@Daojoan This is actually a killer idea for a longform article for Australian media.
How *is* the democracy sausage made?

@sundogplanets IIRC the early SPS concepts relied not on beam density but on 365-24-7 power delivery vs. ground-based solar (of course they also relied on NASA's lying-through-their-teeth Shuttle launch cost / frequency projections). There were claims that birds could fly safely through the beam.

Whatever handwavy argument there might have been for SPS during the 1973 oil embargo was rather overtaken by cell efficiency improvements and battery storage, though.

@unusual_whales #WhoGivesAFuck #WorstPresidentEver

@aud @heidilifeldman

Agreed. Like Conservative better than Centrist.

Conservative is pretty good. Only thing is Republicans kind of have a lock on the word.

No I mean as it turns out, very publicly building giant military bases all over the MENA that are barely defended because "we run shit in this part of the world and don't you forget it" makes you remarkably vulnerable to an enemy with the ability to turn $2,500 drones into flying bombs and thus you PROBABLY shouldn't be starting wars with rivals in the region willy nilly because you're racist and Netanyahu has pictures of you raping pre-teen girls.

Anthropic is some of the shittiest humans alive constantly lying about their product and theatrically demanding it deserves human rights to juice their valuation so it's deeply tragicomic to see them get to score some easy points by rebuffing the US imperial death machine

@heidilifeldman

Maybe, that is another one that has been around, but feel like Centrist has too positive a connotation. Kind of like Moderate. Conformist has the quality of appeasement to corporate interests without calling them Corporate. Just spitballing...

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Trump to Meet With Brazil’s Lula Thursday for Economic Talks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/trump-to-meet-with-brazil-s-lula-thursday-for-economic-talks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules

@sundogplanets There comes a point at which we're better off crowdfunding the launch of something *designed* to initiate a LEO Kessler cascade, and I think we're close to it.

Apple Agrees To Pay iPhone Owners $250 Million For Not Delivering AI Siri https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/05/2244236/apple-agrees-to-pay-iphone-owners-250-million-for-not-delivering-ai-siri?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

I can't work out why people modify their cars to make them sound knackered. I've driven enough shit heaps that backfired and needed a new exhaust. It definitely wasn't cool then, and remains that way.

@julieofthespirits lol, see? I think WE should curate the Beatles AI future... this is so much better than what it's gonna be, which is George Harrison selling me Zesty Doritos and funeral insurance.

@brembs @albertcardona look at the incentive structures in science now. It’s all innovation, newness is fetishised, publish publish publish, only “high impact” journal publications really matter … where is the place for kind of boring, routine maintenance and enabling of others?