“Yeah, that’s right. I’m a NOOP!”
Not On Our Planet

I’d hope that If he’s smart enough to feel tired of repping big oil, and continues to be good enough to play pro baseball for a while, I’m sure he can find a way to live a comfortable and happy life. If he starts actively attacking big oil… that might be harder…

I still have an original GoPro HD Hero and it still works fine. Battery is like 50% capacity as expected, but yeah, otherwise still working.

Yep. We changed our home lightbulbs to LED, we got more efficient heating/cooling systems and appliances installed in our homes. (My gov provided incentives for these things). I thought it was to reduce our energy consumption and save us some cash on bills. But nup, turns out it just freed up energy to burn on LLM data centres.

God I hate news article head lines

Blocked storm water drain puddle mode?

Haha, I was actually trying to refer to some kind of solar panel that would shade pedestrians when it’s hot and get outta tha way when it’s not. I had forgotten that a tree is solar powered 😂

Yeah, a lot to think about and forward plan. In Australia I think the social engineering required to detach people from cars would be the hardest part 😅

Some kind of “deciduous” solar panel in those pedstrian areas would be cool. Or something to that effect~

Absolutely all of this. And agreed. But I think part of the Solar Punk ethos is to pose these questions and speculate on dream implementations of current tech in ways that can offer nicer/more staisfying outcomes. Part of that would be taking a bit more time instead of racing towards the quickest goal post.
And some of the ideas will still stink, but hey haha, it’s fun.

AI feedback loops. Mmm yummy.

Siiick. Fingers crossed that takes off

Neat!

I do wish there was a company selling “dumb” EVs. No cellular, no OTA updates, no cameras and so on. Just battery, motor, motor controller and auxiliaries. Like a cheap car from 2005. A DIY conversion is the only way to achieve this as far as I know.

Get ya a job in real estate quick as.

Well supposedly the AI company is the one who has made the copyright strike against the artist - so the copy or style thing doesnt entirely matter - they’ve stopped her income and are trying to take it for themselves. (I’m also a tad suspicious of the story btw)

Crohns disease owner. Nope. Feels bad.

Actually a pretty decent article. Straight to the point. Found it really interesting the e-truck completed the journey 25mins faster than diesel due to steep hills that slow diesel trucks to a crawl.

“However, researchers found given participants were likely to slightly reduce their reliance on cars, it showed experiencing car-free living, even briefly, could help people break away from automobility.”
I think this is an important secondary take away here. Reducing car use is still much better than continuing at current rate. (Similar to eating less meat vs going vegan cold turkey).
Owning a car does come with large sunk-costs tho - so you won’t feel the full financial benefit from just reducing car use (still have to pay rego, insurance, maintenance etc.)

Is it weird that i kinda feel sad/disappointed at this uptake, despite being a big fan of EVs? A fucked up war causes oil prices to go up and now everyone’s clamouring to consume? Cool
/offmychest

But also kinda punk. Promoting de-googling on googles own platform.