Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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I have gotten at least a half dozen of what appear to be AI-produced messages this cycle: same format, same obsequious language about my work, although only one that has made a blunder that painful. Please show me that you want to be admitted to grad school to do original work

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@michael-thomas.bsky.social on what's arguably the most significant trend in US energy: rapid buildout of gas plants at data center complexes. Time to jettison assumptions that energy developers will sit in interconnection queues, or that gas plant developers will wait for combined-cycle turbines.

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"What's a VHS?!" my daughter said, with a tone of disgust I couldn't possibly replicate in text form. I busted this out in response, first published 1988

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I was a Bioware hater but I would rather people be allowed to make computer games for people who enjoy those kinds of games than be thrown into the human incinerator that slightly heats up a billionaire's bath

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