Concrete Cowboy
@damanfu.bsky.social
Min(Distributional impacts) + max(Just transition); vibing out in Brooklyn, born x raised in Los Angeles :) probably to the left of my employer, so YMMV
Sorry about the parasociality. Tricky phenomenon that one.
https://readymag.website/damanfu/2503426/
Sorry about the parasociality. Tricky phenomenon that one.
https://readymag.website/damanfu/2503426/
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Is Price Fixing Free Speech
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Is Price Fixing Free Speech
Gotta congratulate the city of Detroit and the greater Detroit metro: just had the random thought "why yes, I DO want to watch the pistons play basketball. Matter of fact, hell yea".
It's been a long road and ya'll have more than earned this.
It's been a long road and ya'll have more than earned this.
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Gotta congratulate the city of Detroit and the greater Detroit metro: just had the random thought "why yes, I DO want to watch the pistons play basketball. Matter of fact, hell yea".
It's been a long road and ya'll have more than earned this.
It's been a long road and ya'll have more than earned this.
Fine, I'll say it: despite no longer having a primary residence in NYC, Mindy Seu was snubbed from the transition councils on either/both art or technology
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Fine, I'll say it: despite no longer having a primary residence in NYC, Mindy Seu was snubbed from the transition councils on either/both art or technology
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Join us on 12/16 for a deep dive into one of the most immediate, practical opportunities to cut industrial climate pollution in the U.S. — electrifying low and medium temperature process heat!
Register here: bit.ly/industrial-e...
@leahstokes.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov @heinrich.senate.gov
Register here: bit.ly/industrial-e...
@leahstokes.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov @heinrich.senate.gov
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Join us on 12/16 for a deep dive into one of the most immediate, practical opportunities to cut industrial climate pollution in the U.S. — electrifying low and medium temperature process heat!
Register here: bit.ly/industrial-e...
@leahstokes.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov @heinrich.senate.gov
Register here: bit.ly/industrial-e...
@leahstokes.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov @heinrich.senate.gov
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The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
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If you're in NYC and care about progressive policies, here's a big ol' starter pack of people and groups you can follow to help you find your organizing home! go.blacksky.community/RKuK1Hz
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If you're in NYC and care about progressive policies, here's a big ol' starter pack of people and groups you can follow to help you find your organizing home! go.blacksky.community/RKuK1Hz
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This got me thinking….how do we as a society normalize pumpkin pie as a breakfast option at restaurants year round? Who will be the change we want to see in the world?
It turns out Mina and I have identical pie takes (literally had home made pumpkin pie for breakfast this morning before kids woke up).
So my pie take is there are no bad pies, but some pies have to be eaten a certain way:
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This got me thinking….how do we as a society normalize pumpkin pie as a breakfast option at restaurants year round? Who will be the change we want to see in the world?
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Tatiana Schlossberg, a young environmental journalist and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, is dying of cancer. She wrote about her treatment, her children, the importance of government-funded medical research and her cousin RFK Jr. It's tough, but try to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg, a young environmental journalist and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, is dying of cancer. She wrote about her treatment, her children, the importance of government-funded medical research and her cousin RFK Jr. It's tough, but try to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Absolute moral depravity from my countries.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Absolute moral depravity from my countries.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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i think the number of lawmakers in congress who will resign between now and the end of 2026 is between 6 and 7
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
i think the number of lawmakers in congress who will resign between now and the end of 2026 is between 6 and 7
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It's true, sometimes short-term costs are necessary for long-term savings. But monopoly utility profits are also part of the story, and policymakers can tackle those -- thus lowering consumer costs -- *without* backtracking on climate policy:
heatmap.news/politics/dem...
heatmap.news/politics/dem...
Democrats’ New Affordability Message Is Complicating Climate Policy
The transition to clean energy will be expensive today, even if it’ll be cheaper in the long run.
heatmap.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It's true, sometimes short-term costs are necessary for long-term savings. But monopoly utility profits are also part of the story, and policymakers can tackle those -- thus lowering consumer costs -- *without* backtracking on climate policy:
heatmap.news/politics/dem...
heatmap.news/politics/dem...
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7 years on, it's upsetting how prescient @adamserwer.bsky.social proclamation was: "The cruelty is the point"
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
7 years on, it's upsetting how prescient @adamserwer.bsky.social proclamation was: "The cruelty is the point"
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Yes we committed a bunch of crimes, destroyed faith in government, fired thousands of hard-working public servants, and doomed millions of innocent people to painful and needless deaths, but at least we saved negative money
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Yes we committed a bunch of crimes, destroyed faith in government, fired thousands of hard-working public servants, and doomed millions of innocent people to painful and needless deaths, but at least we saved negative money
Tragedy, brought to you by Big Oil
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Tragedy, brought to you by Big Oil
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Trump is selling out Floridians to boost the profits of Big Oil donors. Floridians strongly oppose drilling off Florida’s Gulf Coast - it’s too risky to our economy and way of life.
BTW, it’s an illegal maneuver- Biden Admin adopted a permanent protection that can’t be rolled back.
BTW, it’s an illegal maneuver- Biden Admin adopted a permanent protection that can’t be rolled back.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Trump is selling out Floridians to boost the profits of Big Oil donors. Floridians strongly oppose drilling off Florida’s Gulf Coast - it’s too risky to our economy and way of life.
BTW, it’s an illegal maneuver- Biden Admin adopted a permanent protection that can’t be rolled back.
BTW, it’s an illegal maneuver- Biden Admin adopted a permanent protection that can’t be rolled back.
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Is climate change a low priority for most voters?
Yes.
Does that mean Democrats shouldn't talk about it?
No, no, no, no, no. If anything, Democrats should be talking about climate *more often* and raising it's salience because it's literally their best issue.
Yes.
Does that mean Democrats shouldn't talk about it?
No, no, no, no, no. If anything, Democrats should be talking about climate *more often* and raising it's salience because it's literally their best issue.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Is climate change a low priority for most voters?
Yes.
Does that mean Democrats shouldn't talk about it?
No, no, no, no, no. If anything, Democrats should be talking about climate *more often* and raising it's salience because it's literally their best issue.
Yes.
Does that mean Democrats shouldn't talk about it?
No, no, no, no, no. If anything, Democrats should be talking about climate *more often* and raising it's salience because it's literally their best issue.
In need of fixing, unsure what’s broken. Stuck in a rut! [psycho-emotionally etc]
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In need of fixing, unsure what’s broken. Stuck in a rut! [psycho-emotionally etc]
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Housing affordability and the declining political fortunes of Democrats are profoundly connected.
An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.
www.planetizen.com/features/136...
An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.
www.planetizen.com/features/136...
Americans are Fleeing Blue States, Even When Politics Misalign. The Culprit? Housing Affordability.
Will the blue state starter home ever return?
www.planetizen.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Housing affordability and the declining political fortunes of Democrats are profoundly connected.
An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.
www.planetizen.com/features/136...
An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.
www.planetizen.com/features/136...
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You're telling me Congress can exercise legislative authority over energy efficiency standards without resorting to the Congressional Review Act? I mean, like whenever they want? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: House Republicans move to undo energy efficiency rules
A post-shutdown markup will spotlight GOP efforts to weaken federal efficiency standards.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
You're telling me Congress can exercise legislative authority over energy efficiency standards without resorting to the Congressional Review Act? I mean, like whenever they want? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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“These are just phenomenal numbers for an industry that was built over the past couple of decades to handle much lower load growth,” said John Wilson, Grid Strategies’ vice president and the report’s lead author. www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
Data-center power forecasts climb to unreachable heights
Utilities expect electricity growth to reach levels that are hard to fathom — and they’re using those estimates to justify costly new investments in…
www.canarymedia.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“These are just phenomenal numbers for an industry that was built over the past couple of decades to handle much lower load growth,” said John Wilson, Grid Strategies’ vice president and the report’s lead author. www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...