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–Anthropic job app via Simon Willison’s blog

Most concrete in the United States is prepared to order at batch plants—souped-up materials depots where the ingredients are combined, dosed out from hoppers into special mixer trucks, and then driven to job sites. Because concrete grows too stiff to work after about 90 minutes, concrete production is highly local. There are more ready-mix batch plants in the United States than there are Burger King restaurants.

This makes it incredibly hard to decarbonize concrete, one of the biggest greenhouse emitters. But researchers are trying anyway! Great story on IEEE about greening concrete.

The changes in social media over the last 18 months, but especially the last month or so, have caused me major whiplash. While I sort out what makes sense for me to do, both as a journalist (which, at the very least, keeps me on every platform to get a hold of sources) and as a normie/civilian/whatever (do I have to post? Nope), I want to control a sliver of the internet.

This will be part portfolio, part hobbies, part fun things I find on the internet. So that means a lot of AI writing, some surf videos, definitely some romance book musings, probably clips showing a Muay Thai technique or two, and bits about the new word games I find and obsess over for a week (it’s been a while, what’s good?)

Stay tuned while I figure out what controlling the means of publication looks like.