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@Rory_Johnston @rickasaurus I never picked Trump as the most effective Just Stop Oil protester thus far

Lotta people love to play with Hormuz offset balance math—and boy, oh boy, the numbers I've seen bouncing around... But let's keep it dead simple and focus on pure output: There's now ~10 MMbpd of crude oil production shut-ins confirmed across the Gulf. NGLs/condensate on top of that. 200 million barrels not produced in March already that should have been produced. That alone is already the largest supply shock in history. And it continues to get worse the longer Hormuz remains shut.

@X4AES @osoleve @dcooper8 @__mharrison__ Gerbil Scheme

@osoleve @dcooper8 @__mharrison__ Chicken or Chez Scheme 😮‍💨

For my friends who are still using UV and might be a little weary about recent compromises to PyPi packages, stick this in your pyproject.toml. You can let all of those pip users find and report the compromises...

@Ben_Davison1 SA here. I've seen 3 service stations in Adelaide's west with no petrol in the past week but I don't know how long each one was out.

Aside from the usual fluctuations in supply of diesel, living in regional vic there are always some days when the pump stops working, has anyone experienced going to a station and being turned away? I’ve filled up TWICE this week, it was expensive but, no shortages were visible

@ctindale @ProfSteveKeen While sensitive dependence on initial conditions, divergence in phase space etc mean we can't predict the details, the aggregate properties remain clear. An overloaded system will more often swing violently between extremes, and due to energy imbalance the average will be warmer.

@spacebat @ProfSteveKeen Yes, it confused everyone by rapidly expanding, then it turned around and rapidly collapsed - it's the challenge with computational irreducibility- models give us better guesses, but they can't compress the complexity of the natural system that is non-linear and chaotic

The big surprise over the next few years is that climate change is not a partisan political issue. Earlier models underestimated the pace of warming, and temperatures are now rising faster than expected. AI will narrow the gap between models and observed data. Part of the acceleration comes from changes in shipping fuel. Sulphur in marine diesel reflected sunlight and reduced ocean heating. Cleaner fuels removed that effect, increasing heat absorption. What began as a necessary environmental step has also functioned as an own goal, removing a layer of cooling the system had been relying on. The big surprise over the next few years is that climate change is not a partisan political issue. Earlier models underestimated the pace of warming, and temperatures are now rising faster than expected. AI will narrow the gap between models and observed data. Part of the acceleration comes from changes in shipping fuel. Sulphur in marine diesel reflected sunlight and reduced ocean heating. Cleaner fuels removed that effect, increasing heat absorption. What began as a necessary environmental step has also functioned as an own goal, removing a layer of cooling the system had been relying on. At the same time, emissions are being redirected rather than eliminated. Ships using open-loop scrubbers wash exhaust gases with seawater, which absorbs sulphur oxides, particulates, and heavy metals. That contaminated washwater is then discharged straight back into the ocean as effluent. This shifts pollution from the atmosphere into marine systems, where it can affect phytoplankton that play a role in absorbing CO₂. This effluent dumped into our oceans is in the 10s of millions of litres PA A further concern sits in the Atlantic circulation system. The AMOC depends on temperature and salinity gradients to move heat northward. Rapid freshwater input from ice melt and intensified warming can weaken or reorganise this flow. Paleoclimate evidence, including the Younger Dryas, shows that abrupt shifts in this circulation can trigger large, rapid climate changes. Current warming increases the likelihood of instability in this system, with consequences for regional climates, especially across Europe and the North Atlantic. The reality is that this looks to be moving way too quickly for any system of renewable energy to avoid and it’s about to happen much more quickly than anyone predicted

@Ben_Davison1 The Greens are more pro-billionaire than the ALP? Can you back that up?

The truth in South Australia is the same truth that has been true across Australia since 1901 There are only two political parties in Australia, Labor and not Labor Whether it’s in Blue, Green or Orange the pro-billionaire parties are just old money, tech money or fascist money

@marceelias There's something to be said for compulsory voting. Everyone votes and when they do, their name is crossed off the roll. Then the rolls are checked, if there are duplicates, enough to make a difference in the result, that race is run again with higher scrutiny.

This is my analysis of the SAVE Act. It started as a stunt by Mike Johnson to protect his speakership. It has evolved into a massive voter suppression bill. When it fails, Trump will escalate to something even more dangerous. Read and share. democracydocket.com/opinion/the-sa…

@Handre Value is subjective - within the limits of context. The only reason we have the luxury of debating any of this is 6 inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains. Real hunger, real thirst, real exhaustion, isolation, illness, disability, violence surface values that are objective.

Karl Marx gave humanity its most murderous idea: that human suffering stems not from scarcity and the human condition, but from private property itself. This bearded parasite—who never worked a day in his life and lived off Engels' textile fortune—convinced generations that voluntary exchange was exploitation while violent redistribution was justice. The body count speaks for itself. Stalin's forced collectivization murdered 6 million Ukrainians through engineered famine. Mao's Great Leap Forward killed 45 million through sheer economic illiteracy. Pol Pot slaughtered a quarter of Cambodia's population. And every single time, the intellectuals proclaimed it "wasn't real socialism." The pattern is identical across continents and centuries: seize private property, centrally plan production, watch millions starve. But the intellectual foundation was always rotten. Marx's labor theory of value—the notion that labor alone creates value—was already debunked by Austrian economists like Böhm-Bawerk before the ink was dry on Das Kapital. Value is subjective, determined by individual preferences in voluntary exchange. Marx simply couldn't grasp that the capitalist performs the crucial function of time preference—sacrificing present consumption for uncertain future returns. Even "democratic socialism" in Western Europe required massive wealth transfers from productive individuals to bureaucratic parasites, creating permanent dependency classes and stagnating growth. Venezuela had the world's largest oil reserves and still managed to create toilet paper shortages. Cuba turned a Caribbean paradise into a floating prison where doctors flee on rafts. Every socialist experiment ends the same way: empty shelves, secret police, and intellectuals explaining why the next attempt will be different.

@josevalim @sean_moriarity Here's hoping more AMD support in exla is on that post-it. But that's not Nx proper, AMD has a long history of poor support in ML, and seriously Nx is a great achievement.

When we started the Numerical Elixir effort, I had a huge post-it on my desk with all of the things I wanted to tackle. It is almost all done: only Nx v1.0 remaining! 🎉

@miehrmantraut @Ngnghm @Pitometsu @rustaceans_rs Recapture is doing a lot of work there. Why lose it in the first place? To recapture lost dynamism you need to lean on orchestration harder, whereas in a decent Lisp or in Erlang, it's not difficult to update code in the running system without dropping a single network connection

@Ngnghm @Pitometsu @rustaceans_rs Ah but the programming language runs on a “system” and the “system” facilities can be used to recapture dynamism from static languages.

Rust is more than a programming language: it is a computing system.

@nateberkopec If by progress you mean forcing orphaned and abandoned children to work as indentured, starved slaves to produce inferior textiles for the enrichment of the few, well the Luddites had a point, and we should always seriously question "progress for whom, and to what end?"

Luddism, Malthusianism, and "cognitive debt" theories (applied to the printing press, newspapers, calculators, now LLMs) have been proven wrong again and again. Yet they keep popping up every 20-30 years. They've been wrong for 500 years. Yet, "it's different this time."

@fiveways65 @aeberman12 @nfergus And converted to Catholicism. He lost the plot

@aeberman12 @nfergus Niall F used to be a good read, now a fully paid up neocon. Sold his soul

This may not be WWIII. But it could be the 1930s moment of our era, writes @nfergus He notes, if the Iran war drags on and oil flows break, the shock could rival the 1970s. I'D SAY WE'RE ALREADY THERE WITH OIL thefp.com/p/niall-fergus… #geopolitics #energy #ColdWarII #oilmarkets #risk

@the_christnats You people are morons

Christian Nationalism would tear down this absolutely HUGE statue of a false Hindu demon-god in Texas!

@Curious_one313 @mikehostetler The Erlang VM it runs on ships with a java library called jinterface, you could use that to build a bridge, but they are very different worlds

@mikehostetler Any chance for Java support?

Jido 2.0 powering a swarm of 1,575 agents to index a codebase in 7 seconds 2026 is going to be amazing

@DjMolehill @0xz80 No macros tho

@0xz80 you try out gleam at all?

I am so Elixir-pilled rn

@0xz80 @DNAutics @awksedgreep With a bit of love given to Lisp Flavoured Erlang, we could have it all!

@DNAutics @awksedgreep there's a lot that's different, but yes so much is the same. and there's a lot that's the same "in spirit" even if not in implementation. it makes me want to give ruby another chance after ignoring it for like 15 years

@Oakender @bcardarella Good to know someone's sure of that. World wars start out as regular wars, you know, because alliance mean a lot (to real leaders) and it's a lot harder to get out of a war than to start one.

@bcardarella This won’t be WW3 though

They played you all for fools. And they were right, you were fools.

@ChessWarri42621 @halbritz @NatashaBertrand If you think the democrats are left, you have no idea what left is. In most of the world the US Democrat party is regarded as centre-right. That's how far right the US has drifted. Everything is radical left to a fascist, except actual fascism.

@halbritz @NatashaBertrand | diversity of thinking The left does not have diversity of thought. For example, when I was young, Democrats actually had pro-life conservative members. Dem Majority Leader Sen Harry Reid was pro-life. Now every single Dem supports unrestricted abortion.

Hegseth says he has ordered the "complete and immediate cancellation" of DOD attendance at Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, Yale, and "many others." @NatashaBertrand and I reported on this earlier this month. One military official told us the move amounted to an attempt "to purge intellect, diversity of thinking, and critical thought from the military.” cnn.com/2026/02/13/pol…

@catethos @mikehostetler I haven't been collecting links but it's easy to google up some interesting projects. I've seen claims that Clojure is the most token efficient language

@spacebat @mikehostetler oh nice , any one that catches your eyes ? since Prolog is also homoiconic , it would be interesting to see those languages created for AI is used by AI :)

Jido agents can write code, inject it into the running Erlang runtime and call them immediately Self evolving software is coming

@catethos @mikehostetler People are doing funky stuff with agents in Clojure too

@mikehostetler Just the reason I want to learn Lisp