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Just a group of armed, violent, unidentified, masked men who roam American streets, rounding up & deporting US citizens they don't like the look of. Cool democracy.

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In about an hour I'm talking with a dude about inertia on the grid, why grids need it, what happens without it, and how it can be provided by renewables & batteries ... with a focus on the big Spanish blackout. Got questions?

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"The latest cancellations – including battery, electric vehicle and solar panel factories in West Virginia, New York, Alabama, Arizona and Washington – mean $15.5 billion in new factories and electricity projects have been cancelled since January 1." $15.5B, 12,000 new jobs -- wiped out. For what?

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New interview with yours truly up on Weekly Anthropocene:

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You’ve heard of military-industrial complex, now get ready for whatever the fuck this is. “Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors. In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech […]

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Rowling is certain her millions of followers will always be able to discern trans from cis. “Wigs!” said is a surefire method. Her ranting grows detached from reality. Brought to you by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

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Absolutely nailed it: John Oliver on AI Slop — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

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This is widely, radically, insanely unconstitutional. It’s an and zone dance over any reasonable conception of free speech.

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Side by side on the NYT home page, we have a Bret Stephens column lauding Trump's "courageous" decision to strike Iran as though it were the product of some serious strategic calculus, and a news article explaining he did it because Israel's bombing campaign was "playing well" on his teevee.

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Hey everyone, The ACLU has released a FULL FAQ over the recent transgender passport decision (and the Trump admin dragging its feet on complying). Please read this if you want to know anything about updating your passport and of or when you should pull the trigger. www.aclu.org/trumps-assau...

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This is essentially what the next episode of @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social is going to be. We're going over The Protocol, the McBride interview, and the SCOTUS decision. It'll be out the first week in July on youtube and wherever you listen to podcasts.

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A must-read by Mark Jacob, Stop the Presses Please, media, don’t turn the war into entertainment https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/please-media-dont-turn-the-war-into #Journalism #Press

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NEW REPORTING: In the Bay Area, three gender clinics have pulled back on healthcare for trans youth. This despite laws intended to protect providers and ensure care remains accessible in CA.

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PeerTube has RSS feeds with WebTorrent links. You can grab those links and seed whatever content you wish using a WebTorrent client without having to install an entire PeerTube instance. What does this do? It helps alleviate some of the streaming costs of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Pennsylvania State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz once said COVID was God’s punishment. Now she wants to give the Bible its own official state holiday—based on a completely false version of history. It’s not about truth. It’s about control.👇 www.friendlyatheist.com/p/pennsylvan...

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i'm listening to the second episode of the protocol from the NYT about trans youth gender care and they are interviewing a Dutch trans woman and i am not really trusting anything the narrator says the trans woman said without hearing the trans woman herself say it in the audio.

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Oooohhhh, aaaahhhhh. These are the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, showing the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae. 🧪

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@lgbtqia @lgbtq @lgbtq_plus #trans #TransRights #lgbtqia

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"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash." (Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers […]

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For anyone wanting to follow up on my brief mention at the Helgoland meeting of how spacetime might be an emergent property of quantum entanglement, here's a nice but pretty high-level essay on it. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

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"The modelling shows that solar and battery in the sunniest cities could already get more than 90% of the way to 24/365 solar generation, covering almost every hour of every day in the year. For example, Muscat in Oman could draw on 1GW of continuous solar electricity for 99% of hours in the […]

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Do not use Premier Inn. I booked (it was a rush, don't ask), a 3-bed room in Cardiff. Here's what they sold me. Here's what I got. Despite a long argument, all they will offer is a 19% refund. Their reason? "Room size and set up can vary based on the hotel and the number of guests."

submitted 14 hours ago • 62 comments

Perfectly expressed.

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“Before LLMs arrived, the critics believed that existing software dev was flawed, largely inadequate, and a recipe for future crises, whereas the fans thought things were great but needed to be faster. The LLM tools are all geared towards making existing – highly flawed – approaches to software […]

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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

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Hilarious: "Times Higher Education Supplement" invites you to let its 949 "partners" snoop on you and/or sell you stuff...

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[today’s hello wordl] https://hellowordl.net/?seed=20250623&length=5&game=1 hello wordl 3/6 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Mamdani’s platform on transgender rights is stellar. I’m pleased to see him ahead in the polls today. A victory would be profoundly meaningful for where progressives move from here, in a time where monied interests are trying to urge a rightward movement in the Democratic Party.

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I didn’t realize someone organized a “Hetero Awesome Fest” in Idaho recently, which was a pathetic flop with low turnout. There were many attendees who were so deeply insecure that they came openly armed, in case…uh…the LGBTQ+ army showed up…or something. This headline by KTVB7 is chefs kiss […]

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KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana […]

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🤮 https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/114730122632129545

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We've seen healthy children die of measles in the US just this year.

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I often see it said that CO₂ removal (CDR) is needed ALONGSIDE drastic emissions reductions to reach net zero. I think this is incorrect. I think CDR is needed AFTER drastic emissions reductions. The distinction is important as it specifies when we use renewable energy to deploy CDR at scale.

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Trump undermines Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system Then-Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman was 32 when, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, she voted in 1974 for three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon. She spent the next few years as part of a Congress […]

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Climate change is expanding mosquito habitat in Hawaiʻi, threatening endangered birds with avian malaria. So Hawaiʻi is releasing male mosquitoes with a strain of Wolbachia bacteria that make them incompatible with the females so their eggs don’t hatch […]

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"I asked them what costume I was supposed to wear, as there are rules around how much fabric can be on your body," Coombes told the Reading Chronicle. "They confirmed that I need to wear a female swimming costume despite having to compete with the men." www.advocate.com/news/trans-w...

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This is how it feels to return to the U.S. after a week of being out of town

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It begins https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/114728971867532157

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I saw this on TwiX and had to turn it into a meme. h/t @never_oppressed

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All of this and more. This is far from over. #Iran

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