Mastodawn

“An electron can be sourced from coal, gas, sun, wind, or uranium; a combustion engine is married to a single fuel that must cross someone else’s chokepoint.”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
The EU should have been doing this just as much as China, and for the same reasons, but nobody was wiling to pay the insurance premium up front. Now we are getting dragged along in the undertow of US and Chinese energy policy.
https://www.ft.com/content/2f13778e-5946-450b-9df3-84c907a032c0?syn-25a6b1a6=1

The ‘new joule order’ is here. The west is last to realise

Electrification is the purchase of optionality and China bought more of it than any nation in history

Financial Times

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦1h ago

#SpaceX IPO'd and #Anthropic got its latest #Fable 5 model banned. What does it all mean?

Well, for one thing, it means that the #AI market is growing up. Financial and regulatory realities were always factors that were going to have to be dealt with, and now they are here.

https://findthethread.blog/Software-Is-Eating-Itself/

Software Is Eating Itself

SpaceX went public, popped nearly 20% on the first day of trading, and made That Guy a trillionaire. Meanwhile, Anthropic released its Fable 5 model, which is basically the Mythos model which was previously limited to approved users, and it quickly got banned by the US government.

Find The Thread

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦22h ago

I’m with the woman who said the problem is with e-bikes, so that’s where the regulation should focus. NL also allows motor scooters in its bike lanes, which already struck me as utterly insane. Get motor scooters and throttle e-bikes out of the bike lane, then review the situation. 🚲

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦1d ago

Datacenters don’t create local jobs and stress local water and electricity supplies. For once, the NIMBY response is absolutely warranted. And of course the whole #AI industry’s leadership yelling all the time about how they’re killing all the jobs doesn’t exactly help.

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Brent Toderian 1d ago

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost.

This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.

#citymakingmath

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Misty 1d ago

I feel like this whole Anthropic export ban thing should be a wakeup call to anyone outside the US that if you've been newly developing a dependency on a proprietary US cloud service the government could decide to restrict export access to at any moment, you've made a strategic error and should probably reconsider that.

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦1d ago

Martin 1d ago

Les fascistes d’il y a un siècle aussi ils étaient ridicules, incultes, souvent bêtes, et c’est pas ça qui les a empêchés de prendre le pouvoir et de commettre des atrocités. Je suis pas certain que c’est ça qu’on devrait leur reprocher en premier.

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦1d ago

First the Jaguar Type 00, now the Audi Nuvolari: slab-sided design has definitely arrived. I love the unapologetically vertical details that break up the flowing lines, and the hint of Murciélago* to the rear.

* the most beautiful Lamborghini unless it’s beside a Miura, don’t @ me

https://www.audi.com/en/innovation/audi-nuvolari/

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦3d ago

The thing I’m mostly hoping for from New #Siri is that it will have a way for me to correct it. The way this manifests most often is that I’m driving and I ask it to play some music — say, Pharrell’s “Happy” — and it decides that what I want is actually… the Oktoberfest version.
There’s no way back from that! I tried asking for “original”, “album version”, and so on, but oompah bands blared relentlessly. Just fix that, and I’m happy; I don’t need #AI help to plan a party. #iOS27

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦4d ago

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MJ Ray 4d ago

@cstross @pluralistic what terrible places are you buying coffee from where the staff are so poorly-paid that they accept tips on drinks orders? That sort of stuff is why I avoid Costa who have branded tip pots. A tip pot by a cafe till is usually a warning sign that the owner doesn't pay the workers properly.

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