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#PlayEnergetic Posts: R Reiss
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/nyregion/earth-day-energetic-game.html
https://newyork.thecityatlas.org/energetic/energetic-in-new-york/
#PlayEnergetic Posts: R Reiss
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/nyregion/earth-day-energetic-game.html
https://newyork.thecityatlas.org/energetic/energetic-in-new-york/
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If you're a 17 year old New Yorker and you want the city to succeed, building public understanding based on accurate information is crucial to your life.
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#PlayEnergetic
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#PlayEnergetic
Alice Solganik
YouTube video by City Atlas
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A #GivingTuesday post. See video
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If we had a billion hardcovers telling personal stories in great detail (everyone's lived experience is specific and real), we could fill Brin's yacht w/them, and he could start at the bow and read his way aft.
Focusing on 1 person b/c the history is easy to track:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Focusing on 1 person b/c the history is easy to track:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If we had a billion hardcovers telling personal stories in great detail (everyone's lived experience is specific and real), we could fill Brin's yacht w/them, and he could start at the bow and read his way aft.
Focusing on 1 person b/c the history is easy to track:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Focusing on 1 person b/c the history is easy to track:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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“...agency defendants candidly concede that the sole factor they considered in deciding to stop issuing permits was the president’s direction to do so.”
This is a big deal, and it ain't over.
“With this ruling behind us, projects can now be judged on their merits.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/c...
This is a big deal, and it ain't over.
“With this ruling behind us, projects can now be judged on their merits.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/c...
Federal Judge Finds Trump’s Halt on Wind Energy Is Illegal
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“...agency defendants candidly concede that the sole factor they considered in deciding to stop issuing permits was the president’s direction to do so.”
This is a big deal, and it ain't over.
“With this ruling behind us, projects can now be judged on their merits.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/c...
This is a big deal, and it ain't over.
“With this ruling behind us, projects can now be judged on their merits.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/c...
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“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"
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"Food is scarce & prices are soaring; hospitals have collapsed.
The issue is exacerbated by the silence of much of the international community.
Some world leaders have expressed condolences and the United Nations has offered help.
But no word has yet come from the European Union or United States."
The issue is exacerbated by the silence of much of the international community.
Some world leaders have expressed condolences and the United Nations has offered help.
But no word has yet come from the European Union or United States."
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention
A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"Food is scarce & prices are soaring; hospitals have collapsed.
The issue is exacerbated by the silence of much of the international community.
Some world leaders have expressed condolences and the United Nations has offered help.
But no word has yet come from the European Union or United States."
The issue is exacerbated by the silence of much of the international community.
Some world leaders have expressed condolences and the United Nations has offered help.
But no word has yet come from the European Union or United States."
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Why everything is so weird and bad, one in a series:
As Bruno Latour writes, elite interests realized that when the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, extraction-based economics that were the basis of capital & corporate development plans were—absent defensive intervention—no longer tenable.
![Quote in relevant, highlight part from Bruno Latour's 2018 book, Down to Earth: "In relevant part, re: adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement on December 12, 2015: "[O]n that December day all the signatory countries, even as they were applauding the success of the improbable agreement, realized with alarm that, if they all went ahead according to the terms of their respective modernization plans, there would be no planet compatible with their hopes for development."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xakx7a3ew2xs2xcoeh5yagh7/bafkreibhz2lshsdjl3vjfsmkpdbfa37hfspyjrvwsewbqtnli5rajri3lq@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Why everything is so weird and bad, one in a series:
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Dean Aguillen, a former advisor to Nancy Pelosi, is a lobbyist for the American Chemistry Council with Ogilvy Government Relations, lobbying on regulatory issues.
Democratic offices on the Hill must be very excited to hear from their pal about this formaldehyde assessment! Good times catching up.
Democratic offices on the Hill must be very excited to hear from their pal about this formaldehyde assessment! Good times catching up.
Last week, the EPA nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale, according to ProPublica.
Two former chemical industry figures worked on the decision: Lynn Ann Dekleva, a former government affairs lead and lobbyist; and Nancy Beck, a longtime chemical lobby executive.
Two former chemical industry figures worked on the decision: Lynn Ann Dekleva, a former government affairs lead and lobbyist; and Nancy Beck, a longtime chemical lobby executive.
Lobbyist-Led EPA Office Set to Add a New Chemical Industry Hire
Longtime cleaning products lobbyist Douglas Troutman is nominated to lead the EPA office that has worked to stop the MAHA Commission from restricting toxic chemicals and pesticides.
readsludge.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Dean Aguillen, a former advisor to Nancy Pelosi, is a lobbyist for the American Chemistry Council with Ogilvy Government Relations, lobbying on regulatory issues.
Democratic offices on the Hill must be very excited to hear from their pal about this formaldehyde assessment! Good times catching up.
Democratic offices on the Hill must be very excited to hear from their pal about this formaldehyde assessment! Good times catching up.
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The Brutal Logic -
A. "... and that's everything you need to know to halt the #ClimateCrisis"
B. 😬 "But I can't possibly do X".
A. "So then Y"
B. 🤯"But that's devastating"
A. "So do X"
A. "... and that's everything you need to know to halt the #ClimateCrisis"
B. 😬 "But I can't possibly do X".
A. "So then Y"
B. 🤯"But that's devastating"
A. "So do X"
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Brutal Logic -
A. "... and that's everything you need to know to halt the #ClimateCrisis"
B. 😬 "But I can't possibly do X".
A. "So then Y"
B. 🤯"But that's devastating"
A. "So do X"
A. "... and that's everything you need to know to halt the #ClimateCrisis"
B. 😬 "But I can't possibly do X".
A. "So then Y"
B. 🤯"But that's devastating"
A. "So do X"
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In New York and Philly the air is as bad right now as it was in June, during the wildfire smoke this summer.
map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
December 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
In New York and Philly the air is as bad right now as it was in June, during the wildfire smoke this summer.
map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Oh my god
The phenomenon of fake PhD student influencers trying to convince young people they should use AI to do work is reeeeeally fucked up. Don’t know if it’s just an emerging grift category for directly seeded by LLM vendors but it’s really insidious and gross.
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Oh my god
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You do realize if you search for a made up quote the AI will create an explanation for it, right?
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You do realize if you search for a made up quote the AI will create an explanation for it, right?
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💯🎯
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
💯🎯
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"It is therefore vital that #climate change projections of European hydroclimate for the (far) future consider the possibility of #AMOC changes, & the exacerbated effects this would have on projected regional hydrological changes & consequences for ecosystems & society"
Changing European hydroclimate under a collapsed AMOC in the Community Earth System Model
Abstract. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is expected to weaken or even collapse under anthropogenic climate change. Given the importance of the AMOC in the present-day climate,...
hess.copernicus.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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These are reducing (as opposed to moving) window trends and they indicate substantial acceleration in recent warming. #climate
I suggest that looking at all possible trend periods can be more illuminating than just picking a few – albeit at the expense of being a bit more difficult to explain:
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
These are reducing (as opposed to moving) window trends and they indicate substantial acceleration in recent warming. #climate
The obvious solution: NYC and California secede and join the EU. That would be one way to get the tech CEO's & finance bros behind the global assault on democracy to STFU. The screeching would ramp up to 11, but apart from Musk's move to Texas, most won't move, either.
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The obvious solution: NYC and California secede and join the EU. That would be one way to get the tech CEO's & finance bros behind the global assault on democracy to STFU. The screeching would ramp up to 11, but apart from Musk's move to Texas, most won't move, either.
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
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The 🇺🇸 Deputy Secretary of State has today made your choice as a European very clear:
1️⃣Live in a vassal state of either America or Russia
2️⃣Live in a united federal EU
Which do you choose?
www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
1️⃣Live in a vassal state of either America or Russia
2️⃣Live in a united federal EU
Which do you choose?
www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The 🇺🇸 Deputy Secretary of State has today made your choice as a European very clear:
1️⃣Live in a vassal state of either America or Russia
2️⃣Live in a united federal EU
Which do you choose?
www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
1️⃣Live in a vassal state of either America or Russia
2️⃣Live in a united federal EU
Which do you choose?
www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
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🎯"money's real power is quieter and deeper [than buying votes]. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored. It has rewritten the rules of self-government—slowly, invisibly, and almost entirely within the law."
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🎯"money's real power is quieter and deeper [than buying votes]. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored. It has rewritten the rules of self-government—slowly, invisibly, and almost entirely within the law."
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December 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Check out Zeke’s latest model-observation comparison. As I’ve said many times, climate models are excellent.
I have a new update to climate model-observation comparisons over at The Climate Brink, covering CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6. Models perform well globally. The latest generation shows too much long-term warming but better reproduces recent trends: www.theclimatebrink....
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Check out Zeke’s latest model-observation comparison. As I’ve said many times, climate models are excellent.
Why is everything so weird and bad?
data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...
An explainer from @adambonica.bsky.social
data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...
An explainer from @adambonica.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Why is everything so weird and bad?
data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...
An explainer from @adambonica.bsky.social
data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...
An explainer from @adambonica.bsky.social
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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"We can not expect people who are poorer, already struggling to heat their homes & use their cars, we can't expect those people to be cutting their energy use. We have to expect that from the wealthy of us." @kevinclimate.bsky.social speaking at @nebriefing.bsky.social
Kevin Anderson - Professor of energy and climate change - National Emergency Briefing 2025
YouTube video by We Don't Have Time
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December 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
"We can not expect people who are poorer, already struggling to heat their homes & use their cars, we can't expect those people to be cutting their energy use. We have to expect that from the wealthy of us." @kevinclimate.bsky.social speaking at @nebriefing.bsky.social
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The overlap between Musk's million robot army and this concise talk seems to be the "Battle for Greenland, 2037" between DSA North America and Tesla/Palantir
youtu.be/L5UpjqZOR0I
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Anni Pokela - How to change our climate reality, ATLAS25
YouTube video by Operaatio Arktis
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December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The overlap between Musk's million robot army and this concise talk seems to be the "Battle for Greenland, 2037" between DSA North America and Tesla/Palantir
youtu.be/L5UpjqZOR0I
youtu.be/L5UpjqZOR0I
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Interesting to consider the impacts of urban heat islands on urban culture and nightlife.
"Getting through the heatwave was all about making it to the evening. That’s when the sun would finally begin to relent and the people of Jodhpur, a city in India, could at last go outside."
Satellite images have revealed activity shifting on a huge scale.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/bright-lig...
Satellite images have revealed activity shifting on a huge scale.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/bright-lig...
Bright lights, hot city: Night-time illumination spikes during heatwaves
It reveals how people's activity changes when extreme heat strikes
www.thereengineer.pro
December 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Interesting to consider the impacts of urban heat islands on urban culture and nightlife.