Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations wh…
“Apocalypse forces us to radically change. But by facing the future with optimism instead of doom, we can transform ourselves into the kinds of people-the kinds of communities—who can survive.”
https://slate.com/technology/2025/05/h
Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/climate/electricity-prices-republican-big-beautiful-bill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU8.Y70X.1-wUaCvBm49Q&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p53#a250604p53
New shelves came in, went ahead and pulled the shorter ones out, installed the full length ones, installed the supports, and cleaned up the power cables. Also adjusted the hooks on the back so they make a bit more sense.
Do the new shelves seem crooked? Yes. However they should support the MS-A2s a bit better.
#homelab
Yale Climate Connections (YCC) is an excellent resource for anyone interested in climate and extreme weather, and among other things they host the Jeff Masters / Bob Henson "Eye on the Storm" blog, which ran under another name on the old #Wunderground site. I don't need social media, I have the EotS comments section. Their coverage of
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Imposing the Fundamental Dynamical Constraint of Hydrostatic Balance to Improve Global ML Weather Prediction
Akshay Subramaniam, Dale Durran, David Pruitt, Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay, William Yik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08285
Meter-scale Observations of Equatorial Plasma Turbulence
Magnus F Ivarsen, Lasse B N Clausen, Yaqi Jin, Jaeheung Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08665 http…
Interesting study of eastern Joshua tree mycorrhizal associations from trees near the Dome Fire burn in Mojave National Preserve, with sampling stratified by season
#ecology #mutualism #JoshuaTree …
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