gottino

Physicist turned MBA, digital strategist, and SaaS CEO, polyglot, mountain biker and gadget lover, tata of two (not so...) little girls.

[gottino @gottino]

Already got one @hkanji https://t.co/3pzgOGccpw ?

[Ingwar Perowanowitsch @Perowinger94]

An alle Klimaleugner: Viel Schnee ist ein Zeichen für den Klimawandel, nicht gegen ihn. Warum? Weil pro 1 Grad Erwärmung die Atmosphäre 7% mehr Wasserdampf aufnimmt, was im Sommer zu Starkregenfällen führt & im Winter eben zu Starkschneefällen. So schwer ist es eigentlich nicht!

[Der Postillon 📯 @Der_Postillon]

Gute Nachrichten! Umwelt muss nicht mehr geschützt werden, weil Greta Thunberg spinnt
🔗 https://t.co/Sb0KJy1fnI
https://t.co/Sb0KJy1fnI

[Olia @OliaOnX]

Russia: the civilian population in Palestine can’t be bombed, but in Ukraine it can.
Turkey: 4 mln Palestinians have the right to their own state, but 40 mln Kurds do not.
Egypt: we worry about the Palestinians, but we won’t let them in.
Houthis of Yemen: our country is in complete devastation, but we will fight Israel.
Western leftists & LGBT activists: Palestinians are wonderful peaceful people, but we won’t go to them, they’ll kill us there.
Hamas: we should not take care of the residents of Gaza, let the UN take care of them.

But Israel is to blame for everything.

[Mareile 🤌🏻 @Hoellenaufsicht]

Viele Menschen sollten dankbarer sein, dass wir in diesen brutal schwierigen Zeiten jemanden wie ihn haben.

Natürlich sind im BMWK auch Fehler passiert. Aber es gibt wenige mit dieser Empathie, mit diesem Weitblick, mit dieser Intelligenz und Eloquenz.

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

Summarize unnecessarily long texts with ChatGPT

[Mike Müller @MikeMuellerLate]

Aso, ich han etz emal SVP gwählt, wil die sind nie tschuld, sind immer die andere d Arschlöcher. Und das sägets graaduse. Und das hät mer aso schono iglüüchtet.

[Sebastiaan de With @sdw]

Apple’s website before and after the return of Steve Jobs.

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

When the French invite you for dinner vs when the Germans invite you for dinner

[Mike Müller @MikeMuellerLate]

Voilà: Für diese beiden links-grünen Woke-Abstellplätze mussten in der Stadt Zürich 300 SUV-Parkplätze, 500 Spielplätze und 900 Spuren am Bellevue aufgegeben werden.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

“Today, the greatest threat of extinction we face is not asteroids or climate change or disease or famine. It’s society’s refusal to heed the warnings of scientists”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Matthias #SiempreGino @NairoInGreen]

They call Plugge 007
0 mergers
0 Roglic/Evenepoel
7 pissed sponsors

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

Word is out: Microsoft is plunging ahead on nuclear energy.

They want a fleet of reactors powering new data centers. And now they're hiring people from the traditional nuclear industry to get it done.

Why?

Lack of stable long-term power, whether clean or dirty, is constraining Microsoft's growth. They need to build big data centers that consume electricity all the time and the old assumption that somebody else's reliable plants will always be around to firm up your wind and solar is falling apart.

It certainly helps that founder Bill Gates was one of the earliest big business converts to nuclear energy, investing his own money to develop new reactors.

But Microsoft, like many companies, was held back by what we might consider "Enron-ism" infecting its energy thinking: renewable energy credits plus markets plus cute little lies to the public about how electricity works. Greenwashed fossil/hydro/nuclear with the ESG stamp of approval.

The problem? Eventually you run out of other people's cheap firm power.

So Microsoft has recently become a leader in openly asserting that nuclear energy counts as clean energy, as opposed to the ongoing cowardice we see from the other big tech companies who lie to the public about being "100% renewable powered."

Sure, the lawyers said it was okay to lie, but the lie doesn't give you a permanent supply of cheap reliable energy. That comes from nuclear.

A world is coming where only the tech companies willing to become nuclear power developers may get to keep expanding their cloud businesses, and only countries open to new reactors get to host this expansion.

A world where tech companies with 50% margins become the only survival hope for traditional industrial concerns with 5% margins who need someone else to bootstrap a proper electricity supply.

Where diesel backup generators are replaced with microreactors reliable enough to be trusted to keep a cluster of facilities secure in the case of public grid failure.

The race is on.

[Dan Deakins @DanDeakins]

You sign up for a charity ride with Tadej and Urska, and while you're struggling up the mountains, he's doing wheelies 😂

[Bill D'Alessandro @BillDA]

Me trying to find out how much the "Enterprise" plan costs

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Among the biggest climate blunders of the century: Germany's shutdown of nuclear, predictably replaced by coal).

[gottino @gottino]

@Ghost Great feature! However it doesn't seem to work in Safari. There I get the contextual menu from the system and not the one from ghost - is this a known bug? Is it being fixed? I prefer Safari as my main browser... Thanks!

[tom danielson @tomdanielson]

Three images from this year alone that show why there should be no question what the right thing is to do tomorrow.

I can only hope the two champions take a minute to reflect the role Sepp has had in their path to the top.

Neither one has won a grand tour without Sepp at their side. I truly hope they honor that in supporting him in the stage tomorrow.