Again we see the famously corrupt Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, at work. If he wasn’t the top law enforcement official in the state where I currently live, it would almost be amusing.

Texas charity that backs Trump’s stolen-election lie has deep ties to Ken Paxton

From the business section of the Houston Chronicle. Article also fails to point out that those windmills in the panhandle are funded by many people who made their fortunes in oil and gas.

Fact-checking the GOP’s false claims about wind power as Texans worry about broken grid

It isnt a secret and it isn’t even complicated. A cartoon explains how it works.

Lucky Ducky solves inflation

From Digg, unique imports by state. Article aslo has overall biggest imports and exports by state.

The Most Unique Items Each US State Imports, Visualized

Why is Joe Manchin blocking energy legislation? He gets paid to.

Manchin says he won’t support climate, tax provisions in sweeping Democratic bill

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