You are looking at 1.2 Gigawatts of zero carbon power generation being flushed down the toilet for zero reason.

I always wonder whether the people who use this tactic of making people's lives a misery rather than using persuasion and democracy, envisage that theirs is the last cause that justifies this, or whether they're OK with a future of continual misery for ever.

On dit qu’ils vont révolutionner l’agriculture. Au point que 1000 scientifiques, dont 34 Nobels, supplient le parlement 🇪🇺 de les autoriser. Mais c’est quoi, ces fameux NGT ? Et quels sont leurs super-pouvoirs ? Petit #thread explicatif, écrit avec ChristopheB. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Dorénavant, on peut louer des biens n’ayant que 1,80 m de hauteur de plafond. Bonne nouvelle ? Non... la LFI hurle. Et cela dit bien, je trouve, -ce qu'est la « fausse gauche », -comment elle sert les riches; -et qu'elle ne pige rien à "l'effet cobra". Un p'tit thread.🧵⤵️

🧵 When I was in high school, my physics teacher casually mentioned during lecture that “the number zero is neither odd nor even”. I knew he was wrong; we ended up getting in an argument about it at the end of which he still didnt agree with me. I wasn’t going to let it drop 1/n

Everything you eat has been modified genetically by humans. Humans have been modifying plants and animals for tens of thousands of years. We have only recently discovered how to do this a little faster.

🌏En finir avec les petits gestes. Les trois périodes où l'on assiste à une réduction drastique des émissions de CO2 en France sont les guerres mondiales et l'activation des réacteurs nucléaires. Concentrons nous sur ce qui change la donne pour ne pas gaspiller notre temps.

21-year-old woman with dark hair playing a piano as it drives down the road. cinematic lighting, 35mm film, vivid colors

It's astonishing how few people understood Dune. It's as if they cannot reconcile the concepts of a good man and a bad outcome existing together. This is the whole point of Dune. It is a cautionary tale about the merging of church and state, about the dangers of cults of

You play doom with a CPU. I play doom with CPU usage. we are not the same

Science fiction has conditioned us to be hypervigilant about avoiding dystopias born of technological acceleration & totally indifferent to avoiding dystopias born of technological stagnation

humiliating. looks like shit. yet another massive W for earth, the best planet in the universe

Lemons are a human invention. The same is true of:- → Grapefruit. → Oranges. → Limes. You would never find them in the wild. They were created by selectively breeding from three primary ancestors native to South and East Asia. → Citrus. → Pomelos. → Mandarins. When

Demos showing a LLM "generating" a working game of Space Invaders or Tetris with a single prompt would be *very* impressive if you could generate any game of similar complexity you might come up with. But you can't. You can only generate specific games that the model has

EPR de Flamanville: la première réaction de fission nucléaire est "imminente" l.bfmtv.com/ZP3e

wrong. we never stopped