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I hope Andy Burn 'em has some advisor who actually reads Environmental Research Letters. The review essay by Emily Grubert, summarizing a frustrating 25 years of research with no apparent effect on climate overheating, is blunt.
" For people and places that rely on fossil fuel production and face major transition challenges (Xenarios et al 2026), failing to be explicit about the degree to which transition must proceed, or the extent to which alternatives might actually be ava…

8 months ago I paid $140 for a (refurbished) 14TB enterprise SATA hard drive.
Now if I paid that same price, I'd get a 6TB drive: https://www.ebay.com/itm/178226092992
Fuck all the AI companies.

“I’m so sorry—I honestly thought you already knew,” said Mayor Wilson. “If I had known you had no idea the city that elected me mayor hates bad coffee, union-busting, people who sell their basketball team to Oklahoma City, replaces workers with AI, and resists fair taxation at every turn, I wouldn’t have been as publicly flippant about it. ...t and I’m sorry.”
I only drink real Italian espresso!

Yesterday, I ordered a new pair of hemp shoes from 8000kicks.
UPS says they had in in Leiria, Portugal 2 hours ago - and plan to deliver it to me BY END OF DAY. That's about 2000km in less than 12 hours.
I'm not sure if that means I have to clear the field outside our house for landing of a freight plane or a helicopter - or if I just should expect a giant crater.

The Butlerian Jihad famously includes the phrase
"Thou shalt not make machines in the likeness of a human mind"
But if I were starting off today, I would say "thou shalt not force the human mind into the likeness of a machine"
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1165

Starting next year, the British government is planning to introduce facial age estimation
—where AI scans your face and suggests how old you are
—to help determine the age of asylum seekers arriving at the United Kingdom’s border.
The move is believed to be the first time that a so-called facial age estimation (FAE) system has been used in this way.
Many asylum seekers arriving in the UK will not have documents proving their age, and if children are incorrectly classed …

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.

Well, got my little AI Harness to a releasable state, still early days but ready for some feedback.
https://choria-io.github.io/fisk-ai/

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

If you are a member of the NRA, or know someone who is, I’d particularly encourage you to demand to know why they aren’t leaping to decry the fact that the Trump admin today charged people with a crime for merely •discussing• legal carrying to a protest.
Not because the NRA will have some kind of rational “OMG” moment about it — they’re fashy through and through — but rather because this is one of the many fault lines on the right, and it’s our job to pry those fault lines open.

S&P 500 already made big call on SpaceX stock.
Index investors need to know it
SpaceX was valued at $1.77 trillion valuation in the IPO,
but it remains a high-risk investment with a net loss in the latest quarter of $4.28 billion.
OpenAI and Anthropic are burning through cash at a significant rate and racking up losses while generating a substantial amount of revenue.
They can be expected to face the same scrutiny from the S&P 500 that SpaceX just did.

S&P 500 already made big call on SpaceX stock. Index investors need to know it — CNBC
The S&P 500 index, where trillions in retirement savings are invested, said no to the SpaceX IPO, the biggest in history. Here's what that means for portfolios.