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thomas e fleming
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techcrunch.com
Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.
Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to Australia’s solar boom | TechCrunch
Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
🎶 Here Comes The Sun
by The Beatles (2019 Mix)
youtu.be/KQetemT1sWc
Album cover featuring the four Beatles members walking in a line across orange and yellow radiating sunburst rays. The background shows a vibrant sun-ray pattern emanating outward. Text at the top reads ‘HERE COMES THE SUN’ in white letters and ‘THE BEATLES’ in black letters. The members are dressed in casual 1960s attire - one in denim, two in black suits, and one in a white suit.
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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economist.com
There are signs of a coming Trump bump in solar energy. We explain why investment and innovation in the industry are thriving
Despite presidential animus, America’s solar industry is buzzing
And investment is on the rise
econ.st
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
Big energy eureka moments of 2025 (so far) that haven’t been converted into proscriptive knowledge and monetized at scale by energy device manufacturers?

Some BC & perovskite thingies … www.longi.com/en/news/new-...

And floating … techxplore.com/news/2025-06...

The cheap⚡️revolution is coming …
New approach models potential and trade-offs of floating solar
Floating solar, the practice of placing solar panels on bodies of water, can generate even more electricity per square foot than terrestrial solar. But researchers are just starting to understand the ...
techxplore.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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soumayakeynes.ft.com
The not-a-Nobel-but-we're-gonna-treat-it-like-a-Nobel in economics goes to

Joel Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress"

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction"
October 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
Brookfield Raises US$20 billion for green energy transition fund.

bam.brookfield.com/press-releas...
Brookfield Our strategy will succeed by investing in the technologies that will deliver clean, abundant, and low-cost energy and transition solutions that underpin the global economy. Connor Teskey CEO, Renewable Power & Transition
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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ember-energy.org
#Solar keeps breaking records ☀️🏆

In the first half of 2025,
📈 solar generation jumped 306 TWh (+31%) – its FASTEST absolute growth on record
🌐 global solar share reached 8.8% as many countries worldwide hit new records

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
Coal, at least for now, drops out of the top spot for energy. Renewables squeaked, just barely, into first place. But progress nonetheless.
ember-energy.org Ember @ember-energy.org · Oct 7
NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
October 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
If you argue media is broken in America because of concentrated ownership, the data tells a different story: America ranks at the bottom of the list for media concentration.

There’s more to the story … www.economist.com/briefing/202... via @economist.com
Alt text: A horizontal bar chart titled “As fragmented as they come” showing media-industry market concentration across selected countries in 2023. The chart uses the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index where 10,000 represents maximum concentration (one company owns all media). Countries are listed vertically from most fragmented to most concentrated: United States has the lowest concentration (around 300), followed by Denmark, Germany, Austria, South Korea, China, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, France, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Portugal, India, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico having the highest concentration (around 2,800). An arrow indicates “More concentrated” pointing to the right. The chart shows that contrary to the title’s suggestion, there is significant variation in media concentration levels across countries, with Mexico being notably more concentrated than the US. Source: Global Media and Internet Concentration Project.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
September 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Total Reset⛓️‍💥
April 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers
economist.com/united-state...
via @economist.com
Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers
Another shocking assault on a non-partisan institution
economist.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
🎶 Firestarter by Prodigy
youtu.be/wmin5WkOuPw
This is the album cover for “The Fat of the Land” by The Prodigy. The image shows a close-up of a large crab on wet sand at a beach. The crab appears to be a mud crab or similar species, with a dark shell and prominent claws raised upward. Water droplets glisten on its surface, and orange/red coral or seaweed fragments are scattered around it on the sandy shore. In the background, there’s a blurred seascape with waves and a blue sky. The Prodigy logo appears in the top left corner in white text within a black oval, and the album title “THE FAT OF THE LAND” is displayed in bold white capital letters below it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
August 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Just me or
I’d love to live in unprecedented times artwork drawing illustration a man walking a tightrope across a fire between two yelling heads typography cartoon retro
June 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
“U.S. economic statistics have been considered the gold standard for decades, the product of concerted efforts … to better understand how the economy works. Trump’s move throws the quality of America’s statistical apparatus into question.”

- via @wsj.com

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Orders Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief
The president’s move throws the quality of America’s statistical apparatus into question.
www.wsj.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
Magic Decoder Ring

I’m loving my CN Tower widget on my iPhone Home Screen. Now I seem so well informed when it comes to what those colour combos mean.

Download the free iOS app here: apps.apple.com/ca/app/toron...
Screenshot of an iPhone widget for Toronto Lights showing the CN Tower silhouette against a blue to orange gradient background. The widget displays ‘Jul 25’ at the top, followed by ‘100th Anniversary of the Canadian Corp of Commissi…’ (text cut off), then ‘Blue, Orange and White’ describing the tower’s current lighting colors, and ‘+2 Other light show’ at the bottom. The widget title ‘Toronto Lights’ appears below the main content area.
July 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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winterbloed.be
While I'm browsing through the 2021 folder, some more work
May 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Should Toronto consider wins like these?

1. “… drives across the East River … which used to take an hour or more can now be as quick as 15 minutes.”

2. “… raising around $50m each month to update the subway and other public-transport systems …”

economist.com/united-state...
via @economist.com
Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
So why on earth did it take so long to start?
economist.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
'Tariff engineering' is making a comeback as businesses employ creative ways to skirt higher duties

via CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/b...
'Tariff engineering' is making a comeback as businesses employ creative ways to skirt higher duties
Global manufacturers are rethinking their products design, looking to tap into a lesser-known legal technique known as "tariff engineering" to lower duty costs.
www.cnbc.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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publicsquareto.bsky.social
Our first conversation is focused on bike lanes in Toronto. Whether you're a cyclist, driver, pedestrian, or transit user, your insights are valuable.

🕒 The survey is open until the 30th of May.

👉 Click here to participate: publicsquareto.github.io/bikelanes.html
Bike Lanes in Toronto - Public Square TO
publicsquareto.github.io
May 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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May 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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April 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Could #MCP, the open-standard adopted by the big AI-players, become as important as HTTP in the post-ChatGTP web era? Microsoft’s CTO makes a convincing case that it will be.

From the web to the NLweb (not the Netherlands, Natural Language).

via @theverge.com

www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the birth of the agentic web
How Microsoft sees the future of AI agents merging with the open web. 
www.theverge.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
“… [magnetic] tape storage works out at three to five times cheaper than disk drives, and solid-state storage … [and] may explain why Google is also one of the world’s biggest purchasers of modern tape libraries.”
via @economist.com
www.economist.com/united-state...
DOGE is coming for American officials’ magnetic tape
But more modern methods of data storage are not necessarily better
www.economist.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
thomasefleming.bsky.social
🎶 Wait & See (Kris Menace’s Vocal Re-Interpretation)
by Holy Ghost!, Kris Menace
youtu.be/ymBU4e2L4Mw
This black and white album cover for "Wait & See" by Holy Ghost! shows a person in casual attire (white shirt and jeans with Converse sneakers) lying on a wooden floor among vinyl records and album sleeves. The person appears to be browsing through their record collection, with albums spread around them and stacked on shelves in the background. The Holy Ghost! logo appears at the top of the image in bold, angled text with a dotted grid effect, while "wait & see" is written in small text at the bottom of the cover. The monochromatic aesthetic gives the image a nostalgic, indie music feel.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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treeskulltown.bsky.social
Good Morning 🤗 today :

Surfaces : Xanthopsia 81

format / media / size / speed / timing / éditions :

3840 x 2160 px / 4k mp4 / 118 MB / 8 fps / 59s / 1/1

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#treeskulltown #tezos #abstract #subrealism #mixedmedia #digitalpainting #digitalanimation #art #procreate
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM