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Finally got around to fixing my Mastodon node. 😂

Seems like an interesting time for mastodon!

Geothermal's Path to Relevance: Better Heat Transfer and Heat Engines
austinvernon.site/blog/geother

“The fracking revolution has driven a massive shift in the industry away from scientists like geologists and toward practitioners that are often engineers. … Partly this is because there is no need to "discover" shale formations since they have been known to the industry for 100+ years. And partly because the engineering-based learning model has thumped the scientist model recently.”

Interesting.

Neat! Someone put the entire "What Is A Woman" documentary on lightning.video: lightning.video/ee65bf6230290a

I would actually like a legit way to pay for a download of this movie. With Lightning of course.

Texas Wind Power Is Failing Right When the State Needs It Most
finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-w

“A scorching heat wave is pushing the Texas grid to the brink. Power demand is surging as people crank up air conditioners. But meanwhile, wind speeds have fallen to extremely low levels, and that means the state’s fleet of turbines is at just 8% of their potential output.”

Over reliance on unreliable renewables will literally kill people.

The best solution to the compiler bootstrapping problem when writing a new language is time travel.

"Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary"
petertodd.org/2022/surprisingl

tl;dr: Due to lost coins, a tail emission/fixed reward actually results in a stable money supply. Not an inflationary supply.

"Fuck beaches.

They're just mountains well past their prime."

Association between School Mask Mandates and SARS-CoV-2 Student Infections: Evidence from a Natural Experiment of Neighboring K-12 Districts in North Dakota | Research Square
researchsquare.com/article/rs-

“Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature which suggests school-based mask mandates have limited to no impact on the case rates of COVID-19 among K-12 students.”

Peter Todd boosted

We are still offering free VPN access for anyone in Ukraine and Russia. We have servers ready not just in Kharkiv, but in other locations in the region (Helsinki, Warsaw, Bucharest, Budapest).

We are extending this offer of free VPN service to anyone currently in Belarus. We are aiming to reach more people - please help us signal boost this offer. Any recommendations on spreading the word would also be appreciated.

We stand with Ukraine: ivpn.net/blog/in-support-of-uk

"Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris"
youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8

My 40-liter backpack travel guide
vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/

“...and covid defense gear: a CO2 meter (CO2 concentration minus 420 roughly gives you how much human-breathed-out air you're breathing in, so it's a good proxy for virus risk), masks, antigen tests and fluvoxamine.”

I am so unsurprised that Vitalik keeps a bunch of covid paranoia in his travel backpack.

Anatomy Of A Bank Takeover : NPR
npr.org/2009/03/26/102384657/a

“One by one, agents check into a hotel, each quietly offering a pseudonym to the guy at the desk.”

This article is from 2009; even back then hotels were checking ID pretty much every time. How exactly were FDIC employees bypassing that? Or did the journalist just make that up?

Kraken Announces Global Hiring Push and Commitment to Crypto-First Culture - Kraken Blog
blog.kraken.com/post/14372/kra

Looks like a good place to work.

"Process of Turning Old Washing Machine into New One. Korean Appliance Cleaning Technician"
youtu.be/c5JfVO2uMik

I'm amazed there's a big enough market for this to be economical. That's not even a front loader.

The left hates it when people protect themselves from violence with weapons. Both at the individual level, and at the level of entire countries.

Disgusting and evil.

When White People Lose Their Minds - by Terry Glavin
therealstory.substack.com/p/wh

“On the anniversary of the "mass grave" that wasn't: This was not a story about Indigenous people grifting the government. If anything, it was the other way around.”

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