There's plenty of corruption in Spanish politics, but it doesn't work by direct open donation. If a direct donation is made, it's in secret in a brown envelope. Alternatively, companies with a viewpoint to push might hire a company with connections to a politician to, say, produce and run their stand in an industry expo at a very generous rate.

This particular statistic has nothing to do with Iran, but we can expect a significant global boost for renewables due to the currently ongoing debacle. Businesses and governments worldwide knows how bad this hurts, and is still going to hurt. They know that they need to decouple from oil strategically. The cheapest route to do that is solar + batteries (for most of the world). Some northern countries (Scandinavia, Canada, northern Russia, plus a bit of central europe) - will of course need "winter generation" in addition. Norway solves that with Hydro. Others will need nuclear in addition.

There will most certainly be an acceleration in buildout due to this debacle. That won't shop up in the statistics for another year - but it'll be there.

Finally, anyone who has paid a modicum of attention to geopolitics in the last 45 years know of the Strait of Hormuz. It was quite central in the "Tanker Wars" in the early 80s. Not to mention for people who paid a modicum of attention around 20-25 years ago when Iran started developing their "speedboat strategy".

An individual car only solves the last mile problem if you can find a space to park it right at your destination. I've definitely spent longer looking for a parking space than it takes me to walk five blocks.

The summary says "late 2022" and "29 months ago", so some editor somewhere has made a mistake. 29 months ago would be late December 2023.

I had three CoVID vaccines and since then I've had CoVID at least twice. The immune systems works on specific protein sequences, not on the names we give to pathogens. :shrug:

all medical personnel should be using PPE before coming into contact with any bodily fluids of patients.

That's easy to say, but you don't always know that you're going to come into contact with bodily fluids. Vomit, in particular, can be unexpected and hard to dodge.

Now, I don't call that a "vaccine passport" and as far as I know vaccination and medical info isn't tied to any official passport, nor is there some kind of required medical-info-passport-work-a-like

There is a medical-info-passport-work-a-like ([1], [2]). It's coming up to its centenary, and it's most commonly associated with yellow fever. However, CoVID vaccination doesn't currently fit into that framework.

If you have 100 questions, it's not a serious exam. A question in a serious exam should take more than 5 minutes to answer, and it's not reasonable for an exam to take 8 hours.

Even if you want to see things in black and white, eliminating private ownership of scientific journals seems like it should be a higher priority than preventing public organisations from self-funding by licensing their output. But it's a red herring anyway in this case: the title should really be "CERN publishes its KiCad component libraries". And there there are interesting questions about the cost/benefit of putting in the effort to make the internal product available externally.

While it's true that Kenya does have a lot of open land, there are some rather large animals which are used to that land being open, and taking city-sized chunks away puts more pressure on already declining populations.

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I absolutely loved fitbit. Bought one for myself, one for my wife, one for each of my parents. Lots of "fitbit friends", always competing with each other. Usually had between 20K and 40K steps year round after the initial couple of months while getting in shape.

Then google nerfed it. They removed the social aspect. They removed the competition among fitbit friends. My interest utterly evaporated. Haven't used my fitbit since a week or so after google nerfed it. Haven't bought another Google product since. Haven't signed up for another Google service since. Always looking for how to get off Google.

And I used to WORK FOR google. I was a huge proponent of them, until they utterly mismanaged fitbit.

Now I'm using Garmin. I don't think I'll ever forget what they did to fitbit.

It would be like employees of a gun manufacturer unionizing to force their employer to produce children's toys instead.

If they were employees of a toy company which got bought out by a manufacturing company which then started manufacturing guns using tubes which were previously destined to be part of a toy.

And this is, quite frankly, insane.

The web hasn't gotten better in the last 20 years. It has gotten enshittified. Wikipedia was just as good, navigation wise, 20 years ago as it is today. Google was obviously much better 20 years ago than it is today.

What we use all those KBs for is a mystery, except if it is to support the enshittification, user tracking, etc. It certainly isn't to make the sites better.

YouTube does already do something to the audio. I notice it when streaming guitar and vocals: the sound which comes out of YouTube emphasises the guitar, so if I balance listening to the mixer feed I have to balance the guitar low.