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".

I download all my books DRM-free from bittorrent.

My ebook reader is an ancient Sony PRS-650, it still works fine and it has no trouble reading files that haven't been messed up by Amazon. What a concept eh?

"What about the book's authors who aren't getting paid when you download their stuff for free?" I hear you say:

Yes, I wish I could pay for what I downloaded. But I can't. The best option I could find was to buy the paperback as well, so some of my money would trickle back to them. But that's mighty stupid and totally not environmentally-friendly.

I did try to pay an author directly once (the late Ian M. Banks) but he send me an angry email back saying even if he got money from me, I was robbing his editor and distributor, and I should just buy his book normally - which I would, if that didn't entail leaving an undeserved cut to effing Amazon.

So there we are: there's no mechanism to legally buy books that aren't hamstrung by DRM. So honest people who value their consumer rights can't be honest.

Wood burning is very much alive - both old-stylee polluting open-fires and stoves, and ultra-efficient pellet, wood-chip and wood dust burning in power stations. And it's renewable. Try visiting any nordic country some day...

Also, just because burning wood has downsides doesn't mean it has to be ditcheds it entirely. Solve the downsides instead...

CloudFlare was an aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation. Now it's an AI-powered aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation.

Why don't I feel excited about it?

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.

Crypto grift, AI bubble and psychopathic billionaire CEO.

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.

Yes, that's because there have been a lot more stupid humans doing stupid things to databases for a lot longer than AI agents.

So tell me: if AI is no safer than people, what's the point of replacing humans with AI?

and animate it eating your face when the AI agent wastes your entire database.

The people in charge of IT.

That fits...

if they had known he'd turn into a raging Nazi.

Then again, they probably would've. It's not like billionaires have any principles...

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are quire safe then.

It was increasing, but from 2025 on it seems to be decreasing; point is that their solar buildouts are so vast that they simply don't need as much coal any more.

And the kwh from solar is cheaper.

Tim Cook had a brilliant career, but he had to embarras himself by sucking up to the orange utan.

Enjoy your retirement TIm Apple, you nauseating man.