I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social spitting fire on @open-circuit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Brb, I'm going to get a "Put your big boy pants on and fix your product!" tattoo.

In case anyone else is wondering, he loses to Zuckerberg at around $45/share (all other things being equal)

Foreign aid programs have played a crucial role in the fight against polio. In the early 1980s, almost half a million people worldwide were paralyzed by polio every year, most of them children. But since the peak in 1981, the number of cases has fallen by more than 99%.

2/3rd of that long term gain are Biden-era industrial policy, credited by Slok himself (helpfully published after the election 🙄) You can't build economic prosperity through tariffs and cuts. No one got richer by having less resources.

This is a dare?! How is a government shutdown any worse or different than the R's gutting federal administration? What are they going to do? Freeze federal funding more?

Today's the big day! The DOE's Beyond the Meter: Energy Storage Integration Price is being awarded today! ...except that it's not, because despite state suits and the OMB memo pulled, the funding is being held from disbursement against court order and OMB guidance.

Best one yet

My favorite Christmas movie is Elf. It's fundamentally about solving an energy crisis. 🔌💡

Still thinking about this. A story I've been telling is we're so used to our invisible fossil fuel energy infrastructure it's jarring to see it brought to eye-level with renewables. This drastic change from what we're used to is part of the backlash against wind and solar.

<laughs in nerd>

Just drove past the wind farms outside of Palm Springs. I say this as an advocate of renewable power: this isn't a cute look for wind. Most were feathered, many were damaged, and all were packed so close together it looked like a wall.

OK, so folks asked me to add degree heating and cooling days to my heat pump calculations, so here we go. A 🧪🧵

If you grew up with these, you're a STEAM professional, and your knees ache.

Excited to join the Bluesky community and build impactful, respectful connections! 💙