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runningman2021.bsky.social
Energy and policy nerd, science and technology advocate, with a side of YIMBY-ism and film interest… Just hoping to be a net benefit to the planet : )
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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

Jesus it’s almost like we have a government for a reason

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“The most important intervention in the United States labor market is not unionization or the minimum wage. It is professional licensing,” writes Rebecca Haw Allensworth. The practice “is a bad deal for consumers and workers”:

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

What I’d like to see (not holding breath) is an energy-centric deal that helps both US and China reduce emissions while being careful about sensitive tech… eliminate solar tariffs, reduce EV tariffs slowly, de escalate tensions, plan to phase down coal, increase LNG to China, & nuclear coordination

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

NFIB Small Business “Uncertainty Index” — 3rd highest on record www.nfib.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

“When there was an Ebola outbreak in 2013,” one USAID employee told me, “doctors with USAID rushed to Uganda to stop the spread. They put their own lives at risk. No one knows about it because they succeeded and Ebola never spread to the [United States]” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Put this stuff in Willie Horton-style ads. “Cop-attacker pardoned by Trump on day 1 arrested for sex crimes weeks later.”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of well-meaning people declined to vote in the 2024 election because they felt so strongly about the horror happening in Gaza. Trump just spit on every last one of them -- and made ethnic cleansing the official policy of the United States. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 18 days ago • 60 comments

Seems like we should be able to find other buyers for LNG but still, could get Trump’s attention (?) But I didn’t even know we exported coal to China - thought they had plenty domestically…

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 19 days ago • 40 comments

Denver can’t stop gentrification… but by allowing building and yes, development, you give newcomers somewhere to live that’s not your house… gentrification with building beats the hell out of gentrification without building for anyone interest in keeping their homes

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

“The most immediate task for the anti-Trump coalition in these early months of 2025 is to avoid more mistakes,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. “Build unity from the center, rather than indulge the factionalism of the ultra-left.”

submitted 21 days ago • 75 comments