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Might we interest you in M.A.I.D? (1)

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/canada-...

Wrong kind of vet.

non-chaladon Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism

How much does the electricity cost to run the servers? How much for the maintenance of those computers running the software? How about rental fees for the space they are kept in, air conditioning, sewer, taxes? Nah… doesn't exist. It's self-imposed feudalism.

non-chaladon The Marvelous Seamounts of the Southeast Pacific

Would need a hyperbaric chamber.

non-chaladon After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative

Have they considered metagaming like pirates fight in The Secret of Monkey Island (1)?

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a4HF3dIcuo

non-chaladon How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet

Too late: Tried this at work; Did a marvelous job sharing satellite internet with the whole barracks.

non-chaladon Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images

Any insurance mandate.

non-chaladon AI is not your friend

I will watch their ads, when they stop injecting malware through those ads.

non-chaladon AI is not your friend

Capitalism is also tech.

non-chaladon Is the frequency domain a real place?

If not theoretical grouds, surely there are hypothetical grounds? Now to find a way to falsify, and thus prove them…

non-chaladon Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images

The solution seems to be to remove the insurance mandate, and allow purchasing insurance across state lines. That way two locked-in markets are opened to more competition.

non-chaladon NASA is working on new clock for the Moon

SQUATCH internet time?

non-chaladon Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations [video]

See what happens to a branch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ph-h7l_aM

non-chaladon Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar

I need some, for mail delivery. Those messages won't send themselves.

non-chaladon Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search

It's about 2 bunches of Bananas (4)

4. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000711211

non-chaladon Mario meets Pareto

How would this mesh with Halo Kart (2)?

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K0IcawLpCE

non-chaladon New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go

Then use caissons and hyperbaric chambers; Mine the old fashioned way. You could make a floating island to service the system; They can be quite cheap https://ventivefloathouse.com/

non-chaladon AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

Is it Hatsune Miku? Twitter is glitching out again, so I can't hear.

non-chaladon Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea's Internet. Now He's Taking Off His Mask

https://archive.is/eT4nP

non-chaladon PFAS Used in Grease-Proofing Agents for Food Packaging No Longer Sold

> Shorter chain-length PFAS telomeric substances have been submitted to EPA for review as alternatives for a variety of uses including, for example, textile, carpet and paper additive uses and tile surface treatments.

1. https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-t...

non-chaladon US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage

You can pump sand by bubbling compressed air through it.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My4RA5I0FKs

non-chaladon German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

Yes, Bavaria is practically an entirely different state, with its' own language, religion, politics, and culture.

non-chaladon German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

Collaborative writing (1), movie making (2), terrorist hunting (3), and volunteer forum moderation (4), are all things. Fanfiction (5) is also written for free.

All of these have been, in the past, variyng degrees of professional.

1. https://www.makeuseof.com/collaborative-fiction-sites-improv...

2. Iron Sky (2012), Moon (2009), Norwegian Ninja (2010) all involved free collaboration, to varying degrees.

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR6epSP_Xlw

4. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3491102.3517628

5. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...

non-chaladon New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go

So compete with eco-friendly dredging, and show them a better way?

non-chaladon White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)

How often has this happened in the past? Has it had any effect?

non-chaladon White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)

Is that moon yards, or space yards?