@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyGotta appreciate the economy of this portion of the latest legal challenge to the DOE's attempt to force the Craig, CO coal power plant to remain open after everyone agreed to close it, and still want it closed! https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/30/craig-tri-state-petit…
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de„Error 0x0000009F: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE“
Bislang waren Computer unkooperativ und böse, und haben mit kryptischen Fehlermeldungen um sich geworfen. Du bist schuld, du hast was falsch gemacht, die Datei ist nicht da, wo sie sein soll, du hast das falsche gelöscht, du hast dies, du hast jenes.
Der „KI“-Chatbot hingegen erzählt dir, wie toll du bist, beantwortet dir freundlich jede noch so schlecht gestellte Frage, gibt dir die Antworten, die dir gefallen, und wenn er es auch n…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Australian State Secures Federal Support to Achieve 100% Net Renewables Goal by 2027"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables
@cdarwin@c.imTrump got involved in a state Senate race — and he might lose
“Phil Berger has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election,” Trump wrote on social media,
making no mention of redistricting in a long list of Berger’s accomplishments.
He urged Berger’s opponent
— a staunch ally who chaired Trump’s 2020 campaign in North Carolina
— to drop out.
The race shows how the power of Trump’s endorsement can advance his agenda.
But it could also end up …
@UP8@mastodon.social😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa
@hex@kolektiva.socialAnd people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/dg-matrix-raises-60m-to-make-dat…
@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.pageA minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds
Olivia Pomerenk, Kenneth S. Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22043
arXiv:2602.22043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Collective patterns of motion emerge across biological taxa: insects swarm, fish school, and birds flock. In particular, large migratory birds form strikingly ordered V-shaped formations, which experiments and direct numerical simulations have demonstrated provide substantial energetic benefits during long-distance flight. However, the precise aerodynamic and morphological mechanisms underlying these benefits remain unclear. In this work, we develop a reduced-order model of the wake-vortex interactions between two flapping birds flying in tandem. The model retains essential unsteady flapping dynamics while remaining computationally tractable. By optimizing over a six-dimensional state space, which comprises the follower's three-dimensional relative position and three independent flapping parameters, we identify the energetically optimal leader-follower configuration of northern bald ibises. The predicted optimum agrees quantitatively with live-bird measurements. Because of its simplicity, the model allows for direct interrogation of the physical mechanisms responsible for this optimum. In particular, it isolates precisely how the follower's wing kinematics interact with the leader's wake to enhance aerodynamic efficiency. The model predicts an 11% reduction in total mechanical power for a follower in formation flight -- consistent with experimental estimates -- and shows that this saving arises from reductions in both induced and profile power, dominated by decreased profile power enabled primarily through reduced flapping amplitude and, secondarily, reduced upstroke flexion. These results provide a mechanistic explanation for the structure of V-formations and offer new insight into the aerodynamic principles governing collective flight.
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@Dragofix@veganism.socialSouth Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/south-africa-considers-site-near-african-penguin-colony-for-third-nuclear-pow…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzRussian state hackers likely behind wiper malware attack on Poland’s power grid https://therecord.media/russia-eset-sandworm-poland-hack
@servelan@newsie.socialCoal power in WA Legislature’s crosshairs after talk of Centralia plant’s revival • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/12/coal-power-in-wa-legislatures-crosshairs-after-talk-of-centralia-plants-revival/
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Reform’s Operation Restore Justice is nothing less than the total mobilisation of state power for the sole purpose of attacking those deemed unworthy of being in the UK. We need to be very clear about this. If you think what is happening in the US cannot happen here, you are simply not paying attention."
Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover.
@cdarwin@c.imChecks and balances aren't working under Trump
The decline in faith is seen across the partisan spectrum,
with Democrats and independents swinging 45 and 34 points respectively since then.
Among Republicans, who control the White House and have majorities in both chambers of Congress,
there's also been a significant
19 percentage-point drop in confidence in the system.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialFrancesca Hong interview…
“This campaign is about reclaiming the power of sewer socialism — how much it delivered for communities in terms of climate and clean water and investing in public education. This was a time where people saw that there can be a government for good.”
https://jacobin.…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's redistricting effort fails in Indiana as GOP lawmakers deliver rare rebuke (Patrick Marley/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/11/why-these-red-state-republicans-are-resisting-trumps-efforts-expand-gop-power/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p152#a251211p152
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageOn Electric Vehicle Energy Demand Forecasting and the Effect of Federated Learning
Andreas Tritsarolis, Gil Sampaio, Nikos Pelekis, Yannis Theodoridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20782 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20782
arXiv:2602.20782v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The wide spread of new energy resources, smart devices, and demand side management strategies has motivated several analytics operations, from infrastructure load modeling to user behavior profiling. Energy Demand Forecasting (EDF) of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipments (EVSEs) is one of the most critical operations for ensuring efficient energy management and sustainability, since it enables utility providers to anticipate energy/power demand, optimize resource allocation, and implement proactive measures to improve grid reliability. However, accurate EDF is a challenging problem due to external factors, such as the varying user routines, weather conditions, driving behaviors, unknown state of charge, etc. Furthermore, as concerns and restrictions about privacy and sustainability have grown, training data has become increasingly fragmented, resulting in distributed datasets scattered across different data silos and/or edge devices, calling for federated learning solutions. In this paper, we investigate different well-established time series forecasting methodologies to address the EDF problem, from statistical methods (the ARIMA family) to traditional machine learning models (such as XGBoost) and deep neural networks (GRU and LSTM). We provide an overview of these methods through a performance comparison over four real-world EVSE datasets, evaluated under both centralized and federated learning paradigms, focusing on the trade-offs between forecasting fidelity, privacy preservation, and energy overheads. Our experimental results demonstrate, on the one hand, the superiority of gradient boosted trees (XGBoost) over statistical and NN-based models in both prediction accuracy and energy efficiency and, on the other hand, an insight that Federated Learning-enabled models balance these factors, offering a promising direction for decentralized energy demand forecasting.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCurtis "50 Cent" Jackson plans to invest $124M on venue space and a production campus in Louisiana; the state agreed to provide $50M in infrastructure funding (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@marcel@waldvogel.familyPaul Krugman compares the current US policy on digital media to a country trying to sell you illegal drugs: They know that what they sell harms people, but they have the money and power to make sure you will not intervene.
Very powerful comparison. #MustRead
"America has, in practice, become a digital narco-state."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/po
@kctipton@mas.toThe Gospel According to ICE: How Christian Nationalists Betray The Faith They Claim to Follow | Tim Hjersted https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-gospel-according-to-ice/
@hex@kolektiva.socialSlight tanget but...
There is exactly one way to prevent authoritarianism. That is to make these systems optional. It must be possible to leave a system if it becomes oppressive, and by doing so deprive the system of it's power.
This is what anarchists assert.
Now, have you thought to wonder why the state claiming that someone is an anarchist is generally considered sufficient to excuse any violence against that individual? If someone wants to lock you into the system, they are going to target people who assert that systems should be possible to leave.
Remember that when the only evidience against someone is "they had anarchist literature."
@brian_gettler@mas.toHere's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Reform’s Operation Restore Justice is nothing less than the total mobilisation of state power for the sole purpose of attacking those deemed unworthy of being in the UK. We need to be very clear about this. If you think what is happening in the US cannot happen here, you are simply not paying attention."
Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover
@cdarwin@c.imTrump said Thursday evening he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters,
a former Colorado county clerk who is serving a nine-year state sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines
— even though the president's pardon power ionly applies to federal crimes.
https://www.
@brichapman@mastodon.socialNew York just doubled down on clean energy in a big way.
The state's Power Authority approved an ambitious update: 5.5 GW of renewable capacity including solar, wind, and innovative compressed air storage. That's 2.5 GW more than previously planned.
The goal? Help develop 15 GW total to hit climate targets while keeping costs down as demand surges.
@arXiv_nlinPS_bot@mastoxiv.pageAdaptive transitions in FitzHugh-Nagumo networks with Hebb-Oja coupling rules
Astero Provata, George C. Boulougouris, Johanne Hizanidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18198 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.18198 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.18198
arXiv:2602.18198v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Adaptive coupling in networks of interacting neurons has gained recent attention due to the many applications both in biological and in artificial neural networks, where adaptive coupling or synaptic plasticity is considered as a key factor in learning processes. In the present study, we apply adaptive connectivity rules in networks of interacting FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators. Adaptive coupling, here, is realized via Hebbian learning adjusted by the Oja rule to prevent the network link weights from growing without bounds. Numerical investigations demonstrate that during the adaptation process the FitzHugh-Nagumo network undergoes adaptive transitions realizing traveling waves, synchronized states and chimera states transiting through various multiplicities. These transitions become more evident when the time scales governing the coupling dynamics are much slower than the ones governing the nodal dynamics (nodal potentials). Namely, when the coupling time scales are slow, the network has the time to realize and demonstrate different synchronization regimes before reaching the final steady state. The transitions can be observed not only in the spacetime plots but also in the abrupt changes of the average coupling weights as the network evolves in time. Regarding the asymptotic coupling distributions, we show that the limiting average coupling strength follows an inverse power law with respect to the Oja parameter (also called "forgetting" parameter) which balances the learning growth. We also report abrupt transitions in the asymptotic coupling strengths when the parameter related to adaptive coupling crosses from fast to slow time scales. These findings are in line with previous studies on spiking neural networks.
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@PaulWermer@sfba.socialBalcony Solar is very popular in Germany , and available in most of the EU. These are solar PV systems that plug into a regular outlet, providing electrical power behing the meter. Utilities hate them!
California might (if we nag our state Senators and Assemblymembers) actually allow us to install "Balcony Solar" - aka plug-in solar. That would be great for renters. SB868 (Wiener) expressly allows this, and blocks utilities from prohibiting their use. Please write your sta…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialBalcony Solar is very popular in Germany , and available in most of the EU. These are solar PV systems that plug into a regular outlet, providing electrical power behing the meter. Utilities hate them!
California might (if we nag our state Senators and Assemblymembers) actually allow us to install "Balcony Solar" - aka plug-in solar. That would be great for renters. SB868 (Wiener) expressly allows this, and blocks utilities from prohibiting their use. Please write your sta…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMalaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@karlauerbach@sfba.social1/n Ours is a Federal system in which there are distinct, but partially overlapping, sovereignties, each supreme in its sphere.
It has long been held that "police powers" are the realm of the state's supreme role. Indeed we see this when the Federal government could not even prosecute murders of protesters during the '60s//70's and had to resort to prosecutions based on Federal power (under 14th amendment) to enforce civil rights.
Here we have a gang of goo…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialRestricting #JuryTrials
"It will make only a marginal difference to the problem it seeks to solve.
"But it is fair to suppose that the main motive for the change is increasing the power of the state at the expense of the people by stripping out a check on the power of the Establishment."
MPs are right to rebel over jury plans | Morning Star
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.pageNuclear spin quenching of the $^2S_{1/2}\rightarrow {^2}F_{7/2} $ electric octupole transition in $^{173}$Yb$^ $
Jialiang Yu, Anand Prakash, Clara Zyskind, Ikbal A. Biswas, Rattakorn Kaewuam, Piyaphat Phoonthong, Tanja E. Mehlst\"aubler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05872 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05872 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05872
arXiv:2512.05872v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We report the coherent excitation of the highly forbidden $^2S_{1/2} \rightarrow {^2}F_{7/2}$ clock transition in the odd isotope $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}^ $ with nuclear spin $I = 5/2$, and reveal the hyperfine-state-dependent, nuclear spin induced quenching of this transition. The inferred lifetime of the $F_e = 4$ hyperfine state is one order of magnitude shorter than the unperturbed ${^2}F_{7/2}$ clock state of $^{171}\mathrm{Yb}^ $. This reduced lifetime lowers the required optical power for coherent excitation of the clock transition, thereby reducing the AC Stark shift caused by the clock laser. Using a 3-ion Coulomb crystal, we experimentally demonstrate an approximately 20-fold suppression of the AC Stark shift, a critical improvement for the scalability of future multi-ion $\mathrm{Yb}^ $ clocks. Furthermore, we report the $|^2S_{1/2},F_g=3\rangle~\rightarrow~|^2F_{7/2},F_e=6\rangle$ unquenched reference transition frequency as $642.11917656354(43)$ THz, along with the measured hyperfine splitting and calculated quadratic Zeeman sensitivities of the ${^2}F_{7/2}$ clock state. Our results pave the way toward multi-ion optical clocks and quantum computers based on $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}^ $.
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@hex@kolektiva.socialI think the thing the video fails to stress enough is the importance of the revolutionary program to the insurgency. Che failed because he failed to pay attention to his own lessons (and perhaps didn't fully understand them) about the primacy of the revolutionary program.
The true power of the insurgency comes from the things the state *cannot* compromise on.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
@servelan@newsie.social"Each of [the] killings by CBP agents and ICE officers boosts a bloodlust connected to the culture of white supremacist violence in the U.S. CBP and ICE, like local policing, provide an opportunity to make a job out of white supremacism. That’s why the Trump administration is openly using far-right white supremacist cultural references to recruit for the agency."
Another way out: Power, force, and far-right rewards for killing
https://prismreports.org/2026/02/04/far-right-state-violence-ice/
@arXiv_csOS_bot@mastoxiv.pageEquilibria: Fair Multi-Tenant CXL Memory Tiering At Scale
Kaiyang Zhao, Neha Gholkar, Hasan Maruf, Abhishek Dhanotia, Johannes Weiner, Gregory Price, Ning Sun, Bhavya Dwivedi, Stuart Clark, Dimitrios Skarlatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08800 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08800
arXiv:2602.08800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Memory dominates datacenter system cost and power. Memory expansion via Compute Express Link (CXL) is an effective way to provide additional memory at lower cost and power, but its effective use requires software-level tiering for hyperscaler workloads. Existing tiering solutions, including current Linux support, face fundamental limitations in production deployments. First, they lack multi-tenancy support, failing to handle stacked homogeneous or heterogeneous workloads. Second, limited control-plane flexibility leads to fairness violations and performance variability. Finally, insufficient observability prevents operators from diagnosing performance pathologies at scale.
We present Equilibria, an OS framework enabling fair, multi-tenant CXL tiering at datacenter scale. Equilibria provides per-container controls for memory fair-share allocation and fine-grained observability of tiered-memory usage and operations. It further enforces flexible, user-specified fairness policies through regulated promotion and demotion, and mitigates noisy-neighbor interference by suppressing thrashing.
Evaluated in a large hyperscaler fleet using production workloads and benchmarks, Equilibria helps workloads meet service level objectives (SLOs) while avoiding performance interference. It improves performance over the state-of-the-art Linux solution, TPP, by up to 52% for production workloads and 1.7x for benchmarks. All Equilibria patches have been released to the Linux community.
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comTexas exodus underscores the state's fading relevance in the House GOP (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/texas-house-republicans-power-fading-00676389
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p5#a251204p5
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyVery happy to see Trump’s illegal block on wind farm development thrown out by a judge, along with the Orwellian justification given for it—a classic inversion of the truth. Every accusation is a confession, etc. (“The government argued that the states’ claims amount to nothing more than a policy disagreement over preferences for wind versus fossil fuel energy development that is outside the federal court’s jurisdiction.”)
@cdarwin@c.im#Gleichschaltung is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.”
Gleichschaltung refers to a process of #Nazification designed to turn Germany into a single party state under Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Even children were brought into the Nazification process. Participation in t…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialThis week, public power is stepping up.
Great British Energy is targeting 15 GW of wind, solar and storage by 2030. New York's NYPA is building 5.5 GW of renewables. Bolivia launched its first Indigenous protected area with forest monitoring. Tennessee turned a former farm into Middle Fork Bottoms State Park, reconnecting floodplains to reduce flooding.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants due to AI demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/trump-…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump will do anything to grab power and prepare for dictatorial rule
He now floats the idea of U.S. boots on the ground in Mexico
"to fight drug cartels",
once again reinforcing his complete disregard for the concept of state sovereignty.
According to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump has been pushing for
"the participation of U.S. forces” even though Mexico says it’s not necessary.
Nonetheless, The New York Times has reported that…
@servelan@newsie.social" If completed, it could provide enough power for 32,500 homes."
Large-scale solar farm in central WA gets green light from governor • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/04/large-scale-solar-farm-in-central-wa-gets-green-light-from-governor/
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyBig Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://
@brichapman@mastodon.socialChina just unveiled a game-changing energy storage breakthrough: the world's first 560°C "Carnot battery" that stores electricity as ultra-high-temperature heat and cold.
SPIC's pilot system has completed seven full cycles at 1 MW/4 MWh, offering a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries for long-duration storage.
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge on Monday
struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects,
saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was
“arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.
Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of…
@cdarwin@c.im"The United States condemns the Houthis' ongoing unlawful detention of current and former local staff of the U.S. Mission to Yemen,"
U.S. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement.
"The Houthis' arrests of those staff,
and the sham proceedings that have been brought against them,
are further evidence that the Houthis rely on the use of terror against their own people
as a way to stay in power"
Pigott said
@brichapman@mastodon.socialSouth Australia just hit a major clean energy milestone: 100% renewable power for an entire week, and 90% over the last month.
The state's wind and solar mix is proving that reliable renewable grids aren't just possible—they're happening now. With new transmission links and battery storage, they're on track for 100% net renewables by 2027.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump's mad hubris has been coming fast and furious.
On Air Force One, next to a grinning and bobbing Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Trump doubled down on the notion that the failed state of Cuba would be next to fall,
finding time to threaten Colombia, Mexico, and even Greenland.
This isn’t evidence of great power.
But it is more than just the egotistical impulse of an unchecked imperial president.
It is a deliberate strategy that involves the gleeful destructio…
@cdarwin@c.imWhat we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network rais…
