steven wolfram shaking his fist at the sky

republicans have reprogrammed everyone into thinking of everything as zero-sum, even when it isn't

Why have both the left and right converged on this objectively untrue belief.

gpt wrapper founders need a token limit for their opinions

i like grok, it's probably a net positive influence on this site tbh

CA's daily energy mix yesterday vs a year ago. Look at how much batteries are flattening out the natural gas curve!

death by vested interests

How are ADI chips 4x the price of their TI equivalents that do exactly the same thing

AP cybersecurity is the unfortunate conclusion of the decline of the skid forum economy

Santa Barbara's state representative encoded an entire flowchart in this bill that narrows its scope to a single housing development and kills it, without mentioning it by name.

Great news: construction has topped off for the new dorm at People’s Park. Photos via Berkeleyside

Arguably, the California GOP saved the state from LA left-NIMBYs

This is overly pessimistic. The nimbys and trade unions tried to sabotage it, but ultimately the concessions they got were minimal. A lot of towns in the bay already have like 10 builders remedy plans in the pipeline, even before SB79 legalised TOD.

Negative wholesale electricity prices across central CA today

Electricity retail really needs to be separate from distribution. Distribution should be owned and managed by a public benefit corp like CAISO, and retail should be opened to competition... rather than the regulated monopoly on both PG&E enjoys currently

My statement on the recall of Supervisor Engardio:

we're so back

GAVIN NEWSOM SIGNED SB-79!!!!

It’s very frustrating that the California “equity” groups are really opposed to “use development on land owned by transit agencies to fund transit” model that world class transit agencies around the world use