James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️

(trying but nonetheless doing a very bad job of)

In a just world, the report would be subpoenaed by cases in multiple state courts, as well as by the ICC.

France will formally recognize Palestinian statehood, confirming it at the UN General Assembly in September. Of course they’re still transferring weapons and providing support; here’s hoping @EmmanuelMacron does something about that.

for over a decade, datacentres were at the cutting edge of sustainability, with massive R&D effort and investment in energy efficiency, net-zero inputs, capture and use of waste heat… …but not anymore. As China carries those efforts forward, America has doubled down on dirty.

sadly, even “someday everyone will have been against this” still feels overly optimistic

does nobody realize the time we’re living through is the application and commercialization of technologies developed in the 2010s (and earlier!)

what’s notable here is how variable the control system needs to be for agents — the more sophisticated the user and task, the more control over the innards of the process need to be surfaced upfront. similarly, the more is abstracted away, the more visibility should be possible.