This covers the relevant part of the debate about carbon capture. Is it something we try to do after reducing emissions, or instead of reducing emissions? (In the former case, it's moderately good. In the latter, it's very bad)

This shouldn't be a controversial or partisan opinion. There's exactly one, fairly small (but rich), interest group with a reason to disagree with it.

The "Kat is bourgeoisie because she ate shrimp" comment is funny, but it is a real problem with populist "class struggle" that the rich it usually wants to eat first are people rich enough to buy shrimp, rather than people rich enough to buy islands, media empires, and Congress.

Johnson is talking about midterms like "You gotta understand we're doing treason, most of up are implicated, and if we lose control of our coup now, the opposition will surely see us in front of tribunals" and most of the opposition is still saying "we've gotta stay laser focused on affordability"

The life you save could be your own

You could have a center / center-right party with its 5% or whatever. And a left-liberal party, and the DSA wing hard left party. None of those are a majority on their own. Their seat shares should be driven by how many voters they represent, but the status quo electoral system doesn't allow that.

I especially love this diagram.

It's time for Crum's law. The response to concern about the NY primaries should be "well, Republicans could have had a centrist government, thriving economy, and moderately progressive taxes with Harris, but no, they forced our hand. They insisted on socialism."

Whatever moral status an air conditioner has (seems like that should be none, but I won't die on this hill), it's bloody obvious that a heat pump has the same status. Literally the same tech, same energy requirements, etc. It's also pretty obvious that every other type of heating is less efficient

Progress in cancer research has been one of the incredible areas of biomedical advancement over the past two decades. Many cancers which were absolute death sentences just a few years ago are now chronic, managed conditions. And this was only possible through NIH/NCI/NIAID research/funding.

So much effort gets spent on Dem messaging, and it seems like it's mostly irrelevant compared to running candidates that are below retirement age and haven't lost already the last three elections. (bonus points for no AIPAC backing, and not bloodthirsty former military contractors)

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Dear stock market, Please learn that the next time Trump says Hormuz is open will be just as reliable as the last time. You're all adults charged with making important choices about how our society allocates scare resources. Figuring this out seems like less than minimal table stakes Thanks

I think nearly all complaints about "capitalism" are really about growth dependence, kleptocracy, or oligarchy. Market capitalism isn't so bad. I do have one major anticapitalist belief, though: profit motive acting alone tends to motivate bad outcomes.

It's posible to compute a "median voter" position, but not possible to get a significant number of real votes from it

We have to get past the idea that there is a political center, it’s just not a thing. The existence of a left hand and a right hand does not imply a center hand.

To the extent we are cooked it is because of media consolidation, billionaire agendas, and business models. I've unsubscribed from 3 or 4 major papers in the last five years because of shenanigans, and when I do go to news sites, the experience sucks. So I wouldn't blame the audiences.

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

This is indeed fucked up. If corporations have the rights and responsibilities of people, they can be executed, or imprisoned for life. When they do murders, grand thefts, and the occasional treason, they *should* be.

Lee Raymond isn't the obit you were hoping for, but still, that's a notable demon heading back to hell. (figurative)

$80M would stand up one hell of a b corp coast to coast newsroom and it would be less than half of what he spend this time

There hasn't been a Republican administration in at least 70 years that wasn't pro war. Trump lying about it was as close as we got. Because of this, I assume most lifelong Repiblicans were relieved to learn that was a lie.

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

What if we didn't opt in to a trillion dollars in new sunk costs?

When people say the climate crisis is a "wicked problem" this is what that means. Technically, it's the same class of problem as the ozone layer. Politically, it's a referendum on the incumbent distribution of wealth and power, and the historically most effective paths to economic growth.

Orgs I work with can't get any interest on climate, work conditions, pay, health care, cost of living etc. I hear that if you hold a meeting about blocking data centers, though, 30 really excited people show up, though.

MT senate discourse includes "is it better to work with Trump or fight?" To bsky it might seem obvious to say "fight," but for a centrist audience it's important to call this out as bad framing. Nobody can "work with" Trump. Not even a Republican. The options are "kowtow" or "don't"

When the world is made up of inseparable flows and the reigning mindset does not accept that there are bound to be troubles.

Wasn't expecting to see Fortsag leading the house race. Still, good news if we pulls it out.

This culture is so profligate people spend water like money.

The heuristic that if someone both can and must spend a ton of money advertising a political position they probably aren't on your side is pointing to Reilly Neill as the candidate big money wants not to win.

If you look at the world, especially the US, we're desperately in need of better design, but design is not apps with luxury aesthetics. It's functional, ethical, sustainable, enjoyable systems, services, and products. Getting that stuff funded and facilitating the decision-making is the work.

MT Leg thinks sexual harassment allegations are disqualifying for public office for Jon Windy Boy, but most of them still think adjudicated rape is just fine for POTUS

I don’t think Trump ever had this sense, he was just surrounded by people who were willing to get themselves fired to avert obvious catastrophes, while he’s now surrounded by people who are steadfastly pro-catastrophe

The number of opposition mailers about Reilly Neill was already insane, but now there are reverse-oppo mailers, also opposing Neill but claiming that the other oppo mailers are a Republican attempt to support her (so we should oppose her)

If it becomes impossible to ensure real estate, it will get much harder to get large mortgages. That will bring the price of homes way down.

stop making me write self-evaluations leave me alone and give me a performance rating of He Did His Job, please and thank you I have no more ambition, I do not need a promotion, I will do good work, just stop bothering me about it

"Every accusation is an admission" hasn't failed yet, so I shouldn't be surprised. I didn't expect it to apply to "they want to take away meat" though.

Saying "You shouldn't drive an EV (or ride a bike)" is equivalent to saying "I demand higher gas prices."

Can't breath under water? Gill issue

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

The worst part about 2026 is that the people in charge are the exact same kind of people who made my life hell in grade school, and they haven’t grown up one little bit.

I got two political fliers today, one for Bankhead and one for Neill. The one for Neill was written by Republicans, so it's better than the one Bankhead's campaign sent themselves. It prominently quotes her saying Trump is an idiot and clearly states that she wants to impeach him. #mtpol

Dems should just be filing new articles of impeachment (on different charges) daily or weekly at this point.

"Moderate your views" on whether human flourishing requires an environment! The "moderate" position is that voters definitely don't care about whether it's fatal to go outside, or if Miami should be above or below sea level.

It's 100 degrees in May, time to moderate your views on the environment, Democrats

It seems like this could also be a a legal precedent for deciding that nothing you talked to a gen AI about designing can be patented, since you are then trying to patent after a de-facto public disclosure.

I've read books about what's broken in software development, and they don't mention this obvious thing. The fatal flaw (for customers and workers, but not not investors) is that it's not done to build and sell working solutions and move on. It's done to constantly modify, forever.

Inspired: this software could have been the earlier version of the same software that worked 5 years ago

Montana Democrats have gone full Glonzo about corporate investment driving housing prices.