Interesting episode of Rare Earth (okay, okay, they all are!) on fossil fuels, from Friday:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ww0s

#RareEarth #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #DontLookUp

#AlignedAI is still a #scam. Regardless of any #values supposedly programmed into #AI, it still uses enormous amounts of #energy, and #RareEarth #CriticalMinerals ill-gotten through #mining #extraction in the #GlobalSouth. It still has a limited group of #creators and #owners who hold immense #power through it. It's still #stealing the #work of countless #people, with no #consent or #benefit to them. And its #output is still #random with no #concept of #truth.

How is it #different at all?

Just saw @rareearth's video on #Esperanto. Wow is there ever some history to it; I did not know that!

https://nebula.tv/videos/rareearth-the-doctor-hitler-feared/
https://youtu.be/S8kV18UQRG8

#RareEarth

I'm glad to see the band #RareEarth getting a lot of mention in the news these days. I remember hearing this Detroit band described as "the only White band on Motown." They had a few hits in the 70s doing some stock Motown tunes.

I met some members of the band in a Motel 6 parking lot in 1990. I had just completed summer #Dead tour, and they were between shows on the county fair circuit.

Respectable guys, decent band, I'm glad they're getting attention. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmxgwuMMGrP9qIdbpCeQeNsntDK9dsTXw

Environmental tolerance is quiet a euphemism for destroying a region for centuries with giant acid lakes that threaten settlements with spills every time there is a heavy rain storm, all the while the acid is working on the integrity of the damn or something or other...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q95xzDQUxzI

But otherwise the above and the following video link are enlightening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD1eGSCvUO0

#China #GlobalEconomy #Economy #RareEarth #Deficit #trade

Trump landed in Beijing on Wednesday for perhaps the most important visit of his second presidency. While his rhetoric on protectionism to revive the US economy remains the same, the world and China have both changed much since his last visit. We explored this further in today's HT Number Theory.

Read on HT app: https://www.hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/the-sino-us-dynamic-trade-war-possible-peace-number-theory-101778727753070.html

#Trump #Xi #XiJingping #China #Summit #Trade #Economy #Tariff #DataViz #RareEarth #Geopolitics