"In March, for the first time, fossil fuels generated less than half the electricity in the U.S. In California, at one point on May 25th, renewables were producing a record hundred and fifty-eight per cent of the state’s power demand. Over the course of the entire day, they produced eighty-two per cent of the power in California, which, this spring, surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy."

The New Yorker

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Woke up to uBlock Origin Lite being turned off by Chrome, because uBOL increased the permissions it requests. (Chrome does this for all extensions that increase their declared permissions, and that is good.) The point of uBOL is that it needs bare-minimum, safe permissions only; but now, it was asking for full control over all web pages. You should borderline never grant that level of permission to a browser extension. But! You can fix it. Here's how

"The point of cognitive automation is NOT to enhance thinking. The point of it is to avoid thinking in the first place. That’s the job it does. You won’t notice when the censorship kicks in." — @Baldur Bjarnason

Poisoning for propaganda: rising authoritarianism makes LLMs more dangerous

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland