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Streaming, Planes, and Levels of Urbanism

August 2022, Atherton

Ethan Mollick @emollick

The new AI policy in my syllabus. More on how I am integrating AI into my classes: oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/all-my-class…

He provides a guide with useful advice about how to use ChatGPT for writing.

Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie

"We need to dig up millions of tonnes of minerals for clean energy". Sounds big. Except we're digging billions of tonnes of fossil fuels out every year. That's what we're trying to replace. My latest Substack: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/mining-low-c…

Remember this next time someone says they're worried about how much lithium we need to make the batteries that will power our future technologies. It's peanuts compared to our mining for fossil fuels, and those peanuts have been enough to electrify a sizable portion of new cars.

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

The global streaming revolution

A quick search indicates Youtube Premium has 25 million subscribers, if you were wondering. (Further, Variety says Youtube TV has 5 million subscribers)

Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat

I’m glad Boeing & NASA are gonna do the truss braced wing single aisle aircraft. I have colleagues who worked on this concept for decades, & it should allow significant improvement of efficiency, including helping electric aircraft. (People underestimate efficiency of air travel)

Looks pretty cool, he says the 30% reduction in fuel could result in 130 mpg per passenger. I wonder if it's noisy with the jets so close to the fuselage.

Posted by Warren J. Wells

Threads

• Biden administration is reinstating the federal requirement that cities affirmatively further fair housing. One interesting tidbit is that apparently after the Trump admin rescinded the rule, they actually got close to simply banning exclusionary zoning but turned back at the last moment.

• The west appears to have become more supportive of helping Ukraine retake Crimea. On that note, a thread from Dmitri Alperovitch about risk of Russian nuclear escalation. TL;DR: slow-walking material support appears to have done a lot to keep things from escalating.