It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Here's the breakdown from year to year and how our system configuration has changed with time. Switching to Heat pumps has allowed us to use less energy while maintaining or improving comfort. The HVAC HP is much better than the 30yr old AC it replaced. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

Anyone talking about orbital data centers has jumped the shark. There's no cooling in space. There's nothing to dissipate the heat and it'll cook everything. Not to mention, power is a significant issue. Solar will not be enough and batteries are too heavy for orbit.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET

💥 I did a drawing that breaks down Transformers in AI Spent a good amount of time on this one, breaking down concepts in a way that someone new to the subject could come away with basic high-level understanding. I hope it's useful!

NOEM IS LYING. I have seen people get taken! It was the same each time: armed men racing out of a blacked-out SUV, seizing a screaming or fleeing pedestrian, and pulling them into the car without any attempt to even learn their identity. Always a person alone on the street. Always a person of color.

Minneapolis.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

As a journalist, I've spent lots of time climbing around in old coal plants. They're all rotted-out, cob-webbed piles of metal, industrial haunted houses on the verge of collapse. Keeping them going is yet another sign American energy poverty and political decline. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...

This would effectively limit renewable development in the state in aggregate. So much for "level playing field".

Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.

This is an underrated component of human psychology that I see everywhere in these extraordinary times - the tendency to respond to threat by freezing and hoping the bad thing will go away. Institutions will hold, geopolitical norms will hold, the threat could not possibly come for *me*...

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Can flexible interconnection spare PJM customers from data center demand and rising power costs?

PJM, the biggest U.S. power market, badly needs a way to flexibly connect data centers without driving up electricity costs. This report from Camus Energy, encoord and Princeton's ZERO Lab provides a blueprint — one backed by real-world grid data: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat... #energysky

We traversed dozens of airports with my son riding on his little Trunki suitcase as a toddler. I'm pretty sure that's why he can comfortably ride a horse now - he faceplanted off that thing in several countries. Unlike the assholes in the article, though, we did not encourage him to race it!

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

Head of the Revolving Door Project is baselessly accusing Jesse Jenkins of being a hyperscaler shill. No path to decarb that is this hostile to private sector engagement. You can’t transform sectors, deploy technology, or build state capacity this way.

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Here in Boulder, power is still out due to combination of pre-emptive shut-offs to prevent wildfire ignitions & damage from 90-100 mph wind gusts yesterday, & a similar event is inbound again Fri. I'm doing the best I can amid limited connectivity; thanks for your patience!

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate and weather research institutions. @hayleysmith.bsky.social @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

Oh no... Seeing the direct tweet is even more frightening. Every day is a new crisis, and the repercussions are unimaginable.

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

Solar is dispatchable. "After a 40% drop in battery equipment costs in 2024, the industry is now on track for another major fall in 2025. The economics of battery storage are unrecognizable, and the industry is still adjusting to this new reality." -Kostantsa Rangelova

Forget any other claims about my true non-tech calling, it's making small hats for things.

Gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Furthermore, even if the world were bending the curve of emissions down, the range of warming for our “current trajectory” actually includes 4C by 2100 — and it’s not like heating has been *slowing down* recently. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/exploring-... 4/n

Here’s the link 🔗 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No subterranean mole man datacenters??

As a frequent traveler, I've often thought: wouldnt it be great if everyone in this airport was sweatier?

Great writeup from Latitude on our datacenter flexibility study. "The study argues choice for data centers isn’t between revenue or curtailment, but rather between revenue or waiting in line." (with a little curtailment!) www.latitudemedia.com/news/a-googl...

Camus has a new white paper out today! Following on from earlier work on the potential to leverage existing grid capacity to connect large loads faster & more cheaply, we took the next step to model load flexibility at a set of real sites with real utility data. www.camus.energy/flexible-dat...

Camus has a new white paper out today! Following on from earlier work on the potential to leverage existing grid capacity to connect large loads faster & more cheaply, we took the next step to model load flexibility at a set of real sites with real utility data. www.camus.energy/flexible-dat...

Wow, an extraordinary generous offer from a Bolts reader: Russ is offering to match any contribution you make to Bolts (just let him know)! And he'll also throw in an additional $$ for each repost of his post, or each new follow @boltsmag.org gets. So at least smash those share or follow buttons!

Rogue One is my favorite movie of all time, thank you for your attention to this matter.

Stop doomscrolling and look at these capybaras.

The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1) Fossil fuel Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.

To everyone who has been following our puppy fostering adventure, these puppies are now officially up for adoption! If you live in the Bay Area and want to adopt some of the cutest, friendliest, lovely dogs around, now's your chance. Links in the thread 🧵 below to each pup's page!

Why put datacenters in space when there's so much ocean available? 🤔

China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB Photo: Eyevine

- "Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target" from @unep.org - latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement only slightly lower global temperature rise to 2100, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages #climatecrisis www.unep.org/resources/em...