Favorites September 5th 2021
Adam Tooze@adam_tooze
Astonishingly, America’s EPA preannounces the days on which it will monitor PM2.5 pollution. Using satellite data Eric Zou confirms that on the other days businesses pump out much higher levels of filth. economist.com/graphic-detail…
12:00 PM · Sep 5, 2021
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uh, I must be missing something, why are they pre-announcing measurement dates?
Gerry Canavan@gerrycanavan
: a star wars story
1:45 PM · Sep 5, 2021
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The droids are gonna have to wait outside though.
Deth Veggie@DethVeggie
Nazis need to be punched; but it's even better when the world does it, over, and over, and over.
andrew kaczynski @KFILE
NY Times: White nationalist Richard Spencer, “organization has dissolved, his wife has divorced him, and he is facing trial next month in Charlottesville, Va., over his role in the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi march there, but says he cannot afford a lawyer.”
https://t.co/nduPt0T9tJ https://t.co/DzhDU5G3KZ
4:21 PM · Sep 5, 2021
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hahahahahahahha
Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi
At burning man this year there were no fires or large structures allowed, so they made a bunch of temples out of drones. (Aside from the man, there is usually a large temple that gets burned)
5:18 PM · Sep 5, 2021
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Officially Burning Man is canceled this year, but people can still visit the desert, so folks are going out there and doing some interesting low-impact art.
Colin McMillen@mcmillen
It's common to see comparisons of BTC's energy use to various countries/states, but "seven times as much electricity as Google" is a great comparison. Imagine what you could do with 7x Google's compute power instead of merely implementing a janky payment system.
The New York Times @nytimes
Bitcoin’s energy use is close to half-a-percent of all the electricity consumed in the world. This is more than seven times as much electricity as all of Google’s global operations and is similar to Washington State’s consumption. https://t.co/PBVFSf3lhu https://t.co/tfodmnr2pg
9:39 PM · Sep 5, 2021
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Bitcoin: still the worst payment platform by any measure.
Nicholas A. Christakis@NAChristakis
What an incredible turn of phrase, that I heard for the first time today. “Socrates talks to us; we don’t talk to Socrates.” Indeed.
Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary
When asked about the the purpose of sending messages out into the universe when it might take thousands of years to get any sort of answer Carl Sagan said:
"There are a lot of things in society that only go one way. Socrates talks to us, we don’t talk to Socrates" https://t.co/fJTLL1Bd1N
11:50 PM · Sep 5, 2021
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Carl Sagan has some real good quotes, plus there's musical versions if you're into that.
