Dan did a cat post a while back. That didn't catch on, so here are some crows. I noticed that the suet block was disappearing from one of the suet cages on my birdfeeding station. Not being eaten down, but there at one point in...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
Representatives of the nations negotiating the JCPOA, just before its announcement on July 15, 2015. State Department photo. Presiden Biden said it, but it’s seemed to me for some time.
Is this illustration what Rebellion Defense is building? Who knows. One more Musk-related post today, and then I have other tabs I want to write about. We are all shareholders.
Several decades back, Claude Shannon defined information theory. Here’s a short description that partakes of some of the hype that has always surrounded information theory. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” served the purpose that “quantum” does today. It...
Between temper tantrums, it appears that Elon Musk has some coherence to his worldview. There’s the rightwing stuff, but there’s also a distinctive Silicon Valley contribution. Jason Steinhauer explicates that.
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm vacated the 1954 decision of the Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor of the Department of Energy, to revoke J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance. Many people.
Representation of laser fusion. The central sphere is the target, also called the capsule or pellet, that contains the deuterium and tritium whose nuclei are to be fused. The blue lines are laser input. The ghostly cylinder is the hohlraum, which concentrates the laser input...
I am moving into Phase 2 of my three-phase strategy for dealing with the destruction of Twitter. Phase 1 was to set up accounts on alternative platforms. Mastodon. A quirky.
Neuropace system for epilepsy. One of the existing brain implants. CC license: ArinaGr19 Reuters reports that Elon Musk’s Neuralink Company is under federal investigation for potential violations of the Animal.
For the past few days, my Twitter feed (yes, it’s still there) has been cluttered with dialogs with the ChatGPT chatbot. Some are on the level of polite and trivial human conversation: the form is correct, but not much fact. Where fact is called for,...
Vladimir Putin has made clear his ambition to reintegrate Ukraine into a Russian Empire. Russia expanded from the Ukraine-Moscow-Novgorod area across Asia over a period of centuries. By 1721, it.
Over the weekend, they’ve made it pretty clear. Samantha Power quotes Jake Sullivan: https://twitter.com/PowerUSAID/status/1591393902820724736 It’s directly stated, looks like he had it written out when he gave it. I’ll write.