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  If you're anxious about data centers you ought to love BAAJA. It requires all data centers to pay for a) the energy they consume, b) the new generation that must be built to provide it, & c) the new transmission & distribution infrastructure required to carry it. That's stronger than any state law!

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  Is the NYT ever, ever going to do these kind of safari trips to blue areas? Talk with latino hotel workers in Vegas? Middle-aged suburban resistance moms? Young black men? Does the paper ever extend its empathy to anyone other than disgruntled white people? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/post/3mzqj2jwdkk2m

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  Narrator: we wanted their bullshit.

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  Right-wing think tank drops the pretense and simply states that its political opponents should not be seated, even if they are elected. Do you think there's any substantial faction on the right that would push back against this if they thought they could get away with it? A Right-Wing Think Tank Has a ...

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  The whole "tradwife" thing was never by or for women. Tradwives Failed to Recruit Wo...

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  I wonder what percentage of voters know that Musk is the largest donor to the GOP, and single-handedly the reason they have a huge money advantage.

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  The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

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  Promising! First new steel mill in Austra...

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  "The US conservative movement is engaged in a nationwide effort to reverse child-labor laws and reinstitute child labor" sounds like a crazy leftie conspiracy theory, but ... yeah. It's real. The Return of Child Labor | Al...

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  Just wild that this is the explicit message.

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  Holy shit.

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  Abandon hope for democracy, all ye who enter here. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lmqhsre4gxmruufovgmnzxmu/post/3mwbh7ewcs22x

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  I know new UK PM Andy Burnham doesn't have a lot of fans around here, but I mean, christ, can you imagine *any* US politician, of any party, backing a policy this good or writing something this forceful & clear? I despair. British people understand the ...

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  It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fji27tmf5mynmv3wipvwfdfv/post/3mvsizv2dws2w

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  Recent discussions of "longtermism" remind me that the dissertation I never wrote for the PhD I never got in philosophy was going to defend the thesis that, to put it very simply, epistemic humility ought to be at the center of any naturalistic ethics.

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  I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.

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  This single episode was a greater assault on free speech, & hurt more people, than *anything that happened during Woke 1*. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/post/3mv73bj3kyc2u

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  I am old enough to remember a time when repeatedly lying about your experience on 9/11 to glorify yourself would be viewed as morally contemptible and a disqualification from public service. Donald Trump Lies a Lot About ...

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  For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

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  Under Biden's Solar for All program, $117 million in federal money was set to go to Indiana for solar, battery, & microgrid projects. Tens of millions of those dollars were headed to Gary, to improve its resilience. Then Trump canceled the program & yanked back all the money. Gary power outage underscores ...

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  Good job, California! California Becomes Latest Stat...

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  I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death. Evaluating the impact of two d...

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  Solar getting more efficient all the time. The world’s most efficient sol...

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  A good reminder that cities aren't loud. Cars are loud. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:crjgsju3qbtztj7sfgq3lrhh/post/3msloujoz422a

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  Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036. The World Crossed a Major Sola...

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  I wish that some journalist would at least ask a high-profile Democrat how they justify still posting on X, a site owned, run, & shaped by a racist Republican oligarch. At least make them articulate it! It's just wild no one talks about it, asks them about it, nothing.

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  In Q2, total global car sales fell, but EV sales *rose* -- to historic highs in at least 50 countries. The evident dangers of dependence on oil are making an impression. Oil crisis speeds up global tr...

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  Today on Volts: in lithium-ion batteries, the cathode has been evolving for 30 years, but the anode has remained stubbornly graphite. Now silicon anodes, which promise 5X the energy density & charging speeds, are finally reaching commercial viability. I talk with a silicon-anode pioneer. Silicon anodes for batteries u...

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  Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net@bsky.brid.gy is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is. Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate E...

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  This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols? FEMA said yes to Democratic di...