A lot of them seem obsessive about work. Musk is a good example. Claims to work long hours, although how much of that is spent shitposting on X is hard to say. But he claims he does, and seems to expect everyone else to as well. In reality he seems to contribute very little beyond being a good liar and hype man, and having some financial sense. He also uses drugs to enhance his performance and to relax, an option not available to most plebs.

Massive drought and wildfires, leading to flooding when it does start raining this week and the ground can't absorb it.

We may have to start looking at desalination, like Middle Eastern countries. Certainly we need to get much better at storing water from the winter. The UK is particularly bad for that, because we sold off publicly owned water utilities and they didn't bother investing in storage, they just paid out massive dividends for shareholders. Decades later and we are being hit by climate change too.

That's why it is so dangerous.

When ambient temperature equals of exceeds body temperature, your body can no longer radiate heat. The only way to shed it is via sweating, which risks dehydration. When it's also very humid, you can't even sweat it off, and you die.
That's assuming you are healthy, it's worse if you aren't.

It's also why in Europe you usually can't be made to work in an environment about around 32C, and even that is borderline.The laws vary but generally that is around the point where doing anything other than relaxing or seeking shelter from the heat starts to have very negative consequences for your health.

Microsoft in Japan, a country with notoriously long working hours, just tried a 4 day working week: https://mashable.com/article/m...

They found that productivity increased by 40%. So it's not the same pay for less work, it's the same pay for more work.

I used to work in this area for a short time, so I have some insight.

The company made what the newspapers called a "fish disc", basically flashing lights and speakers placed underwater to drive fish away. There were also UV lights to stop stuff growing on them. They worked but were problematic. Difficult to install and in need of a lot of maintenance. Not 100% effective either, the nuclear plants they were protecting still needed filters and regular cleaning, just less of it. And of course when one was hit by lightning and knocked out temporarily, the plant was in trouble.

Fighting nature tends to be a losing battle. Much better to try to integrate with it. If you are building say an offshore wind turbine, you just need to accept that stuff is going to live on and around it, and design it to deal with that. Fortunately it's not that hard with a stationary turbine, but for a nuclear plant that relies on fresh water for cooling, dealing with stuff living in the water and the water itself heating up is a major problem.

Oh yeah, some of those French plants shut down because the water got too warm in the heatwave.

IQ is bunk because it is influenced by education and practice. Therefore it is not a measure of raw intelligence potential.

Can we be sure that the open source code is what they are running on their website though? Because it feels like e.g. Elon Musk's posted get boosted more than others, even if his own Grok AI usually debunks them.

Sure, a company could use an increase in productivity to allow their workers to work fewer hours while getting the same amount accomplished... but capitalism doesn't work that way. Instead, the company will use the increase in productivity to get more work done in the same amount of hours as before... or if they don't, their competitor will, and thereby obtain a competitive advantage over them.

This is especially true for salaried employees, where the cost of the employee to the company is the same regardless of how many hours the employee works, and it is therefore in the company's financial interest to maximize the return on its salary "investment" by getting as much output from the employee as possible in any given pay period.

STFU will win

...on 5th Ave. and not lose any investors.

anything that includes me without my direct permission at a dinner party... last time I ever speak to them.

I'd turn their spectacles into suppositories, giving them a free colonoscopy that they'll watch over and over clockwork-orange-style.

While the institutions who employed him bare most of the blame, the media circus wasn't justified either. He wasn't the first and won't be the last one to get caught out fabricating stuff like this or stealing other people's work, but for some reason there was an excessive amount of coverage of this case.

Well, not "some reason", we know why. Black man hired to help with a lack of diversity and opportunity at Cambridge. Culture war bullshit.

...only to learn that bot maintenance was too expensive?

Russia has a history there. In the 70s they had missiles that could prioritise targets based on size (for attacking ships), and share target info with other missiles.

Ukrainian forests are now criss crossed by kilometres and kilometres of fibre optic cable. RF control of drones is dead due to all the jamming.