David Savage
@dtsavage.bsky.social
Transmission/Resource planning and RTO issues, IN PUC. PhD ecologist. Consistently mid sports (🚴/⛹️) takes. 🖤🤍💜. Posts represent personal views.
Trying to figure out a way to explain to interested non massive dorks why solar gets 8% capacity credit in PJM and what the implications are. It's not an easy one but it's critical to understanding why things are the way they are.
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Trying to figure out a way to explain to interested non massive dorks why solar gets 8% capacity credit in PJM and what the implications are. It's not an easy one but it's critical to understanding why things are the way they are.
Kinda crazy to say it but: Strava is easily the best social network site.
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Kinda crazy to say it but: Strava is easily the best social network site.
People who complain about the death of local journalism and then don't put their money where their mouth is disappoint me.
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
People who complain about the death of local journalism and then don't put their money where their mouth is disappoint me.
Feels like we've really lost the ability to do episodic television where each episode is BOTH a self-contained story with a beginning, middle and end and also advances a larger plot for that season. It's not just a movie in bits.
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Feels like we've really lost the ability to do episodic television where each episode is BOTH a self-contained story with a beginning, middle and end and also advances a larger plot for that season. It's not just a movie in bits.
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my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics…
…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.
read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!
…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.
read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!
The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics
Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against rampant AI development.
heatmap.news
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics…
…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.
read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!
…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.
read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!
I grew up vacationing in Klamath country, swimming in these rivers, jumping off rocks, etc. Even from across the country, seeing the return of the salmon runs to this region has been one of my very favorite stories in a year full of not-great ones.
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I grew up vacationing in Klamath country, swimming in these rivers, jumping off rocks, etc. Even from across the country, seeing the return of the salmon runs to this region has been one of my very favorite stories in a year full of not-great ones.
If the Georgia PSC race is anything to judge by, a whole lot of generalist pundits are going to have to learn a whole lot about rate cases (this is bad! Support subject matter specialist journalists who've put in the time!)
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If the Georgia PSC race is anything to judge by, a whole lot of generalist pundits are going to have to learn a whole lot about rate cases (this is bad! Support subject matter specialist journalists who've put in the time!)
This man has Clyde Frazier levels of sauce.
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This man has Clyde Frazier levels of sauce.
The Cuomintang are taking refuge on Staiwanten Island
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The Cuomintang are taking refuge on Staiwanten Island
As somebody who does not much care about baseball but does care about hating Los Angeles, go Blue Jays.
October 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As somebody who does not much care about baseball but does care about hating Los Angeles, go Blue Jays.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health
“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”
heatmap.news
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
This is why asexuals have the only objectively correct taste in music
Everyone thinks music peaked in the year where they were having the most casual sex
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is why asexuals have the only objectively correct taste in music
Victor Wembanyama could do a kick ass wind turbine halloween costume just saying.
October 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Victor Wembanyama could do a kick ass wind turbine halloween costume just saying.
A's move back to Oakland
Completely fix baseball with five words.
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A's move back to Oakland
The solution to doomerism is named Wardell Stephen Curry II
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The solution to doomerism is named Wardell Stephen Curry II
My Lyft driver is absolutely vibing to Gerald Albright we love to see it
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
My Lyft driver is absolutely vibing to Gerald Albright we love to see it
George Blahaj 🦈 are we getting anywhere with this
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
George Blahaj 🦈 are we getting anywhere with this
Master and Commander is hard Sci-fi (the science is meteorology)
October 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Master and Commander is hard Sci-fi (the science is meteorology)
Rebuild hoops posting in time for nba season to start inshallah
I’m not mad about it but I’m deeply confused that we’re getting a Twitter exodus today of all days
thought we’d basically reached the point that there was no line that place could cross that would chase anyone off of it at this point
thought we’d basically reached the point that there was no line that place could cross that would chase anyone off of it at this point
October 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Rebuild hoops posting in time for nba season to start inshallah
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the republican governor of utah spencer cox cites my story about esmeralda 7’s apparent cancelation to criticize the trump administration:
“this is how we lose the AI/energy arms race with china”
“this is how we lose the AI/energy arms race with china”
October 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
the republican governor of utah spencer cox cites my story about esmeralda 7’s apparent cancelation to criticize the trump administration:
“this is how we lose the AI/energy arms race with china”
“this is how we lose the AI/energy arms race with china”
What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of all the delicious tofu I'm eating.
US BEEF PRICES SOAR TO ALL-TIME HIGH — GROUND BEEF UP 13% YOY TO $6.32/LB
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of all the delicious tofu I'm eating.
Peru
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Peru