@lmorchard eerily similar thinking/forecasting to @mttaggart’s recent post, https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116103465680065302
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? -
The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions.@infobeautiful why were people predicting a /downslope/ for so long, seems like a bizarre forecast. “Oh, solar rates have been climbing modestly for the last few years but I’m sure it’s just a passing fad…”
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Well-written (duh) analysis by Alex Wellerstein (of nuclear history and NUKEMAP fame), of slow disasters as viewed through the lens of Gibson's "Jackpot" trilogy: https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-the-jackpot@SnoopJ anyway I was semi pleasantly surprised to hear maybe the third book is out this year? but hopefully it's more like The Peripheral than whatever the second one was called, you know, the one that was not good. lmao
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Well-written (duh) analysis by Alex Wellerstein (of nuclear history and NUKEMAP fame), of slow disasters as viewed through the lens of Gibson's "Jackpot" trilogy: https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-the-jackpot@SnoopJ I don't like that his blogs are Substack based now, but he's still a great pleasure to read, even his "so here's my life now as an American living in Paris for a year or more" life update bits.
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Well-written (duh) analysis by Alex Wellerstein (of nuclear history and NUKEMAP fame), of slow disasters as viewed through the lens of Gibson's "Jackpot" trilogy: https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-the-jackpotWell-written (duh) analysis by Alex Wellerstein (of nuclear history and NUKEMAP fame), of slow disasters as viewed through the lens of Gibson's "Jackpot" trilogy: https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-the-jackpot