Although if deployed over a period of decades or tied to significant remodel events this could be "a good thing".
However, the time frame proposed for this would cause a lot of unhappiness.
(In our case we have prodigiously hard/calcium water and super high water pressure - 150psi - so we have to replace water heaters pretty often. But to go to heat pump we would probably have to get a new rather higher power-level feed from PG&E - at a cost of tens of thousands o…
Anthropic signs a 20-year, $19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity, with the first power delivery in H2 2027 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-terawulf-data-center-ai.html
After 60 Days, Republican Patience for the Iran War Is Wearing Thin
Months into the operation and with midterms looming,
some lawmakers are calling for Congress to restrain the president’s war power
or set terms for bringing the conflict to a close.
https://www.
My smartest #HomeAutomation: power cycle microwave at midnight.
Now the microwave's clock is set correctly, every day!
I plugged the new set of power slugs into my inlines this morning, first time I’d had to in over a year of hard riding. Those things have morphed everything everywhere that needed power. But inline skates were my choice for getting around on my day job, delivering shit all over. Nobody knows where they came from either. Just showed up. Aliens is my bet. Sneaky bastards, they are.
#FlashFiction
On the face of it, a technical detail – but aren’t details like that what make Europe a superpower? A single market for V2G, for example, absolutely requires these harmonised network codes - technical specifications for electricity - as a prerequisite.
https://www.e…
Today set another new record for solar generation, 87.4 kWh - well over half of my total power demand for the day.
Up to 1.6 MWh for the month. Not bad.
The Voting Rights Act was a political peace compact written in John Lewis’s blood.
The Callais v Landry decision by the US supreme court,
which set aside much of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,
whitewashed that blood from history, along with that of thousands of other Americans who fought segregationist white supremacists at lunch counters and bus stations and courthouses for political equality.
“This ruling is a major setback for our nation and threatens to erode…
The security industry is somewhat unique. It's probably the only industry created by the worker as a threat. If you talk to hackers who were in the scene before Operation Sundevil, you'll realize that it's always been a Bullshit Job.
Folks in L0ft and cDc were hacking companies and basically blackmailing them into paying for their services. Operation Sundevil "straightened up" the industry. Some people went to prison, some people build security services companies. Pretty much anyone who actually believed in the manifesto was locked up or edged out.
Using the Graeber framework here, hackers are partially duct tapers and partially goons. The critical thing here is that the industry was basically created to give money to people who would otherwise destroy the system.
Neuroatypical folks have always been forced to the margins of society, but computers gave us a super power. Now we were extremely dangerous. Tech, especially hackers, have always been paid a lot to minimize the risk of developing a class consciousness.
Graeber talked about this. Kings and nobles would often find some job or title that they could bestow on potential enemies in order to keep them close, to defang them. What better role than sheriff, a type of goon, for a rebel?
We turned it in to a whole thing. Not only did hackers make their own industry and force everyone else to accept it, we even created a whole parallel box ticker industry of "compliance" as a side effect.
The Hacker's Manifesto was decontectualized and made a fun artifact of the past. We were sold a story of "good hackers" who "protected grandma from the bad hackers." But the whole industry always existed to keep us on a leash. The funny thing is that it was a leash that we made ourselves.
But now we're seeing massive layoffs in tech, even in security. Now that we're this far in, everyone has forgotten the history. Leadership doesn't understand what security people do, so they think that LLMs can replace us. But the people in the industry now, the ones who came to it as a career, don't understand the history.
There was always a split for these weird outsiders, these people who couldn't fit in to the system but now had power over it. Some wanted in and they were willing to use extortion to get in, and others wanted to destroy the system to set everyone free.
Operation Sundevil, and the industry that evolved out of it, existed to neutralize those revolutionary elements by offering extortionists a safe entry. Extortionists trusted the capitalists to not stab them in the back the same way capitalists have stabbed everyone in the back through all of history. Now my LinkedIn feed is full of Meta layoffs, and I wonder if that class consciousness is starting to click for anyone yet.
Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai-has-made-memo…
Cruise ships are disaster for the climate and Cascadia
Cruise ship trips out of Seattle are more popular than ever. According to the Port of Seattle, Seattle's 2025 cruise season set new records, with 950,000 passengers, 289 sailings, and 67 percent of ships using electric plug-in power while they were docked in Seattle. The Port says these cruises (which mostly sail to Alaska and back) boosted Seattle's economy by $1.3 billion.
What the Port doesn't talk about ...
The SunZia Wind project in Central New Mexico, set to be completed in 2026, will be the largest wind farm in the western hemisphere, with a generating capacity of 3,500 megawatts.
Currently, the largest completed wind farm in the U.S. is the Alta Wind Energy Center in California, with a capacity of about 1,550 megawatts
https://…
My house came with an old, dilapidated fountain that sat disused for several years. A couple years ago I decided to put a pump in it, and now every spring I clean it out and set it up. The birds like it, and it lends some life to the place. ⛲️ 🐦
Have decided to delete the electric mirrors on the van. No movement; 12V at the fuse box; 6.4 and 4.7 volts at the door passthrough connector. Doesn't make any sense to me, plus it's more needless complexity for a system that my wife and I both set once to the same position and then never touch. I will buy manual mirrors when I see some cheap, then hopefully sell the power mirrors for as much as or more than I pay for the manual ones. The hole in the door card will be filled with a 3…
Self-focusing of helicity drives finite-time singularities in inviscid flows
Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, Sergio Rica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17569 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17569 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17569
arXiv:2605.17569v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper deals with the longstanding quest of the possible existence of finite-time singularities in the equations governing the dynamics of inviscid fluids, namely, Euler equations. Here, two contributions are brought for the case of perfect fluids with finite initial energy. First, a self-similar velocity field inspired by Leray Ansatz is proposed which allows for a separation of variables that transforms the original partial differential Euler equations to a nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations. This system can be solved semi-analytically and allows a continuum set of solutions parametrised by a self-similar exponent, $\nu$. Second, we use the conservation laws of Euler equations to select the possible finite-time singular solutions and the related self-similar exponents. We find that the helicity is the driving mechanism of the blow-up through a self-focusing mechanism. The flow near the singularity separates into two phases. A first phase is within a tubular region that shrinks as a power-law $(t_c-t)^\nu$, with $t_c$ the blow-up time, where the helicity is focused. This region is separated by a sharp interface from an outer region where the vorticity, and thus helicity, is identically zero. We found that the finite-time singularity may be either point-like or line-like depending on the dynamics of the tubular region along its axis of symmetry. Incidentally for a point-like singularity we recover the Leray scaling $\nu=1/2$ paving the way to a generalisation of this approach for the Navier-Stokes equations. Finally, we conjecture that if the helicity vanishes initially, no finite-time singularity would be possible, since in this case the singularity occurs at infinite time from the initial condition.
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