From Yale University. The interesting part:
It took nearly seven decades, after the invention of the silicon solar cell in 1954, for the world to install 1 terawatt of solar capacity, conceivably enough to power the entire United States. After passing that milestone in 2022, the world added its second terawatt in 2024 and its third in 2026, Bloomberg reports.
In spite of the photos you see on the news of household waste, the vast majority of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch seems to be from commercial fishing, mostly nets.
People who have not been convicted of a crime are having their DNA added to the FBI criminal database, in large numbers. From The New Republic.
The Surveillance State continues. At the very least there needs to be privacy laws to restrict access and punish misuse of this data. From Tech Spot.
From Source New Mexico.
A friend from the Bay Area sent me a pic of the City Lights bookstore with banners quoting Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem Pity the Nation. The San Francisco Chronicle has an article about it:
The poem and its connection to a similar work by Khalil Gibran is in a posting on The Allen Ginsburg Project blog.
Ran across the little fiesta up the road in Bernalillo. Lots of these around in this part of the world, being rural / agricultural.
From Yale Climate Connections.
I don’t do any serious investing these days but enjoyed these quotes collected by Cove Street Capital. My favorite:
… more fiction has been written in Excel than Word
A good overview on the circulation of vast amounts of capital within the AI world. From Marcus on AI.
Steven A. Guccione 