I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Nuclear, like Hydrogen, exists chiefly to delay our species critical response to mitigate Climate Catastrophes by tying up money and time to help retard renewable and EV adoption. We have all the tools we need, now!

“The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home” thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

The Great American State Fair isn't like a county fair and it isn't like the World's Fair. It also isn't like the Smithsonian, despite the proximity. What it's most like is a digital Potemkin village. It's a content generator. That's all they do anymore. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-th...?

The world coming to marvel at the true wonders of our great nation is doing more for me than anything this regime could possibly cook up. Incredible things are happening.

You can hire Norcross to build your thing for you now, or you can hire him to fix the thing that passes every test but still doesn’t quite do what you need later.

What is going ON with this Cubs Padres game??

I know it’s not exactly a neologism but “human capital” really does give the game away

"The system has 120kms (75-miles) of underground pipes distributing chilled water to museums, offices, hospitals, schools...Instead of thousands of individual air-conditioning units, cooling is produced centrally and shared across the city like a utility." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If Starfire will forgive me I want to use this as a jumping off point because I think we are about to see some very weird and very wild geopolitical shit, and it's all because the fossil industry has been pounding cases of cope for nearly a decade. 1/X

IMPORTANT PRIVACY PSA: YouTube has foolishly rolled out a new “feature” that will dox you or compromise your privacy without you knowing! When you tap the share button on a video and send a link now, anyone opening that link will see your channel name, handle, and avatar! Enabled by default. 🫪

You’re telling me a few industrialists overseeing an exploitative, minimally regulated necessity kept prices high to inflict pain on their political adversary? Well at least there won’t be any kind of punishment for this.

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

OK, so just as I have to yell at my fellow Americans "air conditioners *are* heat pumps!" to combat basic ignorance of what the tech actually is, Europeans need to hear "heat pumps *are* air conditioners" because y'all are making arguments which don't make sense if you see why heat pumps are good.

As always, the only freedom that is real is the freedom to spend money to get the political outcomes you want.

This is so perfectly Trumpy. The accounts themselves are petty bog standard GOP tax code fuckery aimed at the rich, but of course the big guy can’t help but put his stink on it in a way that will benefit his pals at the expense of his base.

I’m a bit more tolerant of Ezra Klein than the average Bluesky opinion haver, what seems so obvious and frankly sad is the way he’s allowed his own attention to be so thoroughly captured by explicitly staying on Twitter. If there’s literally one person on earth! And yet.

Read @perrybaconjr.bsky.social on the false equivalence of democratic centrists who conflate fascism with folks who want education and healthcare.

As with Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro, I guess the other thing I'd add here is that these guys are successful because right wing billionaires give them money to do propaganda. That's like 90% of the game.

My casual sports guy brain got confused for a sec “Cubbies are tied they could still move to the next round”

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

I was pleasantly surprised the other day when a contractor friend in a red county said that heat pumps are now simply the industry standard. Apparently they’ve outsold gas furnaces in the US for the past four years and are poised to overtake conventional AC. That’s really good news.

cant stop thinking about kylie jenner for the meta pervert glasses. an incredible brand fit if there ever was one

Incredible thread

We need to recognize what happened to Scott Wiener at the San Francisco Trans Pride March as antisemitism, and finally purge this poison from left wing movements. A new opinion piece by Evan Urquhart, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Last year the world added: 🌞 692 GW ☢️ 3 GW The only purpose of nuclear is to delay renewable adoption at our expense, cost and time.

The median voter’s opinion on home prices is they should drop enough for their children to buy while the value of the one they own should steadily continue increasing, and property taxes should never go up.

Hello! Welcome to THE ECONOMY. How would you like to participate? A job? Oh sorry jobs are very last century. Your options are franchising for one of four extractive corporations that do gambling and online influencing. That’s… it? You can sell your own guide to gambling and online influencing.

*sees this morning's discourse protagonists*

Having lived through the uberization and financialization of every aspect of our lives, and been a small but I like to think consistent voice against said -izations, it sucks shit to see the same people running the same playbook via the federal government.

Yep, I would add that Edward Coristine has been explicitly linked from the NDS LinkedIn and has written blog posts so it’s not just a rumor (all known NDS staff here dogetrack.info/agencies/nds/)

Does the New York Times know you can say what actually happened, in the headline? variety.com/2026/music/news/v...

A) unsubscribe from those alt gov websites, they're poison B) when you share something thinking "aha finally something that shows perfectly how right I've been" you're almost certainly being a dumbass C) start exploring the world with curiosity instead of on a mission to prove you are the moral one

despite Vanilla Ice’s clear desire to collaborate, he listened and stopped

A wonderful remembrance of a genuine and deeply generous man

Looks like the unhinged AI podcast ep with the always-great @oddletters.bsky.social is up! Ty Audrey and co for the chance to talk about LLMs as, you know, demons.

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

👇🎯 Either you can clutch pearls about voters abandoning the center-left for more left-wing candidates, or you can play silly games with the far right authoritarian party like this. But you have to choose. Other more serious choices are readily available.

My fellow Americans, we need our party of corrupt bigoted vandals & goons—who are a threat to our democracy (please donate)— to be strong & vigorous, so we can have a functional bipartisan government. I have the track record of working closely with these racist goons (again, an existential threat).

Well, I know what they're *not* talking about.

speaking of latitude, I feel like this map should be general knowledge.

My contribution to AC discourse: we installed a new heat pump to replace our 15yo forced air split system at the same time we installed 10.5kw of solar. We’ve net exported about 1.7MWh in 2 years.

I’m less worried about Dr. GPT diagnosing everyone with lupus than I am about AI hiring and time management bots making already precarious and exhausting jobs even more so

Haiti!!!!!!

I, too, aspire to be a large, trans-equatorial coronal hole directly facing Earth

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. Always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. If you want a picture of the future, imagine 2016 on a loop — forever.

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face