Charles R. Miller
@charlesmiller.bsky.social
The economy is downstream from the natural world.
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Cleo King said he prays about every vote he takes as a city councilor in Bessemer, Alabama. Here's what he said about his vote against a massive data center. New from
@insideclimatenews.org. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
@insideclimatenews.org. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Cleo King said he prays about every vote he takes as a city councilor in Bessemer, Alabama. Here's what he said about his vote against a massive data center. New from
@insideclimatenews.org. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
@insideclimatenews.org. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
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Via Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion & Inside Climate News: With the Bessemer City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on a “hyperscale” data center, challenges from an environmental group and the Alabama Department of Transportation present potential obstacles for the project. https://ow.ly/YQAk50XrPy6
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Via Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion & Inside Climate News: With the Bessemer City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on a “hyperscale” data center, challenges from an environmental group and the Alabama Department of Transportation present potential obstacles for the project. https://ow.ly/YQAk50XrPy6
via @biologicaldiversity.org, "Petition Seeks Endangered Species Protection for Imperiled Alabama Fish" biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
via @biologicaldiversity.org, "Petition Seeks Endangered Species Protection for Imperiled Alabama Fish" biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Saw some cool canids today in Chattanooga -- endangered Red Wolves
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Saw some cool canids today in Chattanooga -- endangered Red Wolves
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Russ does not *have* to do any of this. Because he is in fact not *authorized* to do any of this.
Johnson: "Russ does this reluctantly. He takes no pleasure in this. Russ has to sit down and decide which policies, personnel, & programs are essential & which are not. That's not a fun task and he's not enjoying that responsibility...if they keep the govt closed, it's gonna get more & more painful"
October 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Russ does not *have* to do any of this. Because he is in fact not *authorized* to do any of this.
The most important thing I learned in law school was to scrub your own metadata, and look for others' metadata on documents.
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The most important thing I learned in law school was to scrub your own metadata, and look for others' metadata on documents.
Feel like this should come with a warning label, specifically for @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Can Liberalism Be Saved?
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
www.newyorker.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Feel like this should come with a warning label, specifically for @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Saw something a while back that was a good line, and felt compelled to add to it slightly
You can cave and feel regret, or fight and feel good about yourself, even if you lose. Plus, every second spent making folks do it the hard way is time they're not screwing someone else over.
You can cave and feel regret, or fight and feel good about yourself, even if you lose. Plus, every second spent making folks do it the hard way is time they're not screwing someone else over.
September 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Saw something a while back that was a good line, and felt compelled to add to it slightly
You can cave and feel regret, or fight and feel good about yourself, even if you lose. Plus, every second spent making folks do it the hard way is time they're not screwing someone else over.
You can cave and feel regret, or fight and feel good about yourself, even if you lose. Plus, every second spent making folks do it the hard way is time they're not screwing someone else over.
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Did you know the House is poised to pass a bill putting our drinking water and wildlife at risk of even more pesticides and toxic discharges?
🚨 Tell your representative to vote NO on the PERMIT Act! 🚨
🚨 Tell your representative to vote NO on the PERMIT Act! 🚨
September 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Did you know the House is poised to pass a bill putting our drinking water and wildlife at risk of even more pesticides and toxic discharges?
🚨 Tell your representative to vote NO on the PERMIT Act! 🚨
🚨 Tell your representative to vote NO on the PERMIT Act! 🚨
I've worked 2nd shift, had some friends who worked night-shift. Blew my mind that WHO considers long-term night-shift work a contributing risk factor for cancer.
Requiring that of workers who produce one of the most basic inputs for human civilization seems like an incredibly dire warning.
Requiring that of workers who produce one of the most basic inputs for human civilization seems like an incredibly dire warning.
The Night Shift.
With extreme heat making it perilous to work during the day, farmers and fisherfolk worldwide are adopting overnight hours. That comes with new dangers.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#Heat #India #Agriculture #Food #Climate #Environment #Farms #Farming #Night
With extreme heat making it perilous to work during the day, farmers and fisherfolk worldwide are adopting overnight hours. That comes with new dangers.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#Heat #India #Agriculture #Food #Climate #Environment #Farms #Farming #Night
Extreme heat is forcing farmers to work overnight, an adaptation that comes with a cost
Farmers and fisherfolk across the world are shifting into nighttime work to escape perilous heat.
grist.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I've worked 2nd shift, had some friends who worked night-shift. Blew my mind that WHO considers long-term night-shift work a contributing risk factor for cancer.
Requiring that of workers who produce one of the most basic inputs for human civilization seems like an incredibly dire warning.
Requiring that of workers who produce one of the most basic inputs for human civilization seems like an incredibly dire warning.
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At the House Natural Resources hearing, the Foundation of American Innovation's Thomas Hochman let it slip: constraining NEPA is about powering AI datacenters to fuel Silicon Valley's latest bubble.
Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host
Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host
September 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
At the House Natural Resources hearing, the Foundation of American Innovation's Thomas Hochman let it slip: constraining NEPA is about powering AI datacenters to fuel Silicon Valley's latest bubble.
Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host
Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host
I'm confused, there's NOTHING about permitting reform in here...
September 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm confused, there's NOTHING about permitting reform in here...
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Given the prevalence of Real Estate and Construction company owners in local politics, these efforts are *all* about short-term grift for the already-privileged.
Tucson *just* defeated (like, last week) such an effort. The self-satisfied smarminess of the "pro" politicians in interviews is awful
Tucson *just* defeated (like, last week) such an effort. The self-satisfied smarminess of the "pro" politicians in interviews is awful
August 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Given the prevalence of Real Estate and Construction company owners in local politics, these efforts are *all* about short-term grift for the already-privileged.
Tucson *just* defeated (like, last week) such an effort. The self-satisfied smarminess of the "pro" politicians in interviews is awful
Tucson *just* defeated (like, last week) such an effort. The self-satisfied smarminess of the "pro" politicians in interviews is awful
Should have gone with "wanna know how I got these cars?"
August 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Should have gone with "wanna know how I got these cars?"
The power stuff with AI gets really crazy if you connect the dots to other resource consumption issues (brief thread)
Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.
@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
August 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The power stuff with AI gets really crazy if you connect the dots to other resource consumption issues (brief thread)
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Real quote from a former Open AI C-suite guy I spoke to:
"We don't owe them [the communities where hyperscale data centers are being sited] anything except a fair wage during construction...we actually need to be using MORE electricity, not less, if we want to solve these big problems."
"We don't owe them [the communities where hyperscale data centers are being sited] anything except a fair wage during construction...we actually need to be using MORE electricity, not less, if we want to solve these big problems."
August 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Real quote from a former Open AI C-suite guy I spoke to:
"We don't owe them [the communities where hyperscale data centers are being sited] anything except a fair wage during construction...we actually need to be using MORE electricity, not less, if we want to solve these big problems."
"We don't owe them [the communities where hyperscale data centers are being sited] anything except a fair wage during construction...we actually need to be using MORE electricity, not less, if we want to solve these big problems."
"together with AI we..."
Lemme stop you right there bud, you and I ain't doing shit together if you're doing anything with AI.
Lemme stop you right there bud, you and I ain't doing shit together if you're doing anything with AI.
August 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"together with AI we..."
Lemme stop you right there bud, you and I ain't doing shit together if you're doing anything with AI.
Lemme stop you right there bud, you and I ain't doing shit together if you're doing anything with AI.
@devintoshea.bsky.social think this might be from VP Fair 83.
This photo is dated Dec. '83, but doesn't seem to be from winter based on the tree in the background.
This photo is dated Dec. '83, but doesn't seem to be from winter based on the tree in the background.
August 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@devintoshea.bsky.social think this might be from VP Fair 83.
This photo is dated Dec. '83, but doesn't seem to be from winter based on the tree in the background.
This photo is dated Dec. '83, but doesn't seem to be from winter based on the tree in the background.
Tonight's cooking music: m.youtube.com/watch?v=52eU...
Surrender ('88 Version) (2023 Remaster)
YouTube video by Suicide - Topic
m.youtube.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Tonight's cooking music: m.youtube.com/watch?v=52eU...
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the major questions doctrine was pretty much born in UARG v EPA (2014), a Scalia case (partially) upholding Clean Air Act regulation of GHGs, so... i would say its not that compelling!
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
July 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
the major questions doctrine was pretty much born in UARG v EPA (2014), a Scalia case (partially) upholding Clean Air Act regulation of GHGs, so... i would say its not that compelling!
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
![Tweet from Lee Zeldin, EPA administrator that reads "Due to President Trump's strong mandate and leadership, I'm heading to Indianapolis with @SecretaryWright [DOE Secy] tomorrow to propose one of the largest deregulatory actions in US history. Stay tuned!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k3xr6gfsgs54e2d5qaz7id2b/bafkreiepgkt3kgq26whdxefd7lkkjodnrdb6jhywwqtow6u3hkfsmmpvaq@jpeg)
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Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social, @lanierisom.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: How. Ould a proposed hyperscale data center affect Bessemer?
How could a proposed hyperscale data center affect Bessemer? | Alabama Reflector
Inside Climate News interviewed the developer’s representative, public officials and residents who live near the proposed development site on key topics and claims.
alabamareflector.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social, @lanierisom.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: How. Ould a proposed hyperscale data center affect Bessemer?
U14 State soccer tournament finals, pouring down rain and the field is a muddy mess. I have the ball on the right wing roughly 24 yards out. Sending in a cross, but know I'll have to get something extra on it, so I take my time to square up and thwack it. Overhit it, sneaks under the crossbar, goal.
what is your personal sports highlight?
mine is: down 2 with like 4 seconds left, deflection sends ball into corner
guy throws the ball in to midcourt and i intercept it, and pass to my teammate who gets fouled shooting a 3
2/3 FT, go to OT
they are down 1, i stuff the j at the elbow. win
mine is: down 2 with like 4 seconds left, deflection sends ball into corner
guy throws the ball in to midcourt and i intercept it, and pass to my teammate who gets fouled shooting a 3
2/3 FT, go to OT
they are down 1, i stuff the j at the elbow. win
July 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
U14 State soccer tournament finals, pouring down rain and the field is a muddy mess. I have the ball on the right wing roughly 24 yards out. Sending in a cross, but know I'll have to get something extra on it, so I take my time to square up and thwack it. Overhit it, sneaks under the crossbar, goal.
I consider myself pretty well-versed in environmental disasters, but I literally had never heard of Coldwater Creek or Westlake Landfill before moving to Missouri. Glad RECA was expanded (hate the bill it was attached to) and glad national outlets are talking about this.
A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.
A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk
A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.
n.pr
July 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I consider myself pretty well-versed in environmental disasters, but I literally had never heard of Coldwater Creek or Westlake Landfill before moving to Missouri. Glad RECA was expanded (hate the bill it was attached to) and glad national outlets are talking about this.