A lovely Passover Seder with this legendary crew.
We heard the story of Passover and talked about the Jewish traditions of liberating all peoples from injustice and operation.
Chag sameach ✡️
It's bizarre when relatively techno-utopian people are asked about how to solve declining fertility and instead of talking about artificial wombs, extended fertility spans, AI-assisted childcare, UBI, etc. they're suddenly like "well we just need to return to the 50s".
As so often with the BBC - a half hearted, somewhat disingenuous apology regarding its coverage of the supposedly antisemitic violence in Amsterdam 45 days ago.
Buried away on its Corrections and Clarifications page. /1
https://t.co/7WFhcGaseX
Was reminded of a poll commissioned by Gallop during the London Blitz, asking Londoners if they supported RAF reprisals against German cities, most said no, even though they themselves lost so much. When rural and unaffected Brits were asked the numbers shot up.
Legal legerdemain: how the pressure group @SexMattersOrg redefines part of the Equality Act 2010 to deny trans and non-binary children rights the legislation is intended to protect. https://t.co/wYI8cfaXLV
The ADL is an apartheid advocacy organization *AND ALSO* the current campaign against it is orchestrated by genocidal Nazis that Musk has recruited to be the dominant voices on Twitter.
“How could we build houses then and can’t build them now?... It’s f**king Thatcherism, Reaganism, the neoliberals and the trickle-down economy that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael both bought into, [the idea] that the market will sort everything out. B***ocks.” https://t.co/mYdquIxhPQ
@Frances_Coppola You could argue that such a memory-bound PoW mechanism is operationally (more) "energy-efficient", as the capital expenditure is a relatively larger factor than electricity bills. But still miners are competing for GPUs, with all the production energy and e-waste that implies.