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

I visited Monterrey, Mexico when I was younger. An industrial city that currently has about 5 million people. Home of Topo Chico. And it is running out of water.

Monterrey suffers weeks-long water cutoff amid drought

Have seen all of these FUDs in various forms, in various places. All seems to be misinformation, as best I can tell. I feel bad for people who own gas stations, work for oil and gas companies, repair gas and diesel engine, etc. But things change, and often for the better. Horse and buggies were big business before the automobile, but they went away in a few short years. It can happen again.

The biggest myths about electric vehicles