tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Tough few days for our simulation of a future German renewable electricity system. The dreaded dark wind lull forces the model to rely on stored electrolytic hydrogen. But fortunately hydrogen storage was full at the beginning, and has only dropped to a level of 85% so far.

https://model.energy/future/

Today was a two Karen day, like male and female bookends they were triggered by my riding a bike they "felt" was: A) Odd for a Black person to be riding; (B) Too expensive for a Black person to be riding, so maybe I'd stolen it?; and (C)
needed to tell me they own a much nicer and more expensive one, at which point I said my food is getting cold I have to leave.

These are my neighbors, and now that Trump has won, will be even more insufferable.
#BlackMastodon

Copying around ancient files from ancient drives, and finding some of the really dumb things I've translated from various languages over the years. Such as,

Député sans discontinuer depuis 13 ans, Woerth reste mis en examen depuis 2018 pour "complicité de financement illégal de campagne électorale" dans le cadre de l'affaire Sarkozy-Kadhafi, pour laquelle il sera jugé début 2025 avec son ancien patron Sarkozy mais aussi Claude Guéant, Hortefeux et neuf autres personnes, devant la 32e chambre du tribunal correctionnel de Paris, du 6 janvier au 10 avril 2025. Toute la petite bande du Fouquet's!

#Politique #Riches #Corruption #Justice #Woerth

A fourth-grader just told me that she goes to Rainbow Club every week because her friend has two dads and no one should be worried about having two dads so why shouldn’t everyone who isn’t “GLB I don’t remember all the letters but you know” also go to Rainbow Club to help the kids who are worried.

She doesn’t even know the acronym but she knows what’s right.

Was There a Famine in Gaza in 2024?

"Whether or not a ‘technical’ famine occurred, Israel has systematically used hunger & starvation as a weapon in its war against the people of #Palestine, & these are undeniably genocidal acts".

IDS Working Paper 613

#Famine #Gaza #Israel #cease_fire_in_gaza_now

https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/was-there-a-famine-in-gaza-in-2024/

Förslag på namn till flickor:
- Hedda
- Aleris
- Carema
- Kry

Microsoft are effectively giving up on Copilot Pro subscription ($20/month) as almost nobody paid for it.

Instead they are bundling it into Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions and inflating the renewal prices there. There’s no opt out.

Effectively allows the Copilot revenue and user numbers to be inflated.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/7/24290268/microsoft-copilot-office-features-microsoft-365

TikTok has been ordered to shutdown its offices and business in Canada by the Canadian government citing national security reasons.

The app itself is not being banned nor is access to it being blocked. This action primarily limits them from having a business entity in Canada.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/canada-orders-wind-up-tiktoks-canadian-business-app-access-continue-2024-11-06/

The year is 2026, and U.S. refugees entering the Schengen Area must swear an oath at customs professing their opposition to the Trump Regime before receiving their Good American papers. Polish freedom fighters recently sabotaged Europe's major LNG terminals, freeing EU leaders to decouple from Washington's gas grip.

I try to remember that the work before yesterday was strengthening patterns of collaboration and care and disrupting patterns of domination and separation and that our work today is no different, though the context, strategies, and obstacles may have shifted.

If you need one, here's a pallet cleanser for you

The most maddening tech discourse these days is that we need AI to figure out how to solve climate change.

We've known how to completely solve climate change for more than a decade, thanks. We just don't want to.

This Apple Intelligence ad where an executive presents a document in a meeting that they haven’t read based on AI summarized key points reminds me of the Google ad where a dad asked an AI to write a letter on behalf of his kid to their favorite artist.

These are both examples where it provides negative value for AI to perform the task instead of a human. I don’t want coworkers regurgitating ChatGPT summaries of documents instead of sharing their perspectives.

https://youtu.be/BK8bnkcT0Ng

My daughter's school added me into 3 WhatsApp groups. It was insane. I changed my phone number to leave the groups. When they asked for the new number I showed them a dead Nokia I bought off Ebay. Now, my daughter brings home paper letters.

Many amateur astronomers have built their telescopes, even grinding the mirrors. But there are so many photon choices across the electromagnetic spectrum. A new paper provides instructions for building a backyard radio telescope that can detect the emission of hydrogen in the 21 cm line. This is a specific wavelength of radio waves emitted by vast clouds of neutral hydrogen that can pass through gas and dust. You can even use this during the day or in light pollution.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00057

listen, I've had my moments, but at least I've never mansplained Margaret Atwood's book to Margaret Atwood