Kit Stolz
@kitstolz.bsky.social
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Serious question/suggestion. The press (and normal people) refer to billionaire allies of Russia’s corrupt autocratic president as oligarchs. Shouldn’t the U.S. press call the politically influential billionaire media allies of the would-be autocratic U.S. president—Musk, Bezos, Ellison—oligarchs?
December 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Serious question/suggestion. The press (and normal people) refer to billionaire allies of Russia’s corrupt autocratic president as oligarchs. Shouldn’t the U.S. press call the politically influential billionaire media allies of the would-be autocratic U.S. president—Musk, Bezos, Ellison—oligarchs?
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Unsurprisingly, the president's reaction to the murder of Rob Reiner confirmed that he is indeed one of the most vile men ever to occupy the White House.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Unsurprisingly, the president's reaction to the murder of Rob Reiner confirmed that he is indeed one of the most vile men ever to occupy the White House.
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Will it be ever thus?
December 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Will it be ever thus?
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Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, in the mirror. Increasing sense that when our country looks in the mirror, this is what we see: a sex trafficker and a white-nationalism exporter
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, in the mirror. Increasing sense that when our country looks in the mirror, this is what we see: a sex trafficker and a white-nationalism exporter
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A few words on Anarchism,
From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!'
davidgraeber.org/articles/are...
From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!'
davidgraeber.org/articles/are...
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A few words on Anarchism,
From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!'
davidgraeber.org/articles/are...
From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!'
davidgraeber.org/articles/are...
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⭐BREAKING: ICE is asking for people to quit calling its hotline to report an undocumented girl named 'Anne Frank' hiding in the attics of Republican lawmakers...😀💯🎯😆
- Mindy Fischer
- Mindy Fischer
December 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
⭐BREAKING: ICE is asking for people to quit calling its hotline to report an undocumented girl named 'Anne Frank' hiding in the attics of Republican lawmakers...😀💯🎯😆
- Mindy Fischer
- Mindy Fischer
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It’s also plainly absurd that someone just happened to discover the true meaning of the common law that just evaded everyone else for 800 years in a few weeks of work. I don’t even know what to do with that.
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It’s also plainly absurd that someone just happened to discover the true meaning of the common law that just evaded everyone else for 800 years in a few weeks of work. I don’t even know what to do with that.
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Look I get the urge to ignore science, I find it hard to accept that cheese is bad for you/jogging has a point/bourbon isn't a vegetable. It's normal, you get over it, whatever.
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Look I get the urge to ignore science, I find it hard to accept that cheese is bad for you/jogging has a point/bourbon isn't a vegetable. It's normal, you get over it, whatever.
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
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“This has a great potential to cause harm, and I simply hope that the committee will accept its responsibility when this harm is caused,” ACIP member Joseph Hibbeln said after voting against changing the guidance. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr.'s handpicked panel votes to end hepatitis B guidance for newborns
The committee now endorses "individual-based decision-making" for pregnant people who test negative for the virus.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“This has a great potential to cause harm, and I simply hope that the committee will accept its responsibility when this harm is caused,” ACIP member Joseph Hibbeln said after voting against changing the guidance. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer
Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells outcompete cancer cells in the race to get sugar to grow
www.newscientist.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
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This is the kind of thing that would be likely to break through. Make people confront the declining value of their own communities. Change the personal cost perception. Too often “Team Facts” thinks they have to be nuanced, and gets bogged down in explanations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is the kind of thing that would be likely to break through. Make people confront the declining value of their own communities. Change the personal cost perception. Too often “Team Facts” thinks they have to be nuanced, and gets bogged down in explanations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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It’s not about information, it’s about identity.
It’s not “misinformation”, it’s propaganda.
The bullshit machine is well-funded & understands the value of networked amplification.
As long as there’s no personal cost to lying or holding false belief, they will.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
It’s not “misinformation”, it’s propaganda.
The bullshit machine is well-funded & understands the value of networked amplification.
As long as there’s no personal cost to lying or holding false belief, they will.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It’s not about information, it’s about identity.
It’s not “misinformation”, it’s propaganda.
The bullshit machine is well-funded & understands the value of networked amplification.
As long as there’s no personal cost to lying or holding false belief, they will.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
It’s not “misinformation”, it’s propaganda.
The bullshit machine is well-funded & understands the value of networked amplification.
As long as there’s no personal cost to lying or holding false belief, they will.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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People are (allegedly) mad about electricity bills, which are rising mainly from poles-and-wires costs, in part to connect computer warehouses. The best way to cut poles-and-wires costs is to intervene at the grid edge, so... maybe make tech companies' grid access contingent on doing that? 🤔
Today on Volts: a solo pod! This is just me talking, pulling together the strands -- the bits and pieces I've covered on pods over the last few years -- into a coherent narrative. Data centers, utilities, rising demand, politics ... this is, in my words, what's going on in energy world right now.
What's going on in electricity world?
Some thoughts on where we are in the electricity sector -- data centers, rising rates, etc. -- and a way forward that can benefit everyone.
www.volts.wtf
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
People are (allegedly) mad about electricity bills, which are rising mainly from poles-and-wires costs, in part to connect computer warehouses. The best way to cut poles-and-wires costs is to intervene at the grid edge, so... maybe make tech companies' grid access contingent on doing that? 🤔
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There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
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the only thing musk should be remembered for
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
the only thing musk should be remembered for
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Is there an unknow button. I’d like an unknow button.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Is there an unknow button. I’d like an unknow button.
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Next up, CO₂ does not cause climate change.
CDC website changed to contradict scientific conclusion that vaccines don't cause autism
The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines don't cause autism.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Next up, CO₂ does not cause climate change.
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When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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This chilling character reference by Jeffrey Epstein on his "best friend" Donald Trump was written the same year they spent Thanksgiving together:
November 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This chilling character reference by Jeffrey Epstein on his "best friend" Donald Trump was written the same year they spent Thanksgiving together:
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Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
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Anyone seen the November print edition of the San Lorenzo Valley Post yet?
The San Lorenzo Valley Post told me they’re gonna publish this photo I took of redwood recovery five years after the CZU wildfire in the November print edition.
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Anyone seen the November print edition of the San Lorenzo Valley Post yet?
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Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”?
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”