 Scientists have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100 per cent efficiency, to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2023/01/30/seawater-split-to-produce-green-hydrogen An unprecedented statement by Xi: "We must quicken the pace of tech self-reliance to prevent being strangled by foreign countries" Such language shows the sheer level of hostility China perceives from the west. Demand and output for cardboard boxes and other packaging material fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2022, which is an indicator that consumer demand is eroding in US. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cardboard-box-demand-plunging-at-rates-unseen-since-the-great-recession Cleanlab automatically detects problems in a ML dataset. This data-centric AI package facilitates machine learning with messy, real-world data by providing clean labels for robust training and flagging errors in your data. International North South Transport Corridor that's currently being prepared will cut Europe out of the of all major trade across Eurasia https://www.gica.global/initiative/international-north-south-transport-corridor-instc The US House of Representatives, by overwhelming majority, just passed a resolution “to denounce socialism in all its forms”. Absolutely irredeemable system. @yogthos So my 1st thought was: how can so many reps (R & D both) oppose #socialSecurity, which is likely supported by a vast majority of the public?  @yogthos Next up let them try and pass a resolution “to denounce nazism in all its forms” and watch that spectacularly fail.  @yogthos mfs be like "wE nEEd TO MAkE cUbA tHe 51ST US StAtE" wonder what imperialism is like to its subjects challenge (impossible) A Case Study On Egregious Canadian Corporate Greed: Loblaws. Supposedly Loblaws can’t afford to pay employees more, or charge customers less, so why are its shareholders making more money than ever? https://kareemk.substack.com/p/a-case-study-on-egregious-canadian A good read on the role luck plays in success. A fantastic read on the environment of pervasive fear that capitalism creates. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-herod-is-greed-all-that-s-wrong-with-capitalism China, socialism, development and greening: Lessons on what the world can be https://mg.co.za/opinion/2023-02-01-china-socialism-development-and-greening-lessons-on-what-the-world-can-be/ @yogthos it is hard to take an article that has sentences like these seriously regardless of where one lands on the communism / capitalism spectrum. A press release issued by an authoritarian regime would have more self-awareness than this. China set another record for solar power capacity last year as the country sped up renewable installations to reach its ambitious climate targets: installed 87.4 gigawatts of solar last year, beating 2021’s record of 54.9 gigawatts https://archive.ph/jBQDU Albuquerque police burned a child alive https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/albuquerque-police-teenager-dead.html Intel is cutting costs to keep their quarterly dividend at the expense of their employees. These cuts are broad-based, with employees having their compensation affected. Just another example of capitalism working as intended. https://www.semianalysis.com/p/intel-cuts-pay-for-employees-to-keep "This action shows Pat Gelsinger is very similar to the prior Intel CEO who was a career Chief Financial Officer at multiple publicly traded companies." It's always been surprising to me that so many people believe that Pat Gelsinger isn't "that type of executive." Dude has some kind of reality distortion field but about him personally. If this happened in China then it would be used as proof that it's a dystopian hellhole. https://www.levernews.com/mass-prisoners-could-choose-between-freedom-and-their-organs/ The Havana Declaration on the New International Economic Order. “After two days of detailed discussions about how to transform our shared world, delegates to the Havana Congress resolved to secure science and technology sovereignty through unilateral but coordinated action by Southern nations." |
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@yogthos it reminds me about kin-dza-dza, where all the sees have been evaporated to get luts 😂
@yogthos @simon_brooke can’t wait for Scotland being turned into a leading green hydrogen superpower, let’s just cover all the land with wind turbines and all the coast with hydrolysis plants, and be rich ever after! 🤔 These technological advances are great, but every time I see something like this these days I can’t avoid feeling yet another excuse for not dealing with the root causes of our problems, we are so overfocused on technology.
@yogthos Cynically, it sounds like one of those alleged major breakthroughs that you never hear of again, either because the research results were wrong or because it doesn't actually scale.
I always hope that my cynicism is unfounded when I see such "huge, if true" things, of course.