All else aside, I am constantly stunned by Silicon Valley's inability to read the room on this.

Of course it's not the only factor, but 64% of Americans are not wrong ... www.eenews.net/articles/64-...

The word “exploiting” here feels tilted. China is acting like a flawed but responsible and predictable adult while the U.S. is acting like spoiled brat.

Cool to see 19 new wind turbines generate as much electricity as 400 (!) old turbines in CA's Altamont Pass. The U.S. could more than double its onshore wind capacity with no new land via repowering, per a Stanford study: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/a-repowered-... via @justingerdes.bsky.social

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

It’s amazing what you can do when you’re not bought and paid for by corporate overlords.

A Michigan appeals court largely upheld the contentious solar permitting law, but limited interpretations of some elements.

NEW STUDY: Who is the Highway Lobby? “The highway lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.” And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org.

UM report says federal pipeline regulators rarely enforce safety rules, leaving Line 5 at risk

As a long-time cyclist, I also love seeing e-bikes, but my basic concern is that you are often giving a very inexperienced cyclist the sudden ability to take a bike up to 30 mph on flat roads or maybe even over 50 on a big downhill. They didn’t earn that speed and never felt the forces at play.

Hey I thought Republicans were the ones that never shut up about cutting red tape

A bunch of people I deeply respect are quoted in this article about what I consider a core climate change vulnerability in Michigan: Dams.

I think people are misinterpreting what he's saying here. You can be professorial and still explain complicated ideas clearly. Just explain them in a way that you would want to understand if you were learning it for the first time, or from whatever perspective your audience is coming from. But... 🧵

@petersagal.bsky.social I nominate this for Wait Wait mention

Kids are drawing on fake mustaches to get around online age verification

May the 4th be with you. "The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest." #starwarsday

I’m not as young as I used to be and don’t fit in this demographic, but my biggest gripe with AI is that it usually sucks. It’s unreliable. It makes mistakes that take more time to fix than if I just done the thing myself in the first place. And it uses an F-ton of energy and water.

I’ll add a high school level math test, science test, and my 8th grade Constitution test as prerequisites and we’ll see how that shakes out for MAGAs

I've been surprised by how blind the establishment is to the central issues at play here. There's a let's "build our way out of this mess by building the same things that got us into this mess" mentality. Mills vetoed a very popular data center moratorium with bipartisan support.

Michigan lawmakers introduced a #PFAS legislation package recently. While it overlaps with previous efforts, there are elements of this package that haven't been covered before by previous bills and are sorely needed.

Michigan not liable for Edenville Dam flood disaster, judge rules This was the just ruling. The responsible party was the dam owners, who were corrupt and negligent. The waterfront owners lawsuit here was frivolous, trying to get money from whomever they thought would pay out.

Yep. We’ve been warning about this for a while now.

My wife and I recently bought two different brands of tall kitchen trash bags in the same size we’ve been buying for years only to discover both brands are like 3-6 inches shorter than they used to be and too short for our can. Apparently this is an actual 2026 known #shrinkflation thing.

It still blows my mind that ~70% of antibiotics consumed in the United States are used for meat production, not human health. Not because the animals are sick, but because this reduces costs (because animal production systems are dirty and expensive to clean) and boosts meat growth. Yikes.

Incredible. It still takes SharePoint several minutes to corrupt a single folder. Bazinga

New solar installations in the U.S. dropped by 14% last year. Among the challenges: pushback from critics who claim, without evidence, that solar panels pose a health threat.

The greatest athletic moment in a long time. I’m trying to think of anything else that compares to this

Actually some baller climate change reporting

TACO Friday, I guess. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Republicans won’t admit it, but this is a proposed $1 Billion climate adaptation project. It’s hard to see past the hypocrisy on this: a massive project to put a bandaid on a problem they refuse to acknowledge with federal tax dollars in a place that proclaims to hate federal government and taxes.

Kayaks… and just about everything else about to get hella more expensive.

Like the fossil fuel industry, the animal agriculture business has been trying to project a cleaner image. A new study says it’s greenwashing.

Well, did not see this coming. We'll take it.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

As a climate science person, this is deeply infuriating. As an American, it’s alarming and a clear cause for Constitutional court reform. 1. The Supreme Court is meant to interpret laws, not make them. 2. The Robert’s court is completely corrupted by Big Oil and oligarchs.

Waking up to discover that evidence has been released proving something we all knew. The Supreme Court's efforts to stop the Obama clean power plant rules were rooted in explicit, corrupt efforts to protect the fossil fuel industry.

Dams are very expensive to keep, are dangerous, and harm fish and wildlife. Most are obsolete and should be removed. Those that must stay will need a LOT of money as long as they remain. And they are vulnerable to climate change, so this is just going to get worse until we deal with it.

Private ownership of dams is deeply problematic. It’s a giant conflict of interest to have a critical element of infrastructure managed to lowest costs possible for maximum profit with a total lack of transparency. Everyone watching the Consumers Dams deal should take note.

The Cheboygan Dam, along with many dams across Michigan, are being stressed by flooding due to rain and snowmelt. Climate change is increasing the number of rain-on-snow events—one of the ways dams are vulnerable to climate change.

Several dams across Michigan are at risk right now due to snowmelt and rain-on-snow induced flooding. The situation is precarious to say the least.

Push comes to shove, I’m taking Brontosaurus

Northern Michigan riddled with bridge, road collapses from flooding www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Crazy chart. Almost as if they wanted to keep inflation from getting too LOW. @semafor.com

MSU study: PFAS can affect immune response #PFAS

It surprises me that the college age bracket—the group that seems like they’d have the most utility for AI tool—actually really dislikes AI.

It’s not your imagination. You are, in fact, surrounded by idiots.

Huron River watershed council is having a volunteer event April 25! www.hrwc.org/volunteer/ro...

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Probably meaningless but the number of Trump flags along my regular rural bike routes that have come down over the past few weeks after being up for 9 nears is… high.