Week 5
"@ashleygjovik@mstdn.social
The weather alerts for the SF Bay Area are terrifying
The Bay Area is one of the most polluted areas in the world
'Mitigation' for most of the dangerous toxic contamination has simply been 'containment' of the polluted soil & water
Floods & mudslides 'un-contain'"
"@Hypx@mastodon.social
German, Belgian firms plan 400km #hydrogen pipeline in North Sea"
PV Tech: "Australia, Germany collaborate on green hydrogen with A$110 million in funding for four projects"
"An emblematic project consists of using a hydrogen fuel cell power source to generate sufficient electrical power, in the range of 400 kW, to feed all the non-propulsion systems of next-generation aircraft. Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse is developing this power generation system as part of the France Relance (France Relaunch) plan with the support of the French Civil Aviation Authority (Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile)"
PoA: "Masdar, one of the world’s leading clean energy companies, Port of Amsterdam, SkyNRG, Evos Amsterdam and Zenith Energy Terminals have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the development of a green hydrogen supply chain between Abu Dhabi and Amsterdam to support Dutch and European markets"
Ben-Hur had people with red capes - Roman generals. Clearly ppl with costumes have been portrayed in cinema before. Some are just hating
Direction sounds fine.. can't wait to see the work. Interesting part is finance news carries such stories, once comic book movies made billions, they've become newsworthy - they are now binness.
CNBC: "James Gunn unveils DC's new film and TV plan"
H2 View: "GreenGo Energy has announced €8bn ($8.7bn) plans for a 4GW green energy park in the Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality, Denmark, which is hoped to position the country as a pioneer in the Power-to-X (P2X) industry and hydrogen"
More excerpts from the #Cole book
It demonstrates the current state of AI pretty well
CatGPT
Al Monitor: "BBC Arabic radio off air after 85 years, an 'end of an era'"
Al Jazeera: "Russia claims village near embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.. Defence ministry says Blahodatne captured"
Irish Times: "China says US started Ukraine conflict and is profiting from it"
TASS: "Poland continues to buy Russian oil from Druzhba pipeline in January"
The Independent: "Rishi Sunak rules out fighter jets for Ukraine as war could stretch into 2024"
TASS: "According to Mr Johnson, the Normandy Format meetings of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine in support of the direct dialogue between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk provided for by the Minsk ‘Complex of Measures’ were nothing more than a ‘diplomatic charade’"
Reuters: "Australia and Germany have earmarked 35.5 million and 54.4 million dollars, respectively, towards a joint initiative to establish a green hydrogen supply chain, Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen said on Friday"
Businesswire: "Triton EV Becomes First Indian Auto Company to Announce Hydrogen Fuel-Powered Trucks"
CW: "Cryomotive’s CRYOGAS solution claims the highest storage density, lowest refueling cost and widest operating range without H2 losses while using one-fifth the carbon fiber required in compressed gas tanks"
This guy is good
Juan Cole: "This book puts forward a reinterpretation of early Islam as a movement strongly inflected with values of peacemaking.. Life in [later] medieval feudal societies did not encourage pacific theologies, and Muslims in later empires lost touch with the realities of the early seventh century. What if we read Jesus’s life and thought only through the lens of Pope Urban II, who launched the sanguinary Crusades in the Holy Land with the cry, “God wills it!”?
Below Juan Cole analyzes Israeli culture as an extension of where its different immigrants came from, rather than an homogenous culture of transnational religion which stays the same no matter where it is at. The larger host culture is key. Heritage means little.
"[There are protests] against the judicial overhaul pushed by the Netanyahu government.. 'Netanyahu wants to talk with the Americans about Iran. They want to talk with him about the possibility that Israel will turn into Iran.'"
Bonobo - Bambro Koyo Ganda #music
Arab News: "Lula da Silva on Wednesday called for the South American trade bloc Mercosur to urgently seal a free trade agreement with the European Union before negotiating with China"
Al Monitor: "Egypt's Sisi meets Modi, inks 'strategic partnership' on landmark India visit.. The trip could lead to greater cooperation between India and Egypt on trade, the Suez Canal, green hydrogen and more"
ABC News: "A 2018 Justice Department study of state and local law enforcement training academies found that the average length of core basic police training in the U.S. is 833 hours, or less than 22 weeks...
In comparison, police recruits in Japan get between 15 and 21 months of training. Police in Germany get 2.5 years of training. And in Finland, police education takes three years to complete..
Many police academies in the U.S. still resemble military boot camps, with cadets in buzz cuts and hair buns getting yelled at by drill instructors.
'Barking orders and giving commands and sort of a military kind of thinking -- it's not a problem-solving approach. It's not critical thinking,' Wexler said.
Much of the training in American police academies emphasizes skills like marksmanship and defensive tactics, with less focus on so-called 'soft skills' like communication and crisis intervention"
Yahoo News: "Memphis police's Scorpion unit is permanently deactivated after Tyre Nichols' death"
"@Hypx@mastodon.social
#Hydrogen will drastically reduce our need for copper..
'[NYT] A Copper Mine Could Advance Green Energy but Scar Sacred Land'"
"@CORDIS_EU@respublicae.eu
[Did you know] that 🇪🇺 wants to reduce emissions from heavy-duty #vehicles by 1️⃣5️⃣% from 2025 onwards?
#EUFunded project ´H2Engine´ brings an innovative contribution to meet that target, by transforming a standard diesel into #hydrogen #engine
Learn more ➡️ https://europa.eu/!3rcgFv"
Libertards, goldbugs don't understand economics. Cant construct a modern economy on top of a limited-supply rare metal. Want to be thrifty, be thrifty - do not need gold for that.
Today's libertarian likes gold, dislikes imperialism, but they do not realize gold historically is a vessel for imperialism, not an imaginary era of thrift. Only a king could have precious metals dug up and turned into money and ask that money to be paid to him in tax so his army could be fed. That's how gold became money, it was useful for kings and opressive, plundering empires.
Note he associates gold with expansionist, feudal imperialism.
Rereading parts of the great Graber interview; DG hit the nail on the head on many subjects. That point on religion is right on the money - all religion, at its core, is left-wing (sadly they get co-opted and are made to serve the state - see Romanized Christianity, or -Third Rome- Ottoman Islam).
Graeber: "In the Middle Ages it all shifts back again — the great religions, which really started as anti-war movements, take over, the armies are disbanded, cash disappears, people go back to virtual money (both checks and paper money for instance were Medieval inventions.) Then, after 1492 it swings the other way, again — we’re back to gold and silver money, vast empires, slavery comes back"
Burying the dead with worldly items is a continuation of <10K yr old agrarian era of ancestor burials, the buried ancestors were later worshipped since they now represented a connection to (arable) land vital for survival. See Morris.
Pharaoahs were an outcome of an agrarian civilization, empires built on the back of the farmer class. Rome, Otto, the Han were not different civilizations but variations of the same.
4-5K years is nothing compared to 300k of human history. Not a big deal.
The Guardian: "Archaeologist hails possibly oldest mummy yet found in Egypt.. The 4,300-year-old mummy was found at the bottom of a 15-metre shaft near the Step Pyramid"
"@aarnegranlund@mastodon.social
We're above zero degrees C in the middle of the winter once again. This is abnormal for our latitudes, especially for the third week"
Fuelcellworks: "Seattle-based First Mode and Anglo American have closed a complicated $1.5 billion transaction that will remake First Mode as a clean-energy company for heavy industry - and shift its headquarters to London...
The business combination, which was announced last year, blends First Mode’s engineering operation with Anglo American’s nuGen effort to develop a zero-emission system for hauling ore. First Mode created the hydrogen-fueled hybrid powerplant for Anglo American’s nuGen mining truck, which made its debut in South Africa last year as the world’s largest zero-emission vehicle"
IMO the problem has more to do with culture, and declining quality within fields, rather than lack of people able to work across fields. Funding has been flowing to shiny-object-but-fruitless projects, the culture rewards "getting shit to work".
Nature: "PhD training is no longer fit for purpose.. candidates are inadequately prepared for the cross-disciplinary working and large teams that characterize cutting-edge science today"
Iran is in deep shit. Israel, Iraq, Pakistan.. The list goes on.
NYT: " Attack on a Munitions Facility.. The government did not say who was behind the attempted attack, but some Telegram channels affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards pointed the finger at Israel"
Some claim TRY wants a piece of that gasfield action, trying to get it through their poodle KDP. If PUK leaves "Kurdish" KRG joins Iraq, that would leave the rest empty handed. Apparently there is already a KDP ambargo of sorts on Suleymaniah, it might happen.
And of course it is being attacked
Kurdpress: "Local media in the Iraqi Kurdistan region have reported that Khor Mor gas field in the Kurdistan Region’s Chamchamal County in Sulyamaniyeh was targeted with rockets on Friday morning"
Khor Mor
u.sm_plot_kurd()
plt.plot(44.82053178,35.1638440,'x')
Reuters: "[2022/12] Some [Kurdish] PUK officials say privately that without compromise on a range of issues, the party might eventually break away and form its own administration in its Sulaimaniya stronghold. The antagonism [with KDP] is also complicating a project to expand one of the biggest gasfields [Khor Mor] in Iraq, which is in PUK territory, damaging the region’s hopes of starting exports to Europe and earning much-needed revenue"
Reagan-era pro-market tough guy balancing the previous era's drugged-out hippies #zeitgeist
Pepsi, Coors..
Holy Product Placement
Nippon.com: "Russia's defeat in the war in Ukraine is 'unthinkable,' former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Wednesday"
According to Pompeo book Kim (NK) said he needed the Americans in South Korea to protect him from the CCP, and that the CCP needs the Americans out so they can turn NK into a vassal state. Maybe Pomp is blowing smoke but interesting data point anyway... We know so little of NK, CH-NK relation might be rockier than previously thought.
"@spencerdailey@journa.host
If you had said 3 months ago that I'd be boosting posts about decentralized protocol projects, I'd have channeled years of web3 skepticism into a categorical denial. But here we are in blockchain-less Mastodon-land, which has totally rehabilitated the brand of 'decentralized' and reminded us of the great successes of email, internet, and torrent tech, and that we should want more"
BBC: "The race to make diesel engines run on hydrogen.. Engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) say they have successfully modified a conventional diesel engine to use a mix of hydrogen and a small amount of diesel, claiming their patented technology has cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 85%. It's the work of [researcher] and his team at the university's School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. 'The interest in converting an existing diesel engine into a clean-burning hydrogen engine is extremely high,' [he] tells the BBC"
Howcatchem rather than a whodunit is it? Like Columbo.
Poker Face, S01E01 - good casting, likable lead.
"@anildash@me.dm
I've spent the last few months bringing my 23+ years of blog archives up to date.. Tonight's fun discovery is Marc Andreessen affirmatively citing my work as 'the smartest thing anyone has said' about the inevitability of a federation of independent networks connected by an open standard to win against Facebook and similar walled gardens. Six months later in June 2008, he joined Facebook's board"
But employee compensation as part of corporate revenue is going down. It's been going down since the 70s. Not good.
Scratch that - still going strong
UNRATE U6RATE REAL_UNRATE REAL_UNEMP_LEVEL
DATE
2022-11-01 3.6 6.7 8.127541 13372.0
2022-12-01 3.5 6.5 7.781603 12837.0
YoY looks less stellar than QoQ, sign of cooling down?
GPP QoQ
2022-07-01 3.243338
2022-10-01 2.891577
GDP YoY
2022-07-01 1.942138
2022-10-01 0.959254
H2 View: "‘Hydrogen is on the move’, says new Baker Hughes report.. Hydrogen looks set to be a priority among businesses involved in energy and hard-to-abate industries moving forward, according to a new report"
H2 View: "US DOE launches $47m funding opportunity for hydrogen delivery, storage, and fuel cell technologies"
One merit point for the homie. The opposition is already talking to an H2 expert, so now both major parties are involved with clean fuels.
H2 Insight: "Green hydrogen targets and incentives.. [TR] has unveiled a new national Hydrogen Technology Strategy and Roadmap that contains new targets for green H2 production, a plan to introduce an incentive mechanism for the local production of equipment, and roles for blue and turquoise H2 and hydrogen blending into the natural-gas grid"
You're a disease and I'm the cure
"Scorpion Unit".. Apparently they roll up on people in unmarked cars, yell and scream point guns at their heads etc. WTF? White police, black police doesn't matter - the culture is key.
LA Times: "In early 2022, as violent crime rose in Memphis, Mayor Jim Strickland set out his ideas for returning safety to the city.. At the top of his plan: Increase funding to the Memphis Police Department, give raises and bonuses to officers, and continue the usage of the city’s newly formed 'SCORPION' unit, a specialized group of four roving 10-person teams"
Forbes: "5 Black Memphis Cops Upheld Institutional And Cultural Racism In Tyre Nichols’ Murder"