Once Trump lost interest in Ukraine (after the launch of his foolish war on Iran), Ukraine's situation began to improve.

Doing our part by being out of town. But our turned-off A/Cs report an interior temperature of 99°. Can’t imagine what would happen to the city in a blackout.

Fingers crossed these guys are friendly. 🤞

In Boston today. No algae in this reflecting pool.

My friend Michael Abrams got to talk to engineers who built an in-underwear sensor for measuring farts. One of the lessons learned: give the sensors rounded corners, not square ones. www.asme.org/topics-resou...

Very true - certainly a lesson that our fieldwork over the years has driven home. Making stuff work in the real world is hard!

Breaking the power of the supreme court is not just about mechanisms, you also have to bring an entirely different vision of what our constitutional framework should be and should it accomplish. You have to disavow their vision by expressing a different one, not simply repeal its impact.

Great thread 🧵about very interesting research. I think this work highlights an important point: Often good ideas work, but not well enough to over economic or other barriers to deployment.

1/ Ukraine is reported to be systematically targeting fluid catalytic cracking units at Russian oil refineries, aiming to destroy complex machinery that Russia can't repair itself and may take years to replace. As a result, the current fuel crisis may be a prolonged one. ⬇️

I finally understand how they ended up with a class of aristocratic officers that spent WWI sending wave after wave of guys up and over to run at the machine guns and get cut to pieces before they sent the next group.

John Hancock was President of the Second Constitutional Congress so if anyone it'd be him. The rather large signature on the Declaration should be some sort of clue.

Today I learned that volunteers on an island near Vancouver decide to just buy tons of efficient heat pumps, unlocking big bulk discounts, and help their neighbors install them. They've done 1,100 of the 3,000 homes on Gabriola Island, BC! How cool is that?! 🤯🔥👠

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Going through older magazines, this @tomgauld.bsky.social is so on point on the state of corporations disdain for their customers and enshittification… (from @newscientist.com )

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mission #smbc #comics

I had been concerned that Ghana, with its large hydro dams and recent petroleum finds, would dawdle on adding solar. Glad it’s getting onboard.

Ghana: over 200MW just in April

This is like B-movie level silly but so is every other 2026 villain. This @opendemocracy.net exposé on climate disinfo tinfoil hat 'doomsday cult' AllatRa - and how it has managed to infiltrate COPs, European Parliament, US Capitol, *and the Vatican* - is BEYOND WILD. But wait there's more... 🧵

three French nuclear reactors had to be shut down because the river they use for cooling got too hot and trains canceled in three other countries due to possible track buckling

So, neighbors still have their Christmas wreath up. Uh, at what point is it time to ask if it’s ever coming down?

oh sorry that above canary link is a DIFFERENT COMPETITION. This summarizes the window heat pump one

New York City literally held a competition to INVENT window heat pump air conditioners for our public housing because they needed something better than PTACs WHAT IS STOPPING YOU LOT FROM DOING SOMETHING?

speaking of european style windows and air contioners, i recently discovered there are split units that are designed to accommodate windows that can't fit a traditional window air conditioner www.midea.com/global/heati...

Many of the political issues taking up the most space these days are about purely imaginary problems, concocted by bad people preying on bigotry and ignorance.

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

“Be honest about how you felt about the service” means “would you like this person to suffer or would you like them not to suffer?” and not enough people know that the former button is most of the buttons.

At the World Economic Forum’s #AMNC26, global leaders are gathering in China – which has been fast electrifying its economy 🇨🇳 In 2023, China’s share of electricity in final energy consumption reached 32%, far surpassing the US and OECD Europe (24%)⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...

"Make Electricity Cheap Again!" by Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social, argues for accepting "clean-ish power" to enable electrification, rather than going after the expensive last leg of electricity decarbonization.

The quality of a man can be determined by how many smart women are around him

I’m generally of a mind that, if you got a message, use Western Union*. But people will also simply ignore the flashing red neon message. There’s not much any artist can do about that without eschewing subtly altogether. *Dated reference, I know. /->

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

10/ At some point, the transition stops needing the climate argument. It runs on cheaper power, industry, and security—motives that hold even where climate politics is dead. A US that guts clean energy as a green program hands rivals the industry and security it could have held.

My question over the coming year will be how much of a fundamental, permanent demand response happened because of the denormalization of the SoH, and how much was absorbed by global and especially Chinese strategic reserves of oil & RPPs. LNG is a different story because Qatar was the global anchor.

Wow. Very intense radar signature. Confirmed large and extremely dangerous #tornado located 8 miles southwest of #Martinsville, #Indiana or 10 miles north of #Bloomington, moving east at 45 mph. Seek shelter if you are in this area. #wx

i don't mean to "what's the greater Business Vision for doing xyz" i mean literally "what is a report for, what is a presentation for, what is a work ticket for" — why does this work exist? very basic questions, the answers to which are about basic human interaction

I think that masculinity/manhood distinction is probably pretty productive Like my WW2 vet grandfather might have recognized idk certain Andrew Tate behavior as “masculine” in a sense (though would have thought Tate specifically was a fairy) but as antithetical to manhood

higher demand than available supply

It's not that decarbonization is a direct threat to capital: it provided the capital for Tesla. It's the democracy part that's a problem for capital. (See also: Tesla > Musk > Trump.) The livable world is getting physically smaller, thus becoming harder to claim 'growth' justifies inequality, etc.

Great point. The “problem” of decarbonization for the ownership class isn’t the decarbonizing, it’s the mechanisms needed to accomplish it.

An idea I've been playing with for a while is that one of the core elements of the political economy of Trumpism is that a critical mass of the US capitalist class decided that decarbonization was not worth the costs to them.

Not all STEM guys, ofc. But anybody who’s ever worked in, say, education, humanities, health care, etc can tell you that they’ve met their share of STEM guys who are under the impression that they could just effortlessly pivot to your field if they wanted to do so

This is one of those things where I truly believe they can't *win* but they can certainly make everyone *lose*

another interesting aspect of this crisis is just how non responsive frackers were

Many pro astrophysicists receive unsolicited letters from amateurs with new but subtly wrong physics theories, often about relativity and from retired engineers. This cute new paper is a perfect reply & I love how it uses cyclotrons & transponders & radar 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2605.21660

Pixar Screenwriters: In our movie we invented the Lilypad as a cautionary tale Disney Company: At long last, we have created the Lilypad from upcoming Pixar movie Don’t Play with the Lilypad

I love this visualization, though I have to say my Gen X brain registers it as the invisible monster from Jonny Quest.

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...