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  • Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere

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  • There's not enough minable copper or lithium to make all of the batteries we will need. So e alternatives will have to emerge if we are to reduce the need for generating power on demand with fuels.

  • Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere

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  • This CO2 is acting as a reusable fluid in a closed loop. The initial capture of the CO2 costs energy, but the battery keeps using the same CO2 over and over again. So the question of efficiency should be more about land usage and maintenance of the rest of the parts and the labor needed for each megawatt stored vs what other grid scale energy storage costs in materials and labor.

    The rough reality is that batteries aren't going to be up to the task of grid scale energy storage unless they have a couple huge breakthroughs. Something like this is a far less materially expensive way to store energy for later use.

    Currently most grid scale energy storage is just pumping water up a hill and letting it back down through a generator. It is extremely limited in where it can be used and requires tremendous space to be effective.

  • New Starfeet Academy poster released

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  • Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption

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  • In fairness a government should be the only entity surveilling people in its own borders under most any circumstances.

    I'm pretty opposed to most any kind of surveillance outside of warranted due process, and I don't think that any domestic surveillance needs privacy for longer than it takes to do an investigation and prosecution.

    It's when governments are allowed to do things in secret and outside of the law that the whole concept of the law is undermined.

  • Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test

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  • Holy shit this is horrific

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • I don't have a computer to try it on and I can't be without a computer.

    Oh here, take a Linux laptop from my giant box of Linux laptops!

  • Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears

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  • From what I can tell, it looks like there are a lot of loans out right now, the rate at which they are issued has increased since the beginning of the Trump presidency has increased dramatically, and this is like really bad because If those loans don't get paid back then pillars start collapsing underneath the financial system. Lose too many of those and the whole thing comes crashing down.

    This one graph doesn't represent all of the bad that is going on, it's just a sort of a weathervane to tell you which way the wind is blowing. ...and right now it's blowing where the sun don't shine.

  • Why the White House is behind a rare Supreme Court push to limit gun ownership

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  • Never threaten.

    Even if you have the ability to defend yourself against a bully that is motivated by piss and vinegar, that doesn't mean you want a target on your back or for them to see you coming.

    My guess is that many of the people who are willing to resist kinetically aren't going to say anything or threaten anyone.

    One day, a thug kicks down the wrong door and punches his own ticket. The next day the paranoia grips the jackboots and they start passing gun laws in a hurry.

    Lots of cold dead hands after that and no one is willing to volunteer to be first in line to kick off that process.

  • Democratic senator’s anti-Trump floor speech ends after nearly 23 hours

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  • Some will show up and do things only because they feel the support is out there to act and be seen.

    I might make different efforts were I them, but they are at least paddling in the same direction I want to go. I just don't have the energy to resent how they choose to spend their outrage.

  • Democratic senator’s anti-Trump floor speech ends after nearly 23 hours

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  • Without even knowing what he spoke about yet, which I don't, I can respect the conviction of a person who uses their platform to speak when they have rare access to that platform and there's plenty to talk about.

    Plenty of us are going on marathon posting sessions on social media and it's to a much smaller audience. I have to empathize a little bit with anybody who feels exhausted or overwhelmed by the absurdity of everything but then gets up to speak for a whole damn day on one of the largest stages in the world

    Even if the room is empty the audience is global. It may be grandstanding, but that's part of the job. Getting attention to things you care about is part of the job. People put you there to bring attention to things that they hope that you care about.

    If government's going to work at all people have to give a shit about it and whatever this dude was talking about it's clear he gives a shit about it.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • A lot of people want a good tool that works.

    This is not a good tool and it does not work.

    Most of them don't understand that yet.

    I am optimistic to think that they will have the opportunity find that out in time to not be walked off a cliff.

    I'm optimistically predicting that when people find out how much it actually costs and how shit it is that they will redirect their energies to alternatives if there are still any alternatives left.

    A better tool may come along, but it's not this stuff. Sometimes the future of a solution doesn't just look like more of the previous solution.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • These kinds of questions are strange to me.

    A great many people are using them voluntarily, a lot of people are using them because they don't know how to avoid using them and feel that they have no alternative.

    But the implication of the question seems to be that people wouldn't choose to use something that is worse.

    In order to make that assumption you have to first assume that they know qualitatively what is better and what is worse, that they have the appropriate skills or opportunity necessary to choose to opt in or opt out, and that they are making their decision on what tools to use based on which one is better or worse.

    I don't think you can make any of those assumptions. In fact I think you can assume the opposite.

    The average person doesn't know how to evaluate the quality of research information they receive on topics outside of their expertise.

    The average person does not have the technical skills necessary to engage with non-AI augmented systems presuming they want to.

    The average person does not choose their tools based on what is the most effective at producing the correct truth but instead on which one is the most usable, user friendly, convenient, generally accepted, and relatively inexpensive.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • A lot of those things have a business model that relies on putting the competition out of business so you can jack up the price.

    Uber broke taxis in a lot of places. It completely broke that industry by simply ignoring the laws. Uber had a thing that it could actually sell that people would buy.

    It took years before it started making money, in an industry that already made money.

    LLMs Don't even have a path to profitability unless they can either functionally replace a human job or at least reliably perform a useful task without human intervention.

    They've burned all these billions and they still don't even have something that can function as well as the search engines that proceeded them no matter how much they want to force you to use it.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • Every particle accelerator that has been built has paid for itself in research value. There's basically nothing that comes out of AI research except the need for a bigger model.

    The comparison is poor. Particle accelerators are science, LLMs do not produce science.

    That's not to say that we couldn't build LLMS that would be useful for scientific purposes but we're not. That is not the function or the goal of the people building these things.

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    Do you think trump croaked?

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  • The volume of the power vacuum in the Republican party would likely be audible from Europe.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • Neoliberals Don't oppose fascists.

    He will work with the fascist to come up with a compromise that the fascists can live with. That probably means sacrificing vulnerable groups and rallying around right wing talking points.

    He is right wing. Gavin newsom is just right wing. the fact that there's a uneven deeper more belligerent right wing out there doesn't mean that he is somehow an alternative to it.

  • After uproar, 'South Park' pummels Trump again and hits at JD Vance, Kristi Noem

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  • 25 minute episode makes a headlines everyday until the next episode comes out which oddly enough isn't each week because of how culturally relevant the episodes are the fucking president threatened their network.

    I don't know that there's ever been a more culturally relevant show... Even back when they're only like three channels.

  • South Dakota election office publishes voter list labeling thousands as public assistance applicants: Information is included in newly required free version of statewide registration spreadsheet

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  • I'm not talking about the openly bigoted chuds out there I'm talking about the regular rank and file Americans who decided there was no room to question the the horrors we expanded from the shadows and filled every corner of our media with.

    Formerly kindly everyday american morons didn't just watch it, they cheered. They scolded they youth for thinking we were entitled to the bill of rights. It was fucking bizarre who swallowed the bait.

  • South Dakota election office publishes voter list labeling thousands as public assistance applicants: Information is included in newly required free version of statewide registration spreadsheet

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  • After the 2000 election it was obvious that Republicans played by different rules than Democrats.

    After 911 this country lost its fucking mind. Like millions and millions and millions of people just became fucking psychopaths. All of a sudden everybody was willing to split hairs on torture, child murder, forced starvation, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, double tap drone strikes The list goes on.

    We became completely fucking insane. It was obvious at that point this is where we were headed. That was when I realized I needed to register as a Republican. Democrats don't care about my primary votes if they even hold one but in my youthfully naive hope I entertained the idea that you could democratically affect anything.

    Aside from the extra good feels of getting to vote against Donald Trump multiple times, The only real benefit is that I get visits from local Republican party officials and they think I'm one of them.

    I always put on my home accent and complain about liberals but I don't think they understand that they are just liberals of the God bothering type to me and I seek to dismantle them from root to stem. ... ... But please tell me about this canvassing operation you have in my town... What kind of cars are they driving? Just curious

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    AFaithfulNihilist @lemmy.world

    I'm looking for recommendations for media with subversive themes that might be the target of censorship in the coming months.

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    a fuzzy Westley is accepting belly rubs at this time.