"The president's case against wind are literally the rantings of an old man. I've seen grandpa Simpson make more sense."

Mildly poetic juxtaposition on Reddit today...

CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government. We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Head of #energy policy in world’s fourth biggest economy says scale and pace of energy #transition is unprecedented, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.

An example of how to use simulations as part of a #datavalidation workflow in Validibot. In this case we use #EnergyPlus validibot.com/blog/validat...

A new report on "Planetary Habitability, Global Convergence and Structural Transformation" by The World Prosperity Lab (includes Thomas Piketty of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" fame). wid.world/document/pro...

It's a great time to build a SaaS app! #datavalidation #thisisfine validibot.com/blog/great-t...

Competition winning design for 60 social housing apartments in Catalonia, Spain. A timber structure, operable shades and the blurring of interior and exterior spaces with generous balconies. By Carles Endrich Studio

New paper on compressed earth blocks for building by Valenzuela, Marian; Ciudad, Gustavo; Cárdenas, Juan Pablo et al. orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/...

Doing basic schema validations in Validibot...in this case, checking a THERM file. validibot.com/blog/validib...

It was less than 10 years ago that this was considered impossible. And from what I read there wasn't much dissent. Everyone accepted this was the reality. Time to update some assumptions.

Released my Validibot project today on GitHub. Still very much a work in progress but trying from this point to work out in the open. If you’re interested in data validation I’d love to hear what you think… github.com/danielmcquil...

Coming soon to SimpleValidations: FMU support. FMI = the rules, like: coin goes in, gumball rolls out if the gods are pleased. FMU = the actual gumball machine simulator that follows those rules. www.simplevalidations.com/blog/coming-...

If these come to AU and we get a vote, 100% Tassie devil, preferably mid-snarl. www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/aus...

I'm building a data validation service for things like EnergyPlus and Modelica files. www.simplevalidations.com

I'm building an e-Learning site for energy-efficiency peeps. modelsandpatterns.org

Classic. "Don’t you see? It doesn’t matter what your app architecture is. If AWS falls over, you are going to be affected NO MATTER WHAT ... I don’t care what the uptime of your haunted palace of Kubernetes is." newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/when-every...

Put on Vangelis’s soundtrack for Blade Runner and then read Michael Levin’s TAME framework paper : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... … I’m serious.

Learning about the latest positive thinking from the Sustainability Summit / Future of Building Materials Summit at the Melbourne Build Expo today.

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

"Creative puzzle-solving is left to the machines, and we become mere operators disassociated from our craft." hojberg.xyz/the-programm...

Broccoli. Muscle ups. Emacs. All things I want to have in my life but they just keep receding into the distance. Waxbanks writes "You cannot rule without fire." waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...

JupyterLite team gives you MatLab scripts via GNU Octave...in your browser! "Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave code directly on your browser. GNU Octave is a free and open-source Scientific Programming Language that can be used to run Matlab scripts. " blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-m...

Why are they even looking for more??? This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!! "there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org #ClimateEmergency

Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtI...

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

Too late dipshit. You said it, you meant it, we saw it, we know. You’re only apologizing because your employees and customers started calling you out for it.

I'm developing a new web application that helps orgs create automated, API-based data validations for their community of users. www.simplevalidations.com

@michaelburchert.bsky.social Saw this on LinkedIn today and thought you might find interesting given your work ... Submission site: www.editorialmanager.com/enb/default2...

There is a reason "offsetting" does not exist in the vast majority of cases of avoidable harm to human safety: it would be laughed off as physically absurd and outright fraudulent. Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal

Mark Litwintschik wrangles GIS data on U.S. solar farms step-by-step. tech.marksblogg.com/american-sol...

Scientists: be careful with your preprint submissions. "In the absence of sanitization, submissions may disclose sensitive information that adversaries can harvest using open-source intelligence." arxiv.org/abs/2510.03761

Saying the climate is too complex for tipping points is like saying your body is too complex to die. Complexity doesn’t prevent collapse…..it just gives you more ways to reach it.

Dave Deek asks "Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?"... to which I would add "despite our declining attention spans."

Been meaning to move my projects from Heroku to Fly.io or Render.com and I just got a big burst of energy for next week. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.” www.ft.com/content/013e...

So appropriate for late 2025. "Plants and fungi maintain stable and fair resource exchange by sharing or withholding resources according to the trading partner’s performance." www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

"The goal is to build places so good that people are freed from the necessity of driving."

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Coffee roaster digital twin. autoroaster.com From the HN post: "The models are custom Machine Learning modules that honor roaster physics and bean physics (this is not GPT/transformer-based). Buncha math." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549... (You know you're going to jack the heater to 100.)

John Fulghum makes trading physical cards with NFC tags as a way of interacting with music: fulghum.io/album-cards

Good article by @rozenmd.com on running a small SaaS: maxrozen.com/on-four-year...

Need to make sure "Everything's Not Lost" is on my playlist b/c it should be there. "More than half of the European Union’s (EU) electricity came from renewables in the second quarter of 2025, and solar is leading from the front." electrek.co/2025/09/30/s...

Noah Brier writes about the intersection of AI and the unix philosophy (doing one thing well, every output is an input,...) www.alephic.com/writing/the-...

I read recently that green walls are too costly to install and too hard to maintain. But I like them and hope architects keep trying. Saw this one in Melbourne today and it looks reasonably nice doesn’t it? It’s like a small postcard from a forest reminding you to come back and visit sometime.

Good article on AI coding by Chris Loy: chrisloy.dev/post/2025/09.... I want to believe his Quality vs. Velocity diagram (shown below) but I'm guessing many would say the last part of that blue line is non-linear and headed much higher...

"Anthony Albanese's claim that more fossil gas is needed for the energy transition is unscientific nonsense - it is gas industry propaganda raised to the level of state policy – and reflects a stampede toward more fossil fuels rather than a transition away."

Love these maps of "street-text sightings" in the Pudding's latest piece pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

Vitalik favours copyleft: "Fundamentally, if you assume economies of scale, then by simple mathematical reasoning, nonzero openness is the only way that the world does not eventually converge to one actor controlling everything." vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025...