Yeah that was the best time, the second best time is now.

Right it’s not nearly as popular now as when the story broke (by a lot), but it’s more popular now than it was a month ago. Meh.

Overstated

Word

Destroy a source of historical documents so that the past can be contested. Sow doubt, confusion, deniability. Hide evidence of past crimes, or inconvenient documents. Plant documents, etc.

There are dozens of us!

Batman and Dracula are characters that share a nocturnal bat related identity and are also wealthy recluses with mansions. So yeah, that’s pretty much the joke. Whoops Harley and the Joker got them confused.

https://xkcd.com/378/

They’re called ovens.

Bootleg social media feeds and gangsters fighting over social media territory?

Implosive compression?

Ventolin - Aphex Twin

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=C2KoHI25kGA

You said it was already late, so what’s the point, right? Oh, or is it better late than never?

Well best we don’t do anything then.

Dress the slide not for the ride.

A lot of things need to happen fast to reduce the impacts of climate change. Amongst them it’s gaining the knowledge of how to do all of the things that will need doing sooner or later. Lots of ideas will fail for various reasons. The more tools we work on the better off we’ll be.

The other thing is it really coming at the expense of other decarbonization efforts? Or is it happening in parallel with other things.

It doesn’t stop the other work well need to do, and I’m not convinced it’s a net negative. I think there’s room to experiment at this scale and make adjustments as we progress. Hydrogen for instance is its own can of worms and it’s not clear it’s the best solution, but maybe it will be. We should work on it.

Catastotree

What’s in there could only make you sick.

It wasn’t collectively known that software was hard to do right at that time. If it always performed as intended it would have made for a less expensive and perfectly safe machine. It’s the textbook case in doing software wrong because there wasn’t one that happened before it.

For the love of everything, at least let’s stop decommissioning serviceable nuclear plants.