For global energy, that typically includes transportation. As more economies have expanded, there has been more use of cars, trucks, trains, ships, and aircraft, almost all of which are powered by fossil fuels.

Global electricity generation has changed. In 2000, 64.1% of global electricity came from fossil fuels, 16.7% came from nuclear, and 18.7% came from renewable. In 2023, despite overall electricity generation roughly doubling, fossil fuel generation was down to 60.1%, nuclear was down to 9.1%, and renewables were up to 30.23%. Looking at the renewable mixes, in 2000, it was 17.4% hydropower, 0.7% biofuels, 0.2% wind, 0.01% solar, and 0.3% geothermal. In 2023, it was 14.6% hydropower, 2.2% biofuels, 7.75% wind, 5.4% solar, and 0.3% geothermal.

That's still a lot of fossil fuel electricity generation, but it is declining by percentage and their growth curves are flattening. Renewables are up by quite a bit and still growing. Nuclear is declining, and isn't likely to recover in any meaningful numbers. This program is a lot like past programs meant to encourage new nuclear power plants. Odds are that maybe one will get started, and it might not get finished.

When the AI bubble pops there are going to be lots of skilled chip designers looking for work. Maybe there will finally be some fresh competition in the Intel and AMD duopoly in the PC CPU scene. If we could have low power, cool running, SoC units that can run Linux as well as Apple silicon handles MacOS I might finally go back to Linux.

If urban people can deal with ugly postmodern architecture in their cities the rural people can deal with cooling towers. Manhattan even has a giant power transformer station with multiple steam vents that look like smokestacks; that's no worse than a nuke plant. Once you get used to the sight it just becomes part of the neighborhood.

Nuclear energy is green energy. Just because the externalities of nuclear are more obvious than the externalities of wind or solar does not make those other options any cleaner than nuclear.

Construction isn't expected to start until 2030 at the earliest. From TFA:

By that time, the AI bubble may have burst, or the grid may have gone even further into renewables, or both.

We need more power, but nuclear isn't the way anymore. I was a supporter of nuclear until around 2020, when I saw how fast solar and wind were gaining. Both have consistently shown enormous growth because they are not as specific in their land requirements, can be installed in small numbers, and the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for them has plummeted to become profitable even without subsidies. Storage is still a challenge, but we're seeing rapid improvements in that, too, with sodium batteries rapidly catching up in capacity.

TFA says that construction on these won't start until at least 2030, and if they make that, it would be amazingly fast for how reactors are built these days. In that time, wind is expected to expand by almost 50 GW and solar by 40 GW. Battery storage is expected to almost quadruple in that time. By the time the reactors are built, they will be a tiny fraction of the new power generation installed and they will probably be the most expensive part of it.

IAI hasn't build a fighter since the Dagger/Nesher that Israel sold to Argentina after the IAF was done with them. They tried to build an F-16 competitor, the Lavi, but stopped when the US refused to allow any funding to be used towards its development.

Israel likely has the technical capability to build a modern fighter. Whether it has the money to do so on its own is an entirely other matter.

> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.

They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.

No.

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one of those companies whose sole purpose seems to be annoying you by slapping their name as a watermark on a generic image you'd like to use in a meme, and force to spend 10 seconds finding somewhere else because you were never going to pay a stupid company to remove their mark on a bad picture you can find everywhere.

I wonder how those companies still exist, let alone make any money.

Anyway, the modern way to use copyrighted photos for free is to ask stable diffusion to regenerate it, because the AI companies have done all the data stealing for you and repackaged the stolen data into "models" you can use for free.

Surely all the people who buy Apple laptops because of the great screens want to have a glossy screen with fingerprints all over it. I know that when I am tweaking an image in Photoshop on a small display what I really want to see is my own little fingerprints on top of all the details. And what makes it even better is that I will get to have one UI for my touchscreen laptop and a different UI for my non-touchscreen laptop. Just like those touch bar laptops that everybody loved so much. And Force Touch, that worked out great, right?

If this is only going to affect devices that have Secure Core and Secure Boot enabled how many devices like that exist in the wild? Who would disable both of those other than a handful of developers trying to make Linux work on Surface computers and security researchers who want to break their stuff?

China doesn't have enough young workers to handle the coming explosion in memory care for its own people. They aren't going to take on anyone else's parents. And China is a nationalist ethnostate. The CCP does not like immigrants and is not going to open the gates to people who are too old to work.

If OpenAI really wants to attract users they should get rid of the Silicon Valley groupthink vomiting CEO who regularly says things that horrify many people. Dario Amodei may be an even bigger dork than Bill Gates but he tries to not sound like a mad villain from a science fiction movie much of the time. OpenAI is going to end up like Tesla if Altman is allowed to keep speaking in front of cameras.