Ben Feddersen
@snoozebuttonben.bsky.social
Google should let you make a subscription-only notebooklm, turn it into a new type of blogging/newsletter platform. Could mix text written by authors with sources they recommend on a particular topic. That would be 1000x better than me trying to roll my own.
October 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Google should let you make a subscription-only notebooklm, turn it into a new type of blogging/newsletter platform. Could mix text written by authors with sources they recommend on a particular topic. That would be 1000x better than me trying to roll my own.
Thomas Jefferson compared the institution of slavery to having caught a wolf by the ears, and say what you will about the analogy but it's clearly not a desirable state of affairs.
enslavers also understood that slavery was bad. the founding fathers in particular compared their own relationship to britain as being as bad as being enslaved, which was so brazenly hypocritcal that the british made jokes about it
Enslaved people, in fact, understood that slavery was a bad idea. Etc, etc
October 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thomas Jefferson compared the institution of slavery to having caught a wolf by the ears, and say what you will about the analogy but it's clearly not a desirable state of affairs.
If Waymo is doing 250k rides per week with only 2k vehicles on the road, call it 125 per vehicle week, if a ride is ten bucks (conservative) and a car costs 120k to build (probably conservative), the payback period for that car is ~2 years. If cost comes down to 60k, you're talking one year. 💰 🤑 💸
September 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If Waymo is doing 250k rides per week with only 2k vehicles on the road, call it 125 per vehicle week, if a ride is ten bucks (conservative) and a car costs 120k to build (probably conservative), the payback period for that car is ~2 years. If cost comes down to 60k, you're talking one year. 💰 🤑 💸
JB is my kind of guy
September 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
JB is my kind of guy
Turned on The Sum of All Fears from 2002 last night, fully expecting it to fall flat, and actually the degree to which it still holds up is frightening.
August 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Turned on The Sum of All Fears from 2002 last night, fully expecting it to fall flat, and actually the degree to which it still holds up is frightening.
The flipside of this is also true: if we stay on a fossil-based energy system, we need to continually mine, refine, and burn fossil fuels FOREVER. Either the cost of that is infinite or we run out and have to transition anyway. In the very long run it's transparent nonsense.
It's the time piece I want to focus on. The key thing about the benefits of a clean energy system is that, once we've transitioned, *we will enjoy those benefits for the rest of our time on earth*. Every subsequent generation of humans will enjoy the benefits. They will accumulate & accumulate.
August 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The flipside of this is also true: if we stay on a fossil-based energy system, we need to continually mine, refine, and burn fossil fuels FOREVER. Either the cost of that is infinite or we run out and have to transition anyway. In the very long run it's transparent nonsense.
tHe UsD iS lOsInG iTs ReSeRvE sTaTuS
August 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
tHe UsD iS lOsInG iTs ReSeRvE sTaTuS
Reposted by Ben Feddersen
They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
My flaming hot take is that making geothermal projects eligible for Master Limited Partnerships is 10-100x more consequential for clean energy than early sunsets on solar and wind subsidies.
July 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My flaming hot take is that making geothermal projects eligible for Master Limited Partnerships is 10-100x more consequential for clean energy than early sunsets on solar and wind subsidies.
Humans have practiced many different kinds of magic throughout history. The ones the work get relabled "science".
June 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Humans have practiced many different kinds of magic throughout history. The ones the work get relabled "science".
Reposted by Ben Feddersen
Spanish government report on the causes of the unprecedented blackout of the Iberian peninsula points to failure of thermal power plants to respond as required, and a possible planning failure by the grid operator, as the causes.
elpais.com/economia/202...
elpais.com/economia/202...
El Gobierno reparte culpas entre Red Eléctrica y las empresas por el gran apagón
El Ejecutivo descarta el ciberataque y apunta a la mala planificación del operador del sistema y la actuación “indebida” de las eléctricas. El informe ve la luz 49 días después del primer cero energét...
elpais.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Spanish government report on the causes of the unprecedented blackout of the Iberian peninsula points to failure of thermal power plants to respond as required, and a possible planning failure by the grid operator, as the causes.
elpais.com/economia/202...
elpais.com/economia/202...
Sounds familiar.
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sounds familiar.
@hankgreen.bsky.social did a 10 minute video about next gen battery technology and actually managed to mention almost about every single relevant detail and only made one mistake I could identify. It's...it's beautiful.
youtu.be/BL-1FjBkvKY?...
youtu.be/BL-1FjBkvKY?...
Are 3000 Mile Batteries Really Coming???
YouTube video by hankschannel
youtu.be
June 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social did a 10 minute video about next gen battery technology and actually managed to mention almost about every single relevant detail and only made one mistake I could identify. It's...it's beautiful.
youtu.be/BL-1FjBkvKY?...
youtu.be/BL-1FjBkvKY?...
I know we're not supposed to go "twas ever thus" these days but I can't think of a more consistent throughline of American history. Like, did you think Ronald Reagan worked for a think tank?
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
May 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I know we're not supposed to go "twas ever thus" these days but I can't think of a more consistent throughline of American history. Like, did you think Ronald Reagan worked for a think tank?
The Yahoo finance story on Biden's cancer shows the ticker symbol for the New York Times.
May 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Yahoo finance story on Biden's cancer shows the ticker symbol for the New York Times.
The last couple years were a little nondescript so I'm pleased to report that Eurovision 2025 is bugfuck insane.
May 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The last couple years were a little nondescript so I'm pleased to report that Eurovision 2025 is bugfuck insane.
True crime is military history for women.
May 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
True crime is military history for women.
Reposted by Ben Feddersen
Take this Malort, it is my blood
May 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Take this Malort, it is my blood
The political value of ignorance is that it lets you tell lies while still appearing earnest.
May 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The political value of ignorance is that it lets you tell lies while still appearing earnest.
It's Spargelzeit again, an event that combines Germany's two great passions: bland vegetables and unnecessarily complicated machinery.
April 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
It's Spargelzeit again, an event that combines Germany's two great passions: bland vegetables and unnecessarily complicated machinery.
Movies you've watched more than six times using gifs.
(Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR)
(Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Movies you've watched more than six times using gifs.
(Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR)
(Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR)
