joel
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NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
February 12, 2026 at 7:38 AM
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
I feel like i have days when AI coding is really good. Then there are days like today when the models seem completely moronic.
And unfortunately, I have no idea if that's a model issue or some opaque throttling for capacity reasons.
And unfortunately, I have no idea if that's a model issue or some opaque throttling for capacity reasons.
February 11, 2026 at 5:41 AM
I feel like i have days when AI coding is really good. Then there are days like today when the models seem completely moronic.
And unfortunately, I have no idea if that's a model issue or some opaque throttling for capacity reasons.
And unfortunately, I have no idea if that's a model issue or some opaque throttling for capacity reasons.
chat - are 100 year corporate bonds a good idea? www.barrons.com/news/google-...
Google Turns To Century-long Debt To Build AI
Google-parent Alphabet will issue bonds maturing in 100 years as it continues to invest massively in infrastructure for artificial intelligence, according to data published Tuesday by Bloomberg.
www.barrons.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:16 PM
chat - are 100 year corporate bonds a good idea? www.barrons.com/news/google-...
Major pizza spike 😬 www.pizzint.watch
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Major pizza spike 😬 www.pizzint.watch
I'm calling it - ai. com is the pets. com of our time.
"... Pets .com ... a defining cautionary tale of the dot-com bubble. Despite massive branding -including a famous sock puppet mascot and a 2000 Super Bowl ad - the company failed within nine months of its $82.5 million IPO"
"... Pets .com ... a defining cautionary tale of the dot-com bubble. Despite massive branding -including a famous sock puppet mascot and a 2000 Super Bowl ad - the company failed within nine months of its $82.5 million IPO"
February 9, 2026 at 7:43 AM
I'm calling it - ai. com is the pets. com of our time.
"... Pets .com ... a defining cautionary tale of the dot-com bubble. Despite massive branding -including a famous sock puppet mascot and a 2000 Super Bowl ad - the company failed within nine months of its $82.5 million IPO"
"... Pets .com ... a defining cautionary tale of the dot-com bubble. Despite massive branding -including a famous sock puppet mascot and a 2000 Super Bowl ad - the company failed within nine months of its $82.5 million IPO"
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After making a big deal out of the roadside drug testing rollout, government, police, and media have all gone strangely quiet.
I wonder if it's not going as well as they envisioned?
I've become part of the organised resistance to it, which you can check out here: rrc.org.nz
I wonder if it's not going as well as they envisioned?
I've become part of the organised resistance to it, which you can check out here: rrc.org.nz
Roadside Rights Collective
rrc.org.nz
February 8, 2026 at 11:09 PM
After making a big deal out of the roadside drug testing rollout, government, police, and media have all gone strangely quiet.
I wonder if it's not going as well as they envisioned?
I've become part of the organised resistance to it, which you can check out here: rrc.org.nz
I wonder if it's not going as well as they envisioned?
I've become part of the organised resistance to it, which you can check out here: rrc.org.nz
Today's test of Claude Opus 4.6 -
Ask it to fix a plugin I use with Jellyfin which broke on the last update. I know nothing about Jellyfin internals or the plugin, and the latest Jellyfin update broke it.
Ask it to fix a plugin I use with Jellyfin which broke on the last update. I know nothing about Jellyfin internals or the plugin, and the latest Jellyfin update broke it.
February 6, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Today's test of Claude Opus 4.6 -
Ask it to fix a plugin I use with Jellyfin which broke on the last update. I know nothing about Jellyfin internals or the plugin, and the latest Jellyfin update broke it.
Ask it to fix a plugin I use with Jellyfin which broke on the last update. I know nothing about Jellyfin internals or the plugin, and the latest Jellyfin update broke it.
I have been getting chatgpt to predict the 30 day AI bubble pop probability every week or so since Nov 2025.
February 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I have been getting chatgpt to predict the 30 day AI bubble pop probability every week or so since Nov 2025.
Good overview of some of the EV options coming into New Zealand www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMsM...
NZ Clean Tech News: Episode 4
YouTube video by Ecotricity NZ
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Good overview of some of the EV options coming into New Zealand www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMsM...
Memory I bought for #$NZ 333 at the beginning of 2025, is now $1662
G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 64GB DDR5 www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MEMG...
This future is kinda stupid.
G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 64GB DDR5 www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MEMG...
This future is kinda stupid.
Buy the G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 64GB DDR5 Desktop UDIMM RAM Kit for Intel XMP -... ( F5-6400J3239G32GX2-RS5K ) online
pbtech.co.nz "G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 64GB DDR5 Desktop UDIMM RAM Kit for Intel XMP - Black 2x 32GB - 6400Mhz - CL32 - 1.4V - 32-39-39-102 - F5-6400J3239G32GX2-RS5K
www.pbtech.co.nz
February 2, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Memory I bought for #$NZ 333 at the beginning of 2025, is now $1662
G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 64GB DDR5 www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MEMG...
This future is kinda stupid.
G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 64GB DDR5 www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MEMG...
This future is kinda stupid.
I've been working on this website as a public face to our challenge the road-side saliva testing deployment in New Zealand.
Driving impaired is not okay and should face consequences, but the current legislation, and testing regime, is an egregious attack on our Bill of Rights.
rrc.org.nz
Driving impaired is not okay and should face consequences, but the current legislation, and testing regime, is an egregious attack on our Bill of Rights.
rrc.org.nz
Roadside Rights Collective
rrc.org.nz
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I've been working on this website as a public face to our challenge the road-side saliva testing deployment in New Zealand.
Driving impaired is not okay and should face consequences, but the current legislation, and testing regime, is an egregious attack on our Bill of Rights.
rrc.org.nz
Driving impaired is not okay and should face consequences, but the current legislation, and testing regime, is an egregious attack on our Bill of Rights.
rrc.org.nz
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i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
I didn't intend to, but somehow the relentlessness of January 2026 has got me drinking whiskey.
February 1, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I didn't intend to, but somehow the relentlessness of January 2026 has got me drinking whiskey.
So I'm in the Epstein files 16 times apparently.
This is because I worked on OpenCog. Before all the crazy AI funding happening now, it was actually pretty hard to get funding for general AI research.
Ben Goertzel at various times sought funding from a lot of rich people, including Epstein.
This is because I worked on OpenCog. Before all the crazy AI funding happening now, it was actually pretty hard to get funding for general AI research.
Ben Goertzel at various times sought funding from a lot of rich people, including Epstein.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
So I'm in the Epstein files 16 times apparently.
This is because I worked on OpenCog. Before all the crazy AI funding happening now, it was actually pretty hard to get funding for general AI research.
Ben Goertzel at various times sought funding from a lot of rich people, including Epstein.
This is because I worked on OpenCog. Before all the crazy AI funding happening now, it was actually pretty hard to get funding for general AI research.
Ben Goertzel at various times sought funding from a lot of rich people, including Epstein.
Last night New Zealand had a pretty spectacular meteorite.
Here is one view from Marlborough, facing South.
(not mine, from Facebook)
Here is one view from Marlborough, facing South.
(not mine, from Facebook)
January 31, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Last night New Zealand had a pretty spectacular meteorite.
Here is one view from Marlborough, facing South.
(not mine, from Facebook)
Here is one view from Marlborough, facing South.
(not mine, from Facebook)
French government funds open source alternative to Zoom amd Teams
I will have to try this out!
itsfoss.com/news/france-...
I will have to try this out!
itsfoss.com/news/france-...
France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom
Not only for them, but any other non-European videoconferencing software.
itsfoss.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:04 PM
French government funds open source alternative to Zoom amd Teams
I will have to try this out!
itsfoss.com/news/france-...
I will have to try this out!
itsfoss.com/news/france-...
Currently working on unpicking a gaussian splatting research project.
It is obviously vibe coded, because the comments don't match the code and nothing makes sense.
But... it works.
It is obviously vibe coded, because the comments don't match the code and nothing makes sense.
But... it works.
January 29, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Currently working on unpicking a gaussian splatting research project.
It is obviously vibe coded, because the comments don't match the code and nothing makes sense.
But... it works.
It is obviously vibe coded, because the comments don't match the code and nothing makes sense.
But... it works.
I know people like claude code, but boy is it flaky.
I keep getting timeouts, "interrupted by user" when I did nothing, having to decide what model to use (or setting up subagents to do this for me). And just generally spending time babysitting it.
I keep getting timeouts, "interrupted by user" when I did nothing, having to decide what model to use (or setting up subagents to do this for me). And just generally spending time babysitting it.
Decided it was time to try out claude code.
So I went with something easy...
"Here's a new research paper by DeepMind with cutting edge results, go ahead an implement it from scratch" (paraphrased).
So I went with something easy...
"Here's a new research paper by DeepMind with cutting edge results, go ahead an implement it from scratch" (paraphrased).
January 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I know people like claude code, but boy is it flaky.
I keep getting timeouts, "interrupted by user" when I did nothing, having to decide what model to use (or setting up subagents to do this for me). And just generally spending time babysitting it.
I keep getting timeouts, "interrupted by user" when I did nothing, having to decide what model to use (or setting up subagents to do this for me). And just generally spending time babysitting it.
Decided it was time to try out claude code.
So I went with something easy...
"Here's a new research paper by DeepMind with cutting edge results, go ahead an implement it from scratch" (paraphrased).
So I went with something easy...
"Here's a new research paper by DeepMind with cutting edge results, go ahead an implement it from scratch" (paraphrased).
January 27, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Decided it was time to try out claude code.
So I went with something easy...
"Here's a new research paper by DeepMind with cutting edge results, go ahead an implement it from scratch" (paraphrased).
So I went with something easy...
"Here's a new research paper by DeepMind with cutting edge results, go ahead an implement it from scratch" (paraphrased).
Silver is starting to feel like it wants to challenge crypto for its intraday volatility 😅
January 26, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Silver is starting to feel like it wants to challenge crypto for its intraday volatility 😅
Humanity already has enough wealth for the majority of us to live a post scarcity life.
But, for some reason I don't comprehend, we decided we'd prefer to have billionaires.
But, for some reason I don't comprehend, we decided we'd prefer to have billionaires.
January 23, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Humanity already has enough wealth for the majority of us to live a post scarcity life.
But, for some reason I don't comprehend, we decided we'd prefer to have billionaires.
But, for some reason I don't comprehend, we decided we'd prefer to have billionaires.
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[I am reposting as I have fixed an error in processing the csv file (in turning dates in Jan and Oct from text to date where Excel truncated year.month x.10 to x.1)
Visualisation of how much bread the minimum wage can afford to buy, which is well below 2016 when National were last in government.
Visualisation of how much bread the minimum wage can afford to buy, which is well below 2016 when National were last in government.
January 23, 2026 at 2:16 AM
[I am reposting as I have fixed an error in processing the csv file (in turning dates in Jan and Oct from text to date where Excel truncated year.month x.10 to x.1)
Visualisation of how much bread the minimum wage can afford to buy, which is well below 2016 when National were last in government.
Visualisation of how much bread the minimum wage can afford to buy, which is well below 2016 when National were last in government.
One week back at work after a ~5 month hiatus to work on shed and art.
This is both easier and harder than I thought.
Having an income stream again is nice though.
This is both easier and harder than I thought.
Having an income stream again is nice though.
January 23, 2026 at 4:41 AM
One week back at work after a ~5 month hiatus to work on shed and art.
This is both easier and harder than I thought.
Having an income stream again is nice though.
This is both easier and harder than I thought.
Having an income stream again is nice though.
Meanwhile New Zealand is letting USA install new FBI bases on our soil because our current government has no self-respect.
French media was all over the “we deliberately fed fake intel to USA and it popped up in Russia almost instantly story” and now 2/3 of Ukrainian intel comes from France (and assumption is rest is from U.K. and Germany). 5 eyes is as dead as nato…
January 23, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Meanwhile New Zealand is letting USA install new FBI bases on our soil because our current government has no self-respect.
The Titanic sunk specifically because they tried to steer out of the way of the iceberg.
If they didn't attempt to steer it, it wouldn't have sunk.
If they didn't attempt to steer it, it wouldn't have sunk.
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
The Titanic sunk specifically because they tried to steer out of the way of the iceberg.
If they didn't attempt to steer it, it wouldn't have sunk.
If they didn't attempt to steer it, it wouldn't have sunk.