Incredible chart from this report, especially the lower graph: solar, displaced by batteries into the evening peak, absolutely destroys the electricity spot price peak. Renewables winning so hard.

Chuckie Egg, on the Beeb.

My friend and colleague Jonathan Winer looks at how Trump plans to use Presidential Emergency Action Documents to overturn the November mid-terms, and what can be done to prevent it. washingtonspectator.org/emergency-pl...

Some actual good news to end the week. On Wednesday afternoon, fossil fuels provided 1.2% of the UK's power, as solar generation set fresh records. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528787...

BBC giving immigration the full trans treatment. Anti-trans bias is a cancer on journalistic integrity. You see standards start to slip on trans issues journalism, and then they start to slip more and more in other areas. BBC is just one more example of this.

This is like the opening scene in HHGTTG where Ford Prefect convinces the construction worker to lie in front of his bulldozer.

Superb triumph for engineering and science. Around the moon and back safely. This is what liberal ethical collective government can deliver.

My favorite Chumbawamba song. youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0?...

Meat and all animal products are over-rated. The only good food is plants.

TRUMP: “Do everything I ask or I’ll bomb you back into the Stone Age!” IRAN: “How about, instead, you do everything we ask and we’ll call it a day?” TRUMP: “Deal.” FOX NEWS: “Awesome Trump is the world’s most masterful negotiator!”

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

As for Pratchett, the Tiffany Aching books are more accessible than the rest for young'uns and grow in age with the character. I am a very big fan of his but the main series needs more maturity/experience (not loads, but maybe teenage) and avoid the very early books.

I do think the closest alternative is Percy Jackson, in terms of writing style, but also because Rick Riordan is constantly outspoken about inclusion, and it's at the forefront of how the characters interact with each other.

Possibly all of them. Certainly my life would have been different if my siblings hadn’t taught me to read as a surprise present to my mother on my 3rd (??!) birthday.

Another fun hiring spot at Jane Street: we're looking to hire some great hybrid writers-and-engineers. As we grow and do more, communication becomes ever more important, for both internal and external audiences. www.janestreet.com/join-jane-st...

If you're interested in hearing from someone who has this job now, I got to interview James Somers on Signals and Threads some time back: signalsandthreads.com/writing-tech...

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

If the purpose of a customer service department is to tell people to go fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of delivering the service. 25/

I have had one of these tucked into my wallet for years. It started as emergency money, has become my lucky otter note.

Somebody ask China how many solar panels we can buy for $2 Bn per day.

What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*. In March. Imagine November. I broke it down here: open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

“I work with lots of fortysomething men and they probably just think I'm a bit weird"

But, but, the FIFA Peace Prize?!

Oof Lent. I have cut down my caffeine habit a little in the last week, but the first day of Lent is still tough.

Regardless of the diagnoses of soi-disant “AI detectors”, I’m going to employ the same em dashes and vocabulary as I always have.

I haven’t eaten cheese for years, but this account is an insta-follow.

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/

“Full speed ahead to uber-woke net-zeroist rejoinerism”, eh? You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Drones, missiles, and 155mm artillery, built in the western EU and the UK, starting now (9 or 12 years ago would have been better), paid for with higher taxes on the rich (like me). Lots of Eurofighters. Tanks and ships are so C20. Politely ask the Ukrainians how much for their consultancy services.

Hey @musicvenuetrust I sent an email to the address on your website on 5th Jan; is that mailbox unattended?

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Anything from any member of Congress yet?

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?

"possibilities, not hard stops" -- this is one reason why a recent trend in interviewing on album cycles has been kind of mystifying to me: people will ask me to sort of summarize the song. but that's not how songs work! their job begins where the tidy explanation ends!

What meaning or value does citizenship have, when it’s possible for a state to revoke it? We have a criminal justice system to deal with citizens committing crimes. We have social pressure of various other sorts when citizens are otherwise offensive.

Welcome to the season of leftovers and long walks, Of tax returns and thank yous, Of finding receipts and bin days. Welcome, To the Taint.

Merry Christmas all. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wH2u...

As the year draws to a close, we've asked a selection of Solaris authors 3 very important questions... Here are their answers 👉 https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 FT. @kerstinhall.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @julietmarillier.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social & more!

There has been outrage as the @acm.org rolls out AI generated summaries of papers. This is doing AI exactly wrong by replacing valuable, peer-reviewed content with a possibly inaccurate summary. It's still not too late to correct it though and use AI responsibly... anil.recoil.org/notes/acm-ai...

Why did nobody tell me this account existed? Insta-follow.

This is what you get when you let an AI produce a tourist guide to a small hamlet on the Norfolk coast. www.townandvillageguide.com/Norfolk/Cali...

Pulitzer, surely.

A very familiar chart in this screenshot.

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Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss

"Cockroaches can survive for weeks after losing their heads due to their unique physiology, which allows them to breathe through body segments rather than their mouth. However, they eventually die from thirst since they cannot drink water without a head."