Ole Anders

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

"When asked where this agreement had come from, Trump admitted that he had made it up. It was entirely in his head, which is where so many of his great diplomatic triumphs appear to occur." @ldfreedman.bsky.social

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

Og riktignok blir det store forsinkelser når en forlatt bil blokkerer trikken. Men jeg skulle tro at i tid-per-år så er det at trikken må vente 20/60/90 sekunder på en bilist som holder på å parkere mere!

Sure. When the Roman army needs over a tonne of cheese to make it through the day people nod sagely and say of course they needed those calories. But when I need over a tonne of cheese to make it through the day people beg me to stop and talk about my cholesterol and mental health.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Dette burde vel være på forsiden av alle aviser, burde det ikke det da

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

You often hear that clean energy is not replacing fossil energy, only adding to total energy, and thereby not reducing emissions. ("There is no transition," they say.) It's nonsense. Read this post from @zekehausfather.com about how much FF has been displaced by renewable energy:

The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%

Niels made a new cartoon! www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

Volition is irrelevant. If the headline was "vicious dog breaks out of OpenAI office and bites man" there would be no question who was responsible. "But the dog is its own entity making its own choices!" Fuck off, either it's property you own or not, you can't have it both ways.

the fash grifters aren't out there generating shitty AI vids or doing bystander streams for patriotism. they're doing it because views = money.

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

Norge har vel igjen tjent utrolig mange milliarder på at krig har økt oljeprisen. Synes Norge gir et bedre bidrag til Ukraina enn de første årene. Men allikevel ikke urimelig at vi bidrar med mer!

Apropå en del av det @ulriken1.bsky.social har postet siste ukene (og tidligere!) Blir mindre bilbruk når det blir mindre greit å bruke bil! Blir mer bilbruk når det blir enklere!

I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies.

This single episode was a greater assault on free speech, & hurt more people, than *anything that happened during Woke 1*.

More and more studies show that vaccination against various infectious diseases also leads to fewer cardiovascular deaths and lower rates of dementia. A rational public health system would be getting as many people vaccinated as possible. But. . .

Nu finns svart på vitt. Forskning visar att dagens rekommendationer och utformning av cykelgrindar ökar risken för olyckor. Samt utestänger massor av olika typer av cyklar. Ny rapport från Lunds tekniska högskola. cykelmagasinet.se/cykelgrindar...

If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't.

From 2019, don't think I ever posted this one

Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

As a general rule that applies not only to charitable giving but to many areas is that reducing transaction costs is by default good. A flaw of libertarianism is the assumption that government adds transaction costs when it's actually a powerful reducer of them when used correctly.

Okay, after all the new cycles about GTA6 I've been trying to avoid commenting on, I've watched the latest trailers and I kinda feel I have to say something, so I've been collecting some thoughts while out walking about the state of gaming generally. This might be a long thread so bare with me.

Anyway, war is bad and we should do less* of it and also fascism is really bad and we should do none of it. ("But Bret, why aren't you saying we should do *no* war?" "Because sometimes there are fascists.")

Kan jo også muligens gjenstå noen hverdagsutfordringer for de som vil sykle i Oslo!?! Til og med kanskje flere enn for bilbruken?!? Men det er det vel ikke så nøye med!

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

“You’re damn lucky, Saunders. ... If that rhino had really respected you as an enemy, he’d have done a helluva lot more than just walk up and slap your face.”

After fifteen years of studying the anti-vax movement, I came to the conclusion that upholding legal requirements for vaccines for school entry is the single most important thing we can do. You cannot use facts to convince someone who did not employ facts to make their decision. So use the law.

“Next year, even if the US-Iran conflict eases up, things might recover, but it won’t hit last year’s level,” Hou said. “So it’s very likely demand peaked last year.” #sinopec #alwaysbecharging #battchat

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

If I said something this stupid in public my wife and friends would be taking the piss out of me for, well, years probably. And deservedly so. But then, I'm not an "entrepreneur, business influencer, podcast host, and political commentator"

It ends up as a very visible example of a tendency I've touched on the blog quite a bit which is the tendency to mistake the supposed signifiers of military virtue - toughness, manliness, ruthlessness, 'lethality' - for actual military success.

So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇

Another public health success: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century is heading for mass production. TB still kills 1.23 million people a year. WHO estimates a vaccine with this efficacy profile could prevent 76 million cases and save 8.5 million lives over 25 years. Reuters buff.ly/fI5mDxR #ShareGoodNewsToo

I used to be a Cub Scout leader. And one of my speeches I’d give to my Scouts was about how our motto was “do your best.” It wasn’t “do it perfectly,” or “do it right.” And that meant our motto assumed we’d be failing. And that was okay, because failure was necessary. Because if you were always…

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

It is perfectly possible to deliver excellent urban transport solutions without building 20-year traffic forecasting models. In fact, those models are pretty much nonsense and offer near-zero insight to the process.

The train operating companies should band together to give Phoebe free travel for life as a reward for being the ideal customer.

In my opinion Powder and Artillery are the most efficacious, Sure, and infallibly conciliatory Measures We can adopt. - John Adams (and also Volodymyr Zelenskyy, probably).