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0·1 month agoA large part of what they do is research. Taking away a couple billion a year that the government spends on that at Harvard is a big deal, even if the institution can ultimately survive it
Only when they can performatively blow smoke in people’s faces. You can’t do that with a hot water heater.
The concerns are big enough that Waltz is being shunted off to the UN instead of being allowed to stay where he is.
Signal makes it believable by providing source code and reproducible builds. It doesn’t rule out the possibility that they’ve done something clever with the random number generator, or have the app store you use give you a compromised app, or provide any protection against endpoint compromise, but it’s about as good as you can get.
Third party apps derived from theirs, which explicitly promise to log all your messages to a server somewhere, like TeleMessage, are, for obvious reasons, far less trustworthy.
They’re choosing people who are in the Nazi group chat and also did an internship at one of Musk’s companies.
No senior folks because more senior people won’t break the law because their boss says so.
We are past two important points:
- we passed the point where you would not be able to tell the difference something like 30 years ago
- we passed the point where we likely locked in 1.5°C of warming quite recently. That’s roughly where you walk into a minefield of risking major ecosystems with each additional bit of warming, and the stretch goal that small island nations wanted because it might have left them habitable.
Importantly neither point is one where we expect civilization to suddenly end.
Probably not. We’re still in a place where it’s probably possible to end up with a civilization-supporting planet. But it requires phasing out fossil fuels. And starting now. And the oil executives who bribed Trump don’t like that.
Exactly. The problem here isnt that China did something bad; it’s that the US government sabotaged the future prosperity of the US
“Nobody” is a very strong word, and simply false
In any case, it’s not the DNC that’s the barrier here; it’s who is actually elected to office
It’s on us to push to make it happen
If it comes down to that, we’ve already lost.
Right now, I’d advise people to do as much outreach as possible to people you know. If you’re on commercial social media, post a screenshot, put the link in a comment. Send a DM. Put up stickers.
Building the level of support that would be necessary to win a revolution likely makes nonviolent paths such as impeachment possible.
The guns are to prevent violent suppression of that public support. Not as a first choice.
If we removed him by force with only something like 1.5% of the population on board, we’d have kicked off a civil war we could not win. Right now, it’s more important to use protest as an outreach tool to get more of the population to support change.
Both Google and Apple have significant blue-team efforts. What’s not transparent is the extent to which they rely on government support to spot APTs.
Definitely, but Schumer pushed enough Democrats to side with the Republicans on a vote to end debate that they had the 60-vote supermajority needed to do so.
Click the link to find out. It’s a gift link, so anybody with JS turned on should be able to access the article.
The US draft system hasn’t had college deferments since the latter part of the Vietnam war.
Yeah he has some serious issues with coherence. But I’m paying a lot of attention to climate, so I notice it more on that issue than others.
0·8 months agoThe existing large-scale batteries are largely lithium. There are a bunch of iron-chemistry ones and sodium-ion ones which have been deployed over the past year, with factories going up to scale them up. I’m not expecting to be limited by lithium availability for stationary batteries.
Pretty much, unless we’re able to substantially alter the makeup of the Supreme Court.
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