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Climate@slrpnk.net•Canada Bets Big on Hydro and Wind Power | The country touts plans for what could be North America’s largest-ever clean energy investment, while doubling down on oil.24·1 天前The oil needs to stay in the ground though — everywhere, not just in Canada
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News@lemmy.world•Electric shock gloves already in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha
37·2 天前The problem is that they’re designed to leave no mark, so it’s really hard to prove in court that they were used. Perfect torture device.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Alle sehen und fühlen es: Die Flüsse sind leer, der Rasen ist gelb, die Luft dick. Deutschland erlebt die Klimakrise. Und wir bleiben vor lauter Scham einfach tatenlos.31·2 天前Vegans living socially connected lives built around mutual care instead of competitive consumption
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politics @lemmy.world•How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands
2·3 天前The NYT now makes people register. That’s why I have an archive link above. You do need JavaScript
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politics @lemmy.world•Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences |The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more closely resemble those from World War II. The change could cost billions
11·4 天前I think theyve been doing that periodically since 2017. Kind of run out here. The US is going to end up with a long-term capacity degradation because of this
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Climate@slrpnk.net•‘It’s due to climate’: the people of Stourbridge on the town’s wildfires | Thursday has been described by residents as ‘horrendous’, ‘distressing’ and ‘one of the scariest days of my life’1·4 天前Know your constituency. They’re viable in some, but not all.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Judge Rejects Suit That Sought Professor’s Emails on Climate Law
2·4 天前I literally included a bypass above. It’s new NYT policy for all gift links, so you’re going to see it a lot in this community
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Climate@slrpnk.net•‘It’s due to climate’: the people of Stourbridge on the town’s wildfires | Thursday has been described by residents as ‘horrendous’, ‘distressing’ and ‘one of the scariest days of my life’1·4 天前Whether that makes sense depends a lot on which country. Some Green parties (Notably in the US) behave as if they’re intentional spoilers to make the worst viable candidates win. Other countries, it makes a lot of sense.
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politics @lemmy.world•They Spoke English, Wore U.S. Flags and Attacked Fishermen. Who Were They?
3·6 天前If they’re like historic use of letters of marque, what’s special is that the fishermen had something of value, such as personal jewelery, which made it possible to kill them for profit
Probably written by Josh Marshall himself. He’s been around a lot longer than anything except Markov Chain generators.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•On These Motorcycles, the Thrill Is Electric
2·7 天前Motorcycles use a small enough battery that I’d expect to see a lot more battery swap, since you ought to be able to pick it up and make the exchange.
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News@lemmy.world•As US Offshore Wind Disappears, a Generation of Workers Is Left Behind
132·9 天前Immigration is a big lift. And often not legal.
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politics @lemmy.world•Beth, the Beloved Vacuum of a 92-Year-Old Iowa Senator, Has Died
9·10 天前Some like couches. Others prefer the suction of vacuum cleaners
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News@lemmy.world•The Color Recession May Be Permanent | Consumers are so afraid of getting colors wrong, they don’t use them at all.
3·10 天前It’s a lasting long term thing. Not just a recession thing
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Climate@slrpnk.net•ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change21·11 天前Which also reaches almost nobody.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?1·11 天前Which is to say she doesn’t support any utility-scale solar, which is necessary if we are going to stop burning fossil fuels
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Climate@slrpnk.net•The real energy use of agentic AI / Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts3·12 天前Some forms probably. A lot of earth observation produces better approximations using the same statistical techniques that LLMs use for producing language.
The fundamental reason I don’t expect LLMs to go away is that they wildly increase software engineers productivity. It’s a lot more cost effective to give an engineer an LLM than it is to give them a team subordinates.







The alfalfa growers hold snior water rights, so they can do whatever they feel like while everybody else suffers