When we fight for justice we often win don’t forget.
10.03.2026 19:44
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When we fight for justice we often win don’t forget.
Great question. I don’t know the answer to whether flexible thin films are less recyclable than conventional glass modules. I agree with your intuition.
The flexible part of “flexible realism” means: 1. Ignoring the actual words of the constitution, 2. Pretending diplomacy never works, 3. Allowing your worldview to be filtered through all of your bigotries, and 4. Doing whatever makes you and your friends lots of money.
Solar 2.0 is stickers!
“We need to start thinking about more and more places to put solar,” Swartwout says.
Cover the world with solar stickers!
Just one example of how the guns are actually pointing at us:
Every week spent on this pointless war is equivalent to the cost of installing about 20 GW of new solar power infrastructure (cleanly powering 3.5 million homes) if we had instead offered that money as tax credits.
Sadly the only author I got wrong was Carl Sagan. But it wasn’t fair because they intentionally used a paragraph of his that begins with the “not only this but also that” construction that LLMs overuse.
When you use “smart” glasses you get to share your life’s most intimate moments with random strangers halfway around the world. Technology is really bringing us together.
“…They have seen footage shot with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that shows people having sex and using the bathroom.”
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In fact, wind farms are increasingly being tapped to extend military surveillance capabilities.”
Radar systems integrated with wind farms allow defense systems to see further out beyond the horizon.
Turns out NOT having offshore wind is the bigger vulnerability for military defense.
Given the 27:1 imbalance in comms budgets it is kind of a miracle that renewable energy has been able to make the progress it has in the realm of public opinion. If everyone understood this structural imbalance they might look more critically at the real harms being done by the incumbent system.
Higher oil prices, if sustained, will make this poisoning method of extraction more profitable and could lead to an even greater expansion to the detriment of the health of the local population and wildlife.
A reminder that the ways we currently source our energy are literally killing us, whether from bombs or from carcinogens.
>>Maps of the region, which was once known for its drinkable streams and vast green expanse, now include landmarks like “Bitumount” and “Tar Island.”<<
The latest existential A.I. threat: “emergent misalignment.”
“As humans, we don’t perceive the tasks of writing bad code or giving bad medical advice to fall into the same class as discussing Hitler or world domination.”
What can we learn about human ethics from studying such behavior in LLMs?
It is difficult to imagine having a U.S. president dead set on crippling his own country in this most important race of the century but that is where we are. It would be like if Kennedy saw Sputnik and decided to end all rocket research and just give up.
The deployment of solar and wind capacity is the space race of the 21st century. The countries that cut the cord from fossil fuels first and get more of their energy for free from the sun and the wind will have massive economic advantages over those that are slower to transition.
Buried lede: “Last year, U.S. energy storage installations grew 30 percent above the previous record, set the prior year, and were four times what the industry installed just three years ago.”
The surge in grid connected batteries will make it easier to ramp up solar deployment again…
The ability to store massive quantities of electricity for the grid is as much a paradigm shift as when we began to be able to store grain over the winter and no longer had to follow herds of megafauna to survive.
“Some of the senior executives have a significant sense of urgency,” Mr. Wakefield said. “It’s just tough to translate that into revolutionary change.”
I wonder if that is true or if they know they’ve already lost and that’s why they are shoveling as much money to shareholders while they still can.
Here you go. That’s $12 billion they could have invested in R&D and BEV manufacturing right there.
“G.M. felt confident enough in its finances to spend $6 billion last year to buy back its own shares, a way of returning money to investors. The company has earmarked a similar amount for 2026.”
“Should they use [short-term gains from the dismantling of clean air regulations and fuel economy standards] to please Wall Street and make as much money as possible? Or should they keep investing in new technologies?”
The fact this is even a serious question should tell you the answer.
And yet at every turn decisions were made to ignore both of those facts as if more clever ads for gas guzzling SUVs and trucks could somehow magically change that certainty.
“Yet industry veterans say they can’t remember a time when the biggest carmakers faced as much uncertainty as they do now.”
Clear signs of radical change are not the same as uncertainty. It has been certain for at least a decade that BEVs are the future and the U.S. was at risk of losing to PRC…
This is a much better idea than putting them in space.
"Each AO60DC platform is designed to host 10–12 megawatts (MW) of AI-grade compute alongside a 15–18 MW wind turbine and integrated battery storage."
The $60/barrel price we'd been experiencing until recently was "unsustainable" from the perspective of the extractive economy. At that price, tar sands fracking and remote offshore drilling sites become uneconomical and the oil stays in the ground. Events of the past week have changed everything.
U.S. Political Binary from 1840 to 2050 The "left" is defined by being generally in favor of wealth redistribution and protection of civil rights THE LEFT (decade) THE RIGHT Regenerative Democrat 2050 Techno Plutocrat Republican New Luddite Democrat 2040 Extractive Frontier Republican Eco-Socialist Democrat 2030 Post-liberal Republican New Brandeisian Abundance Democrat 2020 MAGA Republican Democratic Socialist Democrat 2010 Tea Party Republican Progressive Democrat 2000 Neoconservative Republican Neoliberal Democrat 1990 Deregulatory Republican Liberal Democrat 1980 Anti-Tax Republican Labor Democrat 1970 Sunbelt Conservative Republican Great Society Democrat 1960 States' Rights Conservative Republican New Deal Socialist Democrat 1950 Red Scare Republican Popular Front Democrat 1940 Business Conservative Republican Later Progressive Democrat 1930 Nativist Popular Republican Socialist Party Democrat 1920 Protectionist Republican Bull Moose Party Republican 1910 Old Guard Republican Farmer-Labor Democrat 1900 Standpat Republican People's Party Populist-Democrat 1890 Monopolist Republican Greenback-Labor Populist Democrat 1880 Patronage Republican Reconstruction Republican 1870 Redeemer Democrat Radical Republican 1860 States' Rights Democrat Free Soil Proto-Republican 1850 Pro-slavery Democrat Liberty Party Abolitionist 1840 Planter Whig Democrat
Here is how I see the parties and their defining ideology of each decade in terms of how they fell left vs right, including three future potential splits up to 2050 for fun.
From Ulysses Grant to Benjamin Harrison it didn't take long for the party of emancipation & justice to become the party of patronage, corporate thievery, and protectionism. By 1930s they were full nativist and by 1960s they were full "state's rights" taking the bigotry platform from the dixiecrats.
So much of the problems in this world are because conservatives think they know what Adam Smith said 250 years ago but have never actually read any of his books.
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” —A.S.
This reminded me of the artwork by Iranian artist Shiva Ahmadi, which I originally saw at Art Dubai in 2012. Oil and Swarovski crystal on steel barrel.
www.artsy.net/artwork/shiv...
TAPPER: You know that no matter how you vote I will nevertheless insinuate through my line of questioning in our next interview that you hate the troops because you are a Democrat.
Left-leaning media should think about how articles like this come across to the majority of Americans for whom this may forever remain a dream. What’s the plan to get the single mom working three jobs into an EV powered by her own solar panels?
