Jul. 1st, 2024

solarbird: (shego-rule?-you?)

It’s hilarious to me that this is being presented as a bad thing:

Germany has too many solar panels, and it’s pushed energy prices into negative territory.

NO, it does NOT. Power export and increased electrification will solve the “not making money” part and it will be awesome.

Somewhere I had but misplaced an “oh noes” article about the price of used electric cars starting to come down and that’s also being presented as a bad thing and once again I am asking why is this bad, affordable electrics are good, absolute turnip of a journalist.

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solarbird: (korra-on-the-air)

Not just Twitter this time, though I assure you, there is plenty of Twitter. But let’s start with my favourite article of the last few weeks: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again. I love this article and I love it very much. It is distilled catharsis. Enjoy.

Now to get into some of Elon Musk’s Twitter fascism before moving on to other items:

Well, that was a lot. Let’s see what else we have.

Ah, this one’s good: Research finds pattern of YouTube recommending right-leaning, Christian videos. It does that to me, too. It really wants people to find fash content. I wonder if it’s related to the politics that lead to Tech Company Hit With DOJ Fine After Racist ‘Whites Only’ Job Posting and Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under right-wing pressure. I’m pretty fucking sure it is.

Here’s the least surprising thing ever: Someone managed to get Gab’s AI’s setup prompt. It is, naturally, everything you’d expect out of a fascist site.

Meanwhile, Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers – Meta allegedly tried to discredit university researchers in Brazil who had flagged fraudulent adverts on the social network’s ad platform. Fundamentally, Meta doesn’t like people saying things about it that it doesn’t like, and will absolutely throw its weight at people. See also A local news site was critical of Facebook—then Meta banned all their links.

If you’re wondering, the story that pissed them off was When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet’s future.

Clearly, Google was fine with it: U.K. forces Google to remove websites selling gender-affirming medications. TERF Island is go go go.

Finally, to come back aground and close with more general news – stuff that isn’t actually directly fash / far-right / fundamentalist related, but is still tech bullshit:

We’ll close on some better news, from CheckMyAds: Google’s breaking down, but we need to keep our eye on the ball. They’re doing some good work. You might give them a looking-over, maybe sign up. I did.

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solarbird: (widow)

Biden’s gonna speak on the immunity ruling in like 15-20 minutes from now, at around 4:45pm Cascadian/Pacific time, 7:45pm Eastern. Or rather, that’s when the video feed starts.

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solarbird: (widowmaker)

After today’s Republican Supreme Court decision granting presidents complete criminal immunity for anything that qualifies even remotely as an “official act” – something even George III didn’t have – everything else is secondary. Trump got more than he asked for. Read Justice Sotomayor’s dissent.

Trump has, of course, declared victory and called for a military tribunal to try Liz Cheney for treason over on Truth Social. If, you know, you’re wondering how he’s reacting. But yeah, as Sotomayor says, a president can now order military strikes on his political opponents and if he declares it an “official act” as Commander in Chief and remain immune from the law, so there y’are.

There is no more room for even a single electoral mistake. The next authoritarian – or the next person with authoritarian tendencies – elected President will be the last elected President. Every election has to go right until this is reversed, somehow, and until then the republic is truly dead, because that means you have one party that isn’t primed and ready to launch a dictatorship the moment they have power. and one that absolutely, positively is.

Here’s a bunch of stuff I was working into a few posts. It’s not important now, but you might skim the headlines. There are a few different topics, and they should matter more, still. And I suppose, really, they do. But, you know. Precipice of dictatorship, and all that. So.

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