Utah’s FORGE: a Research Laboratory For Enhanced Geothermal Systems
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Utah’s FORGE: A Research Laboratory For Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Geothermal heat is a tantalizing source of energy that’s quite literally right below our feet. At the same time geothermal energy is hard to develop as the Earth’s crust is too thick in…Hackaday
*Will phony AI dinosaurs made out of 105% slop-rubber turn out to be way more popular than paleontological dinosaurs that trained specialists try to figure out
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A Palaeontologist Battles Against AI - Fossils et al. - Medium
Yet, within the paleontological community, there is a certain fear. After witnessing the skyrocketing rise of AI, I know that the machine is not telling me the entire truth. It is not AI itself, but…Alejandro Izquierdo López, PhD (Fossils et al.)
Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.
This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!
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Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Solar Eclipse Diamond Ring Effect
Credit/copyright: Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind EarthFlickr
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Lil scoop from me. Six to Start, maker of Zombies, Run!, has laid off the majority of its staff. Parent company OliveX is looking for a buyer.
This was the app that finally got me into running 🥲
theverge.com/news/629678/zombi…
Zombies, Run! and Marvel Move maker lays off majority of staff
OliveX, parent company of ZRX: Zombies, Run! has laid off all but two of the app maker Six to Start’s staff. OliveX is actively looking for a buyer.Victoria Song (The Verge)
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This post from @pluralistic captures some of the dread dredged up by my recent thread on using LLMs for coding: pluralistic.net/2025/03/13/ele…
> "Code reviewer" is a much less fulfilling job than "programmer." Code reviewers are also easier to replace than programmers. A code reviewer is a reverse-centaur, a servant to the machine. Every time you hear "AI-assisted programmer," you should substitute "programmer-assisted AI."
Steve Reich has always been to able to hear the pulse
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5319902/steve-reich-interview-collected-works?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump Loses It After Wall Street Journal Trashes His Economic Policies
Donald Trump went on a wild rant about how bad the newspaper is.
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption
Texas Gives SpaceX a $17.3 Million Grant to Expand Its Starlink Facility
This is part of a $280 million investment in the factory, which currently makes about 15,000 Starlink dishes per day. The money comes from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Happy #piday 🥧🍰🎉
But while π gets attention, mathematician and novelist Manil Suri says we should also celebrate φ, 𝑒 and the Feigenbaum constant δ
Pi gets all the fanfare, but other numbers also deserve their own math holidays
Pi gets a lot of attention this time of year, but there are plenty of other mathematical constants just as deserving of recognition.The Conversation
Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.
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The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Salvador Cavazos, who oversees fewer than 1,000 students, is among the most well-paid superintendents in the country.
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Good job reporting on this.
Voucher programs and charter schools have always had the stench of grift, for me, at least.
The article mentions a couple other schools with similar practices. I’d reckon there are many more, including in my home state of Oklahoma, especially given how focused the politicians are on implementing voucher programs.
14 March 1902 | A Polish woman, Józefa Frąckowiak, was born.
In #Auschwitz from 16 July 1942.
No. 8731
She perished in the camp on 5 October 1942.
Comic Mo Amer draws on his Palestinian and Texan roots in his Netflix series
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5325860/comic-mo-amer-draws-on-his-palestinian-and-texan-roots-in-his-netflix-series?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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8Bitdo Ultimate 2C Budget Game Controller Review - Lon Seidman & Lon.TV Blog
In my latest video review, I try out 8BitDo’s latest budget controllers, the Ultimate 2C series, which includes options for both PC and Nintendo Switch. You can find these at a super reasonable price over at Amazon (compensated affiliate link).admin (Lon Seidman & Lon.TV Blog)
"A rotation by one turn is 1...
may sound like a tautology, but it is the true nature of the Tau" - Michael Hartl
🤭
Euler started using the single-letter form beginning with his 1727 Essay Explaining the Properties of Air, though he used π = 6.28..., the ratio of periphery to radius, in this and some later writing. - wiki
No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto
For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant π captured the geometry of the circle in a single number. But π is wrong, and it’s time to set things right.Tau Day
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Four on the Florida Newsletter by Approaching Utopia
Your Front Row Seat to South Florida’s Alt-Music Scene. Register for the free newsletter here and never miss an alternative event in South Florida ever again!Approaching Utopia Staff (Approaching Utopia, LLC)
Beatdown City is on a crazy spring sale on #steam - I did the music for it, go pick it up!
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#VGM #indie #indiegame #gaming #steamgames #chiptune
Save 85% on Treachery in Beatdown City on Steam
Explore an ANGRY city, meet the WORST people, and beat 'em up with STYLE! Pick your fighter, FREEZE TIME, build custom combos, and knock out your enemies, all to save the president.store.steampowered.com
Why do I not include Bunny CDN?
As far as I can tell, they're a shell company. Nothing of theirs is theirs, and they share everything about you with 12 different American companies, including a company called, Activity Campaign, which has such close ties with Facebook, I'm surprised we don't own them. bunny.net/privacy/
In truth, when using Bunny CDN, I don't know if you can actually claim to have escaped Us Jurisdiction. I mean, technically, the company is located ins Slovenia, Europe. But they lease (rent) 19 servers in the USA, which wouldn't be so much an issue, if they also didn't make it part of their business model to share all your information with 12 American companies too.
This does not seem like a company that if the US Government said, "hey, we don't like random, can you do something about them" I doubt they would be in a strong position to tell them, no.
Privacy & Data Policy | bunny.net
We make sure that your data is your own! At bunny.net we follow GDPR guidelines and are fully transparent about how we collect and use your data.bunny.net
There's a lot to unpack in 'Black Bag' — a witty, sexy spy thriller
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5325730/black-bag-review-cate-blanchett-michael-fassbender?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
Useful resource for anyone protesting anything.
CLDC: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE
STOPPED BY THE POLICE:
There are 3 distinct categories of police interference with a person's liberties: Conversation, Detention and Arrest. It is important to identify your situation so you know your rights, and remember, anything you say can and will be used against you! Stay calm and in control of your words and actions at all times.
(more...)
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#protesting #law #protestors #legal
Good to know these:
"Level 1: Conversation
Police officers have the same right as any other person to approach you and inquire about circumstances of interest. However, absent any reasonable suspicion that you are involved in criminal activity, an officer cannot detain you....Determine if you are in a Level I situation by asking if you are free to leave. If so, leave"
"Police are allowed to lie to you, but you can't lie to them"
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Hmm. That's mildly annoying. Wish I'd tried that before soldering the other bits on... oh well.
The design and build notes are up for this regardless.
I've uploaded a fixed version of the gerber files, but actually these slightly wonky ones will be fine for most of my own messing about.
yay! happy to see it arriving safely!
gotta admit it felt cool to write see you in the fediverse!
Reddit will likely continue increasing the amount of ads users see.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
'Number' of ads, they're not measured by an analogue unit.
How many you care depends on the 'amount' of shit you give for correct grammar 😜*
*spoff the deliberate mistale.
Revitalizing the Port of Churchill | Your Morning
We explore the port’s economic potential, vulnerabilities and new opportunities as sea ice disappears from the Hudson Bay.Subscribe to Your Morning for the l...YouTube
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Photos: Across the U.S., sky gazers marvel at the blood moon lunar eclipse
https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/03/14/g-s1-53812/pictures-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-last-night?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Two things about these incidents of Teslas catching fire:
1. It’s a tough one to investigate, because of course the motive might be political, but also Teslas just •do that• spontaneously on their own. (I hope nobody who owns one ever ever parks it in an attached garage!)
2. At some point, I have to imagine that the fires (both spontaneous and sabotage) are going to do wild things to the insurance rates for these vehicles. Owners selling at a loss might still end up saving money.
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Jean-Louis Piraux (@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social)
4 Tesla incendiées à Berlin dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi. La police n’exclut pas un «motif politique». Mais qu'est-ce qu'elle va chercher là? #Tesla #Teslatakedown https://www.liberation.Mastodon
Teslas do not self-immolate any more or less than other EVs. Hell, Chevy had to recall every single Bolt to replace their entire battery pack.
And even with that, EV fires are very rare. EVs catching spontaneously is largly a myth propagated by fossil fuel enthusiasts.
@ch00f
And yet, just by the raw numbers, Cybertrucks catch fire at something like 57x the rate of the average vehicle.
Maybe those are all accidents, not spontaneous. Maybe they’re all arson. Maybe maybe maybe. But be careful of coddling fascists with your pedantry.
I'm just trying to curb the spread of misinformation.
You can hate on Tesla without making up statistics and parroting the lies spread by fossil fuel companies that hurt EVs in general.
And for some math. There are currently 285 million vehicles registered in the US and around 200k vehicle fires every year.
So that's 0.07% of vehicles going up in flames every year.
57x that is almost exactly 4%.
There are around 40,000 cybertrucks on the road. So if it was really 57x, there would have been 1600 cybertruck fires.
I think even with the cases that are suspected arson, the actual count is like maybe 10?
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statista.com/topics/4578/vehic…
finance.yahoo.com/news/cybertr…
Vehicle fires report | NFPA Research
This report provides an overview of the vehicle fire problem with the focus on highway vehicles (cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles and recreational vehicles).www.nfpa.org
@ch00f
Sorry, that’s fire •fatalities• that are so high. Small N, but truly alarming — and it has an obvious cause: unlike other EVs, Teslas are nearly impossible to escape when powered down (unless you’ve learned the arcane manual exit procedure, which, let’s face it, very few people have).
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Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)
@dekk I think it’s even more than 1 oom? But I may be skipping a groove with hasty web searches…. 643 car fire fatalities annually in the US: https://www.nfpa.Hachyderm.io
I support that. The back door release mechanism for the massive and heavy Model X doors is hidden behind the speaker grille.
Surprised deaths aren't higher.
Britain ‘no longer a rich country’ after living standards plunge
Parts of the UK are now worse off than the poorest regions of Slovenia and Lithuania
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#news #business #economy #UK #britain #costofliving #productivity
MAGA leaders are trying to sell Trump's trade war — and any subsequent inflation and job loss — to the base with talk of "sacrifice."
Their lies sound exactly like the crap prosperity preachers peddle.
This is not a coincidence.
salon.com/2025/03/14/you-must-…
"You must sacrifice": MAGA excuses for Trump's trade war echo "prosperity" preachers
Trump's closest faith "advisor" teaches that if you give her money, God will reward you with richesSalon.com
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in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Pablo Rodríguez
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •My intuition tells me I agree with this, whatever it means.
Said this, I cannot support the bizarre tradition of hiding the most important concept of a paragraph after some initials 😝
usspacenut
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Corb_The_Lesser
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •CM Harrington
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •@lisamelton haha! Surprise! No more schools and no more IRS!
I hate this timeline.
maxdepth
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Tell me you don't understand the 1st amendment of the constitution w/o actually saying it.
False binary disclaimer:
I don't believe religion should be taught in school either unless it's an elective course on all religions.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Churches are a conduit for fossil fuel industry influence peddling and foreign straw donor money laundering.
Churches are promoting anti-LGBTQ legislation in strategic areas like Africa to manipulate their elections too.
Non-profits are long overdue for oversight into their finances. Anonymous cash is fraught with public corruption & anti-civil rights narratives.
Dan & Farris Wilks, Tim Dunn
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Three West Texas billionaires are pushing Texas to the far-right
Jerry Clayton (TPR)franebleu
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •harmone
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Churches should pay taxes like everyone else.
Religions do not belong anywhere.
Religions are just made up glorified nonsense.
MJ Muse
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Rev. Charles Browning
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Just a friendly reminder that only a few weeks ago lots of us were celebrating a woman bishop from an LGBTQ-affirming church calling out Trump. We’re hardly a monolith. I’d much prefer that the money my congregation puts in the plate is going to feed the hungry and not going to be used to build bombs.
Tax the oligarchs please. They have way more money than my people do.
DJHVII
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