kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Folding@Home became the first Exascale supercomputer in the world and actually discovered SARS-CoV-2 structures that give hope for a new anti-viral drug.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.27.175430v1

Actually, some Ben Darlow noticed this too and turned it into watercolor 😂

What a beautiful and dynamic composition!

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(Manchester, Saturday, 11pm, photo by Kevin Beaumont)

"100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5% to 50%. We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities"

https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/6/29/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare

"Sustainable Energy – without the hot air" by David MacKay - pretty good book

(available whole for free)

http://www.withouthotair.com/Contents.html

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14-day COVID-19 case notification rate per 100'000 🤔

If you plan traveling across or into EU this is a very useful resource

https://reopen.europa.eu/

It's actually quite ironic that renewable energy activism tends to completely ignore one critical resource it uses that also happens to be non-renewable: the land surface.

The challenge here is that the best renewable energy source (solar) uses three orders of magnitude (1000x) more land than the best non-renewable (gas).

To replace gas with nuclear you need pretty much the same area. But to replace gas with solar you suddenly need to find 1000x more extra space.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421518305512

"Bolsheviks Shooting Anarchists", 7 January 1922

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-alexander-berkman-bolsheviks-shooting-anarchists

#communism #anarchism

A very interesting paper that looks at world economy and power consumption

Civilization networks grew from efficient past production. Energy sustains circulations along these networks. The ratio of GDP (or Y) to Energy consumption has increased as we've become more energy efficient. But cumulative GDP and Energy consumption has been tied by λ /2

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03718

A nice catch: created in April 2019, ObservateurContinental.fr presents itself as an “independent and non-profit information portal” and notoriously spreads COVID-19 fakes and other conspiracy theories.

https://www.disinfo.eu/publications/how-two-information-portals-hide-their-ties-to-the-russian-news-agency-inforos

Alleged Greenpeace documents (and many others) part of sophisticated disinformation campaign running since 2014

https://secondaryinfektion.org/report/executive-summary/

On this day in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space.

"Hitler status found in German sewer, dumped right back"

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🇬🇧 "Football hooligans, veterans and far-right groups have vowed to ‘defend’ memorials over another weekend of anti-racism demonstrations."

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/13/man-urinates-next-memorial-pc-palmer-far-right-protests-escalate-12847756/

Dumpling-making gun by the Saransk plant "Electrovypryamitel", photo by 🤷‍♂️ Alexander Ovchinnikov, USSR, 1969

(now I need to go and buy pierogi though)

Speaking of globalized digital economy, this is precisely how it works - note the "earned" part. And this is really great for global progress.

Who gives the most aid to #Serbia? In polls most people indicate China, while in reality vast majority of actual money comes from EU.

This was a huge problem in the UK as well. EU has a fundamental issue with PR as governments happily take many, present them as their achievement, and then blame EU for their own failings...