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Since its founding in 2014, the company raised around $450 million in venture capital funds and other investments. While there is still a small smattering of startups trying to build hyperloops, the demise of one of the biggest hyperloop companies signals the end of the dream that originated with Elon Musk’s so-called “alpha paper” in 2013. It…
“Hip-hop being a voice for the voiceless, this was an opportunity for me to give a voice for the environment.” https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2023/12/22/a-climate-change-poem-turned-hip-hop-song/
For MY2022, the EPA says that the average real-world CO2 emissions for all new vehicles fell by 10 g/mile to 337 g/mile, the lowest average it has ever measured. Similarly, real-world fuel economy increased by 0.6 mpg for MY2022, to 26 mpg—this, too, is a record high and the single-largest year-on-year improvement for both CO2 and mpg…
Zithers are German in origin, though some of the earliest zither-like instruments date back to 400 BCE China. The laser cut version [Nicolas] created had five strings to hammer on, though the type used in classical music arrangements typically contain upwards of thirty strings. The zither family of instruments may have given way to the…
Disney’s relationship to copyright is wildly contradictory. It’s the poster child for the public domain’s power as a source of inspiration for worthy (and profitable) new works. It’s also the chief villain in the impoverishment and near-extinction of the public domain. Truly, every pirate wants to be an admiral. Disney’s reliance on – and sabotage…
The hosting of the recent COP28 climate summit by the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s leading petroleum exporters, exemplified exactly this puffery and, sadly enough, it’s just one instance of this greenwashing world of ours. Everywhere you look, you’ll note other versions, but it certainly was a classic example. Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed…
Yet Another Vector for ML Fuckerytm Training set auditing… it’s a *must* A popular training dataset for AI image generation contained links to child abuse imagery, Stanford’s Internet Observatory found, potentially allowing AI models to create harmful content. LAION-5B, a dataset used by Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI and Google’s Imagen image generators, included at least…
On December 14, the country launched its reusable spaceplane from the Gobi Desert, as the state-run news agency Xinhua reported at the time. According to the brief update, its third flight will be used to verify reusable spaceplane technologies and carry out science experiments. But according to amateur astronomer and satellite tracker Scott Tilley, who’s been closely tracking the…
Some people, mainly from the privileged West, think that colonialism is long over. Others are sure that colonialism has never stopped. This book explores a third possibility: that not only is colonialism still continuing, but that right now it is morphing into its most powerful version yet. We call this data colonialism. Data colonialism is…
When you make a mushroom chocolate bar, you tap into an incredible synergy between chocolate and psilocybin. Chocolate, particularly cacao, isn’t just delicious—it’s a trip-enhancing powerhouse. https://psychedelicspotlight.com/how-to-make-a-mushroom-chocolate-bar/
A skootch of hope… Aspiring to objectivity is not the only option. But professional journalists need to compete against voices that draw on partisan and ideological affinity to claim their authority to tell the truth about public life. In a society in which the majority of the population are not strong partisans, there should be…
By exposing libc functions to our module, and granting it capabilities to access resources outside of its environment, we are now able to write programs that look much more like the native binaries we are used to. That’s enough to get us started, but check back for more posts as I continue diving deeper into…
The problem for AI is that while there are a lot of risk-tolerant applications, they’re almost all low-value; while nearly all the high-value applications are risk-intolerant. Once AI has to be profitable – once investors withdraw their subsidies from money-losing ventures – the risk-tolerant applications need to be sufficient to run those tremendously expensive servers…
“This protocol has all the hallmarks of teleportation except for one essential ingredient: it requires a bright laser beam to make the nonlinear detector efficient so that the sender could know what is to be sent, but doesn’t need to know,” explains Forbes. “In this sense, it is not strictly teleportation, but could be in…
I loathe touch screen controls in cars… it’s just shows utter ignorance of UX and that the driver experience really means. One of the downside to treating cars as computers is that you are forced to user computer UX paradigms… great for desktop, shit of the roadtop. Touch controls in cars suggest an industry fault…
Overall we are moving into a period like that from 1914 to 45 or any other major power reset: the old power is falling, the new power has risen. America was actually ahead of Britain by 1890, and it took quite a while for the British to fall, but this isn’t an exact analogy, because in…
On Dec. 12, 2023, a C-5M Super Galaxy and a KC-10 Extender conducted a reverse flow air refueling training over Northern California and Oregon, as part of a PoC (Proof of Concept) designed to maintain readiness in emergency situations to prevent loss of a tanker aircraft. The C-5M offloaded 23,500 pounds of fuel in approximately thirty minutes to the KC-10…
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