Politics runs AMOC, while the world grinds to a halt.
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Musings of a minor megalomaniac
Politics runs AMOC, while the world grinds to a halt.
Greenhouse Effect. Not to worry about California sliding seaward after an earthquake. We’ll just wash it down…
I remember back in 1999 when the DLA was attempting to implement an early data analytics system thinking “…eventually someone will figure out how to get this stuff running at scale and rule the world.” Here’s a little write-up I did for the CC at the outset of that little experience. Then came AI. All along…
The new project replaced Linux and Kubernetes with a new operating system stack at the bottom of which is a database system, the prototype multi-node multi-core, transactional, highly-available VoltDB, which Stonebraker started. Basically, the operating system is an application to the database, rather than the other way around,” he says.
The James Webb telescope took some stunning images in 2023.
Webb spies record-breaking ‘failed star’ that shouldn’t exist.
Webb’s 9 Most Scientifically Glorious Discoveries of 2023
When MAGA Spaceboy blew north of $40B on Twitter™, I thought “great, maybe that’ll slow him down.” It was after all, at least on paper, his money. They got a little further than last time. Starship should reach IOC by around turn of the century, at this rate.
Made it up to 92 miles. Sucks when ur playin’ catchup to Richard Branson in this business. Really sucks when taxpayers are footing the bill. FAA re-certifications alone are probably into the $milions$ by now. WTF are we payin’ for?
Yes, extinction and slavery are issues, but work-forces have historically suffered the most during big economic paradigm shifts. Everybody got all worked up about it for a couple months after the public intro. Just not sure how many realize it’s been here all along, slowly, inexorably seeping into the programming on numerous fronts in the high tech battlespace.
…this was AI-generated? They been hiding behind this shyt on an ever-increasing basis for years. Apparently customers stopped rising to the level of human interaction some time ago. Better learn how to train a chatbot if you want anything from these assholes ever again.
NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid. I been sayin’ we’re gonna need a battery and/or solar breakthrough for at least the past ten years. Turns out maybe an answer has been sitting right in front of us all along. The more things change…
Thomas Vijayan takes top honors for that spectacular ice sheet shot. I liked the Jaguar following, but they are all awesome. I live for voyeurism these days. It’s all about heat and light at the most fundamental levels of our existence. Photographers are working well with the light.
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It’s always about the money.
Musk’s Neuralink to Start Human Trial of Brain Implant. Probably just trying to figure out how to shut it down for space travel.
CHATSUM: Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink has received approval to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, targeting those with cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The UAW needs some better backend …if Twitter messaging is anything important to the cause. Musk’s general outlook on life has become pretty clear. MAGA Spaceboy is out to create havoc and doing a damn good job of it.
I did quite a bit of it for Ikonos, but I imagine that was child’s play compared to what Kari Bosley is doing right now. This young lady is the one who actually gets way down in the little space-faring robot’s weeds to actually tell it what to do and when to do it.
It’s official. We just had the hottest August ever, worldwide.
CHATSUM: The summer of 2023 broke temperature records worldwide, with Gallup, New Mexico reaching 101 degrees, Reno, Nevada reaching 108 degrees, and Kingman, Arizona reaching a staggering 114 degrees. Death Valley also hit 130 degrees, the highest reading on Earth in 89 years.