With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Friday, November 08, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
Trump did well in deep-blue states, a sign of his broadening appeal
What Trump's win means for retail giants like Walmart, Target, and Costco
What a second Trump term means for Intel
Trump campaign quietly distances itself from RFK Jr after new vaccine safety comments
House election results
The lawyer behind Senate Bill 8, Texas’s abortion-bounty law, is closely allied with Trump and recently represented him before the Supreme Court. Project 2025 outlines a plan for formal federal surveillance of pregnancy. This is what so many young men, straight men who want women to bear their children, voted for. The fight is now peer-to-peer, between men in favor of reproductive servitude and women who refuse.
This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass the 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold laid out in the Paris climate accord.
The computing power underlying AI tools like chatbots requires massive amounts of water for liquid cooling systems that absorb and dissipate the heat generated by computer servers. Data centers should install rainwater catchments to supply their water needs, write Justin Talbot Zorn and Bettina Warburg, a policy advisor and AI researcher, respectively.
Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below 6th-Grade Level?
We can all learn something from JD Vance’s Venmo, old blog
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