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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 21h

Am I seeing things or does it look like a Starlink v2 bus frame?

Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Lo que me parece claro es que es de los pocos que señala en modo entendible (para profanos y no tanto) de los agujeros, o más bien simas, en el discurso del sector. Para enterarme de cosas básicas prefiero quien falla en algún detalle que quienes se inventan números impredecibles...

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Oigo mucho crítico de Ed Zitron incluso entre escépticos de la IA, y no sé suficiente de finanzas para juzgarlo yo mismo... Pero esto de los cents on the dollar para los bonds de los hiperescaladores lo lleva repitiendo desde hace meses, si no años.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

yes, actually, we know for a fact that the brain doesn’t shut down between ”requests” and in fact has continuity of function even when there is essentially zero external stimuli and that there isn’t a configurable “memory” app feeding a growing pile of context to each “request”

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

LLMs, focusing on just the tech, are unarguably useful. As are translators using LLM's transformer roots. Unlike machine translators, their true cost is prohibitive: such projects wouldn't be feasible without heavily subsidized access to supercomputers, paid for by huge, problematic externalities.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah, noticed it in the lower right URL! Wasn't trying to criticize you :) Just pointing out the bad update from the original image from 2024 (when Curiosity overtook Lunokhod 2).

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Yutu-2 traversed >1.6 km, not 100m, and was still mobile as of late 2025, not 2024. Zhurong also roved a similar amount on Mars and isn't listed. Jinchan (Chang'e-6) probably roved around 100m too and isn't listed... What a strange infographic!

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Any updates on this? We're at T+1 day from that cursed first window of opportunity.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

This is what "AI" should be used for, and what supercomputers (now known as "data centers") have always been used for. Of course, given a transformer-based model achieved this, now they try to spin it as if all uses of such models are equivalent - including LLMs. So little honesty, so tiring...

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Thales Alenia Space @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How to prepare ExoMars 2028 rover, Rosalind Franklin, for its future journey across the Martian surface? Read the full story 👉https://www.thalesaleniaspace.com/en/news/preparing-exomars-rosalind-franklin-rover-its-first-steps-mars #spaceforlife #exploration #ExoMars

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Forum boards are the best form of internet, full stop, and the internet began to suck more and more as we strayed from that light

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

All true - but: NET value? Burning mummies as train fuel also provided "value" (train ran!), but it wasn't worth it, because the net value was profoundly negative. Supercomputers have value. Transformer NNs are great tech. Most of their uses are not worth their expense.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Maybe pass your texts through the LLMs, cause I for one cannot make out what you're actually talking about. I'd be wary of a (computational!) tool that can't spell but can solve "exotic" puzzles. Of course, enough coaxing, prodding and fiddling with a supercomputer will yield *something*.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

It's been my baseline test for 2 years now. GPT (free & paying versions I access through work) most definitely gets it consistently very wrong. Gemini does direct spelling better but is all over the place with word classification by spelling. Pretty LOW bars to clear.

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Pedro Vallín @pvallin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quien engañó a sus paisanos con una fantasía a sabiendas y dejó vendida a Esquerra el día de autos, ahora apuñala a quien le concedió el perdón del Estado para que regresara. La verdad es que este Yago de tres al cuarto tendrá una entrada bonita en los libros de historia. Nogueras, ni siquiera.

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Puigdemont Conferencia

ALT: Puigdemont Conferencia

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to Elon Musk, who successfully made it to Mars by 2026.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Sth caught my eye: It looks like the expanded oval at the beginning shrinks a little as time progresses, while there lingers a less bright "halo" that appears to "flow" out and around, almost like the previously ionized air is getting dragged/mixed by currents. Is that accurate or an illusion?

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 30/09/2026

Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 🔭 🧪 ☀️

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026

It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Nah, we also (like most languages) use that as somewhat of a synonym. But obviously American encompasses the whole continent, while English does not have a way to differentiate those from the US from other American countries.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

So between 30 and 52 tonnes (I find🤢estimates of 1.2 to 2 tonnes per v3 Starlink bird) for the lowest possible injection orbit? That's... again very low. Entirely possible it's not launching at full load, but that's at most half of "SS V3" supposed P/L capacity. Likely less than fully reusable FH 🤫

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

Ok - but there should be an English equivalent to the Spanish "estadounidense" (also Italian statiunitense), which could be used with no significant weirdness involved. I mean, "American" should be just as obnoxious as using "Asian" specifically for Chinese or "European" for just the French.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.

Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines.

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

(También lo digo porque las finanzas del sector, a parte de esparcidas globalmente, están tan maquilladas/infladas/manipuladas/especuladas/proyectadas a futuros irreales que, por poder, pueden llevar a las mismas conclusiones que los efectos económicos de las proyecciones... o sea, todo y nada :) )

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Perdón por no poner atribución o altText: Statista (pero hay otras fuentes compatibles, véase p.ej. imágenes) y muestra el número de CDs (actuales + planeados públicamente). www.statista.com/statistics/1... No sé si capex es buena métrica en este caso, para mí contaría más la capacidad técnica.

The following figure provides an overview of global energy use and its consumption by data centers.

World’s Top 10 Data Center Grids (TWh): USA 220 TWh = 6%; China 75 TWh = 0.8%; Germany 35 TWh = 6.1%...

https://www.idc-a.org/insights/Sk2PFZCost98Eqhk2FUA

Mapamundi mostrando centros de datos globales según VisualCapitalist

The U.S. leads with 3,960 data centers, the largest footprint in the dataset.
That’s more data centers than the next 14 countries combined.
Europe clusters heavily (UK, Germany, France lead), while Asia’s footprint is growing (China, India, Japan).

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-countries-with-most-data-centers/

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

¡Lejos de mí el poner a China de referente virtuoso sin muchos asteriscos! Pero, por lo que sea (eficiencia, evitar la burbuja sin renunciar a usos "core", modelos libres...) no se comparan a la fiebre de Occidente. Por cierto, los CDs para genIA no se pueden reconvertir para otra cosa fácilmente.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

PS: De acuerdo q los disparates de subvenciones, lobbies y derroche de recursos del sector primario desaten cabreo. Una cosa no quita la otra - podemos enfadarnos por las casas de apuestas y por las acequias que pierden...

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

En cuanto a la dependencia de terceros: vale, pero pensando así se puede caer en la falacia del "missile gap" de la Guerra Fría. No todos los desarrollos hay que seguirlos, ni son constructivos. China no tiene ni de lejos tantos CDs, y seguro que no es porque no pueden.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

También EEUU es mas grande demográfica, económica y tecnológicamente. Pero vale, acepto la crítica a basarme en sus datos para el caso español. Lo que precisamente reitero es que EEUU, para bien o mal, marca el tempo y la tendencia: cuando las barbas del vecino...

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Por cierto, unos 2GW de extensión de la Red española supondría el consumo equivalente de más de 2 MILLONES de hogares adicionales (!) en 3 años. Se me hace difícil entender qué usos "esenciales" irrenunciables para nuestra sociedad justifican algo así. Por lo menos el sector primario da de comer.

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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

De todas maneras, ni estos centros de datos son "domésticos" ni su proliferación es un tema regional. No es útil en este caso circunscribir con anteojeras el discurso a España en un tema tan global-oligárquico como este. Dicho de otro modo: cuando veas las barbas del vecino...

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Hablaba a nivel global o en EEUU, claro. Por regulación menos "salvaje Oeste" e intereses varios, España/EU no son el foco primario de los hiperescaladores, afortunadamente. En 2024 había 350MW totales (IA+otros). Para 2030 hay más de 2.5GW planeados (8x, ó 10% de la demanda eléctrica TOTAL de hoy)

Demanda eléctrica total del 11/9/2026 extraída de la página de Red eléctrica española: media de unos 30 GW, con mínimo de 23 GW de madrugada. Si hubiera >2.5GW de potencia para centros de datos (mayoritariamente IA) de aquí a 3 ó 4 años, supondría aumentar la demanda actual nacional de casi el 10% sólo para ese propósito. España es un país donde la demanda proyectada es menos extrema respecto a otros lugares a nivel global.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Me repito más abajo, pero esto simplemente no es cierto (bueno, depende de hasta dónde se baje el listón de "dispuestos a renunciar" pero os presumo gente razonable). Se están empujando por la vía rápida CDs explícitamente para genIA que centuplican los GW actuales para TODOS los otros usos.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Con los datos en la mano así es, no es un "problema". Mezclar "centros de datos" tradicionales y lo que quieren imponer ahora es como comparar megapesqueros de arrastre con palangres. No es lo mismo, aunque el concepto lo sea. Tp es igual usar algún MW que el consumo eléctrico de Estados enteros.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Fascinating... and visibly skewed. I drew 7x. I always got someone in antiquity/prehistory (<1% chance for each draw!), plus two in the Middle Ages. All of them died at birth/early infancy, 3 from neonatal sepsis (<10% chance). There's something wrong (AI probs) with the random number generator.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

prospect.org

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Two bureaus fighting tooth & nail against each other + other minor ones circling around, competing for gov favor through byzantine structures of power/corruption, inefficiently duplicating expenses and lobbying, oftentimes against state interests. Not sure why it should be cool now the US does it.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't need to imagine. It's (substitute billionaires by elite designers) what went on in the USSR, and why they lost the lunar landing race - and created white elephants along the way.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Artemis successes so far were leftovers from the last 10y bonanza. The last 2 years have oscillated between "defund everything down to 1950s NACA levels", "screw intnl collabs" and "we're not doing science anymore". Billionaires just laugh, spitting out some crumbs of their LEO land grab exploits.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Can't judge the Manhattan Project comparison because I'm not into weapons. I can tell you if this is how the US reenacts the space race in the XXI century, the result will be the opposite. They're gutting NASA, privatizing everything with no performance accountability, and milking the cash cow dry.

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Barely, if at all, sterile neutrino @neutrinocatcher.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

$50M in... the space of a few days? That's a crazy run rate (>$600M a year), especially considering it needed the unique starting points and techniques pioneered by humans to get its bearings. How much would humans + non-LLM computing do you estimate it would've cost?

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