Moik

@theothermike.bsky.social

From the Pacific Northwest, USA. Not immune from dumb ideas, reading seems to cure most. Geopolitics, AI Empires, Climate Change. Off grid, solar charged cars ✊🏽, 🌈, 🇺🇦, 🇨🇦, 🇲🇽, 🌻, and 🐈’s.

A mere 505 years ago on this day in 1521, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés captured Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City) after a 93-day siege, thereby ending the Aztec empire.

On this day: in 1988, A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda.

On this day: in 1578, Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir. The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese but both the Moroccan king Abd al-Malik and the Portuguese king Sebastian die. Back when kings who wage war die in war.

I see another egg shortage coming. Explain “absolutely true” Scooter. Commentator Scott Jennings stated on CNN that it is "absolutely true" people vandalized the Lincoln Memorial. He claimed that individuals who hate Donald Trump went out to destroy national monuments.”

On this day: in 2005, The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland. Following the Good Friday Agreement, signed on April 10, 1998, successfully brought an end to most of the political violence in Northern Ireland

AI videos vs questions “Generating AI videos takes hundreds to thousands of times more compute and energy than answering a text-based research question. While a standard text query uses a few joules, a short five-second video clip can consume millions of joules—roughly 2,000 times more intensive.”

On this day: in 1866, The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.