The idea that you could have a thinking talking relationship for decades with another being who used to literally be part of your own body is just wild. Totally normal but also bonkers.
So Elon is going to burn Tesla to the ground, BYD is going to be banned from North America, and the US is going to bail out the domestic auto industry again? Is that the plan?
What would it look like if we'd invested in good dense cities, transit, protected bike lanes, and maybe some ebikes instead? It's like the Passive House of transportation.
Climate change doesn't fit the model of "insurance." It's not a low probability, high impact event that randomly affects a small subset of assets, with a low total cost relative to the whole pool of assets at risk.
It's a high probability, high impact event that affects everybody, with a high total cost relative to the value of the pool of assets at risk.
Really interesting discussion of China's green/sustainable financing mechanisms (especially relative to the IRA In the US). Favorable financing for things you want, unfavorable for the things you don't. Financially it's a lot like a tax, but it's implemented by a different institution and paid far away from consumers. You can see how it might be politically different from a tax.
The energy transition could go badly. We could make it expensive, or disruptive, or inequitable. It doesn't need to go that way, but we could mess it up. And there are people who would really like for us to mess it up.
@ZaneSelvans I would frame it more directly: The losers of the energy transition--the petroleum, mining and legacy utility businesses--would very much like to stop it in its tracks. It's our responsibility to oppose them and make sure they fail, and the transition succeeds.
tfw it takes a full day to deploy your new code to a remote machine. Because the machine is a full day away at light speed: https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/
I do like the idea of being able to invest in smaller sustainability and community oriented companies directly. Say, a small urban delivery company that uses cargo e-bikes through a crowdfunding platform. And apparently I'm not alone!
"London-based cargo bike delivery service Pedal Me entered administration last week, after it failed to reach a deal with the British tax authority, HMRC, over debts. The business was then bought back from administrators, meaning it will continue trading.
However, crowdfunding investors who put money into the start-up have been left with nothing"
Just 13 short years after inviting #BoulderCouncil candidates over to the Masala Co-op for tea and cakes to discuss repealing occupancy limits that discriminate against unrelated people, and 28 years after Cedar Barstow got busted for living in an intentional community in her own home and was sentenced to community service, which she used to help found the Boulder Housing Coalition.
An incredibly lifelike panoramic reconstruction of Tenochtitlan before contact. Some with sliders that let you compare the view directly with #CDMX today. It feels like a place in another world.
Xiong has chronicled her journey from Beijing cryptocurrency marketing executive to farm girl in Thailand on social media; she’s particularly popular on Xiaohongshu, a female-focused app similar to Instagram, where she has more than 38,000 followers. Her account shows people that switching to a slower pace of life “is not just some illusion or idealistic thing, but is very actionable,” she says.
In the intro he talks about this book being a detour from another book he was trying to write, and I was like "That other book sounds really familiar." and it turned out I've had it in my library for years but haven't gotten around to reading it: "The art of not being governed." about ungovernable hill people in SE Asia.
tldr: the book is about SE Asia’s history and people doing the “exit” part of “exit, voice, loyalty” at a socially-impactful level. But they’re pretty rare in the modern world.
I do think there is something really interesting to be written comparing this history with open source software’s exit and eventual recapture, but 🗓️⌚️