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A lot of people are starting to realize the huge financial costs to clean up the mess the oil and gas industry has made. I've yet to see one of those estimates include the cost to address what they did with radioactive waste. That won't be cheap.
"Sure, Lee Oldham told me, he had spread radioactive fracking waste on Texas farmland. But in his defense, he never in a million years thought anyone would put a school there."
The oil industry's radioactive secret is getting more attention but the damage has been done.
The oil industry's radioactive secret is getting more attention but the damage has been done.
Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There.
Then an elementary school was built on top of it.
thebarbedwire.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:24 PM
A lot of people are starting to realize the huge financial costs to clean up the mess the oil and gas industry has made. I've yet to see one of those estimates include the cost to address what they did with radioactive waste. That won't be cheap.
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“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”
This should be THE story everyday.
This should be THE story everyday.
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”
This should be THE story everyday.
This should be THE story everyday.
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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OK this is cool.
This is the Artemis II SLS stack making its way to Launch Complex 39B earlier today, seen by the Pléiades Neo 3 satellite from an altitude of 620 km.
The resolution of this image is 30 cm/px.
Credit: Airbus Defence and Space (h/t @spacefromspace.com)
This is the Artemis II SLS stack making its way to Launch Complex 39B earlier today, seen by the Pléiades Neo 3 satellite from an altitude of 620 km.
The resolution of this image is 30 cm/px.
Credit: Airbus Defence and Space (h/t @spacefromspace.com)
January 18, 2026 at 3:20 AM
OK this is cool.
This is the Artemis II SLS stack making its way to Launch Complex 39B earlier today, seen by the Pléiades Neo 3 satellite from an altitude of 620 km.
The resolution of this image is 30 cm/px.
Credit: Airbus Defence and Space (h/t @spacefromspace.com)
This is the Artemis II SLS stack making its way to Launch Complex 39B earlier today, seen by the Pléiades Neo 3 satellite from an altitude of 620 km.
The resolution of this image is 30 cm/px.
Credit: Airbus Defence and Space (h/t @spacefromspace.com)
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Household #battery numbers continue to defy all predictions, and they now look set to match the scale of the entire Snowy Mountains scheme in a single year.
Home battery installations will match the scale of Snowy Hydro scheme – in a single year
Household battery numbers continue to defy all predictions, and they now look set to match the scale of the entire Snowy Mountains scheme in a single year.
reneweconomy.com.au
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Household #battery numbers continue to defy all predictions, and they now look set to match the scale of the entire Snowy Mountains scheme in a single year.
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As far as I can tell, @billmckibben.bsky.social is the only writer with any real reach who is discussing the liberatory potential of distributed solar power. I'd like that subject to get a lot more air time.
Solar as Solidarity
It's not just for saving planets any more
billmckibben.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
As far as I can tell, @billmckibben.bsky.social is the only writer with any real reach who is discussing the liberatory potential of distributed solar power. I'd like that subject to get a lot more air time.
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The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.
The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.
One collision and the whale is dead.
We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.
One collision and the whale is dead.
We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.
The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.
One collision and the whale is dead.
We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.
One collision and the whale is dead.
We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
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Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I break down how economically irrelevant AI is, and how no bailout is coming to save the Large Language Model era.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Monologue: AI Isn't Getting A Bailout
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 12/04/2025 · Bonus · 10m
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I break down how economically irrelevant AI is, and how no bailout is coming to save the Large Language Model era.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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New study in @IEEEXplore Transactions on Technology and Society explores what it takes to build a 100% renewable power grid
Read here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
#RenewableEnergy #NetZero #EnergyTransition #IEEE #ClimateAction @prajdhan.bsky.social
Read here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
#RenewableEnergy #NetZero #EnergyTransition #IEEE #ClimateAction @prajdhan.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New study in @IEEEXplore Transactions on Technology and Society explores what it takes to build a 100% renewable power grid
Read here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
#RenewableEnergy #NetZero #EnergyTransition #IEEE #ClimateAction @prajdhan.bsky.social
Read here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
#RenewableEnergy #NetZero #EnergyTransition #IEEE #ClimateAction @prajdhan.bsky.social
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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
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I am a moderate: sometimes markets work and are good; sometimes they don't and are bad
YES! STRIKE THEM DOWN WITH ALL OF YOUR HATE.
October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I am a moderate: sometimes markets work and are good; sometimes they don't and are bad
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38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
October 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
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We will introduce “made in Europe” criteria for public procurement in certain strategic sectors.
Ensure that new foreign investments in our industry are truly in Europe’s interest.
And step up support for strategic industries, like cars and batteries.
Ensure that new foreign investments in our industry are truly in Europe’s interest.
And step up support for strategic industries, like cars and batteries.
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We will introduce “made in Europe” criteria for public procurement in certain strategic sectors.
Ensure that new foreign investments in our industry are truly in Europe’s interest.
And step up support for strategic industries, like cars and batteries.
Ensure that new foreign investments in our industry are truly in Europe’s interest.
And step up support for strategic industries, like cars and batteries.
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China has electrified faster than almost any other country - electricity’s share of its energy use is up 10% in a decade.
Since 2019 it’s built 40% of global wind & solar, boosting their share in power generation by nearly 20% points.
Energy independence meets industrial strategy.
Since 2019 it’s built 40% of global wind & solar, boosting their share in power generation by nearly 20% points.
Energy independence meets industrial strategy.
October 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
China has electrified faster than almost any other country - electricity’s share of its energy use is up 10% in a decade.
Since 2019 it’s built 40% of global wind & solar, boosting their share in power generation by nearly 20% points.
Energy independence meets industrial strategy.
Since 2019 it’s built 40% of global wind & solar, boosting their share in power generation by nearly 20% points.
Energy independence meets industrial strategy.
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Det finnes de som sier at systemisk rasisme ikke er en greie i Norge. Til og med at rasisme ikke finnes i Norge.
De tar skrekkelig feil!
De tar skrekkelig feil!
Paul Thomas: En kamp for rettferdighet
I dag underviser han om rasisme i det samme systemet som en gang stengte dører for ham.
www.nrk.no
October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Det finnes de som sier at systemisk rasisme ikke er en greie i Norge. Til og med at rasisme ikke finnes i Norge.
De tar skrekkelig feil!
De tar skrekkelig feil!
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Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.
Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632
Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632
October 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.
Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632
Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632
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We just made this graph showing most people in the world could get by on just some solar panels and batteries.
The X axis is basically latitude, but we filled in how many people live between the equator and a certain latitude.
The Y axis shows the amount of solar and batteries needed
The X axis is basically latitude, but we filled in how many people live between the equator and a certain latitude.
The Y axis shows the amount of solar and batteries needed
October 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We just made this graph showing most people in the world could get by on just some solar panels and batteries.
The X axis is basically latitude, but we filled in how many people live between the equator and a certain latitude.
The Y axis shows the amount of solar and batteries needed
The X axis is basically latitude, but we filled in how many people live between the equator and a certain latitude.
The Y axis shows the amount of solar and batteries needed
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I’m under no illusion that this won’t spill into every market on earth, but I have still taken my savings out of the US.
Because no matter how much magic 🪄 and unicorns 🦄 tech investors believe in, you can’t do hockey stick growth in the physical world.
There is only so much… physical world 🌎
Because no matter how much magic 🪄 and unicorns 🦄 tech investors believe in, you can’t do hockey stick growth in the physical world.
There is only so much… physical world 🌎
The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns
According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...
www.techspot.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I’m under no illusion that this won’t spill into every market on earth, but I have still taken my savings out of the US.
Because no matter how much magic 🪄 and unicorns 🦄 tech investors believe in, you can’t do hockey stick growth in the physical world.
There is only so much… physical world 🌎
Because no matter how much magic 🪄 and unicorns 🦄 tech investors believe in, you can’t do hockey stick growth in the physical world.
There is only so much… physical world 🌎
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Your 'moment of doom' for July 9, 2025 ~ The f&%king window is shut, the canary is dead and the ticking time bomb has exploded.
"There is a small window of opportunity between 2025 and 2050 to avert a looming climate catastrophe for humanity and biodiversity."
theconversation.com/can-you-trus...
"There is a small window of opportunity between 2025 and 2050 to avert a looming climate catastrophe for humanity and biodiversity."
theconversation.com/can-you-trus...
Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public
Powerful corporations, governments and political parties intentionally spread false information about climate change to avoid ending greenhouse gas emissions.
theconversation.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for July 9, 2025 ~ The f&%king window is shut, the canary is dead and the ticking time bomb has exploded.
"There is a small window of opportunity between 2025 and 2050 to avert a looming climate catastrophe for humanity and biodiversity."
theconversation.com/can-you-trus...
"There is a small window of opportunity between 2025 and 2050 to avert a looming climate catastrophe for humanity and biodiversity."
theconversation.com/can-you-trus...
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As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
“Workers are more intuitive than a lot of the pundit class gives them credit for. They know this has been a naked attempt to get rid of people.”
“Workers are more intuitive than a lot of the pundit class gives them credit for. They know this has been a naked attempt to get rid of people.”
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
“Workers are more intuitive than a lot of the pundit class gives them credit for. They know this has been a naked attempt to get rid of people.”
“Workers are more intuitive than a lot of the pundit class gives them credit for. They know this has been a naked attempt to get rid of people.”
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Fires & Floods & Heat Waves?
How I think about Climate Change.
[Video. 9 mins. 45 sec. ]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRA2...
How I think about Climate Change.
[Video. 9 mins. 45 sec. ]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRA2...
How I Think About Climate Change
YouTube video by StarTalk
www.youtube.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Fires & Floods & Heat Waves?
How I think about Climate Change.
[Video. 9 mins. 45 sec. ]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRA2...
How I think about Climate Change.
[Video. 9 mins. 45 sec. ]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRA2...
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Another must watch from @weareyellowdot.bsky.social
Meanwhile, everywhere: "Things aren't just getting worse. They are getting worse faster."
The Extreme Weather Report, Jun 26, 2025.
The Extreme Weather Report, Jun 26, 2025.
June 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Another must watch from @weareyellowdot.bsky.social