Qntm's Power Tower Toy
https://qntm.org/files/knuth/knuth.html
#HackerNews #Qntm #Power #Tower #Toy #ToyDesign #Creativity #Engineering
Chip Butty
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The UK has a power transmission problem. Wind farms in Scotland are producing huge amounts of energy, but getting it flowing to London in the south is costly.
New grid-enhancing technologies allow more #power to be transferred across the grid, without building new power lines.
The UK has a power transmission problem. Wind farms in Scotland are producing huge amounts of energy, but getting it flowing to London in the south is costly.
New grid-enhancing technologies allow more #power to be transferred across the grid, without building new power lines.
#Starcloud has been in the news for training the first #AI model in #space, but now the Seattle-area startup's CEO is laying out a grander vision that involves gigawatts of space-based #power and billions of dollars. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/starcloud-power-training-ai-space/ #datacenters #orbit
Billy Smith
and 2 others
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Yogthos
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Ross 🏳️🌈🏴
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NOLA: Tiny Louisiana parish becomes AI boomtown as Meta builds $10B data center: 'It's changing fast'
(paywall)
Chip Butty
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One pattern that never fails to repeat is the undending fold of former anti-government #libertarians to pro-government repressive #authoritarians after they acquire power.
There is nothing that should surprise you about this. They have not changed how they think at all.
If you start from the question: ”Who should hold power?”, and answer:”People like me.” When you’re not in #power, you call for libertarianism because it gives you power. When you are in power, you work to remove everyone else’s
NOLA: Tiny Louisiana parish becomes AI boomtown as Meta builds $10B data center: 'It's changing fast'
(paywall)
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
and 2 others
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Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction on climate change.
If a young woman studying for a PhD had been treated like this for nonviolent protest in, say, Iran or China, how would it be reported by our press?
One pattern that never fails to repeat is the undending fold of former anti-government #libertarians to pro-government repressive #authoritarians after they acquire power.
There is nothing that should surprise you about this. They have not changed how they think at all.
If you start from the question: ”Who should hold power?”, and answer:”People like me.” When you’re not in #power, you call for libertarianism because it gives you power. When you are in power, you work to remove everyone else’s
Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw6833
#HackerNews #Mechanical #Power #Generation #Ambient #Radiation #Renewable #Energy #Innovation
Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction on climate change.
If a young woman studying for a PhD had been treated like this for nonviolent protest in, say, Iran or China, how would it be reported by our press?
Em :official_verified:
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«Privacy is necessary for an open #society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the #power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.» - Eric Hughes (1993)
There is nothing more beautiful than the possibility of choosing how to present oneself to the world. Those who do not understand #privacy do not respect themselves.