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We need to Reduce plastic production! bfm.my/content/podcas…

🚨🚨🚨 Kushner Albania deal The best piece of journalism I’ve seen on this issue.

MADANI & AI… 😮‍💨🤮 Bloody no brains, lazy

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be. I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.

Anthropic was always portraying itself as the lesser evil. Nothing else.

There you go: the FT confirms that not only is the NSA using Anthropic's AI "for offensive cyber operations" against "nations such as China or Iran" but Anthropic is actively helping them in that effort. As per the article, Anthropic "installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide the use of the technology and customise models for specific applications." It confirms two things. First: the United States is the most aggressive state actor in cyberspace, by far. It offensively infiltrates other nations' networks, and is now supercharging that capability with AI. Heck that is literally one of the core mission statements of the NSA, one of the largest security agencies of the US government. Second, that Anthropic's carefully cultivated image as the ethical, safety-first AI company that "partners with the church" is a fiction. In reality, it is the most deeply embedded AI company in the US security state. Instead of building guardrails, they're literally weaponizing their own AI inside the NSA. Src: ft.com/content/d02d91…

The Hornbill Totem of Gawai Kenyalang is a powerful symbol in Iban culture, representing spiritual strength, protection, and prosperity. Deeply rooted in Iban beliefs, the hornbill is associated with divine protection and resilience. +

I'd love to see this year's World Cup fail for 1 reason, among many pieces of evidence. #Warmongers #Genociders #ComplicitGovs Same to the Olympics in 2028

The Israelization of our societies is already happening: posturing democracies where human rights can be suspended for people that those in power consider a disturbance. Wake up Brits. Italians. Germans. French. North Americans. Dutch.

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?

Citizenship is regulated by Part III of the Federal Constitution. Our Constitution remains the supreme law of the land. All are subject to it.

Dutch friends. "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next" (cit)

Hydrogen Economy 1. There is no hydrogen gas lying around in the form of H2 molecule. 2. Hydrogen is the universe most basic element with the lowest atomic density of 1 proton and 1 electron. 3. Hydrogen exists in the form of gas at most temperatures and pressures. Therefore it is not economical and practical to store in gas form. 4. To store and transport them in liquid it it has to be cooled below 250degC. In vehicles it is usually stored in compressed gas form - 7,000-10,000 psi 5. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, but it is not a fuel because there is no pure hydrogen lying around to be harvested. 6. Hydrogen is present in Water H2O or hydrocarbons such as fossil fuel like Methane Gas. 7. To obtain hydrogen in pure form, there are two common methods. Pass an electric current through H2O and split them into Hydrogen and Oxygen (Electrolysis) or reform Natural Gas from CH4 to Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen (Steam Reforming) 8. When we talk about Green Hydrogen, it means electroloysis. To produce 1kg of H2 55 kiloWatthours (kWh) of electricity is required - around RM17 of electricity cost in Malaysia. 9. When we talk about Blue Hydrogen, it means steam reforming natural gas, which itself is a fossil fuel. Carbon emitted has to captured and stored or else it will be called Grey Hydrogen. 10. Almost 99% of the world's hydrogen comes from Steam Reforming of fossil fuel like oil, coal and methane, because it is a LOT cheaper. and mainly to produce fertilizer feedstock (NH3 - Ammonia) that feeds the world population (Haber Process) 11. Electrolysis has an efficiency of 70%, every 100kWh, 30kWh is wasted in heat and conversion. Steam reforming is 75%. 12. After producing Hydrogen, compressing it to liquid storage loses another 13-15% 13. During Storage, more energy is required to maintain such extreme temperatures and pressures 14. Transporting, Distributing, decompressing Hydrogen at stations also requires extreme logistics in extreme conditions. 15. Once refueled into a vehicle, Hydrogen passes through a Fuel Cell that converts it to Electricity, emitting only water (H2 + O2 = H2O) 16. The electricity produced is then stored in a battery, which powers an electric car, hence the name Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) 17. From "Well to Wheel" a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle has an efficiency of 22%, which means at the beginning with 100kWh of electricity, only 22kWh is being used by the car to move the car. 18. The 78kWh is wasted in converting from water to hydrogen, compressing it, storing it, transporting it, storing it, decompressing it, refueling it, storing it in the tank as gas, converting it to electricity, storing the electricity in battery, and powers the motor to turn the wheel of FCEV. 19. A modern diesel or petroleum ICE vehicle has an efficiency of ~30% 20. A typical FCEV with 640km mileage has a tank capacity of 5kg compressed H2. Even at a low estimate of RM30/kg a full tank would cost RM150. 21. An EV with the same mileage and battery capacity of 100kWh would cost RM30 to charge in Sarawak under RM0.30/kWh Sarawak Energy Tariff.

I'm a meteorologist. Let me kill this one personally. Weather and climate are different math problems. Weather is chaos... tiny errors blow up, so we top out around 10 days. Climate is statistics... the boundaries of the system under known physics. I can't tell you if it'll rain in Boston three Tuesdays from now. I can tell you July will beat January every single year. One is a coin flip. The other is knowing 1,000 flips land near 500. And "a degree or two is nothing"? The last ice age, a mile of ice over Chicago, was only ~6°C colder than today. We're ~1.4°C warmer in 170 years. That's not modest. That's geologically violent. The physics doesn't care about your wind turbine aesthetics.

I genuinely don’t think people understand how insane this is. In just 50 years, we’ve wiped out around 70% of animal populations on Earth. Not hundreds of years ago. Not ancient history. In one lifetime. Entire species disappearing. Forests going silent. Oceans being emptied. And somehow the world treats it like just another statistic instead of a full-blown emergency. That should scare all of us a lot more than it does.

I, together with ICC judges and Palestinian HR defenders, need your help to counter US admin's abuses. Please sign and share the petition. The EU must not ignore its responsibilities toward us!

We must protect vulnerable people, the underdog,truthtellers,those who fight for #Peace,#Truth,#Justice. We must protect @FranceskAlbs. If you haven't signed @couragefound's petition for @FranceskAlbs, pls do it now! petition.qomon.org/0b54a0b8-deman…

" Electricity demand in Peninsular Malaysia rose 11.5% year-on-year in April" What is the thing that booming & mushrooming in semenanjung recently? Data Centres. 50MW data centre uses electricity= 22,000 households - BNM Report Then you wonder why energy demand at its highest.

Israel spent 2 years running an elaborate lobbying campaign to have Hamas added to this UN sex-abuse blacklist, making the case that the UN designation was thorough, evidence-based and widely respected, which was why it was so important for them to get Hamas added to it. Now that Israel has been added to it, they say the whole thing is a sham.

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

The real question is: what projects does the state consider important enough to make land become suitable? 7/