https://reneweconomy.com.au/port-augustas-new-solar-tower-power-project-clever-engineering-but-is-it-a-decade-too-late/

good article. 10 or 15 years ago i was really excited about this technology, & thrilled one was slated for SA, then mightily pissed off when it was abandoned. now it seems a historical window has passed.

#ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of Rowling controversy before accepting Harry Potter role
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/13/kei

It must be so exquisite to live in such a bubble that not only is one not personally affected, one does not even know of the horrible travails being suffered by so many who lost on life's lottery.

#LGBTQIA+ #GenderDysphoria #Transmisia #Transphobia #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #TransRepresentation #transwoman #transwomen #transkids

#Billionaires used to pretend to be philanthropists. Now they only spend money on #misanthropy, i.e., #AI. Benioff and #Musk are openly supporting #fascism by calling for the #military occupation of a US city for no reason whatsoever.

Roland Li: #Salesforce commits $15 billion to S.F. as Benioff’s support for sending troops draws more backlash

#SanFrancisco #California #MarcBenioff
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/benioff-salesforce-15-billion-sf-21098774.php

"It's unclear what "critical setup screens" Microsoft is referring to; when using the workarounds to create a local account, the Windows setup assistant still shows you all the screens you need for creating an account and a password, plus toggling a few basic privacy settings. Signing in with a Microsoft account does add multiple screens to this process though—these screens will attempt to sell you Microsoft 365 and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions, and to opt you into features like the data-scraping Windows Recall on PCs that support it."

They're critical to magical thinking about ever-growing share prices, a requirement having nothing to do with user requirements.

It's astounding that people (as they always have) will certainly continue to contort themselves around Microsoft's ever expanding needs, no matter how distant from actual personal purposes of using this OS.

Evidence for #misanthropy: as with so many other problems it requires a tiny bit of thinking ahead and minor effort to reap rich rewards by eschewing insatiably hungry and needy MS. But our species doesn't operate like that.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/microsoft-removes-even-more-microsoft-account-workarounds-from-windows-11-build/