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Radiohead @radiohead.wastehq.social · 1d

A few more unlock codes are being sent out for tickets to the forthcoming Europe 2025 shows. These include a number of previously unreleased tickets for Copenhagen and Berlin. If you registered for tickets, please check and keep an eye on your email inbox, spam + junk folders.

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 1d

Perhaps more importantly... the compact isn't necessary at all.

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 2d

Customers: We want cheaper electric cars with high speed 10-80% charging and long range.
GM: We are adding Disney+ to our gas cars!

GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 3d

Are you absolutely sure another strongly worded memo won't do the trick?

GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 3d

I guess it should be a downpour any time now.

GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 3d

Elbow playing First Avenue in Minneapolis tonight!

Photo of the band Elbow on the main stage of First Avenue, the legendary music venue in Minneapolis MN. Cones of white light shine down from behind the band illuminating the audience.

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 3d

excellent reference

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 4d

I remember this being talked about a number of years ago. I recall the statement at the time was that Starship would be online and they'd be launching entire replacement constellations with 1-2 launches a year, higher orbits, puppies, rainbows, magic, etc. They are behind.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 7d

fantastic speech

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 7d

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 7d

That's really damn funny.
Keep trying, maybe someday someone will believe the worlds most successful roboticist when it comes to humanoid robots.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 9d

So... why am I seeing Sound of Music everywhere lately? Is everyone subconsciously thinking of this movie right now?
Even my neighbors watched it outside on the patio over the weekend.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 9d

ooh, that's cool in 3D

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 9d

More of this.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 9d

We believe healthcare is a right for every American.

But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies.

Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 9d

Your prayers don't work because you're praying for the wrong team

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 9d

Here is a regular reminder that Substack is a horrible platform. If you have content that you never want your followers/fans/customers to see again, post it there. I subscribe to around a dozen subs, and it's such a bad user experience, I'm beginning to resent creators who use it.

GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 10d

What if overthrowing the US Government is as easy as letting the budget run out, then never turning the lights back on.

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 10d

Because AI still doesn't know what a reporter does, what facts are, or what news is. Understanding is the thing it doesn't do. Your job is safe so long as your job isn't aggregating and summarizing words someone else wrote first.

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 10d

As a Minnesotan, thank you.
How can I help?

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GrantWood @grantwood.doowtnarg.com · 11d

So if the gov't shuts down, does that shut down ICE also?