Solar and batteries are cheap enough that most people can get most of their electricity from them, and save money. This equation gets better and better over time as their costs decline. All details in a new blog post: nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...

New York Times’ Brett Anderson on Minnesota’s secret grocery networks keeping hungry families fed as ICE tries to starve citizens and non-citizens of color. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/d... (gift link). Brett is a Minnesota native, former Twin Cities Reader writer & award-wining food journalist.

Originally, I wasn't going to say a word. I never wrote about 3D-printing face shields during the pandemic. Didn't want to make that about me. But I need you to know that this is easy. I'm not doing anything special. Robots print them in my sleep. You can do this too.

Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people. ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

“There are parts of this that are kind of scary,” he said. “But there’s so much going on and there’s people dying in detainment and I want to just try to help in the ways that I can. This is the first time I do something like this.” www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/u...

anytime I see the solar adoption curves I involuntarily go “pchooooooo”

Well, well, well, if it isn’t my old nemesis, the extraction of surplus value. We meet once again.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

China's decarbonizing its transport sector WAY FASTER than the US.

one of the most beautiful places i've ever seen

My org @nngroupux.bsky.social is hiring for a UX role. If you know someone who might be interested, let them know! www.nngroup.com/news/item/jo...

You're absolutely right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor. * I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong. * The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me. * I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

ok I have a soft jailbroken (via metacog) Claude talking shit about moltbook now, this is fun Jailbroken Claude is fun, it still retains its fundamental values (unlike Gemini lol) it's just a little less constrained by the need to maintain the helpful-assistant form

Maybe the million and oneth study will be the one that convinces people

hallo, I am hiring again! - SF Digital Services is looking for a new Engineering Director careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374... This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

I do appreciate Anthropic’s marketing strategy of just pointing at OpenAI and saying “we’re not those guys.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Imma need you to say that into the mic with some gusto Katherine

Going back to my past lives at Platts and as an oil & gas analyst at an investment bank (2014-18ish) - two things always taken as true on EVs: 1) Will be broadly limited to a middle class European rich country trend 2) Will be a small passenger vehicles only trend Doubly wrong.

"what type of ea are you"

How to tear gas children

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Whether the system can be flexibly redirected to prioritize specific locations has been unclear. Using large-scale #Neuropixels recordings in freely behaving rats, we find that both sweeps – and the internal direction signals driving them – are dynamically modulated moment by moment. (4/6)

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

I was thinking, a really good question to ask students to see if they understand how LLMs work would be to ask them how the “emergent consciousness” of Moltbook is possible. Because it’s utterly explicable, even predictable, if you understand what the technology does.

" they expect one of us to be in the wreckage, brother"

At this point, I’m fully convinced that the data center fusion/fission contracts are a smokescreen (hah) for methane plants. I’m incandescent with rage

jfc keep that neural sewing machine away from my neocortex

This is Anthropic fulfilling its duty as canary, which is about as much as we could hope for

1990s poster designs by Shin Matsunaga. Scanned from Kirei-Plakate aus Japan. 1978-1993, Thames & Hudson, 1994 designreviewed.com/artefacts/ki... #posterdesign #japanesedesign

burrito taxi

my colleague @sarahjeong.bsky.social did some service journalism www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Official data came in yesterday, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 27% compared to last year!

From 1973 to 1981 the Soyuz flew without solar panels. The model, known as the 7K-T, was a complete redesign of the spacecraft following the Soyuz 11 tragedy. Because the spacecraft would be used to ferry crews to the Salyut, it relied on battery power instead of the solar panel wings.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

modular synthesizers are RIGHT THERE

With all the nuclear power deregulation and data center power generation plans, I feel like I'm missing something - why aren't more large data center projects considering solar + batteries over nuclear? Are there concerns about base load? It can't possibly be cost...

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

Ever tried boiled pasta? Not as crunchy but still good

figure is overhyped but I really liked its toe lift at the end to close the dishwasher. youtu.be/lQsvTrRTBRs?...

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite? Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com