Today, the UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power Since opening world's 1st coal plant in 1882, UK coal fleet burned through 4.6bn tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4GtCO2 â more than most countries have ever released Here's how it all ended: interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseou...
It's been ages since I've seen such a bold vision for technology and privacy. Meredith Whittaker is absolutely ahead of the times, by decades if not more. www.wired.com/story/meredi...#privacy#signal#cryptography
On its 10th anniversary, Signalâs president wants to remind you that the worldâs most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. Itâs free. It doesnât track you or serve you ads. It pays its engin...
Me: ranting about previous homeowner who did a terrible DIY prep job on the 2nd floor exterior windows and now they're peeling. Me an Hour Later: Slathering an inch of caulk on ancient dry-rot and pretending I never saw it and hoping for the best for the next owner.
Enshittification watch: a year or two ago these got replaced with tv screen doors with images of the drinks. Theyâre back to glass. RTVRN
They are so, so excited to pay a tech company instead of teachers
'A study by the DfE, published on Wednesday, found that using targeted content to train an AI model could increase its accuracy from 67% to 92%.' So many questions begged here.
Special access granted to DfE resources to train AI models to generate workbooks and lesson plans
Just absolutely torching climate goals so they can automatically defame journalists, this is all going great
I honestly still canât believe we have a Constitutional Amendment written for the exact purpose of making it very clear people who try coups from office are subsequently ineligible and SCOTUS said âletâs pretend we donât.â
"Agents 'forcibly entered' Medina's home early Tuesday morning, waking up his family, including two young daughters, and proceeded to search the home for about seven hours, according to court documents." Gift link:
Manuel Medina, who chairs the Tejano Democrats, said in court documents that officials seized dozens of cell phones and computers from his home.
The "flat iron", "denver", and "vegas" steak cuts are only about 20 years old, and were discovered through research into how to more effectively utilize (and monetize) beef.
It was only recently popularized.