meanderingexile @meanderingexile@schelling.pt
Joined Jan 2021
realized belatedly I was thinking of 10^18 Wh/yr here
Blowing through Kardashev I is also a valid goal, but one thing at a time
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RT @meanderingexile
feeling this more and more
we need: 10^18 watts of zero-carbon energy (probably fission and space-based solar) and carbon capture on the teratonne scale (probably sinking kelp in the ocean)
that's it, that's the game
almost everything else is irrelevant https://twitter.com/gar…
https://twitter.com/meanderingexile/status/1470717488518160386
RT @andrewcb
The NSO zero-click iMessage exploit is pretty mind-bending: it used a vuln in the JBIG2 image compression in PDF, and then, not having scripting, built a virtual CPU entirely out of boolean pixel operations.
All this just to hunt down some dissidents https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html
so, was the first part of Termination Shock just straight up riffing off this tweet?
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RT @WillieMcNabb
@JasonIsbell Legit question for rural Americans - How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?
https://twitter.com/WillieMcNabb/status/1158045307562856448
feeling this more and more
we need: 10^18 watts of zero-carbon energy (probably fission and space-based solar) and carbon capture on the teratonne scale (probably sinking kelp in the ocean)
that's it, that's the game
almost everything else is irrelevant
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RT @garybasin
Imagine thinking the solution to climate change is political instead of encouraging technological innovation
https://twitter.com/garybasin/status/1470446321203130382
RT @nasjaq__
"if we get back on the Henry Adams curve, with energy and population growth in their historic proportions, by 2200 we would reach the status of a Kardashev Type I civilization - with 100x todays population and 100x power/capita - and that's only from a 2.5% growth rate" 🤯
RT @SafeNotAnOption
A year from now, it will have been half a century since humans last made footprints on the moon. https://twitter.com/BP_Hutch/status/1469828802486280193
I'm so used to only seeing these shots from the ISS that it took me a moment to realize what I was looking at
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RT @AJ_FI
Shenzhou-13 astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu will deliver a live space lecture from the China Space Station at 0740 UTC (2:40 am Eastern, 15:40 Beijing time) Dec. 9 (Thursday), CMSA announces. Will be broadcast on CCTV https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gQkzsxQBJEDW7zQQTuCjPw
https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1467828145290104835
RT @austinbarnard45
Ad lunam et marte
at least omicron sounds like a decepticon
better class of apocalypse
RT @ChrisSembroski
A couple of my favorite views. @inspiration4x
RT @altachron
- variants that belong to the Emperor
- embalmed variants
- variants that are trained
- suckling variants
- mervariants
- fabulous variants
- stray variants
- variants included in the present classification
- variants that tremble as if they were mad
- innumerable variants https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1464359610710577157
RT @kevin_bowen
You're looking to buy counterfeit vax cards on the dark web. I'm looking to buy unapproved mRNA with omicron spike protein on the dark web. We are not the same.
RT @ToughSf
Martian explorers scale the 'Phobos Monolith', a 90m tall pile of debris from an ancient impact while their spacecraft orbits overhead.
#space #art by Thomas-Peters.
https://www.deviantart.com/thomas-peters/art/Mars-from-Phobos-877607783
RT @atroyn
“why do you have so much hope we’ll succeed in 100 years” “because we have to” https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1059935163482664960
RT @atroyn
“even if the warming effect of c02 could be counteracted it would be only a stopgap… applying a tourniquet while the patient is being transported to hospital” ocean acidification etc
My honest response to this was "how did they get that, it's not out until Novem- dammit."
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RT @atroyn
this is for the launch of this new book. it’s big!
https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1461172722650681345
"I advise complying with the law at all times, y'know, blah, blah, blah.
But..."
- @balajis
assault bike
one minute on, two minutes off
dying
neat little tool I've really come to like lately: https://github.com/pubs/pubs
using a little script to hook it up to fzf makes searching through my ebooks/papers super easy- it doesn't have the features of something like mendeley, but super lightweight
Joined Jan 2021
