Status:
I applied for an art thing today. No idea if I’ll get it but it was good to write the application, my first in a long while.
And having just submitted it I don’t really have the capacity to write anything more.
Reading:
- Oscar-winning Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas dies aged 80 — As has often been noted, Star Wars was a hot mess before she got her scissors to it.
- The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world — This report from Australia reads like a sponsored post but I guess some things are just all up-side. “Home batteries are in the middle of a revolution, large grid-scale batteries have collapsed in price in the last two years, and the quality of them has remarkably improved, with far less critical minerals, a far longer lifetime, and with fire hazard all but eliminated. That is now feeding into the home battery market, and the home battery of today is vastly superior to the home battery of a couple of years ago."
Watching:
Listening:
- In Our Time: The Welsh Marches — Actually listened to this the other night but forgot to note it. Was surprised how blasé the Welsh academics were about the Norman colonisation of their country. I remember visiting when I was younger and suddenly figuring out why there are so many castles in Wales.
- You’re Wrong About: Rainbows — Some fascinating stuff about the pre-science explanations of rainbows (from the bridge to Asgard to Aristotle nearly getting it right) and how they actually work, wrapped up in a characteristically shambolic, rambling conversation which I would find annoying were it not the real reason I enjoy this podcast.
Admin:
The link I posted yesterday about plug-in solar in the UK was nonsense AI slop. Thanks to Phil for letting me know. “Having spent a while googling, there is so much similar stuff around, all presumably hallucinating. Meanwhile it’s impossible to verify exactly because who’s going to actually buy the document to check? It’s people on Reddit saying ‘but these blog posts say x’ vs someone saying ‘but I don’t see that in my copy of Amendment 4’." The best mark for a con is someone who wants something to be true, so they’ll accept anything that confirms that desire. Fuckers got me.
Oop, just after publishing I see Phil actually posted about this today.