Fellow fans of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, you'll be pleased to learn that Seu Jorge is going *strong* even now, 21 years later: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIaE...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (≥100 times. I'm not joking.)

At least they didn't go with National Outstanding Beautiful Unbelievable Legendary Laboratory (NOBULL) 🐂 www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...

My life is complete: capybaras are now a rugby team 🏉 www.americasrugbynews.com/2025/09/29/s...

Most eye-popping thing about this is the leaderboard for ticket count. Officer 0336 has written 156 tickets totalling $16,417 since Monday at midnight 😭💸 Just following orders. walzr.com/sf-parking/

Camus Energy made Congruent's 50 by 2050 list 🎉 Lots of very inspiring companies in here--it's an honor to be among them! www.congruentvc.com/50-by-2050-2...

Oooh, sharing economy for the portable batteries kicking around my house (and maybe yours) unused for most of the year. Work harder, you bricks of lithium! www.pwron.com

Learned about Seattle artist Ryan "Henry" Ward today, and his work is delightful. Definitely going to be looking for his murals on my next trip to The Emerald City 🏙🎨❤️ www.henry.art

APOD turns 30: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061... Wow. I started reading in late 1995 after seeing it listed on a new web directory called Yahoo. Didn't realize today that was within the first few months of its existence.

Some very cool interactive maps from Global Forest Watch. In NorCal, you can see huge swaths of pink (tree cover loss) dotted with pebbles of blue (tree cover gain). Not the trend we want 😬 www.globalforestwatch.org/map/

Learned today that Spotify has a pretty great funnel for new ideas, so I put one in: the Empathize playlist. You can upvote! community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Idea...

Just set up Beeper for myself. It was a tedious process, but it already feels like a life saver. All* of your chats in one place! www.beeper.com *: Or as many as you want--configuration is up to you

Book review: See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur Stunning intro to the unitive love of Sikhism via memoir Filled with soul-crushing irony of American brutality B+ www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...

What I want to know is why it looks like cigarettes for Godzilla 🦖

Josh Haywood is back in the game! His latest piece is going to Burning Nest at the end of May. Love the reuse of the humble pallet. No word yet on whether it'll be climbable. Hard to believe it's been more than a decade since I supported his first project in 2014. crowdfundr.com/Crate_Expect...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

If you haven't seen a transformer explode, there's a good chance you will within the next five years. But they are avoidable, as VEC and Camus recently proved. Love working on projects like this! ❤️⚡️ www.camus.energy/blog/vec-and...

This is so cool. It might still be a far cry from a real dire wolf, but it is impressive progress. Can we do unicorns next? 🦄 colossal.com/the-return-o...

Well, yeah, but sometimes for actual crimes.

Super interesting to see how Ukraine has made the war so expensive for Russia, e.g. sinking a $750M war ship. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

"Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration" Far from the worst idea I've heard. Can we at least include hazmat suits for polar bears? arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06623

TIL about "unintentional islanding": scary stuff! TL;DR: subcircuits stay energized (e.g. by distributed PV) when the utility opens a recloser, unbeknownst to the them, endangering workers and the general public 😬 www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22ost...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

During 14 years at Google, I got a ton of experience with data centers from the inside. Now 6 years into a new life at Camus, I am about to get my first experience with them from the outside. Very different perspective, admittedly, but still feels like going home 😄 www.camus.energy/blog/solving...

Met Marco at his studio on Treasure Island, when he was making this. He told me, but swore me to keep secret, that she would actually breathe, that is her chest would gently move in and out at the same rate as a real person. A month later at BRC, I got to see it happen 🤯 sfist.com/2025/02/21/4...

Tilda Swinton is an unparalleled gift to the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqol...

Leasing an EV for $19/month in Colorado: whoa! For a lot of drivers, this would probably mean the at-home charging costs more than the car 🤯 www.cpr.org/2024/07/26/h...

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Denmark buying California? Love this plan, although it's not super cut and dry: Hygge culture (coziness): yes yes yes! Janteloven culture (anti-boasting): not compatible with Hollywood or Silicon Valley Free healthcare: crying tears of joy Danish language: not gonna happen denmarkification.com

Whoa, okay! Did you know your stuff is showing up in the Science section of Google News, @jricole.bsky.social? Landed on your article today, and found myself thinking, "this seems like op-ed!" Also, hey, nice to meet you 👋 www.juancole.com/2025/02/moon...

Learned about ZEROgrid initiative from RMI today, "a comprehensive roadmap to accelerate the transition to a zero-emissions grid". Love the idea of weaving together corporations across sectors--hopefully it works! zerogrid.org

The 2025 @tylerprize.bsky.social has been awarded to Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio for their stellar bodies-of-work. Not only are they the 1st recipients from S. America, but they were also 2/3 co-Chairs of @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment. 🌍🧪 Congratulations! Read more: www.tylerprize.org

Perfect timing! Camus is gearing up to make flexible interconnection for data centers super easy for both utilities and developers. If you're a developer or operator who wants more juice from the grid, we should chat 😊 www.camus.energy/flexconnect-...

Discovered Songhoy Blues yesterday. Super rousing music and super intriguing story: "the band was formed in Bamako after being forced to leave their homes during the civil conflict and the imposition of Sharia law." Music: open.spotify.com/album/0DVAsW... Story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhoy...

Gotta say, spending even a little bit of time with students is so refreshing. We hosted some visitors from MIT Sloan yesterday at the Camus Energy office in SF, and I'm still in a good mood today 😃

Say what you will about techies, but we do have the best sense of humor. github.com/nvbn/thefuck

Guess it makes sense that industrial equipment would get to V2X before most residences. Just honestly didn't expect farmers to lead the way 👩‍🌾🚜🔋👏 www.gridtractor.com

Bad Startup Idea #57: Earthbrake The Earth's rotation has 257,889,905,388 EJ of kinetic energy. Global energy demand is 670 EJ. So if we could harness the planet's rotational energy, we could power the human race 385M years! Plus who doesn't wish for more hours in the day? 😅

Beautiful and terrifying

World's tallest wooden wind turbine! Just the tower, not the blades. But still pretty cool. interestingengineering.com/innovation/w... #climate #renewables #wind

The era of blandness is finally over! Now I can go back to putting Sriracha on literally everything 🌶️