I find it hilarious that the only-renewables crowd are now actually trying to coopt the phrase "too cheap to meter" (which, for the record, was never a slogan in the nuclear sector, it was just said once by a guy somewhere), at a time when we're increasingly done with the 'easy phase' of installing solar and wind installations.
At less than 10% of total energy use in the West, solar and wind already cause price hikes and, consequently, deindustrialisation in countries like Germany. The 'hard part' is just beginning, and if we insist on only trying to do that with solar and wind alone, it'll cost at least an order of magnitude more than it already has.
We'll reevaluate this cooptation in a few years, but let me say that the 'cost argument' is a very silly line of defense to take.
It's nigh time we face the facts for once: fossil fuels are dirt cheap and using economics alone means we'll be using them in perpetuity. The other side of that coin is that a decarbonised energy system *will* be more expensive. How we deal with that cost will be a social question that we'll need to solve.
Pretending that this isn't true and solar and wind are the best thing since sliced bread, is driving people paying the energy bills to the right, towards climate denialism, towards the fossil lobby. Saw the meme of people voting Trump to save 10 cents on their eggs? Yeah, look in a mirror who is driving that.
Be careful what you wish for, "too cheap to meter" will bite you in the ass.
Interesting issue. To what extent are price hikes a direct consequence of the energy mix rather than the specific marginalist design of EU electricity market though? Genuine question, I don't know the answer to this, but I would think there's some increase that's necessary and some that's not.
Mastodon, if you have to do starter packs, *please think about consent* for people being added to starter packs. The bluesky starter packs may be great for new accounts trying to find their people, but it has not necessarily been fun for people who've been added to starter packs without their knowledge. I feel like a couple thousand people looking for a coffee shop have suddenly turned up in my living room.
As fun as this list is, I forgot one:
* Despite all this progress on Mastodon, even more innovation will happen in the Fediverse services outside of Mastodon.
El impacto es "enorme", advierten los especialistas, con un nuevo derecho a una "audiencia previa", que modifica el procedimiento para despedir y anticipa muchos litigios sobre sus detalles
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Mastodon should have a dedicated field where you can put all your defensive statements to prevent extremely predictable replies from reply guys. It shouldn’t count against your character limit and should only get shown when someone tries to reply.
the fucking audacity of white american latinos calling us Puerto Ricans gringos lost in an island so we can have the privilege to cleaning up their fucking fascist messes.
GO DEAL WITH YOUR ANTI-BLACK GWANABÍS DE MIERDA AND KEEP NUESTRA PATRIA OUR OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTHS
who they hell are you to call us gringos?
we Puerto Ricans are a nation. FULL STOP.
we aren't Americans. we have American Citizenship.
don't you go disrespecting us like that.
we aren't here to clean gringos' fascist messes.
And here's an hour of one of Larry King's interviews with Gork, president of the planet Fringas, who made several appearances on his show. The YouTube video mistakenly credits Gork as being voiced by Robin Williams. This is incorrect; Gork was voiced by Herb Cohen, one of King's best friends since childhood and the author of "You Can Negotiate Anything." This clip claims to have been recorded from WCAU, now WPHT out of Philly. WCAU started carrying the Larry King show around 1981 after it had been airing on WWDB. WWDB was not only one of Philly's all-talk stations but it was unusual in that it was also an FM station. I have recordings of this station from 1979, some of which I've already digitized and would like to share them with Philly talk radio enthusiasts.
oo radio history, I live in toronto ontario canada and miss listenign to regular physical radio. We used t get some of Philadelphia's stations like the big talker aroudn 1220 I think it was at night.
@robini71 @Angela2000 Yep, I have fond memories of WCAU back in the day. They did a lot of local talk as well as a long-running evening show called Radio Cllassics where they'd play several OTR shows. My dad and I both enjoyed that show and my dad won a few prizes from it by answering trivia questions. I think one of them might have been a tin of Riceman pretzels.
@Angela2000 Yep, WCAU was 1210 and I'm not surprised you picked them up from Canada. I remember picking up one or two Canadian stations; wasn't one of them 900 CHML in Hamilton?
@techsinger You're welcome. There were several stories from his life that he often played on his show. I once had all of them on tape but I have since found copies of them from the Internet Archive.
Thanks very much, once again. I did hear him in the 90s on radio for quite a few years, but it wasn't every day and I don't remember hearing the stories. I appreciate the chance.
Awww I totally understand that. I have a friend who, when remembering prior days would often say "I wanna go home." I always knew what she meant and now do even more so than when she used to say it to me. I wanna go back often on many levels.
Today is the birthday of Larry King, who was born on November 19, 1933. In my teen years, I listened to a lot of local talk radio in the Philly area but the Larry King show was one of the few shows that aired during that time which was national. There was something about that show that just captivated me. I loved Open Phone America, where he took calls about any topic from 3:00-5:30 AM Eastern time. He had a guest on for three hours and he was a master at interviewing. He could even interview his own daughter and made it so interesting. His daughter Chaia sadly also passed away. I even called Larry at his hotel when he was in Philly and talked with him for around ten minutes. I read both of his autobiographies. I wish more recordings were publicly available from his show on Mutual. He was my favorite radio talk show host and one of our best interviewers. Here's a link to a blog post that I wrote about him when I learned of his passing. davidgoldfield.wordpress.com/2…
Introduction After opening the Mail app on my iPhone this past Saturday the first email to greet me was from a good friend of mine who informed me that Larry King had passed away. I immediately ope…
Larry King was one of a kind. He was my middle of the night companion when I couldn’t sleep in college. I never did call into Open Phone America. Fun fact: Unless he got one toward the end, he never had a toll-free number. I’m a little embarrassed to say I still remember the call-in number all these years later.
@Thumper1964 Actually, in the early days of the Larry King show they had four call-in numbers. 703 685-2190 and 2180, one was for the Eastern time zone and the other was for the Central time zone; can't remember which one was which. 685-2177 was for the Mountain time zone and 685-2185 was for the Pacific time zone (99% sure of that but someone please set me straight if my memories are scrambled.) Eventually, he just had one number for everyone, which I think was 2177.
David, we recorded a lot of his shows most of them old radio guests and sports guests. It might take a while but, we can share them with you possibly by drop box?.
@JohnGassman John, that would be fabulous, but only when your time allows for it. There's absolutely no rush for it. The shows with guests from radio would be great.
"Empire of Death" epitomized RTD's approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim during his first stint as showrunner. What happened this time?
Remembering the late William Russell on what would’ve been his 100th birthday, who played one of the Doctor’s first companions, Ian Chesterton, in the very first Doctor Who adventure, An Unearthly Child, which originally aired on the BBC in 1963. #DoctorWho
NLS BARD is grouping their #DoctorWho novels into two separate series: Doctor Who and Doctor Who Library, and I don't think those two series list all of their novels. If they're going to have more than one series, they should be catalogued as Doctor Who TV Novelizations and Doctor Who BBC Books. Clearly, they haven't had a Doctor Who fan assisting them with this task. Perhaps I should offer my services to them? www.loc.gov/nls
@startrek2025 I'll be happy to reach out to them. I wonder how they've grouped their various Star Trek novels, as I know they've done quite a collection of them over the decades.
@startrek2025 Ah, those are the books where Riker is captain of the Titan. I may be wrong but I don't think that NLS has made any of those books available, but they're available on Bookshare and I'm sure they're still available to purchase on Kindle. I haven't read any of them but I wouldn't mind trying one of them.
Episode 2 of Access On is nearly here. This week, Samsung is working on a Meta Smart Glasses rival, the Blindshell Classic 3 is out, new BT Speak firmware, and Google Gemini stops by for an interview regarding its new iOS app. Jonathan Mosen speaks with Mike Buckley, CEO of Be My Eyes. They discuss the partnership that has led to deep integration of Be My Eyes on the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Plus, what happened to that amazing real-time AI function from Open AI that was demonstrated in May?
There is plenty of listener engagement, including discussion about getting audio descriptions of the videos on your smartphone. All this, and more, in episode 2 of Access On, available wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to follow today.
I hate this bullshit service, even more after reading their ableist response to this person: 'I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind' michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-b… #HCaptcha
Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option.
Is there anyone among my followers using Audio Technica ATH M60X headphones? I am trying to match a 1-quarter-intch adapter to their cable but none I have fit. A customer supporter (LOL) from Audio Technica says that any should fit but this does not seem to be the case here. Should I be looking for a specific adapter on Amazon? Thanks for any advice! #audio #headphones #audiotechnica
According to the internet, all three cables terminate to a 3.5 mm male plug. You can probably connect any threaded female 3.5mm (eighth inch) threaded adapter to it which terminates to a 6.3 mm (quarter-inch) male connection, no?
@twynn Well, this particular cable needs to be screwed into the adapter, hence I am not sure it is a "normal" situation. If so, then I wonder if those kinds of adapters have a name I should be searching for?
I have honestly found it easier to replace the cable, which comes with an adapter, than finding an adapter with the right thread size and depth. I also ran into this with my AKG K371's. There are so many of them, and while they are all the same electrically, physically, that's just not the case. You can get a really generic adapter without a thread that isn't recessed, but that isn't great long term.
@BorrisInABox Thanks. Done just that and when the cable arrived earlier today, there was no adapter inside. When I called Audiotechnica, the guy told 'me that they do not sell with adapters and that any should fit. This answer I found rather strange, hence my asking here.
Oh, well that's dumb. I can tell you, because I'm sitting here looking at them, that I have at least three different adapters that aren't compatible with each other's mating threads. Either they're too deep, or the threads are the wrong size.
@BorrisInABox OK, I think I found a kindred soul here. Let me call them back tomorrow then. I certainly cannot confirm that any 1-quarter-inch adapter fits their cable.
Tune into our newest episode of the Nation’s Blind Podcast where our hosts are joined by Jonathan Mosen, former producer and host of the Bolotin award-winning Living Blindfully podcast and our incoming executive director for Accessibility Excellence. They discuss Access On, our new podcast that focuses on the role that technology plays in living the life we want. Jonathan also provided advice and tips for new podcasters: nfb.org/resources/publications…
A study asked 50 doctors to make six different diagnoses for medical conditions. "Doctors who did the project without AI got an average score of 74%, doctors who used AI got an average score of 76%, and ChatGPT itself got an average score of 90%." "AI didn’t help doctors using it as much as anticipated because physicians “didn’t listen to AI when AI told them things they didn’t agree. Most doctors couldn’t be convinced a chatbot knew more than them." #LLM #AI #ChatGPTqz.com/chatgpt-beat-doctors-at…
@vick21 They mentioned that the researchers intentionally used the cases that are never published specifically so that the ChatGPT can't cheat from training dataset.
@vick21 The research article was published on journal JAMA Network. I don't have access to that, but I think it's a pretty serious peer-reviewed medical journal.
Believe me, it does sound amazing. It’s just when you see all these articles claiming this and that with no easy way to verify what they say, the questions arise! At the end of the day though it matters little until we see an impact in real people’s lives.
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the diagnostic performance of physicians with use of a large language model compared with conventional resources.
@vick21 Maybe I'm not understanding the question. Isn't it the point of AI though? AI systems recognize patterns and draw conclusion from similar patterns they've seen before. They are not just capable of simply regurgitating exact pattern.
You did understand my question. I understand the premise. I just don’t want to assume, hence always asking… I’ll look at the article. Thanks for the link!
@vick21 Of course, Ask instead asume is always a great choice! :) Having said that, Jama is one of the most respected medical journals in the world with rigorous peer-review processes, so I'm sure if reviewers noticed anything suspicious, they would have raised red flags before publishing. :)
@vick21 From New York Times: "The cases intentionally have never been published so that medical students and others could be tested on them without any foreknowledge. That also meant that ChatGPT could not have been trained on them."
That’s cute… I wonder what sort of AI Jesus he/she/it is? Does their Jesus incorporates an encoder, decoder or both? I assume their Jesus is a multi-modal bot / agent? LOL mastodon.social/@Richard_Littl…
I give up. Now there's a Swiss church that has an #AI Jesus....
"Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."
Hold on... Isn't this from the film THX 1138?
Good god, we're living in a low-budget 1970s dystopia.
Here's a link to my RNZ Nine to Noon interview about the unfinished business I leave behind as I leave New Zealand. Yes, it's been an emotional week since the PM dropped his ableist grenade into the apology. rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…
An award winning disability advocate, honored for services to the blind community, is quitting New Zealand - saying it's the worst country in the western world in which to be blind.
Did you really say this: “…it is the worst country in the western world in which to be blind.” Or is it just a sensational heading? I am sure I could point to a few contrary examples in the Western world, but then again, I never lived in New Zealand, so what do I know… :)
@vick21 I mean, I went to high school in college in Mexico. Believe me when I say it wasn’t exactly shits and giggles. The first University I applied to straight up told me they wouldn’t accept me because of my blindness. That they could not accommodate my needs.
I know that looking for a job is itself a full-time job. Hang in there and try to persevere and focus on your abilities, your strengths and what you have to offer to a potential employer.
What sites do you use for job listings? Are you on LinkedIn? Not that LinkedIn is the be all and end all for job searching and I admit you have to be cautious of scams but it can be a good place to network.
@DavidGoldfield linked in has been absolutely useless. sure I've networked, but it job leads mostly focus on my current job title which I told it I'm not interested in. I use indeed, and monitor the state job site. Sometimes I look directly at specific agency sites as well. I'm being extremely picky, and most things that interest me pay very shit. I can't afford a paycut, and nor do I want to go back in office full time again unless they offer me a lot more money. I'm immune compromised.
@DavidGoldfield My expertise is in reintegration after incarceration, so ideally helping run or build programs that focus on reentry, but I'm also open to other social justice, and human rights stuff. I just want to get out of clinical work honestly, so am trying to keep my options open. I hate clinical work.
Around 10 months ago I commented on the Flathub metadata guidelines being quite critical of some key parts and now it turns out Flatpak app developers also a...
Hi, magic fedi: does anyone know anyone with experience of locally opposing the construction of new arms facilities in the UK? Looking for any tips on strategy as I'm not sure where to start.
For fans of #DoctorWho with a qualifying print disability, the following title was recently added to the BARD service by NLS. The phrase "Doctor Who" is not found in the title or description, so people who search BARD for "Doctor Who" may not find it. I haven't checked to see if BARD has grouped it into a Doctor Who series. I've already read this book from Bookshare, as it's been available from that service for quite some time.
Harvest of time DB124336 Reynolds, Alastair. Reading time: 11 hours, 49 minutes. Read by Geoffrey Beevers.
Science Fiction
"When Unit is called in to investigate a mysterious incident on a North Sea drilling platform, the Doctor discovers that the Brigadier and others are starting to forget about the Master, Unit's highest-profile prisoner."-- From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Una última cosa antes de irme a dormir: Nos han pedido que firmemos digitalmente el documento X, que previamente hemos tenido que firmar a mano. Insisten en que pongamos firma visible y temo que la quieran para que la versión en papel también esté "firmada".
Y me han entrado grandes tentaciones de poner FELIPE VI R como nombre en la firma visible (puedes poner lo que te dé la gana, la identidad real está en metadatos). Pero mi autofirma firmaba con protocolo obsoleto y Acrobat no lo reconocía.
Ese es un gran problema de accesibilidad, porque Autofirma te pide que señales donde quieres aplicar la región de firma en el PDF y por razones obvias no lo puede hacer alguien que no vea.
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