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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 3h

Magic thinking is everywhere in the energy world. Sponsored by fossil fuel interests. Carbon capture another prime example.

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 2d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent piece. Media in general are far too keen to normalise stuff. The NYT’s euphemisms are egregious.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

The full argument is in this link. 7/7
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 1d

Nice analogy.

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

Brutal.

Stephen Miller's Cousin Reveals Family Disowned Him After He Became The 'Face Of Evil' In Resurfaced Viral Post

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 3d

Joke soared above their vertically challenged crania.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 4d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 5d

Signed by the London cast, by the look of it.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 5d

He crashed. Ctrl+Alt+Del time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

CNN: Does the administration still plan to abide by that court ruling?

STEPHEN MILLER: The administration filed an appeal this morning ... ... ...

CNN: Stephen? Stephen? Can you hear me?

MILLER: ... ... ...

Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 6d

I grew up spending many happy hours with Leo Rosten’s The Joys of Yiddish.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 6d

To know something from something else, for sure. But the OP didn’t have a something else.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 6d

Ah! I was reading in the wrong accent. But is the expression common in Am Eng?

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 6d

I think most Brits know the word “gimme”, but would be utterly perplexed by the expression “know from” …

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 6d

My really generous count puts the audience at less than 30.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 7d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 8d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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earthbound420.bsky.social @earthbound420.bsky.social · 9d

How it Ends 💥

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, the irony.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10d

This is more or less what the American Revolution was about

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12d

"I'll just go use official force to coercively raise my own revenue (a/k/a taxes!) and then spend it on whatever government stuff I decide I want to do" is complete and total executive tyranny, Congress reduced to nothing but a powerless sham legislature, a head of state with absolute power.

Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 10d

Throws up hands in despair and dislocates shoulder.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 12d

And how is the final point to be addressed? It’s not a yes/no matter, so decisions will have to be made and appeals allowed.

Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 15d

Oh, hello again, tech companies pretending to make huge deals with each other to boost the stock price.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15d

CEMBALEST: “.. Oracle’s stock jumped by 25% after being promised $60 billion a year from OpenAI, an amount of money OpenAI doesn’t earn yet, to provide cloud computing facilities that Oracle hasn’t built yet.”

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 16d

“The Jews”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump on who he wants investigated: "Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don't know. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. Maybe I hear about a guy named Reid Hoffman."

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 20d

“All the news that’s fit to print.”

Note that they make no such claim about their analysis.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20d

I’m sure someone could provide a worse three paragraphs of “analysis” in this moment, but Peter Baker really sets the bar low here — with what he opined, who he decided to rely on as a source, and why he included those absurd claims without refutation.

Mr. Trump, who was barred from Twitter and Facebook after encouraging a crowd of supporters that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to block the transfer of power, has since cast himself as a champion of free speech. Upon returning to office, he signed an executive order "ending federal censorship."
Craig Shirley, a presidential historian and biographer of President Ronald Reagan, said Mr. Trump's experience was so searing that he did not believe the president would improperly restrain others' free speech, whatever his public exhortations.
"We all especially know Biden used government to censor Trump, kicking him off many media platforms, a clear violation of the law," Mr. Shirley said. "As his own First Amendment rights were abridged, my guess is he's especially sensitive to anyone else seeing their First Amendment rights taken away."

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 21d

Word.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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