From The Baffler. A good read on regulating automation, mostly in the form of Artificial Intelligence.
Month: August 2022
In Praise of Difficult Children
From London Review of Books.
In Praise of Difficult Children
China’s unrivaled 70-day heat wave
I see bits about this on the news but hadn’t realized the scope. From Axios.
China’s unrivaled 70-day heat wave
Yet Another 1,000 Year Flood
While still in a drought, Dallas has a “1,000 year flood”.
Dallas area hit by 1-in-1,000-year flood
Solar In Texas
The dirty (or perhaps clean) little secret is that solar is keeping the lights (or at least the A/C) on during this brutal Texas summer. It seems Texas solar is up over 39x in six years. And it’s on a steep upward curve.
Texas solar output is up 39x in six years:
June 2016: 69.8 gigawatt-hours
June 2022: 2,729 gigawatt-hours
Recent Ramens
During the pandemic, and as a big part of this blog in the early days, I had regular posts of my lunchtime ramens. I still am making ramen, but maybe not as often. Anyway it seems like a pandemic thing (not that the COVID-19 pandemic is over). Anyway, a few recent ramens.
Dark Brandon, explained
from Slow Boring.
Dark Brandon, explained
One Main Character
I ran across this a while back, but I tend to ignore Twitter. These folks on Digg pick out the best (worst?) of Twitter on a daily basis.
Steven A. Guccione 