radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Storing energy from solar to power the night makes sense in lots of places already, and yeah will just grow. A home owner installing a battery to buy off peak power for use during peak rates, I think will never be efficient. 200
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I don't even know if this is a savings, even if you ignore the cost of the hardware and installation. Every time you convert power you lose a good bit of it. 211
Reposted by @radbeard.bsky.socialHeidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Yale Alums: This is a link to Pres. McInnis's request for community feedback on the Trump DOE's Compact 2.0. Please make your voices heard! I'll thread a screenshot to my own response below.president.yale.eduDepartment of Education letter for all university presidents and governing boards 23214
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026NAVSEA in a scramble to fund work that goes towards these things but won't have been a total loss if they disappear in a couple of years. 100
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Awesome and congratulations!! You're killing it 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026www.reuters.com/pictures/sun... what a metaphor for 2026reuters.comSunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels dropScuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe. 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Is this a whole game based off that werner herzog documentary scene where the penguin leaves the here to walk off in some random direction, as if mysteriously called, to its own inevitable demise? 000
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Looks cool. Have you read there is no anti memetics division? 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Could be good, people have always told me I'm a cold soul. 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Oh the two books were gender rules and power politics:carbon energy 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 09/07/2026More papers than books but in the critical race theory class, "White by Law" was really excellent. For piracy anything by Markus Rediker. We read "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea". Econ development stuff didn't have any books that I remember, and that entire field is hotly contested 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026And then you can have an exogenous shock that overwhelms state capacity and leads to famine/civil war and then often a refugee crisis. It's wild how many of these things spread out over time and place are still all bound up in one another. 000
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026And my undergrad degree focus was on international development. Which is a lot of learning about the history of western intervention and it's impacts. From building caste systems to getting countries plugged into international markets (which is maybe net positive until there is a global price drop) 210
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Cool, I just ordered the two books I see in it. I've taken courses on critical race theory (well it was Race, Gender, and the Law), the civil war, and even a history class about Atlantic pirates (this is way more of a labor/class story than I realized) 220
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Yeah this is exactly what a history class should be! Memorization is boring but the context of how we got to where we are is really everything. Sounds awesome. 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026History classes are one of those things I didn't start to really appreciate, beyond the novelty of knowing stuff, until I was in my 30s. Then the saying about past being prelude really clicked. Damn shame about the contents of our prelude. What is the course title? 200
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Sorry for my slow reply! I think (what I know about you at least) is awesome! And I admire a lot of the work you've done and I'm always interested in what your views are. Those sound like extremely long days but hopefully catching games still is a good sign and not burnout fuel! 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026@winnersusedrugs.bsky.social How are classes going? Is it a lot of hours per week? 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Why is being uncommonly good at something positive but being rarely good at something the opposite? 000
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Looks super good, but for some reason I expected to see cut up candles mixed into it 120
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Rubio about to collect another job title like the chaos god Khorne collects skulls for the skull throne 020
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I'm just one chapter into my first Joyce Carol Oates book and I'm already wondering how someone is so good at writing. 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026No problem at all! I was really consistently impressed with it. I hope you find the time to enjoy it. 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Well I never heard of it but I just placed an order with midtown reader. Thanks! 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Yeah at least the one upside of being overloaded with things to do is time passes quickly :/ you got this! School as an adult is more exhausting but at least part of that is because You're getting more out of it. 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Well I'm rooting for you. All your years of good work has got to count for something! I only finally went back and finished my BA in my 30s and once I did I got a huge promotion within weeks. It's like come on guys, I was equally capable beforehand but the paper matters. 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Awesome. Sounds like something you could already teach a course on! 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I saw you mention before you were impacted by the canvas thing. What are you going back to study? 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I'm Radbeard and Allsee is my favorite curator on the presidium! 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I would follow it! I was trying to scroll back to find another game you had mentioned and was thinking about how convenient it would be if they were all in one place. You make consistently interesting suggestions. 100
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Sounds like the talk of someone that was never granted eyes on the inside 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I guess Rom scores high on peaceful but low on humanity 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Also my only credit card, which I got I got 14 years ago, gives amazon points as rewards and I just switched a few weeks ago to a more generic cash back card. Lots of little things can keep you pointed back to them 040
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Depending on the nature of the thoughts it could be resting witch face? 110
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Right. There are mountains of lore but a movie similar to the story in the game itself would be like 80s fantasy action schlock 000
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I also work at a university that paid lots of tariffs on federal research grants. Many of those projects have since come to an end. If we get refunded it will need to be returned to the sponsor and just forever lowered what was available for research 0120
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026We looked into some of this where I work a few years ago and ended up instead spending that money on far more panels in an adjacent field 300
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Installing solar on rooftops is a lot cheaper then building lots of rooftops just for solar. The expense of building so many weight bearing structures starts to get more pricey than the panels themselves. 100
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I'm skeptical there really will be a us blockade. Are they really going to fire on Chinese flagged civilian ships? This seems like a bluff that will get called 010
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The monkeys paw version of this is the military starts trying to turn a profit 020
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Probably some "tough guy" stuff like: you do what we want or we let bombs do the talking, do you understand? Which seems to be their only card 000
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Mythos isn't AGI and the security vulnerabilities it found could likely take down all the power grids in the world and infect every computer. You don't need AGI to be wildly valuable and capable. There is very real ability here and so it will be developed 000
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026There are lots of dumb things the models do and I watch the funny YouTube shorts, but I think we do ourselves a disservice by thinking that stuff is permanent. 100
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Energy grids, banks, you name it, suddenly a LOT is vulnerable. And an arms race that takes place in this arena at the scale and speed LLMs allow for is genuinely frightening 000
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Vibe coding is good or bad depending how it's implemented. Lots of implementations are going to create long term problems, but those are solvable problems. But I don't just mean security detection. Something like mythos means random people have access to state level cyber hacking tools. 100
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I don't know the future and I'm not saying it will be the only technology humans ever create again, but a lot of folks think it's going away because datacenter rollout isn't matching the earlier claims, like in the OP. It's not going away, and it's going to rapidly expand. 100
radbeard.bsky.social @radbeard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I've advocated for delaying adoption of AI products where I work, and I think at least the current gen products in my industry are marketing hype. But a llm designed drug is in human trials presently and that was with models from years ago. Mythos' security vulnerability detection is a seashift. 200
