A friend of mine sent me Iceland (the UK supermarket)‘s official “fuck the management consultants” page, on their actual website.
https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/
I love it.
My cousin seems to think my fears about Pierre Pollievre taking away women's rights and building concentration camps are overblown. I reminded her that Trump is literally sending US citizens to concentrations camps. No due process, nothing.
Her response?
"They can't just take people off the street. There must be a reason they are taking them."
And this my friends, is how Nazi Germany happened.
Things took a MAJOR turn for Apple's App Store:
- In the Epic v. Apple case, the court has found Apple in willful violation of a previous injunction on anticompetitive conduct
- Effective immediately, Apple can no longer impose commissions on purchases made via external links or have a say on link placement
- An Apple VP lied under oath and the court is referring to the U.S. Attorney to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate
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Filing: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25924283-epic-v-apple-contempt-order/
@tpuddle @clanger9 @Sustainable2050
Flywheels are actually being used for frequency inertia already.
The most prominent one might be the big one in Ireland to deal with a loss of grid connection to Britain:
https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/stories/irelands-great-grid-stabilizer.html
But they are being rolled out in Germany for a while now, too:
https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/press-releases/siemens-energy-technology-stabilizes-german-power-grid.html
And talking of Spain, there are some planned on the Canary and Balearic Islands:
https://new.abb.com/news/detail/116318/abbs-integrated-technology-will-stabilize-the-power-grid-as-spanish-islands-transition-to-green-energy
A list of older examples can be found here:
https://www.entsoe.eu/technopedia/techsheets/synchronous-condenser/
SXSW is coming to London from 2-7th June, and it's exactly as you might expect: Expensive, AI, NFTs, and a bunch of people you probably want to ignore.
I propose FKFJ: The exact opposite of SXSW, on the same dates.
An distributed affordable community thing across London, about interesting technology, music, and art.
No central organisation. Just put on an event. We'd have a website to find them all.
Yes?
Uhm, a new ChatGPT version just dropped and GeoGuesser is now a solved problem.
PSA: When posting any outdoors photos, update your threat model from "someone skilled and dedicated could theoretically locate this" to "any stalker can do this for 20€/mo"
https://xcancel.com/arithmoquine/status/1912671688874926575/