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timconverse.bsky.social
Tech investor (ML, renewable energy). Alumnus of many tech bigcorps and startups. Recovering engineering director. San Francisco resident. Twitter refugee. Two-issue voter (democracy, climate). I like to hear myself write.
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I like Mark Cuban, but unfortunately there is not going to be room for him in the 2026 Democratic "No billionaires!" campaign

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Fun energy fact: Arizona has more installed battery capacity than the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Here's my latest climate piece: A NIMBY Conversation In which a renewable-energy zealot from San Francisco reaches out to talk to rural community members opposed to a solar energy project. The conversation goes well … at first. medium.com/@timconverse...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

submitted 18 days ago • 921 comments

“Musk is reaching too far. And we intend on making sure justice is served.” The head of a federal employees union explains why they’re suing the Trump administration over DOGE’s “unprecedented” privacy violations. Interview ⤵️

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

We're going to be outside Treasury tomorrow at 5 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. SHARE AND JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

submitted 20 days ago • 38 comments

Just RT’d this over at the Bad Place and it was like shaking a jar of red ants. #fun

submitted 20 days ago • 271 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 20 days ago • 1695 comments

Watching today's Trump Q&A live Someone please ask about the access of Musk and his interns to the payment systems and associated classified info! There was a generalized question about Musk and about USAID, but nothing specific yet about the payments system

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

more of this www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 days ago • 202 comments

In all seriousness, this is what will hurt Musk the most. Hit Tesla.

submitted 21 days ago • 67 comments

My fear is we are headed toward some Tiananmen scenario where people mobilize to try stop the Trump administration from carrying this agenda out with peaceful protest and the Trump team orders the military to shoot/repress with violence. That ends maybe like Bangladesh or like Hong Kong.

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 22 days ago • 770 comments

My contractors' son-in-law just got arrested by ICE while shopping at WalMart. The word in his circle now is that immigrants shouldn't go to Walmart or Target, as ICE is targeting those stores

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

When we achieve AGI, and the singularity arrives, will that mean that when a hotel gives me late checkout the room key card will keep working until the new checkout time rather than locking me out starting at the original checkout time?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

No one can beat Patrick Mahomes and his team of refs

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I'm interested in any coverage and opinions on what Trump's executive order pausing new federal wind permits means for the wind industry. Obviously terrible, but how terrible? Jael Holzman (@jael.bsky.social) has been reporting it on heatmap.news, and her view is stark. heatmap.news/politics/win...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

if you’re an american news outlet that ostensibly covers climate change and you’re not reporting on the last 24 hours wall-to-wall, literally why should anybody read you. why should i keep reading you

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

ICYMI last night trump ordered the government to completely stop all permits to wind projects its a worst case scenario for the wind industry heatmap.news/sparks/wind-...

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments