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Week 48

They wouldnt do it for that, no. U dont eff with an US admin that way. If they did it, they probably did it to help the good cop / bad cop routine by providing the bad cop part of the act.

"Israel killed the Iranian nuclear scientist to make it harder for the upcoming Biden admin to make piece with Iran"

Another seminar on my fav topic. Bring em on!

"@CoriBush

Taxes paid by billionaires have decreased 79% since 1980. Amazon paid 1.2% in taxes last year"

"@RBReich

Never forget that Big Pharma has raised the price of insulin by over 1200% since the 1990s and now one in four people with diabetes are forced to ration insulin in order to survive"

Why so many Rep pols showed loyalty to Trump election claims? Bcz they knew claims wld go nowhere, and there are still bunch of his followers in their districts, so then the question is when the shitshow ends, what do you want those ppl remember you by? As the jagoff who knifed him, or sorta stood by, repeated some bogus shit along with many others, than "celebrated democracy" after it was all over.

Captain Cook brought pickled cabbage with him to his voyages, he'd have tons of this stuff, and eat it. His crew would turn their nose at his cabbage, and he'd laugh at them, bcz he knew it kept sickness at bay.

"@KFILE

FLASHBACK: In 2018, President Trump attacked Carrots the turkey for refusing to concede he had lost the vote on the White House turkey pardon contest"

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I did eat turkey yesterday oddly enough.

Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face #music

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@H2Europe

#Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and #Hydrogen Renewables Australia have decided to cooperate to develop the 5 GW Murchison #Renewable #Hydrogen Project to be located near #Kalbarri in Western #Australia. 🇦🇺 👏

"South Korea's POSCO plans to eventually halt carbon emissions by switching to a hydrogen-based steelmaking process from 2021, company officials said on Friday. POSCO, the world's fourth-largest steelmaker, accounts for 10 percent of the country's total carbon emissions"

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"S Korea hankers for Aussie hydrogen... Energy-hungry South Korea could not be more confident about Australia’s future as a giant exporter of green [H2]"

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Vampire squid or not, they would surely know where their muuneeee comes from

"@GreenerGulf

Goldman Sachs Research forecasts $10Tn worth of addressable market for Green Hydrogen by 2050"

Dam YouTube is trying really hard with these ads.. Some countries regulate # of ads on TV no? Time to apply same logic here?

Space scifi is kind of naval submarine scifi. The ships are floating, can't just "step outside", etc. Living space size inside the ships are different of course.

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

"@hazergroupltd

An approval in principle has been granted for a 20,000-m3 liquefied hydrogen carrier developed by South Korea’s HHI Group’s Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and shipping and logistics company Hyundai Glovis"

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Daily Poster: "With millions of Americans trapped at home to protect themselves from a deadly pandemic during the holiday season, the Internet is one of the only conduits connecting them to friends, family and the outside world. Now, Comcast, one of the monopoly corporations that controls the conduit, is extending its fees on bandwidth usage to all 39 states where it operates — even as the company has received hundreds of millions of dollars of public subsidies and new tax breaks"

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"@bartbiebuyck ... Industry commits to put 100.000 Hydrogen fuel cell trucks on the road and build more than 1000 HRS by 2030!"

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I knew there was something behind this interest, other than the art piece itself. There is nothing special about the piece really.

"Before its theft [in 1911], the 'Mona Lisa' was not widely known outside the art world. Leonardo da Vinci painted it in 1507, but it wasn't until the 1860s that critics began to hail it as a masterwork of Renaissance painting. And that judgment didn't filter outside a thin slice of French intelligentsia. ...

After the Louvre announced the theft, newspapers all over the world ran headlines about the missing masterpiece.

'60 Detectives Seek Stolen 'Mona Lisa,' French Public Indignant,' the New York Times declared. The heist had become something of a national scandal.

'In France, there was a great deal of concern that American millionaires were buying up the legacy of France — the best paintings,' Dorothy Hoobler says. At one point, American tycoon and art lover J.P. Morgan was suspected of commissioning the theft. Pablo Picasso was also considered a suspect, and was questioned.

And as tensions were escalating between France and Germany ahead of World War I, 'there were people who thought the Kaiser was behind it,' Hoobler says"

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Democracy worked well.

"Deutsche Bahn, Siemens launch hydrogen trains trial"

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Wrote a Makefile. Been a while.

The "public" was for the Iraq War, 2003? There's clearly a wealth of untapped wisdom here.. Let's ask them everything 🤨

"@samstein

One thing that I will legitimately appreciate during the Biden years: the diminished likelihood of news breaking when you’re having dinner with your kids and trying to get them bathed and in bed"

"Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s richest man, is joining forces with Hyundai Motor Co. in a bid to give hydrogen fuel cell vehicles the boost they need to become more mainstream.

Ratcliffe’s Ineos Group will explore opportunities to produce and supply hydrogen to Hyundai, which has been making fuel cell vehicles in low volumes since 2013. Ratcliffe may also use Hyundai’s fuel cell system in the Grenadier, the Land Rover-like sport utility vehicle Ineos plans to bring to market next year.

Makers of cars and chemicals are finding common ground in their pursuit of hydrogen projects. Targets are being set globally to phase out the combustion engine and decarbonize industrial production. Ineos, which makes 300,000 tons of hydrogen annually, could play an instrumental role in helping set up the infrastructure Hyundai needs for models like the Nexo SUV to catch on in Europe"

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"@H2Haul

A coalition statement signed by 62 companies was unveiled at the #EUHydrogenWeek!

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It's still hilarious to me as an observation that our vacation activities, "rest", "fun" used to be simply "regular life" for the longest span of our lives, as hunter-gatherers.

"As the the Biden transition picks up steam, what started as early sighs of relief with Klain’s appointment has ballooned into a pronounced endorsement of Biden’s initial selections to lead some of the highest-profile positions in government, with progressives giving the president-elect a hat tip on the delicate balancing act of appealing to both wings early on"

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How do we know there has never been a civilization as advanced as ours before? Sure, ground shifts, soil moves can cover a lot of stuff. But earlier civ would have left something detectable by us, like our Arctic Storage. I am sure that thing has some kind of radio transmission to advertise itself, similar thing would have been picked up by now.

"After years of underplaying soft threats like disease and climate change, national-security establishment faces calls for a new approach. ... Former senior intel official: 'China, Russia, Iran, & North Korea get the most resources & attention. If those are one, two, three, four, this is 372 [on the priority list, the official said of pandemics]. It’s that far away.'"

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This era will go down as one of the weirdest f-ing times in human history.

"@delia_cai

another day of staring at the big screen while scrolling through my little screen so as to reward myself for staring at the medium screen all week"

Patriarchy didnt start with religion. It started with organized agriculture. And agriculture started around the Medi. Ground zero. Root of all ills.

The Rapaport MD book comes with a huge stash of C code. Fantastic.

Marcus is a Deep Shit critic

"Startup Founded By Cognitive Scientist Gary Marcus And Roboticist Rodney Brooks Raises 15 Million... The goal: To allow people to build robots faster, cheaper and with more reliability"

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Yeah, I have a feeling carbon storage should be in a rock; not requiring special equipment, and wont melt away easily. Basalt sounds good.

"Basalts Turn Carbon into Stone for Permanent Storage ... Scientists have shown that mineral carbonation can permanently capture and store carbon quickly enough and safely enough to rise to the challenge of climate change. ... In carbon storage experiments tied to geothermal power plants in Iceland, 90% of injected carbon dioxide (CO2) transformed into minerals in just 2 years. Standard carbon storage methods can take thousands of years to do the same"

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Why should gov official not read posts like mine? Bcz there is no institutional culture around what we do, just a guy typing away somewhere. I have no need to fit into a particular news cycle, and that can be a problem for the official who needs to roll with that cycle. There could be a nuke crisis somewhere, but the lone writer could be talking about weirdest things, venting on between bouts of screaming away, jumping up and down... Gov needs steady, and they wont be served by the unstructured chaos that is the net publishing.

That's not to say publications with net origin will not become the net WaPo or NYT. But when they do they should / would have an institutional structure, some culture, delibaration. It wont be bunch of posters sitting around in a circle beating off and typing whatever comes to their mind.

90/00s vs 10s scifi differences? During the 90s the enemy was "out there", out in space, through the gate, in a different galaxy, or no evil but just natural phenomenon, like a meteor or the Sun itself -- Stargate, Trek, Independence Day, Sunshine.

10s scifi is more desparate, evil is at home, people are being exploited by other people, and the victim / heroes are increasingly extremely young, just kids mostly. The Maze, Hunger Games, or the Deviant series.. Ender's Game has the enemy as alien, but the wars have gone to child level, which is sad. Surely the book predates the aughts but they must have picked that book to base a movie off of for a reason.

Allegiant, good scifi.

Michelle F looks much better in BSG. In TNG she was freaky thin. Now got little more mature, her ass filled out, looks primo... I dig it.

#budapest

"@AliNouriPhD

The longer we take to extinguish this virus, the more opportunities we give it to mutate, to evade our immune system, and possibly to even evade a vaccine"

Rapaport, The Art of Molecular Dynamics Simulation: "Modeling of matter at the microscopic level is based on a comprehensive description of the constituent particles. Although such a description must in principle be based on quantum mechanics, MD generally adopts a classical point of view, typically representing atoms or molecules as point masses interacting through forces that depend on the separation of these objects. More complex applications are likely to require extended molecular structures, in which case the forces will also depend on relative orientation. The quantum picture of interactions arising from overlapping electron clouds has been transformed into a system of masses coupled by exotic ‘springs’. The justification for this antithesis of quantum mechanics is that not only does it work, but it appears to work surprisingly well; on the other hand, the rigorous quantum mechanical description is still hard pressed in dealing with even the smallest systems"

What did I ask the honcho earlier? It was abt a particular style of molecular dynamics computation. There is always approximation involved, but there are many places to do that. For pairwise interactions, fast access to neighborhood is needed, but is it enough to get most neighbors? Well for this particular method, you have to get all neighbors. So says honcho. It will be followed.

But by all means sell through the new tools. One-sided. #ABC

I meant filtering on their end, obviously. Dont censor. Self-filtering will do. It will take discipline... relying on existing media, a few big papers. I dont think following some random dude on the net is beneficial frankly (that includes me). Trump both used and consumed socnet vociferously, but in the end, was it a net benefit to him and his presidency?

"How should politicians cut off / filter extra noise coming to them through new tech"

WTF? I had a question in my mind, at that moment received a follow, the follower (a company) had a recent tweet which had the exact answer I was looking for. 😶 Spooky.

AMF = Adios M.. F..ka

Just heard "he's gone AMF".

"Russia has banned entry to 25 British citizens in retaliation for similar measures by Britain, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Saturday, without providing their names"

"Twitter to hand over @POTUS account to Biden on January 20"

Against EU-RU alliance, same as Trump. See here and here.

"Joe Biden opposes Russian-German Nord Stream 2 pipeline"