@Patrician

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Wasted wind power adds £40 to household energy bills, says think tank

When it is very windy the grid cannot handle the extra power generated, says Carbon Tracker.

BBC News

Didn't notice this when it happened, not sure why but I think it's an amazing achievement.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67700437

And this:-

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9508/nasas-curiosity-rover-clocks-4000-days-on-mars/?site=msl

Perseverance: Nasa's Mars rover celebrates 1,000 days of science

Nasa's Perseverance rover has done everything asked of it since landing on the Red Planet in 2021.

BBC News
X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news

EU launches proceedings against Elon Musk’s social media platform under new Digital Services Act

The Guardian

Leaving Twitter — Benedict Evans
“I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all for the foreseeable future”

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/10/23/leaving-twitter

Leaving Twitter — Benedict Evans

I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all for the foreseeable future.

Benedict Evans

Schrodinger’s cat is now so ubiquitous a reference that it’s often used by people who don’t actually understand it or what it even means.

And you can only tell if they really do understand by waiting to see what they say next about it, to see if that demonstrates any further understanding.

But until that next thing is said, it’s impossible to tell. So they essentially exist in a superposition of both getting and not getting the reference.

Elon’s tweet disparaging the need to support the Wikipedia has stuck with me. How could anyone, even a creepy libertarian who hates government find fault with wikipedia? The wikipedia is an independent not for profit corporation. It’s the way the libertarians always assure us public goods can still exist even in their fantasy futures. And in this limited area the wikipedia largely works. A backbone for the web of human knowledge. But somehow even this is still objectionable.
The fact that two former Trump attorneys have now confirmed — via guilty pleas — that Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election included criminal acts should be a much bigger story.