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Tobias Merkendorf
@tmkdf.bsky.social
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Parenting and Pedaling Rugby and IP laws Washing and Warmachines Cold war temperate climate kid Giggling Cardbox Master of pillow forts Calculated mediocrity Somewhere on the fringes of the lowlands and industrial wastes of the Ruhr.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 2h
OpenAI's 1.2 GW Abilene, TX data center is powered by a 200 MW electrical substation and a second-tier gas turbine generator because there's no power plant, and other crazy bubble notes from Ed Zitron.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbles-impossible-promises/
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look. I’m sure you were just about to, but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200MW of power — a 200MW substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350MWs of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year.
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 4h
Healthy signs of an unhealthy economy.
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RickChasey @rickchasey.bsky.social · 5h
Americans “oH wE dOnT nEeD ESG”

What the fuck do they think the G in ESG stands for?!
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5h
According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 5h
Which is also the case for Danes in Germany btw
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 5h
The Chinese have been saying the quiet bit ("we want to use rare earths as an economic weapon", basically) out loud for many, many years. It just took us all a long time to actually think they were serious.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 5h
In the same vein, from the same book.

May 2019 as Xi Jinping touted a rare earths processing plant in Jiangxi following Huawei’s addition to the entity list.

People's Daily: "Don't say you were not warned"
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 7h
Solange die keine eigenen Konzepte und Narrative voranbringen wird es nichts…

Kreislauf.
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 7h
Sozialfaschismus oder so…
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 7h
Es ist so „schön“ dass man mittels der Einspeisevergütung das Alter der Anlage schätzen kann…
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 8h
Pacta sunt servanda! Iudex non calculat!
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 14h
The inability of the US and Europe to build an own supply of rare earth refining - knowing for years it was a huge vulnerability - must be one of the most catastrophic policy failures of the decade.

One reason it‘s hard: the West cannot free trade its way out when China controls the price mechanism
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 21h
Wann wird endlich, insbesondere bei Union und Springer, verstanden, dass die AfD voll von Antisemitismus ist?
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 22h
Bat watching
A tiny bat mid flight
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 22h
Epigenetics of politics…
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · 23h
Tim Buckley (CEF):
“I think China is using it in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate,” he says, adding: “China just wins.
America has abrogated the playing field.”

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#alwaysbecharging www.ft.com/content/013e...
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 1d
It's true, bicycles do transform cities for the better. What this article doesn't mention is how using a bike also transforms your mental state. More refreshed, awake, feeling better. Try a morning bike commute, you'll feel it in three days […]
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nutshell @nutshell.bsky.social · 1d
„Die Fraktionen von CDU, Grüne, SPD und SSW in Schleswig-Holstein haben einen gemeinsamen Antrag eingereicht, die AfD verfassungsrechtlich überprüfen zu lassen. Der Landtag soll darüber nächste Woche beraten.“

#SH #noAfD
Antrag von CDU, Grünen, SPD und SSW in SH: "AfD verfassungsrechtlich überprüfen lassen"
Die Fraktionen von CDU, Grüne, SPD und SSW in Schleswig-Holstein haben einen gemeinsamen Antrag eingereicht, die AfD verfassungsrechtlich überprüfen zu lassen. Der Landtag soll darüber nächste Woche b...
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 1d
Vom Laster gefallen.
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 1d
Biergartenkultur zwischen April und Oktober. Und zwischen Oktober und April die BOB.
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The Economist @economist.com · 1d
Many drivers have come to dislike touchscreens, finding them fiddly and annoying to use. Research shows they can be dangerous, too
Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?
Probably—and safety organisations are beginning to take note
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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 1d
"[Argentina] fears that a sharper depreciation will reignite expectations of high inflation, & they also wish to conserve those IMF funds to help cover nearly $20 billion in interest and principal payments on dollar debts coming due in the next 15months" #econsky theconversation.com/why-argentin...
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 1d
Deshalb in „“.

Auf ihn passt ein wenig der Archetypus von jmd. der in eine Situation gedrängt wurde und an ihr wuchs.
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🦇S🎃WI-Fledermaus im Möbelkaufrausch 🦇 @wimimachtlehre.bsky.social · 1d
Puh, also... vielleicht schrauben wir den Jubel etwas zurück...
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Sebastian Bohrn Mena @bohrn-mena.at · 1d
Maria Corina #Machado wurde also der #Friedensnobelpreis verliehen. Und viele jubeln jetzt: Ein "Zeichen gegen Trump" sei das, eine Hoffnung für die Welt. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Bitte informiert Euch. Als Nachkomme chilenischer Faschismusopfer ist mir das wirklich wichtig. Ein Thread: (1)
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 1d
„Held“ wider Willen?
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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 1d
Weltdorf!
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