Chris Adams

Holy shit Brazil Brazil Brazil!!! OBRIGADO people of Brazil! Brazil and Serbia on the same day!

I swear, engaging in voter suppression should mean you automatically forfeit an election. It's always the worst people doing it, and it's like there's no real incentive to not do it. #brazil

dressed up as the scariest thing i could think of.

I too would appreciate being fed nice snacks to distract me from medical procedures

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Last year, the IEA brought back the CPS (current policies) scenario into their World Energy Outlook after discontinuing it in 2020. It expects India's EV share of car sales to reach 5% in 2035. That's right...2035! September 2026 was already over 8%. CPS can retire again.

wut

This thread is quite something - 20 Bell Labs worth of invention is a pretty stark thing to compare the money going into the AI buildout so far.

I was transfixed for the whole 3m vid - I had no idea there were so many steps in making these things! I don’t want to spoil it for others, but it’s worth your time.

Terrific idea, nice execution.

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

Airships as an alternative to Starlink, for remote access to the internet? Oh hell yeah. It's only a trial, but it was month-long trial, with 9000+ mile trip to send an airship to act like a floating cell tower over Japan, dodging typhoons and recharging via solar. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Holy balls - can you tell when the new guy got into the Whitehouse? Jeez…

It’s not just out in virtual reality, it’s out in book stores! It’s been spotted in DC. Have you seen Anti-Fascist Economics in your book stores!?

Wow, I hadn’t realised just how low the fees were that electoral commission hits parties like this with. Read the thread to see how it’s (much) less than single digit percentage of the donations coming into them. It’s farcical.

The EC's fine of Reform is 0.003% of their £72m donations in the space of 2 days this summer

Building a movement requires organization, and there's nothing better for organizing than fighting specific projects. It is also important to demonstrate that the industry is worth fighting because climate change is a real emergency. If we don't fight, people get the wrong idea that it's not urgent.

There is still controversy over the question of whether supply side interventions can make a difference to greenhouse gas submissions. If you understand that the fight for climate stabilization is a political process, it becomes clear that fighting supply side projects is essential.

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Ouch

Just scheduling this so it posts DEEP into the North American timezone www.instagram.com/reel/Dei1tQI...

I had no idea FediDb gave these stats of usage like this, and it’s fascinating. It really highlights how much photo sharing is used compared to microblogging. Entire fediverse is 14m accounts & 1.3m monthly active users Mastodon is ~8.5m accounts & ~700k MAU Pixelfed? 1.2m accounts & ~400k MAU

Wow, I knew this was the case with EVs, but I hadn’t realised it was the case with heat pumps as well. Even if you didn’t care about climate and living on a safer Earth, you can make argument to use them just to reduce reliance on volatile fossil fuel prices for your economy.

🚨🚨🚨 Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today

After allowing xAI to build Colossus, the Memphis City Council is doubling down on its deal with the devil, banning the most knowledgeable and committed campaigners for the people of Memphis for attending the next city council meeting about data centers.

This thread is a good read, but is also infuriating to see how large European automakers have been fighting so hard against making smaller affordable EVs people have been saying they want for absolutely YEARS, that they got caught totally off guard when they actually made one available.

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New study: Pollution from industries in Louisiana's Cancer Alley, include oil refining and petrochemical processing, increases risks of congenital heart defects for infants born in nearby communities. BAAJA, the federal permitting bill, would make it easier to build such polluting facilities.

North Americans: “this is enshiffitication” English ppl: “I’d like more things if they were better” I’m a big fan of Careful Industries’ work, and I *love* this sticker

I just read this on my lunch break - it's an interesting one exploring the unease lots of clean energy folks feel about selling to the datacentre industry now, as as way to keep their companies afloat. www.ctvc.co/inside-the-f...