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

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It is indeed real. But published almost a decade ago, about a promise he made when she was 17, back in the 1990s.

You are clearly not a Chinese typewriter historian

CAISO has real-time data, but electricity imported from out of state does not have real-time analysis.

You’re assuming that the world is covered in server racks. I don’t expect anything like that, even with significant increases in datacenter construction.

Let’s assume 1kw per person. 10 billion people at peak population some time hence. So about 150 billion m² to provide 1kw per person 24/7. The earth’s surface area is 510.1 trillion m², of which about 1/3 is land. So we’re probably just fine on renewables.

Nothing people do has zero impact. But pretty much everything else has a bigger one. Coal will utterly destroy the land, and the gases emitted after it burns will destroy far more.

Solar like this on a few percent of the land will supply all the electricity people need. So it looks huge, but is surprisingly low-impact compared with other options, or things like raising cattle

More that blacks being eaten by alligators and crocodiles is a racist trope dating back to at least the early 1800s.

Article is actually a serious look at it.

I think they wanted it to be a bit less blatant — they took down this version and Yaccarino resigned

Its Musk’s LLM, which interacts with people on X. He’s been paying people to tune it to be more hate-oriented for years.

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The kind of person who would use X

It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely

There’s a preview of that, but link points to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=c1JLM5vSU5FaaTvxtMmEpcpUxc9MKWWfcr6Ifc8rD3w

The problem is that civil unrest can also serve as an excuse for massive violence against the people. Hence the decision to repel them using rotting fruit instead of firearms

They’re the people who want to harass and beat people up but who couldn’t get hired by any other law enforcement

Here’s a gift link giving free access to the article for 30d