Gruntled old man
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Recovering academic? Computer-science / Engineering with a "tall and thin" academic interest and a "short-and-wide" physique. All the normal things - mountain biking, skiing, hiking, baking & cooking, cats and travel. Dutiful parent and ally.
"He said the Chinese companies rejected unions. By contrast, he said, he maintained respectful relationships with Japanese automakers, which were willing to negotiate annual salary increases and bonuses."
After Welcoming China’s Electric Vehicles, This Country Is Paying the Price (Gift Article)
Thailand introduced subsidies and tax cuts to encourage electric vehicle adoption. Now it is trying to recalibrate, alarmed by the threat to its industrial landscape.
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The Supreme Court and over a century of precedent.
Che Lives@che-lives.bsky.social · yesterdayWhere did the idea come from that our immigration laws are optional?
Good on Pritzker, but cancel debt "The state said more than 694,000 residents across all 102 Illinois counties have benefited from the program. Illinois spent about $10 million in state funds to eliminate the debt, with the state saying every dollar invested erased more than $100 in medical debt."
JB Pritzker Says Illinois Erased $1.4 Billion in Medical Debt for Nearly 700,000 Residents: ‘People Want
Illinois says its medical debt relief program erased $1.4 billion for nearly 700,000 residents statewide.
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Once you know it, you see it everywhere "why would I deceive you"
Huh, just like the Saudi intelligence operatives who infiltrated Twitter to spy on Saudi dissidents. One who graduated from the University of Colorado. Saudi infiltration of Twitter - Wikipedia share.google/lTFihwBM5opX...
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 4d agoSaudi national charged with planting recording device at OpenAI office
"By helping drivers use less petrol, and bringing down the cost of new and used cars, EV uptake is blunting the impact of high oil prices across the economy."
‘BYD effect’: electric vehicle boom becomes unexpected tool to combat inflation
More and more Australian consumers are expected to ‘unplug themselves from the oil shock’ with at least five EVs priced around or below $30,000
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Somehow, I don't think Ukraine is causing this problem. “He wants to make problems for the world,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Zelensky. “He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers with diesel fuel because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.”
Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’ (Gift Article)
Hours after President Trump said the United States would buy Russian diesel, the Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war.
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The grift is strong with this one. "Guilfoyle had been chatting with Eric Deters, a former congressional candidate in Kentucky who was seeking her help in getting the attention of ... Trump ... on some personal tax and legal issues—and had promised ... as much as $1 million if she was successful."
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last wk.It’s not a political party or a presidential administration. It’s just a giant bucket of dodgy schemes by morally reprehensible people.
Even in the 1960's, they didn't have childcare at work & she brought her kids to work. What a legend!
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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What will really happen is the rich will buy currently extensive public lands, becoming feudal barons. You think the Airbnb'ization is bad? Just wait.
WyoFile@wyofile.com · 2w agoTrump officials tout "harm" change to the Endangered Species Act as a means to unleash the administration’s energy agenda, as critics warn it could unravel 50 years of ecological recovery. From @mountainjournal.bsky.social #wyomingnews #endageredspeciesact
Rich people are watching their houses drift out to sea and leaving you with the bill
Houses Collapsing Into the Sea? It’s Not as Baffling as It Looks. (Gift Article)
Viewers seem baffled by viral videos of homes left to tumble into the ocean. But this is how we approach a growing range of “stranded” assets.
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Great, the US is following the Russian strategy of holy war. I'm sure it will work out for us. bsky.app/profile/chri...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
Hegseth seems to be reinventing DARPA but it's Larry, Moe & Curly.
Hegseth Names Musk, Gingrich and Anduril’s Luckey to ‘Project Meridian’
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Colorado GOP nominee for governor, Victor Marx, laughs as he recounts a violent fight with his wife: "I remember grabbing her, slamming her into our front door. She bent over and started crying."
If the workers of Ant, OAI, and GDM were all part of a union (e.g. a frontier AI guild), they could cooperate in ways that are illegal collusion for corporations. IMO, that would be a stronger alternative but achieve similar goals (slowdown for safety) of a cartel.
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2w agoso long-term the way you'd expect this to go is that the players would slow down capex such that they can make money, but if you do that while your competitor is running at a loss you're roadkill, so everyone needs to slow down at once, which is why you need the cartel.
"the federal government is using the “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” (HIDTA) program to obtain data from local cops’ Flock, Axon, and other ALPR cameras and aggregate it on federal government servers, where it is then accessible to other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies"
How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoMeta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw
🧪 A.D.H.D. may be fundamentally mischaracterized as a deficit of attention. Brain imaging reveals stimulants alter reward and salience circuits rather than attention networks. A focus might be making routine tasks register as worth doing instead of filtering distractions. 🧠
What If A.D.H.D. Isn’t About Attention at All? (Gift Article)
Evidence suggests that it really affects what psychiatrists like me call sustained engagement — an important difference in understanding how to think about the condition.
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Just one weird trick to undermine both Medicaid and ACA! "Basically, the rules would classify insurers as medical providers, meaning they would also be subject to H.R. 1’s regulations on provider taxes and fees."
Newly proposed federal rules would have “disastrous” impact on Medicaid, insurance funding, state says
Proposed federal rules could cut hundreds of millions of dollars annually for Medicaid and also impact health insurance programs, state says.
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This response to "explain [something] to me like I'm five" is a great illustration of why people who say they're going to "do their own research" do not understand how more complex modern science is than their highschool bio class.
Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦@simmondlab.bsky.social · 3w agoTrizol isolation, followed by either poly A column (best option if you are focused on mRNA or rRNA depletion (make rRNA dbl stranded and RNAseH or hybridize biotinylated antisense RNAs and column) if you want a wider spectrum of RNAs. Need to select mRNA or remove rRNA as rRNA will swamp seq reads.
Just a reminder that four of these icebreakers will be built by our NATO ally Finland, and the other seven will be built in the United States by Finnish companies or using Finnish designs. The ones built in Finland will be the first off the dock in 2028.
Forget the hype. Here are the facts about last week's US-Finland icebreaker deal - ArcticToday
This is a reproduction of an article that first appeared on Sixty Degrees North. If you would like to read more posts by Peter Rybski, you can sign up for his blog here. There has been a lot of hype (...
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FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump: We have 11 icebreakers currently under construction
I'm not sure I want to stay in the hotel room where de novo life is originating. But this is actually pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...
In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life
A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.
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NEW: The big story is not Chinese EVs everywhere —but Chinese EV factories everywhere. And its not just Chinese firms going out. Our CM-FDI database tracks every foreign Solar, Wind, EV and battery manufacturing plant built in 21st century. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com
Wise governments should be going all in on renewables to forestall the day Israel bombs Saudi.
Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is my shocked face www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
