Jeff Chase
@jeffschase.bsky.social
Treehugger, human naturalist, Professor of Computer Science: networked systems, trust, epistemic security, infrastructure for a better world.
The Rs and their fossil revival have rug-pulled many billions of dollars of investment in clean electricity for US. The whiplash carries a strong odor of spite, burning down the abundance capacity Ds enacted in 2022 without a single R vote. How long will it take to recover and rebuild?
Scrapping tax credits for North Carolina’s clean energy sector is already eliminating good jobs and stunting the economic growth of our emerging clean tech economy. www.newsobserver.com/news/busines...
NC solar plant closing and cutting 220 jobs amid Trump policies, bankruptcy
This would mark the company’s second round of layoffs this year, and would cut over 78% of its workforce.
www.newsobserver.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Rs and their fossil revival have rug-pulled many billions of dollars of investment in clean electricity for US. The whiplash carries a strong odor of spite, burning down the abundance capacity Ds enacted in 2022 without a single R vote. How long will it take to recover and rebuild?
I appreciate Bill Gates, and I hope that more of the techno-wealthy will follow the path he has made. I also wish he had not started his COP30 note with a straw man and false choice. But if the substantive point is that we need to invest more in adaptation and climate justice, I’m all in.
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I appreciate Bill Gates, and I hope that more of the techno-wealthy will follow the path he has made. I also wish he had not started his COP30 note with a straw man and false choice. But if the substantive point is that we need to invest more in adaptation and climate justice, I’m all in.
I support my university's Radical Left Agenda: "Our shared values of respect, trust, inclusion, discovery, and excellence...inspire us to embrace our differences and listen to and learn from one another, even in the face of the most profound disagreements." - Vincent E. Price
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I support my university's Radical Left Agenda: "Our shared values of respect, trust, inclusion, discovery, and excellence...inspire us to embrace our differences and listen to and learn from one another, even in the face of the most profound disagreements." - Vincent E. Price
Our America is grounded in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and of the Second Founding. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Our America is grounded in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and of the Second Founding. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
"...the central geoeconomic story of our time...[United States] gambled hugely on A.I., while [China] wagered hugely on green technology. The future now hangs in the balance while we wait for the bets to come in."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Opinion | America and China Have Placed Their Wagers. Now We Wait.
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"...the central geoeconomic story of our time...[United States] gambled hugely on A.I., while [China] wagered hugely on green technology. The future now hangs in the balance while we wait for the bets to come in."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
The problem with social media is that people want simple explanations for complex problems.
July 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The problem with social media is that people want simple explanations for complex problems.
Solar+batteries are cost-competitive *globally* and costs are dropping fast (40% last year!). But R policies cede these industries of the future. With higher capex here the US will continue to fall behind global deployments and will pay more for electricity. open.substack.com/pub/davidrob...
July 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Solar+batteries are cost-competitive *globally* and costs are dropping fast (40% last year!). But R policies cede these industries of the future. With higher capex here the US will continue to fall behind global deployments and will pay more for electricity. open.substack.com/pub/davidrob...
Techs are working feverishly to fix their systems pursuant to 47's July 23 Executive Order to stamp out "Woke AI". www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
July 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Techs are working feverishly to fix their systems pursuant to 47's July 23 Executive Order to stamp out "Woke AI". www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I meet lots of talented young CS students who are driven to serve and rise. They must choose which side of this line they are on. If you are willing to Believe and Follow Orders, there is a place for you with American Carnage Inc. But is that who you are? www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions
Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dism...
www.bloomberg.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I meet lots of talented young CS students who are driven to serve and rise. They must choose which side of this line they are on. If you are willing to Believe and Follow Orders, there is a place for you with American Carnage Inc. But is that who you are? www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
“Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.“ - Timothy Snyder in The Road to Unfreedom
July 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.“ - Timothy Snyder in The Road to Unfreedom
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Right wing bullshit about climate change has not meaningfully changed in the five decades that scientists have spent shouting the truth at the top of their lungs.
Lee Zeldin: "They say that climate change endangers public health. You have many on the left who will say carbon dioxide is a pollutant, and they won't talk about the all of the many reasons why carbon dioxide is actually quite essential for life here on our planet."
July 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Right wing bullshit about climate change has not meaningfully changed in the five decades that scientists have spent shouting the truth at the top of their lungs.
Happy birthday to the America I love, the America of Madison's checks and balances and Bill of Rights, of the Second Founding, the Indispensable Nation and her Lady of the Harbor, whose glowing torch welcomes the tired and poor yearning to breathe free, with Liberty and Justice for All.
July 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Happy birthday to the America I love, the America of Madison's checks and balances and Bill of Rights, of the Second Founding, the Indispensable Nation and her Lady of the Harbor, whose glowing torch welcomes the tired and poor yearning to breathe free, with Liberty and Justice for All.
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Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans in the United States and reminds us that the fight for justice is far from over. Equal access to the ballot is part of the continued push for racial, economic, and social justice.
The fight continues.
The fight continues.
June 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans in the United States and reminds us that the fight for justice is far from over. Equal access to the ballot is part of the continued push for racial, economic, and social justice.
The fight continues.
The fight continues.
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The Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy credits are powering jobs, innovation, and cleaner air. The GOP reconcilliation bill would gut them—to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
This gut would be a gift to polluters and a blow to our economy, health, and climate.
zurl.co/nEebl
#StandUpForScience
This gut would be a gift to polluters and a blow to our economy, health, and climate.
zurl.co/nEebl
#StandUpForScience
Opinion | Save Us, Senators, From a Very Expensive Mistake
Senate Republicans understand that energy abundance is essential for the economy, national security and the country’s well-being. Now they must act.
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy credits are powering jobs, innovation, and cleaner air. The GOP reconcilliation bill would gut them—to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
This gut would be a gift to polluters and a blow to our economy, health, and climate.
zurl.co/nEebl
#StandUpForScience
This gut would be a gift to polluters and a blow to our economy, health, and climate.
zurl.co/nEebl
#StandUpForScience
All your Ultra Vires r belong to us
Federal Judge Boots DOGE Out Of Institute Of Peace After Armed Takeover talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...
Federal Judge Boots DOGE Out Of Institute Of Peace After Armed Takeover
A judge turned the U.S. Institute of Peace back over to its...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
All your Ultra Vires r belong to us
“A task too strong for wizard spells This squire has brought about; ‘Tis easy dropping stones in wells, But who shall get them out?” [“George Eliot”, Middlemarch]
NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped.
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up
The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.
www.eenews.net
May 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“A task too strong for wizard spells This squire has brought about; ‘Tis easy dropping stones in wells, But who shall get them out?” [“George Eliot”, Middlemarch]
I think often about the mooting of the Emoluments clause as I learn of 47’s crypto interests and other merch/grifts. SCOTUS denied justice for the future after years of delayed justice in 45. When guardrails fail, build back better.
At the end of the first Trump administration, SCOTUS made the decision to vacate all of the underlying opinions in the cases challenging Trump's stake in his hotels as unconstitutional receipt of emoluments (gifts) from foreign governments
May 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I think often about the mooting of the Emoluments clause as I learn of 47’s crypto interests and other merch/grifts. SCOTUS denied justice for the future after years of delayed justice in 45. When guardrails fail, build back better.
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“Engineers and computer scientists, please defend humanities research just as loudly as you might defend research in STEM fields.” With thousands of funding cuts across the humanities, it’s vitally important that engineers stand up to support the humanities.
Engineering and the Humanities: It's Complicated
As an electrical engineer turned historian who now studies engineers of the past, I have a good sense of how the engineering profession evolved. And what I've learned is this: Engineers have long…
spectrum.ieee.org
May 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Engineers and computer scientists, please defend humanities research just as loudly as you might defend research in STEM fields.” With thousands of funding cuts across the humanities, it’s vitally important that engineers stand up to support the humanities.
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The National Science Foundation marks its 75th anniversary this week.
Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it.
www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...
Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it.
www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...
May 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The National Science Foundation marks its 75th anniversary this week.
Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it.
www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...
Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it.
www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...
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For 75 years, NSF has helped promote scientific progress, advance health and prosperity, and secure the national defense. The Trump administration has a different set of values.
May 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
For 75 years, NSF has helped promote scientific progress, advance health and prosperity, and secure the national defense. The Trump administration has a different set of values.
The looting is the point.
May 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The looting is the point.
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And Thom Tillis, up for reelection in 2026, was the key vote to confirm Hegseth along with Joni Ernst. Despite the fact that they knew he was unfit, they were afraid of Trump and put their political futures ahead of the country. Now they own every bit of this debacle.
April 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
And Thom Tillis, up for reelection in 2026, was the key vote to confirm Hegseth along with Joni Ernst. Despite the fact that they knew he was unfit, they were afraid of Trump and put their political futures ahead of the country. Now they own every bit of this debacle.
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7/ that there are four lights not five. And the most central is that DOGE in its essence is a criminal enterprise.
March 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
7/ that there are four lights not five. And the most central is that DOGE in its essence is a criminal enterprise.