@fesshole Charles the Short.

the frustrating thing is that literally anyone who has thought about language and technology for fifteen consecutive seconds could have told you that autocomplete and other writing tools influence beliefs (and *have* been telling you this, over and over, for decades). the other frustrating thing is that slop-pushers *brag about their ability to do this* and right-wing actors are actively exploiting it, but in polite company everyone pretends that's not the case https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/116219772468880168

@DemocracyMattersALot
Trump might not be to blame, due to organic brain disease.
But the Republicans elected to Congress have failed in their duty.

@rnzbot_political No oil, lots of wind, adequate sun, lots of mountain rivers, some tides ocean currents.
And a lot of political money from outside?

@quixote I've stood on the Rance Estuary barrage and been very impressed. It looks improved to me, by the tidal power system.
But there are few suitable sites in the world.
The Korean one uses a natural lagoon.
The Severn Estuary has a large tidal range, but damming the whole thing seems excessive, so make circular dams (also allows alternating for continuous extraction)

The Pentland Firth I've crossed, and there's a lot of ocean current energy there, more useful than tide.

@quixote Now building walls for lagoons or a single dam and locks across the Severn estuary would produce a metric shitload of power, but be a very big project very expensive and take a long time.
But it might plug in to the connection at Hinckley Point about when the nearly built fission boiler has run its life ;)

Same argument there - build a lagoon and you get some power,. Build another and double it, carry on and after 50 years you've had a lot of energy out of it.

@quixote yes. The French made a major effort in the 1950s and built "50 in a decade" which does point out that you can do the stages in sequence, an idea behind the small modular reactor _stories_.

The one in Somerset, on a site already used for two, has had about a 25 year run up, but now has tops on both boilers, and another couple or 5 years should see it generating.

I think we probably need a reactor or several in 20 years, so we had best build them, but meanwhile a MWp/week will help.

@jwildeboer that would be coals to Newcastle.

@jonshell
I think it would be cells and modules which would be repurposed rather than the whole battery, usually.
A whole battery would go into a vehicle of the same sort to replace a failed (early) battery.

The modules and cells have less variation, and are more hackable.

@yogthos
Do go on being amazed by that.

The way to Mount Doom is open for hobbits. The only thing prohibiting ring transport are 50,000 orcs, giant spiders, Nazgul patrolling the skies for eagles, and a giant malevolent flaming lidless eye, tirelessly casting its gaze here and there.

It takes effort.
They have, or at least had, deep ranks of experts on every geopolitical area and problem, keen to offer information, answer any questions put.
But what they want is agreement and the appearance of loyalty.

I like #fission #boiler #steam #power but if you start putting blocks of #solar panels down and connecting them to substations you can do it in many places and in sequence, and each 1000 kW you do is another 300 kWh per day. Add a #battery here and there, and you spread that through the whole day.

Fission takes a #decade, or perhaps 5 years (or 30) before a turbine spins a generator, and yes, all day and a GW but power next #winter is highly valuable.

And #wind, onshore...

@cstross Meat puppet?

Chinese #OpenSource: A Definitive History - https://interconnect.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-a-definitive this is very good, but clearly needs to be expanded into a book... #rebelcode #china

Why stop at Bats.
Try it on batty humans.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00795-3?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=07feb25bf9-nature-briefing-daily-20260312&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50157536

#vaccine #Aedes #Nature

@glynmoody
Charge #parking per linear metre: Smart2 cars and old Fiat 500s park end-in, cheaply.
Charge per square metre parked on: Range Rover drivers buy Spectrum Pursuit Vehicles (SPV) and stand them up on end ;)

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@fatsam/116216674976957047

#Heinlein #GloryRoad #HerWisdom #Star #Empress of the universes.
A story with good entertainment value, and as always a stimulus to thought.

@iaintshootinmis
I can see why a company etc might want that, but they'd be unwise to actually have it.