
Trump’s US is out of control – stand with Venezuela and its revolution | Morning Star

“Alberta premier says province might impose oversight of Calgary’s water system after latest break”
What is Premier Smith going to do exactly? Furrow her brow? Call up Trump for a favour? Because it sure won’t be: raise sewage/tax rates to fund sustainable replacement of sewage infrastructure…. Which is very obviously what is actually happening.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-premier-province-impose-oversight-calgary-water-system-break-9.7032468

"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"

On Website Technicals (2019-09) - Tech updates: lack of instant podcast fame, .wav from awk, 5 per day, charge profile, explicitly not. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-28.html

On Website Technicals (2019-09)
Tech updates: lack of instant podcast fame, .wav from awk, 5 per day, charge profile, explicitly not.

“My expectation is that within 10 years,
almost all new data centers will be built in space
purely because of the constraint that we’re facing on energy terrestrially”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-h100-space?share_id=9034975

NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes AI Processing to Space
Could space-based data centers be the answer to Earth's energy and cooling challenges? NVIDIA's H100 GPU is leading the charge in orbit.