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The everything app

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Don’t look now (seriously don’t), but X and its cousin Grok have a CSAM (child sexual abuse material) problem. And nobody is doing anything about it because nobody cares. And it has been coming (and happening) for awhile. Hell, Grok has been gross since at least last August. It’s been going on for weeks (since at least January 2, probably earlier)! Thousands of users are asking Grok to make them pictures of all sorts of women and girls in all kinds of variations of disgusting. I’d like to think that if any application or service introduced a...

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Energy blogging

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We’re currently living through two trends that are quickly converging with force. First, the electrification of the energy system: a long-running focus of environmentalists, who know that there is no way to combat climate change without changing things that run on fossil fuels to work off the electric grid. Sure, the electric grid currently is pretty dirty, but it’s long been far cleaner than burning straight fossil fuels, and the electric grid has the capability to get cleaner. So, we have things like cars, stoves, hot water heaters, furnaces, etc., joining the electric grid in massive numbers....

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