blondie9x

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by blondie9x 8mo ago
Why was this flagged? I don’t get it.
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by blondie9x 8mo ago
How much do drones like the one shot down cost? Will taxpayers be getting a refund?
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The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones(bloomberg.com)
73 points by blondie9x 8mo ago|85 comments
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by blondie9x 8mo ago
Beyond its role in climate change, elevated concentrations of CO₂ pose a direct physiological threat to human health, ranging from inflammation to respiratory stress. The Trump presidency is trying to protect coal and oil for some reason. M
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by blondie9x 8mo ago
Are you able to find it on Google Maps? Having a hard time locating it. "Based on the results of this study, the Taklamakan Desert, although only around its rim, represents the first successful model demonstrating the possibility of tr
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by blondie9x 9mo ago
The best part of learning a language is being able to build connections with real people. It's about being vulnerable — learning to take chance — to embrace being uncomfortable. Somehow the uncertainty and vulnerability with other peop
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The Brain of the Greatest Solo Climber(nautil.us)
3 points by blondie9x 9mo ago|0 comments
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Stay-at-home sons are here – and they're not going anywhere(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by blondie9x 9mo ago|3 comments
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by blondie9x 9mo ago
I understand people not wanting to follow the news lately and the inclination in just tuning it out. But some things you can't tune out because by tuning it out the conditions of the world can deteriorate from our complacency. How sad
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by blondie9x 9mo ago
The answer is actually less technology. More in person community is the solution. How do you get people to talk to each other again? It has to come through forming community groups that can meet and enjoy life together in the real world. It
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by blondie9x 9mo ago
But what surprises me most in this entire debate is how little we talk about the biological cost of CO₂ itself. We focus so much on the globalized damage to the climate that we’ve overlooked the direct, physiological tax that combustion is
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by blondie9x 9mo ago
Such terrible waste of technology and environmental resources. Gotta be a better way. Maybe no vaping and some sort of paper patches instead?
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by blondie9x 9mo ago
This made me really nostalgic about mIRC. I miss Dalnet. The colors of IRC. How fast and reliable it was. The rankings of members and trying to build credibility with the community to move up in the channel. Fun times.
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by blondie9x 9mo ago
This is to appease the current US administration running the federal government that for some odd reasons is abhorrent to the idea of using cheap, cleaner renewable energy and battery storage to decarbonize our air and grid.
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by blondie9x 9mo ago
Renewables and battery storage energy are unstoppable. Why take nuclear risk when you can get more than enough from solar, wind, and geothermal coupled with battery storage?
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by blondie9x 10mo ago
It makes sense to see the number of questions decline over time as people google questions and get results. It would be interesting to look at the number of comments and views of questions over time to see if that has declined as LLMs have
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by blondie9x 10mo ago
This post is kind of sad. It feels like he's advocating for human depopulation since the trajectory aligns with horse populations declining by 93% also.
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by blondie9x 11mo ago
Have we ever fully realized the lessons of the "Pale blue dot" photo? When will we stop the wasteful fighting and over-consumption and finally embrace a cohesive sustainable lifestyle together to protect the only life we know of i
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The Dirty Secret of Biodegradable Plastic(bloomberg.com)
3 points by blondie9x 11mo ago|0 comments
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In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research(nytimes.com)
5 points by blondie9x 11mo ago|0 comments
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by blondie9x 1y ago
I'm glad he tried to look it up. But we shouldn't have to, all AI generated images/videos should be watermarked full stop.
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by blondie9x 1y ago
Unreal. Traveling is just not worth it right now.
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by blondie9x 1y ago
All the major airports. Just looks up the top airports in the US they will all be impacted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i... Official announcement tomorrow.
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South Korea's fishermen keep dying. Is climate change to blame?(bbc.com)
5 points by blondie9x 1y ago|0 comments
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by blondie9x 1y ago
“The only energy is the launch”, that’s false. Energy went into mining, extracting, refining, transporting all the raw materials needed to make these chips. This is typical tech industry green washing as the industry fails to accept its des
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by blondie9x 1y ago
The people selling these tools are doing so with a powerful narrative: Generative AI supposedly supercharges all that it touches, democratizing creativity, eliminating friction, increasing productivity, and pushing the boundaries of what is
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A Tool That Crushes Creativity – AI Slop Is Winning(theatlantic.com)
1 points by blondie9x 1y ago|1 comments
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by blondie9x 1y ago
Anthropogenic climate change is the most pressing issue humanity faces. Yet the best minds of our generation our focused on creating AI models to plagiarize human expression. The world deserves better then the onslaught of ad powered conten
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by blondie9x 1y ago
You gotta start thinking about the energy used to mine and refine the raw materials used to make the chips and GPUs. Then take into account the infrastructure and data centers. The amount of energy is insane.
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by blondie9x 1y ago
This doesn't include the energy for mining and chip production either. Can you imagine if it did? Then when you take into account the amount of water used to cool the data centers as well as part o extraction and production process? Th

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