WIND AND SOLAR DON’T CUT IT: Texas Is Heading Towards An Avoidable Blackout… Again.
The author of the piece lays all the blame on Texas having a separate grid, but the state has made itself overreliant on unreliable energy sources.
WIND AND SOLAR DON’T CUT IT: Texas Is Heading Towards An Avoidable Blackout… Again.
The author of the piece lays all the blame on Texas having a separate grid, but the state has made itself overreliant on unreliable energy sources.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia has more full-time employees than undergrads, including an Earth Observatory DEI director.
WHY AM I REMINDED OF “FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON”? Just the News filed a short take that honestly makes me wonder if Fetterman has been red-pilled, or at the very least, somehow came out smarter after his stroke than he was before it happened:
“In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show,” Fetterman posted on X. “Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show.”
I did not have “Fetterman getting into a beef with AOC” on my bingo card.
NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Part 1 of a new series, The Half-Bred Heir.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Shameful Northwestern president must own up to his cowardly ineptitude at Congressional hearing.
SKYNET SMILES: OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, less than one year after announcing it.
Sutskever and Leike on Tuesday announced their departures on social media platform X, hours apart, but on Friday, Leike shared more details about why he left the startup.
“I joined because I thought OpenAI would be the best place in the world to do this research,” Leike wrote on X. “However, I have been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company’s core priorities for quite some time, until we finally reached a breaking point.”
Leike wrote that he believes much more of the company’s bandwidth should be focused on security, monitoring, preparedness, safety and societal impact.
“These problems are quite hard to get right, and I am concerned we aren’t on a trajectory to get there,” he wrote. “Over the past few months my team has been sailing against the wind. Sometimes we were struggling for [computing resources] and it was getting harder and harder to get this crucial research done.”
Leike added that OpenAI must become a “safety-first AGI company.”
If they weren’t going to become one when they had a safety team, it seems less likely without one.
Remembering this history, today’s leftist support for Hamas atrocities is no great shock.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: On Cue, Biden Is Lying About Republicans and Elections. “The Democrats are the most backwards-looking ‘progressive’ political movement on Earth. FDR still drives their economic policy, and race relations in America haven’t improved since the late 1950s in their telling of the story. As Rick points out in his post, this kind of garbage still resonates with older Black voters.”
EXPANSION: Elon Musk launches Starlink satellite internet service in Indonesia, world’s largest archipelago. “Launching the service at a health clinic aligns with Starlink’s broader mission of providing affordable access to high-speed internet services, particularly in underserved and remote regions, said Coordinating Minister of Maritime and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.”
WHITE HOUSE REPORT CARD: White House Report Card: Biden 2.0 promises tax hikes, illegal immigration.
Related: Biden floods the swamp with record tally of regulations.
AT AMAZON, Shop the Memorial Day Sales. #CommissionEarned
BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates that they’ve given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says.
Joanne Hsu, who is the director of the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey, told CNBC on Friday that she thinks Americans have abandoned plans to save money as they see their financial goals look less attainable and are spending money instead.
“This positive spending is not a reflection of some sort of internalized secret sense of confidence that consumers have,” he explained. “And instead my interpretation is that consumers see that a lot of aspirational goals that we talk about as part of the American Dream—homeownership, paying for college, paying for college for your kids, having a comfortable retirement—with high prices and high interest rates right now, those aspirational goals just feel increasingly out of reach.”
And as a result, consumers have “given up” on saving for those goals, Hsu added, noting that the still-strong labor market allows them to spend now.
The unintended (and ironic) consequence is that the front-loaded aggregate demand is inflationary.
#JOURNALISM:
“His pregnancy” pic.twitter.com/UbhMEmDtvp
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2024
#LEADERSHIP:
Joe Biden inspires Black graduates at Morehouse College by telling them that they’re victims and America hates them.pic.twitter.com/ofxa90Zo5F
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2024
IT’S PERFECTLY SANE IF THE INTENTION IS TO BRING HARM TO THE HOST COUNTRY: Biden’s Plan to Resettle Thousands of Gaza Refugees Is Insane, Warns Expert.
ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST (MOSTLY) FOR INDIE WRITERS: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
IT’S AS IF THE “PUBLIC HEALTH” STUFF HAS ALL BEEN A LIE:
Extremely concerning https://t.co/ybkTCYiOLu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2024
THE TYPE OF FICTION WE ENJOY IS SHAPED BY OUR LIVES, AND SHAPES OUR LIVES IN TURN: Literary Imagination.
SO IF YOU COULDN’T FOLLOW TRENT TELENKO’S TWITTER THREADS, THIS IS IT: Biden White House Establishes Sanctuaries for Russian Forces Attacking Ukraine; Does This Sound Familiar?
THE TARGETED ADS THAT DIDN’T BARK IN THE NIGHT: An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That’s not supposed to happen.
RUSSIA IS KILLING LOTS OF ITS FORCES FOR LITTLE EFFECT WHILE UKRAINE IS TRASHING EVER LARGER AMOUNTS OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN RUSSIA: Much of the portrayed Russian success is based on prediction.
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