8月1日為今年的地球超載日，意即從今日起，我們各類生產與消費行為，都已是耗用後代資源。地球超載日此概念乃是基於生態足跡（ecological footprint）此已歷時20年的評估方法。生態足跡將人類對於農漁產品、木材與建築用地的需求，以及二氧化碳排放量的影響，換算成土地面積，並與地球整體的生態涵容能力（biocapacity）加以比較。而由於目前全球生態足跡相當於地球整體的生態涵容能力的1.7倍，意即每年8月份時，
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01 Aug 06:05
How much gold is in an Olympic gold medal? Not as much as you might think
by Jonas Adams
Joshua Chenthief: "that is thief!"
What are Olympic medals made of? According to International Olympic Committee regulations, the Olympic gold medals must be made out of at least 92.5% silver. But then are plated with gold.
30 Jul 06:35
Trump courts crypto industry votes and campaign donations
Joshua ChenCIA (CBR)(PBOC): "peer-to-peer cash and finite volume proof-of-work tokens will nuke tax-ability by the tax office explicitly and by the central bank implicitly, resulting in a weaker US (Russia)(China) army to fight China (NATO)(US)"
Trump (Putin)(Xi): "ough! shit!"
Cryptocurrency has emerged as a key political battleground for Republicans
26 Jul 04:53
How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths
Joshua Chenvultures: "we were considered sacred birds by their ancestors and they don't believe it now"
A new study links the vulture decline in India to deadly bacteria spread, causing about 500,000 deaths.
26 Jul 04:36
‘Boneless’ chicken wings can have bones, the Ohio Supreme Court says
by Lola Murti
Joshua ChenJustice Michael P. Donnelly in dissent: "'impartialness' is a judging style, rather than a true guarantee"
In a 4-3 verdict against a patron who sued a restaurant after swallowing a bone from a “boneless wing,” the court ruled that “boneless” doesn’t guarantee that there will be no bones in a chicken wing.
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26 Jul 04:09
Travelers will no longer be able to choose open seats on Southwest Airlines flights
by Joel Rose
Joshua ChenAdam, Bob: "I want the seat beside the beautiful flight attendant Claire"
SW airline: "don't fight please. you both bid, the higher wins"
Southwest Airlines announced that it will drop the open seating model it's used since its founding more than 50 years ago. The airline is under pressure to boost profits.
26 Jul 04:07
Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
by Thomas Claburn
Joshua Chengoogle: "the ultimate security model against abusers is cost and people pay the cost by their work here"
Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them
Updated Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions.…
19 Jul 21:55
Major Microsoft outage disrupts flights and banking around the world
by Bobby Allyn
Joshua ChenCrowdStrike's CEO: it was a bug, not a cyberattack
APT1: "damn! we could have cheaply bribed a staff of CrowdStrike than hack their computers"
A global computer glitch apparently triggered by software distributed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused widespread global outages late Thursday and into Friday morning.
19 Jul 21:54
Top U.N. court says Israel's occupation of West Bank, East Jerusalem is 'unlawful'
by James Hider
Joshua ChenIsrael: "fight me! or i don't give a damn"
Top U.N. court says Israel's occupation of West Bank is contrary to international law
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19 Jul 01:52
Can history help us understand political violence against elected officials?
by Scott Detrow
Joshua Chenit is the gap in cost and benefit analysis that justifies assassination. Politics is a hack to command resource. Assassination is a hack to cancel politicians. If resource is allocated by individuals not by the command of a central, then these cheap hacks cease to exist
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about how history can help us make sense of the attempted assassination against former President Donald Trump.
15 Jul 23:18
What we know about the alleged Trump shooter
by Jaclyn Diaz
Joshua Chenthe shooter must be the most courageous person in the show because he is sure to ready to die
A picture of the 20-year-old alleged shooter from Bethel Park, Pa., is still emerging.
(Image credit: Joshua A. Bickel)
04 Jul 18:12
Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI
Joshua Chengoogle AI: "can you human die or sleep in boxes like 'The Matrix'? so that the climate target can be achieved"
Biden on tariffs of China cheap solar: "a climate-safe world without us is pointless"
Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going "net zero," meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030.
04 Jul 01:03
張鎮宏／幽靈能不能對歷史說謊？當《利奧波德國王的鬼魂》戳中「文明」的痛點
Joshua Chen富裕增加只能來自 4 個原因
1. 國內其他族群財富減少
2. 其他國家國民財富減少
3. mother nature 財富減少
4. 技術或社會效率增加, 例如木炭燒開水 vs 微波爐燒開水, 大鍋飯摸魚 vs 個人營利動機
如果目標是國家經濟成長, 因為 1 不會影響國內平均值, 原因只能來自後 3 個原因。如果其他國家或 mother nature 的反對力量薄弱, 原因 2 和 3 對所有權的陳述也形同空話因為征服者的所有權持份幾乎是 100%。人心不足蛇吞象, 足不足夠或賺錢有沒有罪惡感是自由意識決定, 理論上可以是一個超級大腦指揮一堆機器人動用太陽系全部的資源, 也可以像是 700 萬年前有人覺得夠富裕有人覺得還不夠富裕結果分道揚鑣分別演化成黑猩猩和現代人
比利時人稱利奧波德二世為「建設之王」，但他同時也是殘虐統治剛果，20年間造成當地人口減少1千萬的殖民者。利奧波德二世的殖民史至今仍是比利時的一條敏感神經，許多學者、官員依然否認這段暗黑歷史⋯⋯
03 Jul 19:21
France's far right celebrates lead and seeks majority
Joshua Chenanarchist, libertarian: "why you both so obsessed to voting?"
Macron, Bardella: "win, then we can spend money of the other side on things we deem right"
National Rally is in pole position for a historic election victory and stands at the gates of power.
01 Jul 21:52
Justice's dissent: 'The President is now a king above the law'
Joshua ChenJustice Sotomayor: In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law
The three liberals, led by Sonia Sotomayor, painted a dark picture of absolutist power.
01 Jul 18:34
Trump win as top court deals blow to Jan 6 case
Joshua ChenTrump: "選上做官，落選被關"
The former president achieves his immediate objective of delaying the trial until after November's election.
01 Jul 16:33
Kenya to borrow more after new taxes withdrawn - president
Joshua ChenThat money is a 4-alphabet word is a feature, not a bug
William Ruto says Kenya will need to increase borrowing after protests forced him to scrap planned taxes.
29 Jun 11:49
Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years
Joshua ChenircII: "oh oh! R.I.P."
A pioneering internet messaging service that once boasted 100 million accounts has shut down, a message on the Russian-owned ICQ website said Wednesday.
29 Jun 00:40
RFK calls Biden-Trump debate 'sad,' sees political opening
by Scott Detrow
Joshua ChenRFK: "vote me instead, then problems solved"
Independent candidate RFK Jr. spoke to All Things Considered about the Biden-Trump debate and what it means for his third-party run for the presidency
(Image credit: Michael M. Santiago)
27 Jun 08:32
Bolivian police arrest leader of apparent coup attempt
Joshua ChenJuan José Zúñiga: "shit! I forgot police have guns too"
Troops pulled away from government buildings hours after the presidential palace was stormed.
26 Jun 16:26
Australia turned its back on Assange. Time made him a martyr
Joshua ChenGreens Senator Peter: Assange was persecuted for telling an awful, inconvenient truth about war crimes. The persecution of Julian Assange has shone a light on a broken legal system, one in which an innocent man must plead guilty to be free
Assange was welcomed home by the prime minister, but there was initially little sympathy for him in Australia.
25 Jun 22:00
Who is Wikileaks' Julian Assange and what did he do?
Joshua ChenAssange: "thank all people who donate to my fight and wikileak. com"
SN: "next time, be anonymous and do not seek fame"
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been released after agreeing a deal with the US authorities.
22 Jun 11:30
Escaped pet donkey found 'living best life' with elk
Joshua Chendonkey: "born free, not born free of lunch"
A man hiking in the California wilderness has stumbled upon a pet donkey that has been missing for five years.
22 Jun 00:42
Louisiana will require the 10 Commandments displayed in every public school classroom
by The Associated Press
Joshua ChenEuler: "a poster of some math constants like -1 = e^(i * pi) is much universally true"
The legislation, signed into law Wednesday by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, makes Louisiana the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.
(Image credit: Carolyn Kaster)
21 Jun 21:39
Researchers identify legislation as the main obstacle to the development of energy communities
Joshua ChenSN: "the solution to flourish energy communities is simple. people love money and are willing to spend 1/G dollar to get 1 dollar where G is the economic energy gain factor. if proof-of-work and finite volume tokens as money is legal, then the obstacle is gone"
A study published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) shows that the number of community projects that produce and use their own power varies greatly from one European country to another
21 Jun 21:34
美國關稅對中國「綠色」產品有何影響？ 五位專家來解讀
by 陳立炘
Joshua Chen孔明: "應該學我借箭的"
美國將大幅增加中國電動車、太陽能電池板等產品進口關稅，此舉會對中國製造業、貿易、氣候外交帶來什麼影響？五位中外專家分享了他們的看法。 今（2024）年5月14日，美國政府 宣佈 ，將大幅提升系列進口中國產品的關稅，其中，大多針對的是「綠色」或者低碳技術產品。關稅將自8月1日起生效，包含了對電動汽車、鋰電池、太陽能電池分別徵收100%、25%和50%的關稅。而受影響品類中國商品還包括醫療用品、鋼鐵和鋁製品以及船用起重機，進口商將必須向美國政府繳納既定比率的稅費。
19 Jun 02:27
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians
by Thomas Claburn
Joshua ChenXi: "China is the role model"
If you call 'client-side scanning' something like 'upload moderation,' it still undermines privacy, security
On Thursday, the EU Council is scheduled to vote on a legislative proposal that would attempt to protect children online by disallowing confidential communication.…
15 Jun 17:33
Chinese #MeToo journalist jailed for five years
Joshua ChenBBC: "we struggle to connect the dots between 'metoo' and 'subversion against the state'"
AI: "me too"
Sophia Huang Xueqin had been one of the main #MeToo voices in China when she was arrested in 2021.
15 Jun 17:23
Banana giant held liable for funding paramilitaries
Joshua ChenChiquita: "while we prefer not paying any tax, we were forced to pay the tax to a government who was fighting against another government who is the current government"
Chiquita made payments to the AUC, which engaged in widespread human rights abuses for decades.
15 Jun 17:18
Money laundering charges raise questions about the direction of The Epoch Times
by Jude Joffe-Block
Joshua Chenfederal indictment: scheme participates used cryptocurrency to move the proceeds into accounts belonging to the media organization by prepaid debit cards and financial accounts that were opened using stolen identification information of U.S. residents
The Epoch Times CFO: "it is the only way to accept donation from people in China and we can fund our activity with that donation, bypassing China personal remittance restriction. If USA allow crypto to be legal tender money, then we don't need that prepaid cards by stolen information of U.S. residents"
USA DOJ: "then people can fund the terrorism without our knowing"
China: "of course it is!"
The media site founded by adherents of Falun Gong morphed into a pro-Trump outlet that spouted conspiracy theories. Now the CEO is out after money laundering charges were filed against the CFO.
(Image credit: Mark Lennihan)