Billy (often a Moose)
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$100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
December 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
$100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
Lol
"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.”
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted
Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.
www.tum.de
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Lol
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Almost 60% of bills were passed under urgency this term…
60 FUCKING PERCENT!!!
That is outrageous.
#nzpol
60 FUCKING PERCENT!!!
That is outrageous.
#nzpol
Yesterday I posted about my new web tracker of how often the parliament has gone into Urgency this term. #nzpol seemed to appreciate it and this evening I added a way to see the percentage of bills passed under urgency by each parliament.
The results are interesting!
See for yourself: nzpt.cjs.nz
The results are interesting!
See for yourself: nzpt.cjs.nz
December 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Almost 60% of bills were passed under urgency this term…
60 FUCKING PERCENT!!!
That is outrageous.
#nzpol
60 FUCKING PERCENT!!!
That is outrageous.
#nzpol
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Y'all they really just fucking highlighted the text black in word on the redacted Epstein files. At least for the digital text files anyway. You can just fucking copy and paste it elsewhere to read it LMAO. I just tried it because I was like there's no fucking way and shit worked flawless.
December 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Y'all they really just fucking highlighted the text black in word on the redacted Epstein files. At least for the digital text files anyway. You can just fucking copy and paste it elsewhere to read it LMAO. I just tried it because I was like there's no fucking way and shit worked flawless.
"In our civilized societies, we are rich. Why then are the many poor?" - Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
December 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
"In our civilized societies, we are rich. Why then are the many poor?" - Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
This is extraordinary, even for Trump, and really exemplifies the weird free pass he has been given by reality. Any person (politician, or in a prominent job, or vaguely humanoid) being held to any norms would be fired in ignominy.
Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were murdered. This is how Trump decided to respond.
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is extraordinary, even for Trump, and really exemplifies the weird free pass he has been given by reality. Any person (politician, or in a prominent job, or vaguely humanoid) being held to any norms would be fired in ignominy.
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This is going to go so amazingly wrong so quickly and I can’t wait
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is going to go so amazingly wrong so quickly and I can’t wait
unclear what the value proposition is in two right wing pro austerity economic folks debating which version of right wing pro austerity is less awful
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
unclear what the value proposition is in two right wing pro austerity economic folks debating which version of right wing pro austerity is less awful
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Nobody nailed it harder than Marshall McLuhan.
“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Nobody nailed it harder than Marshall McLuhan.
“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
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So a single Afghan man that Americans trained in combat tactics has supposedly shown himself incompatible with "Western Civilization" and now all Afghanis are unwelcome. Cool. Someone tell Trump about all the angry white male Americans shooting folks in bunches. Toss them, we're really in business.
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
So a single Afghan man that Americans trained in combat tactics has supposedly shown himself incompatible with "Western Civilization" and now all Afghanis are unwelcome. Cool. Someone tell Trump about all the angry white male Americans shooting folks in bunches. Toss them, we're really in business.
The only true question or object of study is "what in the hell is wrong with people?" We are the architects of our own problems.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The only true question or object of study is "what in the hell is wrong with people?" We are the architects of our own problems.
this is extraordinary
Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
this is extraordinary
Ageing seems to be a process of discovering an eldritch horror unfolding in the bathroom mirror each morning
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Ageing seems to be a process of discovering an eldritch horror unfolding in the bathroom mirror each morning
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This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
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#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
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The front page of nytimes.com currently features:
0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government
1 article about otters stealing surfboards
0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government
1 article about otters stealing surfboards
October 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The front page of nytimes.com currently features:
0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government
1 article about otters stealing surfboards
0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government
1 article about otters stealing surfboards
interesting, sounds like the director had a vision but got completely fucked over. www.neogaf.com/threads/fuck... 1/n
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
interesting, sounds like the director had a vision but got completely fucked over. www.neogaf.com/threads/fuck... 1/n
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The Declaration of Evolution was the most important thing Timothy Leary ever wrote, and why he was locked up as dangerous origin-rh.web.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/... 2/2
Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History
origin-rh.web.fordham.edu
September 1, 2024 at 1:07 AM
The Declaration of Evolution was the most important thing Timothy Leary ever wrote, and why he was locked up as dangerous origin-rh.web.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/... 2/2
So I reread Babylon Babies by Maurice Dantec, which I first read in 2011. It blew me away then, felt like what reading Neuromancer when it came out must have been like. It was still extraordinary this time.
October 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
So I reread Babylon Babies by Maurice Dantec, which I first read in 2011. It blew me away then, felt like what reading Neuromancer when it came out must have been like. It was still extraordinary this time.
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I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.
October 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.
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The NZ Drug Foundation has a major new report pressing the case for a replacement of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, which turns 50 this month. Thing is, its recommendations – for a complete realignment to health, not criminalisation and punishment, are ... drugfoundation.org.nz/topics/polic...
Safer drug laws
We need safer drug laws for Aotearoa New Zealand - our new report sets out a pragmatic, evidence-based way forward.
drugfoundation.org.nz
October 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The NZ Drug Foundation has a major new report pressing the case for a replacement of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, which turns 50 this month. Thing is, its recommendations – for a complete realignment to health, not criminalisation and punishment, are ... drugfoundation.org.nz/topics/polic...
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glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
October 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
Something I have argued for a while is that the internet will become completely unusable/untrustworthy by being polluted with untruth, forcing us back on the evidence of our senses in the world, the way it used to be
Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.
I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.
Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...
And some thoughts 🧵
I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.
Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...
And some thoughts 🧵
October 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Something I have argued for a while is that the internet will become completely unusable/untrustworthy by being polluted with untruth, forcing us back on the evidence of our senses in the world, the way it used to be
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It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility
October 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility