My pod is supposed to be an hour long but I don't think I've successfully restrained a run time to an hour in like 6 months ...😔

Yes! Kill the Ring camera. Kill it dead.

In what is arguably the World's Best News, it looks like India is going to spend much less time in the "fossil fuel detour" than the US or China. It is moving much more directly to clean electrification. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

France races to electrify its economy in order to absorb some of the nuclear energy surplus it produces.

This is true, and even if we get rid of Trump, we still have to reckon with the fact that a substantial proportion of US economic and political elites were *eager* to jump on the fascism train. They will still be the same people when Trump is gone.

Trump is trying to repeal the "endangerment finding" -- the scientific investigation that led EPA to conclude that climate change is dangerous to humans. It's scientifically unjustifiable of course, but they're going to have to justify it to a court. That should be fun to watch.

Conservative politics: society's most privileged & powerful, scared of their own shadows, imagining themselves victims, compensating for their insecurities by heaping abuse on society's weakest & most marginalized, and fashioning themselves heroes for doing it. It's repulsive.

Ohio is poised to block a major solar farm because of local pushback — even though a substantial number of public comments opposing the installation appear to be fabricated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/10/a...

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying "They're all a bunch of sick fucks"

Healthy, normal people.

This councilman in the San Diego area has been a Republican for 50 years and changed his party affiliation to Democratic over ICE today.

American political and economic elites continue to pal around with a guy who killed 750,000 kids.

Which one is this again?

Kid Rock is 55 years old. Last night he was wearing jorts, lip-synching to a song he wrote when he was 20, 35 years ago. America 2026 is discovering levels of divorced-dad energy that defy scientists' attempts at description. We need new instruments, a new vocabulary.

When things are going well.

Another fantastic report from @carbontracker.bsky.social shows that the models policymakers rely on are systemically understating the economic risks of climate change.

Murc's Law. One thing I wonder is, how much of this is idiosyncratic to the contemporary US and how much is it a recurrent pattern across countries/eras?

These absolute chuds have no idea what the word "politics" means. The US regime has tried to make ethnic identity (outside of white Christian male) a matter of shame. Last night's show was an unapologetic celebration of ethnic identity. That's political.

Glad *someone* has noticed this, though it's odd that it's the head of an LNG company. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter: "The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."

"Love" in scare quotes is killing me.

The Age of Ocasio

On Tuesday, I'm talking with Bruce Friedrich, head of the Good Food Institute, about MEAT. Specifically, we'll discuss a) the climate problem posed by current meat production & b) the prospects for "alternative proteins." All based on Bruce's new book. Got questions?

Some amazing photos here. www.popsci.com/environment/...

Misogyny is the ur-prejudice, the original from which all others derive.

Seriously though, why are ads on TV so soul-crushingly shitty these days? Am I just being an old person & imagining that things used to be better? Has anyone done any real analysis or writing about this?

Just dropped by X, which is consumed by a war between factions of the Democratic Party, and there's really no way to exaggerate the fact that everyone involved, on every side, in every capacity, is making an utter & complete ass of themselves.

For a great listen on why how centrism works in US media--and why it's a problem, this convo between @volts.wtf and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social is illuminating: www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-...

Not too encouraging to hear that the world's major producer of advanced semiconductors is run almost entirely on electricity produced from coal and LNG. Fortunately, Taiwan has a goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2050. Hear how and if they can get there.

Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...

Watched the halftime show. I guess where I fundamentally depart from MAGA is that, when I see something like this, celebrating a culture that's not quite mine, with some references I don't get, something that's not For Me ... I *like* it. I like seeing inside other worlds. Why wouldn't you?

Hate fans are asking: has love gone too far?

What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?

I was the only guy in yoga class tonight. Me and ten women.

This is really, really good. And aggravatingly true.

Whoa! Longtime conservative columnist, professional Dem hater, and spittle-flecked Obama/Biden critic Andrew McCarthy has a new piece in National Review ... absolutely taking Trump to task for corruption. Openly acknowledging it's far worse than anything Biden was even accused of.

Just hanging out cooking chicken wings finishing this podcast shouting “yes! That’s it exactly!” So I too am a partisan hack … :)

Maybe not a sin, but it's pretty embarrassing sometimes.

The tech guys all desperately need new electricity, Trump is thwarting the fastest source of new electricity, and the tech guys ... just keep kissing his ass anyway.

I really hate this fucking guy.

On Tuesday, I'm talking with Bruce Friedrich, head of the Good Food Institute, about MEAT. Specifically, we'll discuss a) the climate problem posed by current meat production & b) the prospects for "alternative proteins." All based on Bruce's new book. Got questions?

Lots that is grotesque here, but I think the key thing to notice is the zero-sum worldview: if we take in a 5yo immigrant, this somehow displaces or harms at 5yo American kid. There's a finite pool of "American" to distribute. A zero-sum worldview is the molten core of reactionary thinking.

You guys want to hear about how I'm not going to watch the Super Bowl, because I'm not that into sports? Maybe if I used the word "sportsball" in a lighthearted fashion to convey my ignorance?

This is absolutely fascinating - in many ways Taiwan is like Japan in miniature in terms of energy and geopolitics and many of the points raised here sound familiar.

Really interesting thread on French nuclear power.

This is phenomenal. No bullshit and no punches pulled. If you're wondering why our elite political media are failing us so catastrophically (while patting themselves on the back for the great job they think they're doing) this is a good place to start.

jfc

jfc

The best way to oligarch-proof your information ecosystem is to follow this starter pack I made of news outlets that actively avoid Generative AI Slop go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT