"Every major ocean basin across the globe is currently experiencing unusually warm sea surface temperatures driven by climate change."
Learn more in our latest Climate Shift Index alert: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert/Typhoon-bavi-intensifies-climate-fueled-ocean-heat-global-marine-heat-wave
Had reason to return to the incredible story about how unbelievably skilled seamstresses, with expertise in sewing bras and girdles, developed and fabricated the spacesuits for the Apollo missions, as documented by Nicholas de Monchaux.
"ILC’s attitude came through in a seamstress’s comment to a NASA technical team in 1968: “It might look all right on that piece of paper, but I’m not going to sew that piece of paper."”
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/
This is really cool.
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys https://www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerland-5000-alpine-solar-muttsee-dam-winter-power/28487/
UPDATE: Since the article above is #AISlop from a BuzzFeed-style content farm (even though its content is accurate) here's a 2023 Reuters article on this solar plant https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/switzerlands-solar-dam-sun-snow-perfect-mix-green-energy-drive-2023-02-06/
RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116876852747024096
That’s still a $100 billion company.
Belgium may have beaten the hell out of the US in the World Cup, but when this is all over the Belgians have to use their longer paid vacations to take their higher standard of living back to their much safer country where they’ll have to spend their much longer life expectancies thinking about it. - Steve Hofstetter
#USpol
And yes, I have a bill to do exactly what Norm suggests. https://casten.house.gov/imo/media/doc/restoring_judicial_separation_of_powers_act.pdf
#TruthTuesday 👇
This bears repeating till governments do the work to corral unbridled #AI development: 👇
RSS is a secret trick to making the internet more usable. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking
Being functionally dead and his staff refusing to admit it is the most Mitch McConnell thing ever.
He is dying the way he lived: Squeezing every drop of political power out of technicalities. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_6a4b6bc0e4b05c9d0338a117/liveblog_6a4bcfdce4b0c806bbeed2f9
Excited that with Dean Kyne and Dominic Kyei we have a way to map #socialcapital across the United States
TL;DR: the index complements existing indicators and deepen understanding of relational capacity, vulnerability, and resilience across U.S. counties.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/15/2/138?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article
Trump got a red card and the MAGA SCOTUS reversed it.
Dan Phiffer is a software engineer who helps build the ProPublica website: “It's been very frustrating to see such a stark contrast between those efforts to get AI right, in practice, with management's vague and unfettered bargaining position.”
Seriously, the timeline is the fucking Twilight Zone.
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“So to recap: Grandpa was a draft-dodging immigrant who ran brothels. Dad was arrested at the Klan rally and faked being Swedish. And the grandson? He's deporting immigrants, attacking people's heritage, and posting this photo like it's a Hallmark card.
The bone spurs didn't fall far from the tree.” - Maria Hernandez
Oh.
There isn't an "AI Boom".
We're just all getting robbed.
There's just a couple of companies exchanging ownership of warehouses full of unopened GPUs and shuffling the same hundred billion dollars around between them while they slowly move debt off their balance sheets, and the rest of us are all getting robbed.
It's great that we decided to reorient our entire economies around this scam, I'm sure this will have no adverse or unexpected consequences for the global economy.
Being Prime Minister has a higher regret rate than being trans. The only solution is to ban Prime Ministers from using the bathroom.
It's a heist, and a tragedy
https://youtu.be/l_Pxjw77Tvk?is=g0hHcB2mZPOUG9qM
'Posh George': Who is aristocrat and convicted criminal at heart of Farage controversy?
The 32-year-old reported crypto entrepreneur, once convicted of fraud in the US, is a long-time Farage ally.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yzzw5vk8vo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
On Lawfare Daily, Kate Klonick and Alan Rozenshtein were joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss his new book “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," what the "reverse centaur" is and how it maps onto a broader culture. https://youtu.be/T1KIwaYRs1g
Cartoon by Daniel Boris.
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Is Mitch dead? Vegetative? Functional in any way? He definitely is not able to fulfill the requirements of his office. So the Republicans will simply hide the truth, because if they learned anything from Mitch, it is that they can do anything they want.
“Mitch McConnell remaining technically alive for an extra three weeks because of a manipulative procedural maneuver is exactly how he would have wanted to go out” https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-2677159427/