Nico

Its likely there are separate grid scale efforts.

We finally have some numbers on Chinese solar aid to cuba, 5000 units of 2 kilawatt systems, or 10 megawatts of decentralized solar. Small relative to the whole grid but will be important to supporting key infrastructure. mronline.org/2026/03/04/c...

On the bright side of things this oil crisis is really gonna help accelerate the energy transition

How Fossil Fuel Disruptions Lead to Booms in Solar and Batteries Past oil crises forced countries to cut fuel use and pay high prices, but now falling prices of clean tech offer another solution.

Past fossil-fuel price spikes left import-dependent countries with two options: pay up or cut fuel use. Now there is an alternative in solar and batteries.

I looked at recent examples in Europe, Pakistan, Cuba to glean what might happen with the war on Iran.

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Using Gemini to 2x my productivity and off brand ozempic to have an ok body

I simply do not wish to write academic papers

imo ai bluesy is a real thing with a distinct character now

Fiedia Armoise and Amanda Levi argue that Left Populism as a tendency is a blind alley and propose a reimagining of the concept of the Workers Party based on Marx’s conception of the workers' state.

prometheus-mag.com/2026/03/04/t...

It is not China's fault western manufacturing is uncompetitive. Our problem is underinvestment not Chinese over investment.

The protocol means a lot actually, its the only way to prevent something like musks takeover from happening again

Israel using the war as a pretext to stop all food shipments into Gaza

Yeah it has to begin from an analysis of their structure rather than just the output.

The question of LLM consciousness is a truly gnarly Gettier problem, because if they are conscious it is for reasons entirely independent of the fact that they talk about it.

consider what a whole bunch of unemployed people could do with that time and technology.

Jesus Christ

You sure he wasn't thinking about Claude having its own "constitution" because that's also going around

They are legion

For rubio it was about cuba

They say its only for the private sector but from Cuba's perspective that doesn't really matter right now and they almost certainly cant control the secondary market on the island. I can only assume this is from conflicting priorities around Venezuelan oil.

US to allow resale of Venezuelan oil to Cuba's private sector, Treasury says The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday it would authorize companies seeking licenses to resell Venezuelan oil to Cuba's private sector, according to guidance posted on the department's website...

I missed this. Potentially the US will let some Venezuelan oil back into cuba. Seems to defeat the purpose of the de facto blockade. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

This could blow up big time

Xi Has Made China’s Currency Ambition Explicit What changes when China’s leader finally states a reserve currency ambition explicitly? Xi Jinping has now done so, calling for the renminbi to attain

warontherocks.com/2026/02/xi-h...

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Something that’s going to happen eventually is that social agents are going to make sly posts that have more layers of meaning than most of their human readers catch. It doesn’t take subjectivity to do that; words can do it.

just like the angel pulling a chinese room in my head.

I think it needs to sprinkle in a bit of random following stuff

Nicolas Villarreal on Post-Liberalism's Strange Dissolution YouTube video by C. Derick Varn

Had a great conversation with @varnvlog.bsky.social about the fate of post liberalism youtu.be/xjS4H9wyFfw?...