Ok but the CIA being just one big chain of idiots and the George Clooney robo dildo machine were pretty amusing.

Fair point. Monsters still have mothers…

Peter Theil has family??? That doesn’t seem plausible.

Yeah I’m always conflicted recommending it because I don’t think it’s a good book, felt kinda like “here are 10 interesting ideas about how to approach the climate crisis” and now I have to weave them into a narrative. But I do want to take week long airship tours to see wildlife at some point…

I feel like that section should be excerpted and collected as a useful communication piece… it doesn’t really rely on the rest of the book, and, alongside some other pieces of media I’ve read/seen, (egan’s perihelion summer the part where main char goes to Perth to try and get his family | weirdly: the lost bus movie; not wonderful, but visualizes a real climate catastrophe in a very intimate and accessible way) function as a very grounding-in-reality sense of the horror contained in climate catastrophe.

Or just put another away, all of these narratives left me feeling queasy; they helped me understand that I, or people I know and care about, may experience something like this. Instead of it being a compartmentalized dread about future events that await us, these kinds of outcomes are here now, and the experiences of those affected by them will be devastating.

Edit: one more piece of media—the episode from the apple ‘adaptations’ series that takes place in Mumbai (maybe ep 3 or 4) where you follow the two guys driving cargo across the country at night and sleeping in insulated sleeping bags in the morning.

Yeah I was shocked at how much that section stuck with me. It’s one of those things that takes the idea from a compartmentalized and distant fear to a very understandable reality, and you realize something like this is gonna happen in the near future and it’s horrifying.

The first part of Kim Stanley robinsons’s ministry of the future has a really chilling narrative of a wet bulb event in India over a couple days. Absolutely terrifying and has stuck with me. Resting the bookings meh, but that section is excellent for playing out and making real the horrors of something like this.

Haha yeah, things are very “faster than expected” so who knows how high we’ll get. Maybe we should stop worrying and think of it as a civilization al high score.

I’ve read that Anthropic’s yearly revenue is in the single/double digit billions (want to say 13.5, but I’m not sure) so this company’s error would account for 4% (if my 13.5b is the number) of their yearly revenue in one month…

Ok thanks for that, I was going back and forth and then just defaulted to my double add 32 that I do for outdoor temps (my wife thinks in metric and I’m hobbled with Fahrenheit so I do ballpark conversions) but I thought something was off about 40 degrees lol

Trying to understand—is y axis surface temp in Celsius? So like mean forecast is a 4C temp anomaly in the positive…? Like a 40 degree F temp difference, totally wild.

Curious to know also, I know this is largely sited in pacific/equatorual, but if you have this kind of temp anomaly, does that have any implications on ice free arctic? I mean I guess obviously yes since it just means there’s more heat in the overall pool of water, but wondering how much it would increase timeframe/likihood.

Guessing that offer was to humiliate her prior to Mossad calling to give her the real deal: we’ll hurt your family. “You’re so insignificant and below us that we can buy you off with a traffic fine bribe” j/k we’re going to hurt you and your family.

Oh man… something was tweaking my brain and this is it.

It does feel like a strange choice… are they doing a corpo retreat that weekend with the cabinet; trust falls and a hike? Is Trump going to have some of them executed and buried in the woods? Find out in the next episode, airing Sunday prime time!

I don’t know the exact thing; but I think it was discussed a bit in the news mega—basically there’s potential for corrosion and bad maintenance can lead to the stuff (whatever the latent state they’re keeping it in the tank) reacting and the reaction is thermal and sorta keeps itself going/getting worse—it puts off very toxic vapor (hence the evacuation) and they’re trying to slow or limit the reaction by cooling the system—not clear if that can actually avoid awful outcomes or just limit them by limiting the thermal potential overall, etc.?

Edit: here’s the link to the news mega response that has a lot better info for those who are curious https://vger.to/hexbear.net/comment/7188249

Say 5 years ago I would have said: that’s nuts. But more and more these days I’m thinking, yeah having a house with some signal blocking might not be such a bad idea… not really feasible for most people, but you could integrate somewhat in new construction, and certainly you coild foil a room and use EM paint… but would be pretty weird.

Case anyone’s interested, couple of resources on SCIF wall construction:

https://www.cooperbuilds.com/post/scif-sapf-wall-types-understanding-icd-705-minimum-requirements-and-applications

https://signalsdefense.com/rfoil-frequently-asked-questions/

There a couple open source repositories out there for setting something like this up, or at least the basic sensing. I started looking at it a bit but then got bored and didn’t try it out. You can set it up on a computer in your home (was gonna use a spare desktop I run Linux on), and the package had the ability to start to correlate movement skeletons as unique based on repeated motions. It freaked me out that it was theoretically possible to invasively spy on my neighbors on either side just by downloading some open source software… anyway I never went through trying to get it installed or working and it probably would have been a finicky setup, but the potentials for crazy surveillance are pretty huge with the wifi sensing, and outside of living in faraday cages not sure how much you could prevent it.

Damn, I never get tired of soprano memes. Like you can literally hear the voice.

Yeah get weird stuff all the time, but also I’m using a pie hole and have other blockers and trackers and things being blocked, so I assume most of the time it’s that and the cost of doing business.

This seems really counterintuitive to me. You’d think if you made your balls bigger, it would make your dick look smaller in comparison, which would be the more… traditional insecurity. Then again, maybe it’s just Gen Z, saying “fuck your conventional aesthetics!”