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Long-range electric planes are coming! New Chinese model can di flights of 2,000 to 3,000 km with just electric. Perfect combo with the giant solar rollout #ShareGoodNewsToo www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202406/25/...

CATL electric plane to support 2,000 km flightwww.chinadaily.com.cn Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, disclosed on Tuesday that its electric commercial airplane, which is able to support a flight range of 2,000 to 3,00...

In case anybody needs some light relief from politics in their feed.

Sticking with only good news today

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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Why you pack extra underwear, a case study.

The NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the ISS on June 6. Their stay, originally scheduled for just over a week, has stretched indefinitely. They said in a news conference on Wednesday that they're not complaining about the delay.

NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronautswww.nytimes.com In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in the troubled spacecraft to get them home.

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What's the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One is really heavy and the other is a little lighter.

We have discovered a cause for lupus and may have a way to treat it. #ShareGoodNewsToo news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2024/07/10/s...

Scientists Discover a Cause of Lupus and a Possible Way to Reverse Itnews.feinberg.northwestern.edu Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in lupus and demonstrated that reversing the defect may potentially reverse the disease.

#Nostalgia time for #techies. German class F123 frigates still run off 8" floppy disks. I've not seen one of them in about 40 years. [At this point all real techies are going "hard or soft sectored?"] www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

German Navy to replace aging 8-inch floppy drives with an emulated solution for its anti-submarine frigateswww.tomshardware.com Das Boot Disk

#Bluesky. Teaching you all the things that school missed out.

I can't take the word 'jedi' seriously because it means 'eat ass' in Yoruba. [And 'jedijedi' means diarrhoea]

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If you’ve ever seen this before. This was my mate mark simmons joke. I was sat with him when he wrote it. Entirely lost to being a generic dad joke now

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Can't wait until this thing is twice as powerful

Sanity, at last. And very rapidly delivered. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ShareGoodNewsToo

Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarmswww.theguardian.com Rachel Reeves says she will revise planning policy and decisions should be taken ‘nationally, not locally’

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"Pssst." "Shhh!" "Whatcha doing?" "Waiting." "For what?" "A cheetah." "I hear those are beautiful." "They sure are, fast too, now hush." "Can I wait with you?" "Only if you're quiet."

Batteries, at grid scale, are going to be stupidly cheap in the very near future. This means the intermittency of renewable energy supplies isn't even a worry, never mind the showstopper antis claim it is. #ShareGoodNewsToo aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/batteries-...

Batteries: how cheap can they get?aukehoekstra.substack.com How dirt cheap batteries will completely transform our electricity grid, paving the way for solar and wind and replacing grid reinforcements with grid buffers.

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i'd much rather speak lies to power. i don't want them knowing what i'm up to

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Theory: Liz Truss is a time traveller, sent back to change the past to benefit her evil clan. It was working, but then she accidentally killed the Queen, and now her timeline doesn't exist. Would explain the malicious cluelessness, and zero understanding of how people work

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Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks. That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.

It may be that massively power hungry AI apps are just a brief anomaly and sanity may eventually prevail. #ShareGoodNewsToo news.ucsc.edu/2024/06/matm...

Researchers run high-performing large language model on the energy needed to power a lightbulbnews.ucsc.edu UC Santa Cruz researchers show that it is possible to eliminate the most computationally expensive element of running large language models, called matrix multiplication, while maintaining performance...

Also you can turn on the setting to require Alt text before posting as a reminder to yourself to DTRT. Settings => Accessibility => Require alt text before posting [Unfortunately I think you have to do this for every device you use.]

It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...

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The simplest tool we use for water quality monitoring is the Secchi disk. The disk is lowered through the water until it cannot be seen. Then you measure the distance. This provides a reproducible measure of transparency. Our Secchi measurements are around 30 to 60cm. 🧪

Imagine the novel that has this headline as its opening sentence.

Internet Princess Rayne Fisher-Quann left TikTok in search of something beyond the algorithm

Internet Princess Rayne Fisher-Quann left TikTok in search of something beyond the algorithmmashable.com The internet personality goes offline for her first live event in New York City.