Get flock banned at a local level.

Get to protests on a bicycle or a bus. Carpool if you must.

Somehow read that as a snail onion

From xkcd

Better ad targeting does make ads more valuable…but because only Google and Facebook have the visibility and ML to do it effectively, they wound up with all the ad revenue. Everybody else ended up with a few pennies

I’m a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don’t cover the cost of providing news anymore

They dont let sites opt-out, and they do a much more seamless job of enabling people to archive paywalled content

Tibetan Plateau, about 14,000 feet

Tesla robotaxis had a string of crashes their first day

There is a very large safety difference between Waymo and Tesla robotaxis right now.

My understanding is that it applies to every site which hosts any NSFW content, whether or not minors can access it

They’ve gone ahead and built a solar and wind power manufacturing juggernaut. Its a big deal for anybody like me who wants those deployed at scale. You’ll find that I’m also critical of China on other topics.

The same reason we allow them on any other technology — they create a financial incentive for innovation.

The way utility rates are set allows them to spread costs onto residential ratepayers instead of bearing it directly.

2°C is likely to be ecologically and economically quite damaging, and also at the edge of where we can be reasonably assured that agriculture remains viable. Its not an everybody-dies-instantly threshold

We already lowered the rate of emissions growth, taking us from 4°C by 2100 to ~3°C by then. Getting more is on us; you can’t sit around hoping somebody else acts

I think they wanted it to be a bit less blatant — they took down this version and Yaccarino resigned

Its Musk’s LLM, which interacts with people on X. He’s been paying people to tune it to be more hate-oriented for years.

It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely

There’s a preview of that, but link points to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=c1JLM5vSU5FaaTvxtMmEpcpUxc9MKWWfcr6Ifc8rD3w

You can produce a remarkably good estimate by looking at CPU and GPU utilization out of procfs and profiling a handful of similar machines power use with similar utilization and workloads.

Network is less than 5% of power use for non-GPU loads; probably less for GPU.