There are a lot of trade-offs with fossil fuel use that we definitely don't discuss enough. #PiperAlpha was the really big one I recall as a kid, but it was just the latest in a whole succession of oil platform accidents that cost a lot of lives and suffering in the North Sea. And then there was #DeepWaterHorizon.
And that's quite apart from the climate costs.
You wonder how many of these happen that we don't hear about too.
This is a good reminder.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/28/the-piper-alpha-oil-rig-exploded-and-collapsed-and-i-made-a-desperate-175ft-jump-into-the-sea
Gönnt Euch Fünfländerpfeffer, sage ich wieder einmal, nachdem ich eine Kohlrabikartoffelsuppe vor und nach Zusatz desselben verkostete. Was das Zeug aus schmackhaften Substanzen rausholt, ist sagenhaft. #nommention
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🙂 Den Hildegard-Knef-Film gesehen
🙂 Den dritten Tag in Folge indoorgevelölet
🙂 Festgestellt, dass der Text aus dem abgelehnten Fellowship tatsächlich ganz gut als Anfang für ein position paper taugt
I often find it gut-wrenching to watch the snail’s pace at which established scientific knowledge trickles into the public consciousness.
The study of income inequality is a good example.
In 2001, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez published a landmark paper which showed, for the first time, that US top income shares had been on the rise since the 1980s.
Piketty and Saez’s work has since been replicated and expanded numerous times.
In short, scientists know that the US …
"According to the paper, the program will rely on algorithms similar to those "used by insurers have been the subject of several high-profile lawsuits, which have asserted that the technology allowed the companies to swiftly deny large batches of claims and cut patients off from care in rehabilitation facilities."
'AI Death Panels': Trump Pilot Program Seeks to Bring 'Very Worst' For-Profit Insurance Practices to Medicare | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ai-medicare-program
when i was younger, id basically dm an rpg with my little brothers. all my system was: describing shit, guessing how likely it was they could do something on a six-sided-dice-stolen-from-a-board-game-scale, occasionally bothering to record their items and state on a piece of paper but mostly not even that. to this day this has been infinitely superior to every single rpg system i have ever touched.
An interview with WaPo's new Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal on its editorial pivot to "personal liberties and free markets", why people don't trust WaPo, and more (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/editorial-ov
A Deep Neural Network Codebook Approach for Near-Field Nulling Control Beam Focusing
Mohammadhossein Karimi, Yuanzhe Gong, Tho Le-Ngoc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22204 https://