NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-21-months/

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Insofar as currently-marketed AI is all about passing the (as currently understood) Turing test, and as spam filters are all about excluding machine-generated solicitations from our media inputs, it follows that ...

The single task generative AI is good for is producing spam.

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116104919958954997

This here; when the tools are fit for purpose and make engineers’ jobs easier, you have to pry them from our fingers. All you have to do is look at the dedication to vim/emacs adaptations you’ll see in older coders to see the lengths to which we go to use the tools we feel work best.

It is a massive quality red flag if you have to force your staff to use a tool.

If an "AI" company can sell you access to software that will replace a $250k/year software engineer. They're going to charge $249k/year for it.

That's how capitalism works.

Well, they're going to charge $20k/year at first, during the land rush phase. Wait for some competitors to die off. Keep it low a while longer to kill off the incumbents. Then it'll jump up a bunch, before finally being even more expensive than the original thing.

See also: Uber & AirBnB.

It's here! All power assets are now live on my GB Renewables Map ⚡

That's right, it's not just wind farms any more. Now you can see live and historic data for gas power plants, nuclear, grid batteries, biomass, pumped hydro and even a bit of solar.

Wind farms are still the default for now, though you can enable as many or as few of the other fuel types and your selection will be remembered when you come back to the website.

It's already live so go play for yourself:
https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/

bert: ernie, i keep thinking about that dumb thing i said to maria last week. and then i start thinking about all the OTHER dumb things i've ever said

ernie: ooh, you're doing the thing! the suffering thing

bert: the WHAT thing?

ernie: see, bert, there's pain - that's when you stub your toe. but then there's suffering - that's when you stub your toe and spend three hours mad at the coffee table, the floor, gravity and yourself for having feet

bert: i KNEW feet were a mistake

ernie: the buddha called it the second arrow, bert! first arrow is the ouch. second arrow is all the stories you tell yourself ABOUT the ouch, bert

bert: so the dumb thing i said was arrow one

ernie: and the three a.m. replay marathon is arrow two! you're just shooting yourself over and over, bert. with your brain

bert: how do i stop?

ernie: you notice you're holding the bow

bert: that's it?

ernie: that's a lot, bert! most people don't even know they're armed

bert: so i just put down the bow?

ernie: or at least stop aiming at yourself. the coffee table's not coming after you. maria probably forgot. and your feet are doing their best

bert: my feet ARE doing their best

Remember that time I ended up in court with Elon Musk after he bet me the cave diver was a pedo?

Anyway, here’s Elon begging Jeffrey Epstein for crazy parties on his private island, several years after Epstein was convicted of sex trafficking girls.

A $100B funding round is nuts. This is after raising $40B last year.

$20B ARR sounds impressive until you realize they are losing money faster than they’re making it and need massive infusions of cash every few months to keep going.