Week 25

Spread of chaos is the rule, under the camouflage of "Israel's right to defend itself", and the general motto "never again" while making boat loads of money for the US arms manufacturers and other commercial interests. They have US congressmen on speed dial and on puppet strings. The genocided became the genocider via the most brilliant marketing campaign performed in modern history. The victimhood arbitrage still works, its investors are "in the money", they are making bank.

Muckers did not waste any time since then did they? "We have a safe corridor. Let's use it".. Onwards to the next weapon usage (and purchase) bonanza.

The National: "Israel has managed to establish 'air supremacy' over Iran due to its dismantling of Syria’s missile defences in the weeks following the collapse of the Assad regime, military analysts [stated]"

New catalyst improves clean hydrogen production to 99.9% efficiency.. Heng Liu of Tohoku University.. reports a cobalt–molybdenum catalyst that turns nearly every electron into hydrogen... Cobalt holds a sweet spot on the periodic table when it comes to catalytic activity. It has just the right balance of electron density to attract and release protons during hydrogen production... When combined with molybdenum, the alloy forms a conductive and stable surface that resists corrosion in alkaline solutions. That durability is essential for keeping large-scale electrolysis running without constant maintenance.

"'Plastic Becomes Hydrogen Under the Sun': South Korea Unleashes Solar-Powered Breakthrough That Vaporizes Waste Into Clean Fuel In a groundbreaking development, South Korean scientists have unveiled a revolutionary system that transforms plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel using sunlight, offering a promising solution to global waste and energy challenges"

One Company Under God

Wiki: "The flag of the East India Company is considered to have inspired the 1775 Continental Union Flag, the first flag of the United States, as the two flags were of the same design. This connection is attributed to numerous sources. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania once gave a speech endorsing the adoption of the Company's flag by the United States as their national flag. He said to George Washington of Virginia, 'While the field of your flag must be new in the details of its design, it need not be entirely new in its elements. There is already in use a flag, I refer to the flag of the East India Company'. This was a way of symbolising American loyalty to the Crown as well as the United States' aspirations, like those of the East India Company, to be self-governing. Some colonists also felt that the Company could be a powerful ally in the American War of Independence, as they shared similar aims and grievances against Crown tax policies. Colonists therefore flew the Company's flag, to endorse the Company"

RTO Insider: "Georgia Power Calls Largest-ever 50-50 Hydrogen Test a Success.. Mitsubishi Turbine Reaches 283-MW Output"

Brooke Harrington: "As their wealth has grown, [tech libertard's] long-standing opposition to government regulation has shifted toward a more extreme, neo-reactionionary, and antidemocratic frame of mind. Why should the 'fittest' men submit themselves to taxes, regulation..? Why shouldn’t they be the ones in charge, if not here in America then in their floating island 'network states' or on their interplanetary colonies? And if pesky government interference threatens the development of the miraculous tech that will allow these things to come to pass, why shouldn’t the American government be bought, infiltrated, and managed just like a tech startup, with total corporate control and the 'fittest' guys at the top of the roster?"

#Ukraine

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Hacker News: "They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot will start to become apparent around 100k tokens (with Gemini 2.5). They really need to figure out a way to delete or "forget" prior context, so the user or even the model can go back and prune poisonous tokens."

Hacker News: "I had a case yesterday where opus [LLM] was trying to do something with a library, and it encountered a build error. Rather than fix the error, it decided to switch to another library. It then encountered another error and decided to switch back to the first library. I don’t think I’ve encountered a case where I’ve just let the LLM churn for more than a few minutes and gotten a good result. If it doesn’t solve an issue on the first or second pass, it seems to rapidly start making things up, make totally unrelated changes claiming they’ll fix the issue, or trying the same thing over and over."

No more $\TeX$ for sci blogging.. Markdown and pandoc works great.

Lenin: "Every society is three meals away from chaos"

CNBC: "Modi told Trump that the U.S. did not play a role in de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan."

CNBC: "'Tariff engineering' is making a comeback as businesses employ creative ways to skirt higher duties"

Bannon: "The Iran War May Be the End of MAGA"

Fuckin Ted

They took a nice little tour all around Oz southern coast, even violated EEZ few times, to send a message. It was a serious collection of mil hardware on the sea, and a nuclear sub probably wasn't too far behind, well, below.

Daily Mail: "[2025/02] Beijing delivers bombshell show of force off Australia's largest city as Chinese warships are caught making never-before-seen move.. Chinese military ships spotted [about 300 km] off Sydney"

Taipei Times: "[2024/09] Japan sails first warship through Taiwan Strait.. The New Zealand and Australian navies also sailed military vessels through the Strait yesterday to assert the right of freedom of navigation"

#Werleman

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"@jbiserkov@mas.to

Western economists are like court astrologers of King Capital who are using complex science-looking mathematics to arrive at the conclusions their patron wants."

Stiglitz, Vanity Fair: "[2011] Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%..

Some people look at income inequality and shrug their shoulders. So what if this person gains and that person loses? What matters, they argue, is not how the pie is divided but the size of the pie. That argument is fundamentally wrong. An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year—an economy like America’s—is not likely to do well over the long haul. There are several reasons for this.

[G]rowing inequality is the flip side of something else: shrinking opportunity. Whenever we diminish equality of opportunity, it means that we are not using some of our most valuable assets—our people—in the most productive way possible. Second, many of the distortions that lead to inequality—such as those associated with monopoly power and preferential tax treatment for special interests—undermine the efficiency of the economy. This new inequality goes on to create new distortions, undermining efficiency even further"

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#Stiglitz #NovaraMedia

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InsideHook: "A Startup Linked to Peter Thiel Wants to Build the 'Next Great City' in Greenland.. Funded to the tune of $525 million, Praxis aims to 'revitalize Western Civilization' through a techno-libertarian city upon a hill"

"@Hypx@mastodon.social

It would be much smarter to build hydrogen pipelines for energy distribution instead. It will be repeat of of the fiber optics revolution, which saved us from the same shortage of cables that an all-copper Internet would've required."

Bloomberg: "There Aren’t Enough Cables to Meet Growing Electricity Demand.. The energy transition, trade barriers and overdue grid upgrades have turbocharged the demand for high-voltage cables."

"Solar hydrogen could be produced at 4.23$/kg in Saudi Arabia"

Bloomberg: "South Africa’s Public Investment Corp., the continent’s biggest money manager, and two development institutions have pledged $37 million to a fund for financing green hydrogen projects... The Development Bank of Southern Africa and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa will help finance the SA-H2 fund, which blends public and private capital. It is managed by a partnership between Hague-based Climate Fund Managers and Invest International, a Dutch development finance institution."

"@simon@procrastodon.net

@blindbat84 There’s a massive outage across everything that powers most of big tech. Let’s just take a moment to celebrate the fact that we’re all speaking from tiny corners of the internet and they’re doing just fine. :)"

TAP: "For 15 years now, engineers and quality control specialists have implored regulators, journalists and airlines to take a closer look at the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s first and only clean-sheet commercial airplane designed from scratch since the company’s horrific 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas. The smooth surface of the lightweight composite fibers used to construct the airframe can conceal deadly structural flaws, they warned. The non-union workforce that manufactures the jets in South Carolina is unqualified to stand up to “good old boy” bosses constantly pressuring them to ignore obvious nonconformities, install malfunctioning parts and cut every corner imaginable to get planes out the door, they asserted. Unsavory subcontractors have exploited Boeing’s lax standards to litter the assembly line with fake parts, they demonstrated."

"Multiplying like rabbits", that's a saying isn't it? A side effect of that is I guess more meat production.

Sure rabbits are "adorable" but also a great source of protein it turns out.. Rabbit meat is beneficial btw for more human metabolism types than chicken meat.

"Why rabbits are better than chickens"

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"@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk

'Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal. A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said.' We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized."

ZDNet: "Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux.. Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services...

Denmark wants to claim 'digital sovereignty.' In the States, you probably haven't heard that phrase, but in the European Union, digital sovereignty is a big deal and getting bigger.. A combination of security, economic, political, and societal imperatives is driving the EU's digital sovereignty moves"

IC: "As the West Bank is being annexed to Israel through blood and violence, many Israeli and international businesses and financials are tacitly supporting the ethnic cleansing with their business operations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

Recently, the Norwegian parliament rejected efforts to tighten rules on its huge sovereign wealth fund investing in companies operating in the West Bank. Despite Norway’s central role in the initiation of the two-state peace process in the 1990s, the Norwegians lawmakers voted by 88 to 16 against a proposal that would have ordered the fund to withdraw from companies “that contribute to Israel’s war crimes and the illegal occupation” of the West Bank."

H2 Central: "NEOM Green Hydrogen targets global market leadership: CEO

• Project serves as a model for large-scale hydrogen production

• Plant will be powered entirely by solar and wind energy, with a 2.2-gigawatt electrolyzer designed for continuous hydrogen production"

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Some kind of tough guy.. you don't like the jazz? C'mon. I'm getting ready for you..

H2 Central: "Hyundai Motor launches face-lifted Nexo hydrogen SUV.. The upgraded hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) model boasts a futuristic design that blends urban and outdoor utility, a driving range of up to 720 kilometers on a single charge and a high-efficiency powertrain with a maximum motor output of 150 kilowatts. It also features top-tier safety and convenience technologies for its class"

"A year after the oil embargo ended, Faisal was assassinated in Riyadh on March 25, 1975. He was shot and killed by a younger prince, Faisal bin Musaid, the son of his half-brother, who had been educated in the United States."

"King Faisal [of SA] was also a staunch advocate for Arab unity and a vocal critic of Israeli policies in the region. He used Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth as a political weapon, famously enacting an oil embargo against nations supporting Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War...

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