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This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
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Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
December 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
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We won! We won!
Mission Local took home 10 awards from the San Francisco Press Club last night, including "best community news site" & several 1st place prizes.
Onward.
Mission Local took home 10 awards from the San Francisco Press Club last night, including "best community news site" & several 1st place prizes.
Onward.
December 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
We won! We won!
Mission Local took home 10 awards from the San Francisco Press Club last night, including "best community news site" & several 1st place prizes.
Onward.
Mission Local took home 10 awards from the San Francisco Press Club last night, including "best community news site" & several 1st place prizes.
Onward.
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today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
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Don’t let pretty damn good be the enemy of perfection
Deploying perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells would probably decrease lead emission overall as it would reduce the amount of electricity produced from burning coal. Coal fired plants emit tons of lead (and mercury, and cadmium, and arsenic) into the environment. www.ucs.org/resources/co...
Coal and Air Pollution
Air pollution from coal-fired power plants is linked with asthma, cancer, heart and lung ailments, neurological problems, acid rain, global warming, and other severe environmental and public health im...
www.ucs.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Don’t let pretty damn good be the enemy of perfection
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Keep at it people, keep working.
Keep at it people, keep working.
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
<3
Keep at it people, keep working.
Keep at it people, keep working.
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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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Everyone shut thefuck up in that they discovered ribose and, for the first time in any extraterrestrialsample, glucose on Bennu.
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples - NASA
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As
www.nasa.gov
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Everyone shut thefuck up in that they discovered ribose and, for the first time in any extraterrestrialsample, glucose on Bennu.
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
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users with similar passwords also liked:
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Let us change the game, and make so many batteries that people stop caring about transmission and dispatchability.
You know all about the Chinese solar boom but you haven't seen anything yet
Here comes the battery boom, and it is going to be big 🤯
Here comes the battery boom, and it is going to be big 🤯
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Let us change the game, and make so many batteries that people stop caring about transmission and dispatchability.
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We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
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Marian Dioguardi (American, b.1954)
"Mocha Espresso," n.d.
Oil on panel
24 x 24 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Mocha Espresso," n.d.
Oil on panel
24 x 24 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Marian Dioguardi (American, b.1954)
"Mocha Espresso," n.d.
Oil on panel
24 x 24 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Mocha Espresso," n.d.
Oil on panel
24 x 24 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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After the dotcom crash in the 2000s, there was a surplus of web hosting & bandwidth which let to a price drop that enabled new startups.
If the AI bubble pops, who benefits this time? Everyone because of the electricity capacity already in planning or project stage?
heatmap.news/ideas/data-c...
If the AI bubble pops, who benefits this time? Everyone because of the electricity capacity already in planning or project stage?
heatmap.news/ideas/data-c...
A Backup Plan for the AI Boom
If it turns out to be a bubble, billions of dollars of energy assets will be on the line.
heatmap.news
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
After the dotcom crash in the 2000s, there was a surplus of web hosting & bandwidth which let to a price drop that enabled new startups.
If the AI bubble pops, who benefits this time? Everyone because of the electricity capacity already in planning or project stage?
heatmap.news/ideas/data-c...
If the AI bubble pops, who benefits this time? Everyone because of the electricity capacity already in planning or project stage?
heatmap.news/ideas/data-c...
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in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
What's the deal with balcony solar?
Cora Stryker joins me to explain how "plug-in" solar took Europe by storm and is finally, via Utah (?), making its way to America.
www.volts.wtf
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
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The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Every AI-bubble debate is the same 12 facts, studies, and arguments quoted back and forth, over and over.
So Tim Lee at @understandingai.skystack.xyz and I teamed up to publish a 4,000 word deep-dive analysis of all 12.
www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...
So Tim Lee at @understandingai.skystack.xyz and I teamed up to publish a 4,000 word deep-dive analysis of all 12.
www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...
How to Sound Like an Expert in Any AI Bubble Debate
There are 12 statistics, factoids, and studies that dominate every discussion about whether artificial intelligence is a bubble. Here's a deep-dive into all 12 arguments
www.derekthompson.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every AI-bubble debate is the same 12 facts, studies, and arguments quoted back and forth, over and over.
So Tim Lee at @understandingai.skystack.xyz and I teamed up to publish a 4,000 word deep-dive analysis of all 12.
www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...
So Tim Lee at @understandingai.skystack.xyz and I teamed up to publish a 4,000 word deep-dive analysis of all 12.
www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...
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First Solar is now operating a $1 billion solar factory in Louisiana that will produce 3.5 GW of panels every year. If all our nuclear dreams come true, we'll have 10 GW of new capacity in 2040. Meanwhile, this one plant will already have produced 52 GW. neworleanscitybusiness.com/blog/2025/11...
First Solar opens $1.1B AI-powered Louisiana plant | New Orleans CityBusiness
First Solar launches AI-powered Louisiana facility, creating 800+ jobs and boosting Iberia Parish GDP while expanding U.S. solar production.
neworleanscitybusiness.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
First Solar is now operating a $1 billion solar factory in Louisiana that will produce 3.5 GW of panels every year. If all our nuclear dreams come true, we'll have 10 GW of new capacity in 2040. Meanwhile, this one plant will already have produced 52 GW. neworleanscitybusiness.com/blog/2025/11...
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