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Ha! I love it, this needs to happen!
Ha! I love it, this needs to happen!
If you want to dig deeper on how the company Fervo works, the CEO did an interview with David Roberts of Volts last year which was pretty interesting. This stuff isn’t hypothetical, it’s working right now, and apparently it’s profitable. I know huge portions of electricity demand can be addressed through wind and solar, perhaps at lower cost than enhanced geothermal for now, but the ability of enhanced geothermal to keep producing energy when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine is really key.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally
Beato is a great musician, and some of his interviews are pretty cool. I think he’s off base on this, hwoever.
Enshittification is how platforms die. To go back to the original article/post by Cory Doctorow that coined the phrase:
Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Beato isn’t wrong that the music industry is well into the cycle of enshittification, he just doesn’t identify the actual reasons why. The music industry abused its artists for decades in a way that initially benefitted music consumers, but then the studios/labels/publishers cranked up the prices on consumers too, and then the industry started devouring a lot of the publishers and studios and labels themselves as Spotify and Amazon and others started eating their lunch.
I do think there is a link between music industry enshittification and some negative trends in music. Cory Doctorow and his co-author Rebecca Giblin point out in their book Chokepoint Capitalism that platforms like Spotify prioritize mass production of cheap-to-license “background” music that all blends together in a mush, because they prioritize total volume of listening rather than any particular listening experience.
I had one of these plans for over a decade. It was fun while it lasted—I won’t be staying with the company after this.
(Obligatory acknowledgement that “psychotic” is not an accurate description of what the study or journal article said, that was an erroneous description by Car & Driver. “Sociopathic” or “sadistic” might be more accurate, based on the study.)
Return on investment is still heavily in favor of solar or wind generation with battery or hydro storage for low generation periods.
In a similar vein, Joe Biden, who signed the TikTok ban into law, had already joined TikTok.
Let’s face it, the U.S. has not been consistent with respect to foreign-owned social media companies, and what it really needs to do is pass meaningful privacy protections. Instead, you get this nonsense.
tab grouping
Sure, okay.
vertical tabs
To each their own.
profile management
Whatever, it’s fine.
and local AI features
HOLLUP
Both are risking the lives and safety of the non-consenting public as they beta test 2-ton vehicles on public streets. Damn them both.
I call it his “big boy gun”
Good! And I hope you never let him hear the end of it. What a poser.
Wait, do I actually agree with Aaron Rogers on something?
(Reads AngryCommieKender’s clarification.)
Nope, false alarm!
Finally got around to Talos Principle (the first one) and it’s as good as people said.
I also started playing some space battles in Empire at War on “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth) and find that level of not-very-challenging RTS kind of soothing, so I’m back to playing that for a bit.
😂😂😂
In seriousness, what is the payment to artists like nowadays on TIDAL? Dare I even ask?
I really wish there was a better alternative to push my friends to. I do use Bandcamp, so at least I know more of my $$$ are going to the artists and I can take the music with me, but I’m not sure about the platform long-term.
I played quite a bit of Tricky and SSX3 in college, I should dust off the GameCube and fire it up again.
I hope they focus on the fun. With that pedigree of devs, I think they’ll get the balance good and have good maps, but that illusive fun factor needs to be there. (Like what the Torchlight devs did after some left the Diablo teams.)
And she has cleverly used it to keep climate issues in the spotlight.
From the end of the article:
Joanna Warrington, an organiser with Fossil Free London, said: “The UK criminalises peaceful climate activists like Greta whilst rolling out the red carpet for climate criminals in Mayfair hotels.
“Fossil fuel corporations are most responsible for the climate crisis, and we will continue to hold them to account no matter what the state throws at us. We have to, because nothing is worse than losing everything.”
OG PvZ is perfection. I’d love to have more, but it never can hold up.
Pure poetry from AndyJHawk: