The internet seems to settle on a kind of unanimity after a while. It’s not a sentient being, but it gets opinions somehow. I’m not talking about chatbots here. A chatbot will find most any old thing you’re looking for, and because it’s programmed to be obsequious, it’ll tell you what you want to hear, at least eventually. You have to notice things on your own on the internet to really trust any observation.
I’ll give an example. There are certain bands from the 70s that the intertunnel likes. You see them everywhere. Internauts really like Queen, for instance. The Bee Gees. Various metal bands. Stuff like that. But I’ve noticed that the internet has big blind spots for various other combos. Here’s one: No one even mentions Yes on the interwebs, including this song, a sorta Stairway to Heaven to Middle Earth.
No, honestly, back in the seventies, this was probably as popular as any Queen deep cut. It was about seventeen minutes long or something, but they played it on the radio anyway. It’s like the Moody Blues for people who had more music lessons, or Deep Purple for guys with digital watches and photochromic coke-bottle glasses. The YorubaTube page says this video has 4.6 million views, but they must all be bots or Chinese people or something. If you go by their work habits, they’re more or less the same thing anyway.
The internet does love to rank things, however, and Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there is right up there in the inane lyric department, isn’t it? Its a close second to In the desert, you can remember your name, for there ain’t no one for to give you no pain, or Neil Diamond’s, “I am,” I said, to no one there, and no one heard at all, not even the chair.
So I’m here to give Yes a little boost. I’m mentioning them on the internet. That should help. And in their honor, I’m going to type today’s bookmark roundup on two computer keyboards simultaneously while wearing a cape. It’s the least I can do. And I always try to do the least I can do.
Collapse of the Once High-Flying Solar Stocks: Another Bankruptcy among our 8 Imploded Solar Stocks
Sunnova Energy International, which booked huge losses every single year selling residential solar energy equipment and services – $1.61 billion in total losses since 2017 – said on Sunday that it and its subsidiaries Sunnova Energy Corporation and Sunnova Intermediate Holdings, LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas. Its subsidiary Sunnova TEP Developer had already filed for bankruptcy on June 1. In the filing, it said that it would continue operating as “debtor in possession” while trying to sell some of its assets under court supervision.
I’m pretty sure I saw Debtor in Possession open up for Yes at the Odeon in 1973.
I’ve written a lot. And I’ve regretted most of it. So much of what I’ve said was too long and boring. Most of it was probably obvious to readers anyway. A lot of the rest was either redundant or implied. If anyone read it, they probably skimmed it a lot.
Here’s a hint. It’s: Tricks to Write More Clearly. You’re welcome.
Botnets account for 25% of all Internet traffic
In mid-2025, total bot activity, including good bots, bad bots, and botnets, exceeded human traffic on the Internet. As this trend continues, the Dead Internet Theory is likely to become a reality within the next decade.
I think I saw Dead Internet Theory open for Yes at the Palladium in 1991.
Disney to pay almost $439 million to take full control of streaming service Hulu
Hulu began in 2007 and quickly evolved into as a service backed by entertainment conglomerates who hoped to stave off the internet with an online platform for their own TV shows. Disney joined in 2009, planning to offer shows from ABC, ESPN and the Disney Channel. A decade later, Disney gained majority control of the business when it acquired 21st Century Fox.
“Evolved” is not the word I’d use to describe the timeline. “Went full retard” might fit the bill.
How Engineers Built the World’s Largest Spherical Structure: The Las Vegas MSG Sphere
Announced in February 2018, the MSG Sphere stands as a monumental achievement in civil engineering and architectural design. It is also the world’s largest spherical structure. The building was conceived as a revolutionary entertainment venue by the Madison Square Garden Company. The project aimed to create an unparalleled immersive experience for audiences.
If you fine folks were wondering what web scraped, AI slop looks like, read that article.
Rolls-Royce SMR selected to build small modular nuclear reactors
As part of the government’s modern Industrial Strategy to revive Britain’s industrial heartlands, the government is pledging over £2.5 billion for the overall small modular reactor programme in this Spending Review period – with this project potentially supporting up to 3,000 new skilled jobs and powering the equivalent of around 3 million homes with clean, secure homegrown energy.
If a British motor car company builds it, I guarantee it won’t start, and will leak oil.
Frederick Forsyth, Author of Thrillers Made Into Movies Like ‘The Day of the Jackal,’ Dies at 86
Frederick Forsyth, a British author of thrillers who frequently made the bestseller lists, sold 70 million books and saw his novels “The Day of the Jackal,” “The Odessa File” and “The Dogs of War,” among others, adapted into films, died on Monday at his home in Jordans, England. He was 86 years old. The New York Times confirmed Forsyth’s death, which his literary representative, Jonathan Lloyd, said “followed a short illness.”
We watched The Day of the Jackal last night. It shouldn’t be a good movie. Very dry. But it is.
Ireland’s data centres now consume more than a fifth of national electricity
New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that data centre electricity use is rising far more rapidly than any other sector, with homes and other business customers increasing by only 3% in the same period.
Everyone had to suffer through curlicue lightbulbs and washing machines that take four hours to get through a cycle so chatbots would have enough power to write SEO articles about green energy.
IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
Still, it’s unclear whether Starling will be able to solve practical problems. Some experts think that you need a billion error-corrected logical operations to execute any useful algorithm. Starling represents “an interesting stepping-stone regime,” says Wolfgang Pfaff, a physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “But it’s unlikely that this will generate economic value.”
Unlikely to generate economic value is right in IBM’s wheelhouse.
In many ways, it’s no more than it deserves. The company took one of the most useful tools of the Internet, twisted it into an ad platform and data harvesting machine, and did everything in its power to shut down competition in an attempt to force us to use it. They became greedy and, in doing so, destroyed their product, piece by piece.
You just figured that out, poindexter? You’re about ten years late to the party.
Well, there’s the bookmarks roundup for this Tuesday. If you’re an owner of a lonely heart, feel free to leave a comment for some instant cyber-camaraderie.
