i only subscribe to a few mailings, but I like the Exponential View, especially on Sundays. It tends to be about new and emerging technologies, mostly focused around energy these days. What I really like is the way it focuses more on the trends, not the current state of various technologies. This week seems to be a particularly good batch of news (in a world with so much bad news lately).

Energy & democracy; CRISPR; exponential workers; space, AI music ++ #381

Watching the news and see there is a controversy about Biden fist-bumping the Saudi leader. Maybe he just doesn’t kiss on the first date.

I have been a fan of the idea of putting very large numbers of CPU cores on a die for a while. I even worked for a startup called Quicksilver that tried to do this back in the early 2000s. There are still the usual memory bandwidth and software issues, but good to see this trend going mainstream.

China-Made 128-Core Arm Chip Takes Overall Performance Lead in Integer Workloads

Depending on who you ask, renewables are either keeping the lights on this summer, or causing blackouts (funny I haven’t heard of any blackouts yet this summer). Of course the real question is why Texas won’t import power from neighboring states.

Solar Power Is Bailing Texas Out This Summer

or

Texas power crisis underscores green energy unreliability, expert says: ‘get used to more blackouts’

I read Plato in school but admit I never had a grip on the whole sophistry thing. The Honest Broker explains.

The Word of the Year Is: Sophistry

I lived in Scotland many years ago and I was surprised to learn (among other things) that there was no law against tresspassing on private property. Of course, it wasn’t always this way in the US.

What Lies Behind That ‘No Trespass’ Sign

A good read on the “bottom up” political influence of Mississippi. Why anyone wants to follow the lead of Mississippi is yet another question. A good read though.

Mississippi is no longer a world unto itself

Seems a recent Dilbert comic offended some people. Not me.

YOUR JUNE 26, 2022 DILBERT SUNDAY FUNNY … OR NOT – UPDATED

What do you do when a large percentage of your government is involved in organized criminal activity? From The Guardian.

Brooks, who delivered a fire-breathing speech at a rally before the Capitol riot, sought pre-emptive pardons for “every congressman and senator who voted to reject the electoral college vote submissions of Arizona and Pennsylvania”.

A total of 147 Republicans lodged such votes, even after the Capitol was stormed, an attack that endangered the life of the vice-president, Mike Pence, and to which a bipartisan Senate committee linked seven deaths.

Republicans who aided coup attempt sought blanket presidential pardons