Better ad targeting does make ads more valuable…but because only Google and Facebook have the visibility and ML to do it effectively, they wound up with all the ad revenue. Everybody else ended up with a few pennies

I’m a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don’t cover the cost of providing news anymore

They dont let sites opt-out, and they do a much more seamless job of enabling people to archive paywalled content

If there’s an edit that alters a detail that doesn’t matter to the witness, it probably isn’t important. And that kind of replacement is hard to do at scale without getting caught.

What you end up stuck doing is deciding to trust particular sources. This makes it a lot harder to establish a shared reality

Tibetan Plateau, about 14,000 feet

Let’s say it halved. That’s visible light, which at low wattage, is harmless.

If it quadrupled, its still infrared. Also harmless at those wattages

Remember here: youre dealing with something that is less harmful than visible light. So whatever fear you have must be much worse when it comes to things like daylight, indoor lighting, headlights, etc

Here’s the thing: wavelengths shorter than visible light cause cancer. Wavelengths longer…don’t. They’re using the long wavelengths.

Tesla robotaxis had a string of crashes their first day

There is a very large safety difference between Waymo and Tesla robotaxis right now.

With the UK, they can block content that’s known to be NSFW. With Mississippi, they get fined if kids access the site at all if somebody else on there sees something NSFW.

A national endownment for spite?

My understanding is that it applies to every site which hosts any NSFW content, whether or not minors can access it

The problem isn’t that the state is blocking it; its that they threatened to impose a $10,000 fine for each user who can access the site without first proving their age.

You can afford that risk if you live outside the US. Not if you’re a US corporation

They’ve gone ahead and built a solar and wind power manufacturing juggernaut. Its a big deal for anybody like me who wants those deployed at scale. You’ll find that I’m also critical of China on other topics.

The same reason we allow them on any other technology — they create a financial incentive for innovation.

Mind you, the Trump administration has made it much harder to install the cheapest electric generation available — solar and wind.

The way utility rates are set allows them to spread costs onto residential ratepayers instead of bearing it directly.

2°C is likely to be ecologically and economically quite damaging, and also at the edge of where we can be reasonably assured that agriculture remains viable. Its not an everybody-dies-instantly threshold

We already lowered the rate of emissions growth, taking us from 4°C by 2100 to ~3°C by then. Getting more is on us; you can’t sit around hoping somebody else acts