Babies are impractical. They're noisy and they smell bad, except for their tiny pink toes which smell delicious.

All of this is held up by faith in the standard candle, which has recently been thrown into question. Type 1a supernovae might not be as consistent absolute brightness as previously believed. Without that? Shrug. We lack a yardstick to measure this.

If we knew how to deal with nuclear waste we would have done so. As of this moment effectively none of the US commercial nuclear spent fuel has ever been properly disposed of. In 77 years it adds up to a lot.

While China's CO2 output is the highest globally, per capita its output is just over half of the US. That's even without considering that much of China's output is as in this article, manufacturing pollution imported from other countries. The bill for this pollution should fall on the country that consumed the manufacturing output.

>the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014.

No mention that Microsoft sent executive Stephen Elop to dismantle Nokia as its CEO in 2010. Nor that in 2014 as part of the deal to acquire Nokia's phone business leaving the rest of the company to soldier on, Nokia insisted that Microsoft repossess him.

Of how much invested? Published numbers show plans for $80B ai splash. Anybody got to-date numbers? I see $14B on OpenAI and $20B for Nuance Communications. That's $34B sunk.

Also, is this crowing about as reliable as any other marketing babble? They mean to sell this service.

Don't Look Up

Watch it again.

https://youtu.be/zicGxU5MfwE?s...

The Slashdot discussion from crossing 400 ppm in 2013:

https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

This year's monthly average peak so far, and a new record, was 430.51 ppm in May.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/tren...

AI ethics

Vibes and snake oil

Hmmmm

But what if how the world really works differs from the intention of the policy?

Foxconn renames two factories in Zhengzhou to "Vietnam" and "India". Chinese government confirms by assigning territorial sovereignty of the loading docks to the respective countries.

Solar+battery means not having to participate in expensive old dirty energy. The grid can adapt or become nonviable.

When we terminated our Comcast cable internet service we took our mandatory leased equipment to their office and like everyone else took a selfie of us turning it in to the clerk because that's how trustworthy they are. When we terminated CenturyLink it was more fun. You're fired. Why? We got Starlink so you're fired. Hahahahaha.