Favorites September 5th 2021
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…
uh, I must be missing something, why are they pre-announcing measurement dates?
The droids are gonna have to wait outside though.
Nazis need to be punched; but it's even better when the world does it, over, and over, and over.
andrew kaczynski @KFILE
hahahahahahahha
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)
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.
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: still the worst payment platform by any measure.
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
Carl Sagan has some real good quotes, plus there's musical versions if you're into that.
