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  "Repurposed aircraft turbines tend to be less efficient and more polluting than engines designed for conventional gas-burning plants. And data centers need more jet-powered generators to produce the same amount of electricity." #ai #environment #datacenters #climatechange https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/climate/jet-engines-ai-data-center-generators-boneyard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NlE.jb1t.UuXGj1urC04S&smid=url-share

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  "Being largely underground, with seven above-ground entrances, allows the museum to use its energy as efficiently as possible,...Most of it is able to avoid direct exposure to wind, sand and solar heat and the large temperature swings between day and night in the desert." #climatechange #archaeology #paleontology #architecture https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/16/dinosaur-eggs-pterosaur-museum-built-gobi-desert

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  "CREC pastors, whose church in Washington DC Hegseth attends, have for years advocated the death penalty for many perceived moral infractions including adultery, abortion and homosexuality, and a podcaster from Hegseth’s former church has repeatedly called for executions to be public." #religion #uspol #deathpenalty #hegseth https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/15/pete-hegseth-crec-church-execution-livestream

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  "Should Democrats retake Congress, Musk and his companies would likely face a steady stream of investigations. His past work leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency and current role co-leading a Pentagon technology project would be two prime candidates for congressional inquiry." #uspol #musk #oligarchy https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/musks-unprecedented-effort-to-buy?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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  "For decades, the justice department has avoided even the appearance of political interference in the run-up to an election, and that’s exactly what the 60-day rule exists to protect. This DoJ is doing the opposite.” #uspol #law #justice #midterms https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/18/trump-justice-department-us-midterms

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  “I don’t think a human being, who has agency, could be ‘gifted’ from one to another, but had she not been gifted to Queen Victoria, would I be here today?” #uk #racism #history https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/18/sarah-forbes-bonetta-biography-queen-victoria

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  "After ten years of Trump insisting that reports of his cooperation with Russia were a hoax, here we are, watching one profoundly unpopular man tear apart the global system under which we have lived for eighty years in order to climb into bed with Vladimir Putin." #uspol #ukraine #russia #china https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2026?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  "The report comes as the Trump administration has been undermining California’s position as a national leader in environmental protection." #california #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/us/california-climate-change-warning.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J1E.1RcW.TP6TddogmIMk&smid=url-share

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  “We are proposing a regenerative urban energy center that recycles power and water, providing a clean energy supply and public benefits, rather than a sealed box that merely consumes from the grid." #ai #sanfrancisco #california https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/20/san-francisco-mall-ai-datacenter

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  "It was end times for the postliberals in Budapest, even if they didn’t know it yet. What will survive the demise of the so-called Budapest scene is a fractured group of rightwing thinkers who, whatever their fate in Hungary, will continue to hold a frightening level of influence over US political culture." #uspol #hungary #orban https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/20/the-last-bastion-is-gone-the-us-right-idolised-orbans-hungary-can-they-recover-now-he-has...

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  Recording backing vocals for the Basilisk! #music #synthpop #basilisk

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  "Gellner said a genital exam was wholly different from a sports physical, which is used to determine metrics like vision and heart health and, crucially, doesn’t require a student to remove her clothing. She added that any policy that puts girls through intrusive medical procedures “opens up a can of worms” given the horrific crimes of Larry Nassar." #trans #uspol #washington #lgbtq https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/washington-anti-trans-sports-genital-exams

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  “As Christian nationalist leaders attack the sentiment of empathy, a disturbing ‘empathy gap’ has opened, separating Republicans and white evangelicals from most other Americans. Such orchestrated attacks are typical of violent authoritarian movements and should be disturbing to all who care about the moral foundations of our pluralistic democracy.” #religion #pagan #uspol https://wildhunt.org/2026/10/empathy-in-america-new-survey-finds-sharp-divides.html

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  "Meta is creating a new class of non-voting shares via a two-for-one stock split for all existing shareholders. This will allow Zuckerberg to sell some of this new class C shares to pay a potential tax bill, without diluting his control of the company." #california #zuck #meta https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/22/meta-mark-zuckerberg-california-wealth-tax

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  "Revelations over Google’s misconduct have prompted public concern over what these deals mean for nearby communities, energy prices for Finnish households and Finland’s natural environment, a national source of pride. The datacentre push is likely to become a key election issue when Finns go to the polls in April." #finland #ai #google #environment https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

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  "How can religious freedom protect individual conscience, accommodate diverse beliefs, and maintain appropriate boundaries between religious practice and governmental authority?" #religion #uspol #pagan https://wildhunt.org/2026/10/religious-freedom-in-focus-witchcraft-christian-nationalism-and-the-boundaries-of-religious-liberty.html

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  "The administration’s justification for the [Caribbean] strikes has not been made public. It has claimed—without evidence—that the men on the boats were trafficking drugs, but such a charge would normally be handled by the legal system. The Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice produced an opinion providing legal cover for the strikes, and some of the members of Congress who have seen it are alarmed." #law #democracy #uspol https://heathercoxrichardson.substack....

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  "For their article “Singulion Structure and the Voynich Manuscript”, Layfield and Davis used a numerical analysis tool to compare blocks of text and found that many of the attached pages scored highly for coherence even when there were many intervening pages, suggesting the manuscript had been mis-bound." #books #manuscripts #pagan #medieval https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/06/voynich-manuscript-research-pages-wrongly-bound

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  My name is America. I live on the second floor. #suzannevega

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  “It offers a convenient escape from any uncomfortable sense of personal responsibility, allowing them to maintain the comforting fiction that they are deeply concerned about the world their children will inherit while continuing to live lives that contribute disproportionately to the problem.” #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/07/scientists-technology-less-likely-climate-crisis-action

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  "In learning more about rats, their needs, behaviors and desires over the last few months, Raza said he had come to “think about them much more as animals living their own independent lives, rather than something that makes me sick or that I don’t want to see”." #art #newyork #rats #animals https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/07/nyc-rat-art-sculptures

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  "Musk and the project’s other co-leaders — Palmer Luckey, who leads the killer drone company Anduril, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — will help the Pentagon choose 'the weapons and systems that our children and our grandchildren will need in their lifetimes, without any creative limitations or restrictions.' " #hegseth #elonmusk #uspol https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/hegseth-a-potential-2028-candidate?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_m...

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  "McLaren acknowledges that “animal rights is a dirty word” in America. But “part of the fun” of writing Ape Sh*t is “trying to look at ways that animals – monkeys and apes specifically – have tried to communicate to us that they are individuals, that they are beings with perspective”. #zine #animals #monkey https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/08/ape-sht-zine-carrie-mclaren-monkeys-humans

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  "Mr. Spivey said that Ms. Pike still had 'a lot of cognitive confusion.' But, he said, 'she is very aware that the state tried to execute her.' ” #deathpenalty #uspol #christapike https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/us/christa-pike-tennessee-legal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFE.LRu_.K4OJvsbKpHYi&smid=url-share

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  "Recent federal policies revoking immigrants’ legal protections or targeting them for enforcement have had dire effects on the nation’s affordability crisis and job market, especially in regions and industries that rely disproportionately on foreign-born workers." #immigration #uspol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/trump-immigration-cost-social-security

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  Any way #anonymous could block the Pentagon execution livestream?

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  There's a Kate Bush song about this. #cia #espionage #sound #music https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/10/havana-syndrome-mystery-cia-russia

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  "So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S. national security position of support for Ukraine and our European allies, Trump is openly backing Russia’s president Vladimir Putin." #uspol #russia #ukraine #putin https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2026-saturday?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  "The findings suggest that Christianity is increasingly being invoked as a marker of British identity amid wider anxieties about immigration, Islam and cultural change." #ukpol #religion #christianity #racism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/11/christian-nationalism-uk-far-right-people-rarely-go-to-church-report