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Beeveeme
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garden variety enviro attorney
born at 325 ppm
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The metric should not be whether drivers hate it. The metric should be whether it makes our streets safer for everyone. And by all accounts this accomplished that. That’s more than worth a few seconds of all of our time
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Here's a gift article version of my article in the Atlantic about how to lower electricity prices.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Electricity Should Be Free at Noon
And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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"Local officials are warning that more than 14,500 L.A. County formerly homeless households in subsidized, permanent housing could be forced back onto the streets or into shelters over the next year, mostly because of a loss of federal funding."
Expected loss of federal funds could push thousands of L.A. County households into homelessness
Local officials say more than 14,500 L.A. County households in subsidized, permanent housing could be forced into homelessness, mostly because of federal cuts.
www.latimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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That is, do American auto manufacturers want to compete in the global market for auto sales.

Answer is apparently no.

This and the repeal of IRA subsidies will be remembered as the end of auto manufacturing in the US. In 10 years we will all be driving BYDs. BYD cars. BYD trucks. BYD SUVs too.
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work"

Top @katearonoff.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com -->>>
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The overconfidence is born from a misunderstanding that the incumbents don’t have.
I think overconfidence in a technological, free-market and autopilot energy transition also inspires a follow-on dismissiveness around governments approving, supporting or encouraging fossil fuel infrastructure (on the grounds that it won't compete with cheap renewables and therefore isn't a worry)
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is excellent. I’m probably using the salesman with an absence of encyclopedias example in a talk I’m giving on CA-offset-adjacent law.
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...
There Can Be No Information Integrity Without Scientific and Political Integrity
I'm just back from COP30 in Belém and it is making me feel crazy to watch so many climate advocates and reporters declare the final text coming out of it a victory. It's true that the final text inclu...
drilled.ghost.io
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A while back I coined the phrase "ecocide-plagiarism machines" for LLM-based genAI.

A better term is "ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis machines."
3/3

buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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cool
JFC. Three gigawatts of fossil-fuelled power for a new Amazon data centre

@beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Bad Brains history on NBC?!?! youtu.be/bfKVxeYrc0Q?...
Newly discovered Bad Brains recording to be released | NBC4 Washington
YouTube video by NBC4 Washington
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.

Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Moving on to another cooking groove. Family politics have started already and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. youtu.be/WL9RsoOka3w?...
Rokia Traoré - Ka Moun Ké
YouTube video by Le HibOO
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
demo library no.1, by Maddie Ashman
4 track album
maddieashman.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Bruno Latour, in 2017, writing about the implications of the Paris Climate Agreement and its role disrupting (or challenging) the presumed trajectory of modernity and capital-driven development.
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Two-way stops on residential streets are a total menace.

I'm out walking the baby to sleep and just saw a neighbor (I recognize her car) run over a jogger and then proceed to blame him for being in the crosswalk.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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California has figured out how to make the sun shine AT NIGHT!!
As of 5pm today, batteries were the largest single source of power for the Californian grid www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Sources close to Jared and Ivanka say that, privately, the couple disapproves of executing the president's political opponents.
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
What the hell is my %#^*!?* school doing.
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Let’s not forget…

www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/b...
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!!

It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱

newrepublic.com/article/2028...
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Progressive groups yes but also a lot of the federal employees involved with all this

www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM