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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h

Here we go again. Go get em Coastal Commission. @thecacoast.bsky.social. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/09/c...

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21h

Fossil Fuel executive says the quiet part out loud: "supply leads demand. You put more supply on the market and more demand gets created".

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 15h

Something I will rant about for hours: The decline of American corporate innovation correlates beautifully with the decline of American corporate libraries and archives. The same holds with state capacity at the sub-federal level. If you run an institution, hire a fucking librarian.

Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 15h

if there is one single thing that we should have learned from the last 30 years, and yet haven't, it's that the curation of information is an extremely difficult task - a science! - and that when you transfer it from trained experts to amateurs or automata, the results can be disastrous.

Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 17h

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 15h

if there is one single thing that we should have learned from the last 30 years, and yet haven't, it's that the curation of information is an extremely difficult task - a science! - and that when you transfer it from trained experts to amateurs or automata, the results can be disastrous.

Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 17h

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 15h

Did they bring the 2011 editorial board out of suspended animation just to write this?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 1d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 2d

At the risk of angry-posting, I hope we learn something from this given the *extensive* environmental justice and environmental concessions that were made to "protect" the programs

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Breaking: Heatmap has obtained a new internal DOE grant termination list that includes the two major DAC hub awards — Oxy/1PointFive's South Texas DAC Hub and Heirloom/Climeworks' Project Cypress in Louisiana.
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

heatmap.news

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 1d

Reconstruction is almost totally absent from mass culture, and that makes it tangibly harder to mobilize people against the new Redeemers.

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 1d

Video games are an incredibly influential right-wing force in US culture. Countless games push romantic views of a homogeneous past and conspiratorial views of govt - and they shape way more people's ideas about history than history education. This is extremely serious censorship!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Fernando Gaytan @amadorreyes6.bsky.social · 1d

Still relevant. @governor.ca.gov this bill is not needed, and will do more harm by chilling rules on air pollution when we can least afford it. Unlike the feds, you can let local agencies have all options to reduce pollution. #VetoSB34

Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · Jun 30

Theral Golden doesn’t mince words.
“If you vote for SB 34, you’re voting to let pollution continue to kill people in my neighborhood.”
@assemblydems.bsky.social @casendems.bsky.social
lasentinel.net/sb-34-is-a-d...

SB 34 Is a Death Sentence for Our Communities - Los Angeles Sentinel

If you vote for SB 34, you’re voting to let pollution continue to kill people in my neighborhood.

lasentinel.net

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 1d

Are we not past the statutory threshold for use of the Congressional Review Act on Biden-era actions?

Center for Western Priorities @westernpriorities.org · 1d

BREAKING: The U.S. Senate has voted to pass several Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions targeting Bureau of Land Management (BLM) resource management plans (RMPs) in Alaska and the western U.S.

Our statement:
westernpriorities.org/2025/10/cong...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 13d

I agree that this isn't about big vs. small projects. It's about doing the projects we can do, not the ones we can't, and it's about recognizing that we have an alternative to throwing environmental justice communities under the bus in a likely ineffectual bargain with bad-faith Repubs on permitting

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 13d

...first, Dems have no reason to trust Repubs to uphold permitting reform bargains. The admnistration has shown how little it cares about following the letter or spirit of laws passed by Congress. It's entirely possible that Dems cross the aisle to pass a law that doesn't actually help clean energy.

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 2d

the financial common sense mayor steadfastly not pursuing municipal financial opportunities....makes you wonder!

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing to me that transit ads are worth so little! Also - big unacknowledged distinction btwn things transit agencies should do anyhow- rooftop solar, right-of-way colocation, transit-oriented dev leasing - and last-ditch strategies that degrade the public character of service - ads, naming rights.

Jerold Chinn @jerold.bsky.social · 2d

Several non-revenue ideas. Renting out a private car.

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Matt Vespa @missionvespa.bsky.social · 2d

Next up, let's sign #AB1167 to protect Californians from footing the bill for monopoly utilities' lobbying engines!

✅ builds guardrails and defines activities utilities must pay for
✅ increases transparency to spot abuses of customer funds
✅ establishes consequences for utilities that break the law

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

I just signed legislation to further protect consumers and put money back in your pocket, including:

✅ Making it easier to get food delivery app refunds
✅ Banning car retailers from tacking on add-on services
✅ Strengthening our Financial Protection Department after Trump's gutting of the CFPB

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing quite compares to the feeling of spending part of your Saturday completing a mandatory training on *federal research ethics* in 2025

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The Phoenix Project @phoenixprojnow.bsky.social · 8d

Mayor Daniel Lurie is restructuring how San Francisco’s government works—outsourcing core functions to private tech firms backed by politically active billionaires. His latest move: giving OpenGov, Inc. control over the city’s permitting system. 🧵

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Angely Mercado @angelymercado.bsky.social · 8d

*deletes angry paragraph*

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9d

Thank you to the career federal employees, who show up to work every day and improve people's lives across the country.

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 8d

Hadn't really thought about this but thank you for unlocking a new worry for me! Great precedents in the rise of the automobile industry, too...

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 9d

"Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful."

This isn't a legal loophole - it's a series of decisions to excuse systematic corporate lawbreaking.

www.latimes.com/business/tec...

Can driverless cars get tickets? What happened when Bay Area police pulled over a Waymo

Police officers in San Bruno observed a Waymo car making an illegal U-turn. The incident highlights a gray area in law enforcement’s ability to cite robot cars when they violate traffic laws.

www.latimes.com

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 9d

National parks left open during a government shutdown under the last Trump administration experienced permanent damage - vandalized petroglyphs, chopped down Joshua trees - but they plan to keep them open once again.

Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump administration plans to keep national parks largely open to the public during the expected government shutdown, according to an internal email reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Conservationists say parks should be closed to prevent irreparable damage.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Update from Maxine Joselow

www.nytimes.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9d

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

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