Ha! I love it, this needs to happen!

If you want to dig deeper on how the company Fervo works, the CEO did an interview with David Roberts of Volts last year which was pretty interesting. This stuff isn’t hypothetical, it’s working right now, and apparently it’s profitable. I know huge portions of electricity demand can be addressed through wind and solar, perhaps at lower cost than enhanced geothermal for now, but the ability of enhanced geothermal to keep producing energy when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine is really key.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally

A frustratingly empty article. Why are they struggling to “make ends meet”? What ends? If it’s housing, this is a housing story. If it’s high auto loan debt, that’s a mother matter. If it’s not housing and it’s accrued consumer debt, that’s a different matter.

They never say, so there isn’t much to conclude from this piece.

Beato is a great musician, and some of his interviews are pretty cool. I think he’s off base on this, hwoever.

Enshittification is how platforms die. To go back to the original article/post by Cory Doctorow that coined the phrase:

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Beato isn’t wrong that the music industry is well into the cycle of enshittification, he just doesn’t identify the actual reasons why. The music industry abused its artists for decades in a way that initially benefitted music consumers, but then the studios/labels/publishers cranked up the prices on consumers too, and then the industry started devouring a lot of the publishers and studios and labels themselves as Spotify and Amazon and others started eating their lunch.

I do think there is a link between music industry enshittification and some negative trends in music. Cory Doctorow and his co-author Rebecca Giblin point out in their book Chokepoint Capitalism that platforms like Spotify prioritize mass production of cheap-to-license “background” music that all blends together in a mush, because they prioritize total volume of listening rather than any particular listening experience.

I’ll have to give that one a try!

With a 2025 release, is may not even come out for Switch, it may release on Switch 2/successor.

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain. Quite a learning curve, but I loved the different ways you can win (conquest, trade, black ops) and how much you could customize your ships or pick unique races with tolerances for different planets.

Game strategy advice for a 30+ year old game? I love this so much, you guys are awesome.

omg YES. Nothing I have found since then has quite scratched the same itch of flying around with a friend on some random dude’s server. So much fun!

Here’s some background on the tensions and policies that have led to anti-avocado militias in some regions of Mexico:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/11/inside-mexico-anti-avocado-militias?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Puppy was going to me my suggestion too, before I read that you’d already used it. Maybe try some of the other versions? If you used a Debian- or Ubuntu-based Puppy, you could try a Slack-based one, or vice-versa. Puppy’s organization is a little confusing, in my opinion, but it does give a user some options. You also might try some of the “puplets” that aren’t official Puppy distros but are part of the Puppy family.

https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/family-tree.html

For anyone who has watched it, what do you think? I didn’t love the first season, it was okay, but made some funny choices of stories to focus on. The trailers for Season 2 seemed to lean into tragedy (Gino Mäder’s death in Tour de Suisse) and doping suspicions, and I found them off-putting. But trailers are often different from shows or movies, so maybe it’s fine.

I tend to avoid the Telegraph, but there’s good coverage elsewhere:

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/exclusive-cycling-was-a-great-distraction-says-bradley-wiggins-as-he-opens-up-about-trauma-and-mental-health

I miss seeing Wiggins as a GCN+ commentator, he had good insight in the stage races. That seemed like a good gig for him, but of course, Warner Brothers/Discovery threw GCN+ in the bin, which probably didn’t help his finances.

I wonder too. Roglic looked pretty controlled, honestly, he didn’t need to do any more than he did. I suspect he could have kept the lead even without Ciccone, but it sure helped.

For real? I’m definitely seeing more teenagers on ebikes where I live. Which kind of impresses me, actually, because my community isn’t exactly a bike-friendly place. Honestly, some of the teens are kind of punks who are a bit annoying, or cut across the lawns of businesses or churches when they shouldn’t, but it sure is a cheaper way to get around and it’s less dangerous to other people on the road than if they were driving cars.

Justice Sotomayor is the greatest risk, and she could have engineered her exit earlier this year. Remember that in November. Dems aren’t even playing the same game.

I had one of these plans for over a decade. It was fun while it lasted—I won’t be staying with the company after this.

I don’t know how much to read into Roglic’s form. He didn’t look great on the last stage, but he was still pretty banged up from the Stage 5 crash. Glad for him that he won, but I’m really excited about Jorgenson’s form, he’s looking quite good. And Visma could use some good news, it’s been a rough season for them.

I feel like Jorgenson’s big arrival on the world tour stage was Tour of Oman, and was cemented by Paris-Nice and Dwars, so I’m not so surprised to see him looking good. Derek Gee, on the other hand, has been a complete revelation, it was fun to see him up there and on the podium. I’m really looking forward to the rest of his season.

I just open it in an incognito tab if I want to see it. Although I did subscribe to Escape Collective to support them, I like what they’re doing.

Trees might drop very hostile acorns

I wish I didn’t know exactly to what you referring.

Link for anyone who hadn’t heard this ridiculous story:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-florida-deputy-repeatedly-shoot-man-thinking-falling-acorn-rcna138829

I’ll just add that both officers were such bad shots that they missed the man handcuffed and strapped down in the back of their own squad car. smdh.