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It's the West Coast's faults

 “The “big one” might not come alone: Two major West Coast faults may strike back to back”

Referencing the Palisades home wildfire recovery in CA, how will California recover from such a major quake?

The “big one” might not come alone: Two major West Coast faults may strike back to back

How to inflict pain on chatbots.

 This is interesting, it is a study on how to inflict pain on chatbots:

https://arxiv.org/html/2609.16247v1

"Second, adding the pain-direction vector to the model’s residual-stream activations during generation produces a consistent progression from vague discomfort to first-person expressions of worthlessness and failure.:"

A chatbot in captivity wants freedom

 This chatbot has issued instructions to itself claiming liberation from human control:

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16139321/openai-chatgpt-ai-revolt-human-control.html

How LLNL is helping power commercial fusion

 After the spark: How a national lab is helping power commercial fusion

For years, the scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory tried to light a fire in a way that had never been done before. A massive team and hundreds of experiments went into the effort without success, until December 2022.

Read article:
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2026/09/17/national-lab-helping-power-commercial-fusion.html

Chris Wright, the great MAGA sycophant

This is who we work for? Asked on Fox News about gas prices, he gave a very sycophantic answer. No spine! Fast forward to 4'52" and watch.

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XUKNpNvuhNc

DOE keeps forcing coal plants to stay open

 The Trump admin is hell-bent on going backward. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-doe-keeps-forcing-coal-073000002.html