Insane that a sitting president is posting an AI deepfake of himself claiming that we have a magic medbed technology that can cure all diseases. Seems like the idea behind posting this is that sensible people will simply ignore it, while it builds support with the crazy wing of his base. Let's not.

I picked my Dr specifically because the office was bikeable. Every time I go there though I'm irked by the placement of the rack. They built a massive overhang to keep car riders dry but just plopped this out in the wet grass 50 ft from the entrance.

Even if AI somehow manages to fix its environmental impacts, unreliable outputs, and art theft issues the huge cost of the thing will still be there. The companies making these massive investments expect a return. If you use AI that money will have to come from your pocket eventually.

Grabbing people off the street and whisking them away to prisons with terrible conditions is horrible. Replying to their repeated attempts to prove they are here legally by swearing at them is even worse. We need a government that refuses to tolerate this, instead of encouraging it.

My 9 year old showed me some pictures he'd made with AI (that the school put on his school provided laptop!). I tried to explain these basic points to him, especially around content theft and energy waste. I think this graphic encapsulates.the issues with AI well, only missing the cost/funding one.

Another reason I would never buy a Tesla. I'm glad this post compares Tesla to both gas and electric cars, as this isn't an EV thing, it's a Tesla specific problem. The functional door handles on my Bolt EV are wonderful.

A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists. www.wired.com/story/armed-...

Instead of prosecuting the actual corruption documented by his fellow travelers Trump is pushing attorney to file made up charges against his political enemies. This should lead to impeachment, but that'd require R members of Congress to abide by their oaths of office.

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

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This is the same as when Trump tried to shake down Georgia to "find" more votes for him in the 2020 election. We need a government that is run on facts and reality and not simply the desires of the president.

1) New paper! Replacing US fossil-fueled vehicles & appliances with electric versions could improve health & climate outcomes, but could cost up to $790 billion in distribution grid reinforcement. Strategic demand-side management could cut 2/3 of those costs.🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1,000 discharge cycles is probably enough for driving for a 300 mile range EV (it'd power 300,000 miles). With newer battery tech capable of 3,000+ cycles the owner can discharge 2,000 cycles into the grid. That's one 50% discharge every day for over 11 years straight!

10. The court obliged - because if your plaintiff and defendant both agree to a stay, you stay.. But it’s shady AF. And remember - this guy is a money launderer for the CCP and fentanyl traffickers! Two groups who the GOP supposedly have beef with. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

4. Then Trump wins the election and creates his crypto scam World Liberty Financial. Sun immediately announces that he has put $30M into their “governance tokens” which - under WLF terms - cannot be sold. AKA, this is a straight $30M transfer to the Trump family.

10. And now, today, this announcement that Binance - you know, the company that PLED GUILTY TO MONEY LAUNDERING is nearing a deal with Trump’s DOJ to get rid of the compliance monitor they have had in place TO ENSURE THEY AREN’T LAUNDERING MONEY. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pretty good article, but still top generous to Tesla. I can't believe it says "Tesla's internal data suggests Autopilot greatly reduces accidents overall." Would be better to note that there's also lots of evidence that Autopilot doesn't reduce accidents when compared to similar driving conditions.

Binance had the walls closing in on it with U.S. criminal charges for money laundering, now it's helping to move billions from the Saudis to the US president and his friends/family. Crypto is complicated to help obscure fraud so the NYT piece barely touches on it, but that's the undercurrent here.

This is so true. I continually think that a website or something that kept a record of how claims made by pundits/reporters/politicians turned out to be untrue and pops a grade up next to their new claims would be good. It should also record if they actually correct themselves and how forcefully.

This is craven, cynical, and very dangerous. Political violence is a crisis in this country — which is why Americans deserve leaders who want to actually solve it, not weaponize it against their political opponents.

Terrible self defeating policies that will make America poorer and less respected throughout the world.

Months (years?) ago I got this RC truck for my son at Goodwill. No battery, so I DIYed one from a dead Dyson pack. Worked great till he drove it through the snow and fried it. I believed I'd tracked the fault down to this little chip but wasn't sure. Soldered in a new IC today and now it's working!

The cool thing about solar panels is that shipping just 1 500 watt solar panel generates the same kWh as shipping over 12,500 lbs of coal. Burning that coal would consume over 57,000 lbs of water to generate the same kWh as that 1 solar panel, so solar is even more valuable in arid regions.

Kids started taking the bus to school this year. Today they finally missed it. 2 other kids at the stop did too. The beauty of a bucket bike is that I can just ask my neighbor if she has a helmet for her little one and throw him in the back with my own kids (her big one rode on his own behind us).

Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles

The amount of gun violence in America is heartbreaking and disgusting. Tens of thousands senselessly killed by guns here every year. Other developed nations don't have this problem because they regulate guns much more sensible than we do. Easy access to guns leads to tragic deaths like this.

This man had a visa, paid his taxes, and had no criminal history. ICE still snatched him from the street and put him in an overcrowded prison. They didn't feed him and wouldn't give medication to one of his fellow prisoners who literally died without it. This is unconscionable and hurts our country.

I think it was URI Gellers ghost.

Good points. Republicans currently control all branches of the federal government, but can't agree with themselves. Democrats could simply not side with any one R faction to pass a spending bill and let Rs derail the thing on their own, pointing out their dysfunction and terrible policies.

oh look, the Trump FCC uses a fake investigation into Dish to redirect billions in spectrum to Elon Musk, exactly as I predicted just a few weeks ago

fun fact from SEC Chairman Gary Gensler's resignation announcement 18% of tips/complaints that come to the SEC relate to crypto, even though the crypto market is less than 1% of all financial markets www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...

Trumpster Zeldin and Trumpster Wright pretended in the press that I was all wrong about the stop work order raising electricity costs. Under oath, RI said the wind project would “yield substantial cost savings” with direct savings “estimated to be hundreds of millions.”

Over a year ago I tried LLMs and found their results so unreliable that they were useless. With so much hype I decided to give GPT another test yesterday. I fed MSFT Copilot a zoning document and asked it to extract the differences between 2 columns in a table, it claimed success but was very wrong.

There is no solution for the problem of oil and gas waste, which is full of salt but also full of radioactive radium. One brave legislator in Ohio has introduced a bill to stop the practice of spreading it on roads and calling it de-icer. We have a long way to go. Take that first step, Ohio.

Trump says he defends workers, but in reality he throws them under the bus.

In the face of anti-vax misinformation guiding federal policy this is the sort of policy that any state that cares about the lives of their residents should be pushing.

Trump is raising US energy prices by boosting LNG exports, but also by killing nearly built wind farms for made up security "reasons". These wind farms would add electricity to our grids, increasing supply and reducing prices overall, while also reducing emissions. Even Wall streeters get this.

Yes, and LNG shipping hurts the environment too. When you liquify natural gas to ship it lots evaporates off the top. That either gets burned or vented to the atmosphere. LNG increases emissions over 2/3's compared to shipping that gas locally via pipelines (which isn't all that good to begin with).

reminder that something like 232,000 (per a peer reviewed study) of the US Covid deaths were Delta-wave vaccine refusers. These dupes were sacrificial pawns the conservative movement weaponized in order to sustain the pandemic and try to damage the Biden economy in 2021:

Generous to call this political theatre. In more plain language this is a lie, that is being told to justify shredding our Constitution to create a more authoritarian US government that can freely use military force to punish its political enemies.

Wow, it looks like the total solar the US has installed all time was just 248 GW in June 2025. So China installed more solar in 6 months than we have across multiple decades. RIP to all those arguments that the US shouldn't install renewables because China won't follow suit.

Please watch the full statement by Governor Pritzker.

The sad truth of our times, but we all have a chance to change it. Have more grace for those actually trying to make things better and save your bile for the right wing liars who are literally pushing humanity ever closer towards extinction.

Don't worry UK 🇬🇧, you don't have to choose between wind OR solar, they work well together! 🍃🤝☀️ There are very few days with both low wind and solar generation. ✨Beautiful visualization by my colleague @laorso.bsky.social featured in new analysis by @frankiemayo.bsky.social out today

This graph should be viewed as a conservative prediction for solar, though with a US president who isn't just pushing anti solar policies at home, but also abroad, who knows? To have a livable planet in the future we need the gas and coal prediction lines to fall much faster than this.

Great end to a great thread on tactics used to split the coalition that must form to defeat our current right wing authoritarian regime.

There's a lot to read in these emails. The most damning thing is that HHS leadership is making changes that will injure and kill Americans based on their terrible misunderstanding of actual research studies. There are people working at the CDC who could explain these studies, but RFK ignores them.

Claiming to see a kid's "mitochondrial challenges" is just as made up as claiming to see their "midi-chlorian levels". Quacks like this have no place in medicine, much less being our secretary of health and human services.

Yes the eTrucks curb weights are insane. The Ford lightning is over 6,000 lbs (F-150 is 4-6k). The Silverado EV is over 8,500 and can reach 9,000! The best solution to this is for all these dumb flat EV fees states are passing to be based on curb weight (and mileage too if we can).

Great to see that Catelin Drey won her Iowa State Senate seat. Comparing turnout to 2022, she didn't get more votes than the prior D candidate (1/3 less actually) but the R candidate got under half the votes of the prior R. There are many R voters you can't flip, but you can get them to stay home.