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Read this thread. Congress is trying to codify the ability to ignore courts.

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The primary energy fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy. BUT: Not necessary because conversion losses don’t need to be replaced. 2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat. knowledge.energyinst.org/new-energy-w...

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New: Senior White House official Russell Vought, who's also the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has scrapped a plan that would have blocked data brokers from selling Americans' personal and financial information, including Social Security numbers.

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Who voted for cutting cancer research? Anybody….

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Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries? Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.

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We depend on Section 230 for the ability to talk about issues we care about on social media. Without it, you can kiss most online free speech goodbye unless it’s from billionaires who can afford it, or speech from people they favor. #DefendSection230

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One of the most overtly consumer-hostile things I've ever seen an airline do is ask if you want to pay to check a bag, then when you say no they ask you if you want to do it for free. @jebbrooks.bsky.social caught this in the wild in his latest travel adventure on American. youtu.be/UYUwIzZeGfc...

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Americans now expect inflation to soar 6.5% within the next year, the highest reading since November 1981 🚨🚨

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The phrase ‘just deserts’ has only one S. It has nothing to do with desserts 🧁or deserts 🏜️. The word ‘desert’ is spelled like🏜️ and pronounced like🧁. It's related to ‘deserve’ and means “reward or punishment deserved or earned by one’s qualities or acts.”

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Good thread

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Making other currencies great again

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Currently, we are in the “worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet’s reefs”. Reefs in at least 82 countries and territories “have been exposed to enough heat to turn corals white since the global event started in January 2023”.

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Florida’s SB 868 is a deeply invasive bill that puts the privacy and safety of young people at serious risk. From forcing social media platforms to break end-to-end encryption to banning disappearing messages, this bill is a massive overreach. Tell Florida lawmakers to reject SB 868.

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Imagine the shitshow we'd be in right now if ICANN hadn't been spun off from the US government

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The American tourism industry is going to get absolutely smoked

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EVs already hold ~750 GWh of battery capacity—over 3x the world’s grid-scale storage (200 GWh). That’s a sleeping giant. V2G can turn millions of cars into a virtual power plant. China & Europe get it. So do Oz & California. This isn’t future tech—it’s untapped power. ⚡🚗 #V2G #EV #BatteryStorage

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Hi friends! If you love the Internet Archive we need you! #GratefulDead #Music

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"The bottom line is that two Texas senators want taxpayers to spend at least $1 billion to remove the most historic Space Shuttle from the most historic spaceflight museum in the world, possibly break it in an across-the-country move, and then put it in a nondescript warehouse in Houston."

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🎶#phish are alright (they're alright) 'cause they're getting a degree!🎓 From Ross Arena '92 to honorary doctorates in '25. Phish's journey comes full circle at St. Michael's College this May. Read more ... www.jambase.com/article/phis...

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A Phish jam can be an otherworldly experience for the band and its listeners. When it goes right, “the universe opens up, and I feel like I don’t exist,” Trey Anastasio, the band’s singer and guitarist, said. nyer.cm/zTvypdp

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yeah, this is an amazing project the apollo 13 flight/return is one of the most breathtaking displays of competence under pressure you will ever see

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BREAKING: US Politicians were buying tariff exempt companies before the news like $AAPL Apple. Take Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. She bought $AAPL, $AMZN, $DELL, $NKE, and others before the surprise announcement today, buyjng the companies as they fell. Unusual.

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This law is simply a revenue generator for the state and vendors— and I’m sure heavy lobbying by equipment manufacturers. This won’t contribute to safety in any way. Truckers already call Virginia the “communist” state. www.caranddriver.com/news/a643307...

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VIX Liberation Day

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Before DOGE breaks Social Security's online systems, I downloaded my statement. I recommend that you do the same. Porting a complex COBOL mainframe based system to modern tooling is not realistically possible in the time frame expressed, and these folks have a history of breaking stuff they touch.

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@sethadam1.com Is @phish.net no longer allowing non-logged-in visitors to see user profiles? I have a link to my phish.net profile on my website, but visitors are greeted with "No user found!" unless they are already logged in to phish.net. Is this intended behavior?

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Morgan Stanley planning for a 3°C world is an astonishing admission. It's a commitment to business as usual while writing off billions of lives and, in all likelihood, dozens of nation states.

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It seems clear that the U.S. has destroyed something pretty valuable in forcing Canada to look elsewhere for trusted allies. And I'm simply left asking: To what end? I see no gains to the U.S. from aggravating Canadians. Pointlessly destructive.

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Life tip: When sending professional emails, the To: field is for the recipients who need to do something or respond to the email. The Cc: field is for recipients who should be aware of the exchange.

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1) Follow @matthewdgreen.bsky.social 2) Donate to @signal.org: signal.org/donate

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