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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

It’s all a house of cards

more and more countries are going to see that getting off foreign oil imports is a great reason to accelerate electrification and renewables buildout, regardless of what it means for the climate

“bail us out or we’ll bank run the entire economy”

oh you GOD DAMN THINK?

You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post

This is an extremely good meta joke for us chronically onliners

wall street vibe check

A lot of you need to get over your fear of impolite language. We’re dealing with people who want to kill you. It is not possible to say something too cruel about them.

Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

boycotting amazon remains the best way to avoid package theft (actually an underrated income redistribution technique in lieu of more ambitions ones)

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

In case it's not clear, there is sooooo much organizing happening right now against this regime. It's really amazing.

This is really good advice (I mean, the piece in full!). I try to do a fair amount of this already - not always successfully by any means of course, but that's ok.

Just heard about this huge (49 state) long covid trial using tirzepetide (aka zepbound) one of the newer glp meds. It’s run by researchers at scripps, funded by the eric & wendy schmidt foundation. It looks like it is still enrolling, fully remote participation: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

On the other hand, it looks like the tide may finally be shifting? “Worldwide, wind and solar are outpacing rising demand for electricity, meaning fossil fuel use will stay flat this year for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.”

This is why it kills me a little bit every time PA politicians talk about encouraging data centers to open in my state. Fuck that, no. Data centers are neither progress, nor economic growth, nor job creators. They are a drain on the electric grid, on taxpayers, and severe polluters. Fuck. No.

Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children. It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Damn This made me cough so hard I started crying, and the follow up one too

I sometimes wonder if Peter Thiel leaves a thick, shiny streak wherever he goes, like a banana slug. He and Clammy Sammy Altman are the two sweatiest men I've ever seen.

Nearly 2” of rain here in Roseville today

Rich people also have TERRIBLE taste in all things 😖

"Much as granaries and refrigeration transformed food markets, storage will turn electricity from perishable to persistent, unlocking a new era of energy abundance."

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

After this past week it is more clear than ever that the United States Senate should be abolished entirely.

BOTH California senators voted for banning hemp products

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text

I've read a lot of war diaries, spoken to a lot of veterans, and have my own experiences as well. And I feel confident in saying that if your response to being at war is sadism and violence to civilians and animals, that's not war changing you. That's just you. That's who you always were.

i wonder if the number 68 ever feels left out. living in the shadow of 69 must have been a lot already, and now to live in the shadow of 67 also? brutal

Pretty sure this is the same helicopter I’ve been calling out here; they’re trying to hide now

The idea that these AI charlatans are burning money like it’s nothing, creating nothing, and then having the audacity to ask the current administration to bail them out bc they know the US Treasury is being used like a giant slush fund and they want to get theirs makes me feel deep rage

I’d like to take the moderate path, because I’m a history major and I know what the alternatives are.

Did women ruin the workplace?

Anyway, let this be a lesson for all the centrists, we aren’t going to compromise by giving up the rights of any marginalised group. Fuck you for even suggesting it.

tired: leaders throw folks under the bus wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane