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They insist that America is about blood & soil, about where you were born & what color you are, because on any level playing field, they would lose. They have no decency, no particular skills, no ideas, nothing to offer ... the accidents of their color & geography are all they have going for them.
September 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
They insist that America is about blood & soil, about where you were born & what color you are, because on any level playing field, they would lose. They have no decency, no particular skills, no ideas, nothing to offer ... the accidents of their color & geography are all they have going for them.
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An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
August 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
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INCREDIBLE! This is yet another US citizen charged with "assault" for supposedly impeding what ICE describes as yet another racial profiling incident! ICE was chasing "individuals" (eg Hispanics) who they had no idea whether they were here illegally when they ran over Andrea.
August 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
INCREDIBLE! This is yet another US citizen charged with "assault" for supposedly impeding what ICE describes as yet another racial profiling incident! ICE was chasing "individuals" (eg Hispanics) who they had no idea whether they were here illegally when they ran over Andrea.
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I think this is a key takeaways of East Asian urbanism: as long as the public realm is fine, individual buildings can be ugly as sin and the cityscape will still cohere
My YIMBY take on design is that micromanaging architecture through strict regulation and/or subjective design review processes empowers busybodies and NIMBYs for little public benefit and that public policies to create attractive neighborhoods should instead focus on designing the public realm.
Building on some housing debates this week, I wrote about YIMBY and design.
NIMBYs use aesthetics as a tool to block new housing, through design review and historic districting.
But growth is actually the key to better-looking buildings — and vice versa. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
NIMBYs use aesthetics as a tool to block new housing, through design review and historic districting.
But growth is actually the key to better-looking buildings — and vice versa. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
July 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I think this is a key takeaways of East Asian urbanism: as long as the public realm is fine, individual buildings can be ugly as sin and the cityscape will still cohere
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As the American Government assaults the incentives designed to help people electrify everything, Saul Griffith reminds us that 80% of the red tape holding back low cost measures are at the State and Local level. Volunteer and make 5 good purchases to get a house to zero emissions as old stuff dies.
Plug In!
Buy Plug In!, The Electrification Handbook by Saul Griffith from Booktopia. Get a discounted Paperback from Australia's leading online bookstore.
www.booktopia.com.au
July 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
As the American Government assaults the incentives designed to help people electrify everything, Saul Griffith reminds us that 80% of the red tape holding back low cost measures are at the State and Local level. Volunteer and make 5 good purchases to get a house to zero emissions as old stuff dies.
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Electricity is the largest provider of useful energy since surpassing oil in 2007 📈
Useful energy is a measure of what we get out of the system to actually deliver services like powering homes and running factories–not just what we put in.
https://loom.ly/bP2_lno
Useful energy is a measure of what we get out of the system to actually deliver services like powering homes and running factories–not just what we put in.
https://loom.ly/bP2_lno
July 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Electricity is the largest provider of useful energy since surpassing oil in 2007 📈
Useful energy is a measure of what we get out of the system to actually deliver services like powering homes and running factories–not just what we put in.
https://loom.ly/bP2_lno
Useful energy is a measure of what we get out of the system to actually deliver services like powering homes and running factories–not just what we put in.
https://loom.ly/bP2_lno
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The same people who deny that releasing 40+ billion tonnes of chemicals annually into the atmosphere changes our climate think that an airplane spraying a few tonnes of chemicals into the atmosphere definitely does. I want the world to be less stupid, as well as less evil.
July 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The same people who deny that releasing 40+ billion tonnes of chemicals annually into the atmosphere changes our climate think that an airplane spraying a few tonnes of chemicals into the atmosphere definitely does. I want the world to be less stupid, as well as less evil.
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Looking back, it will be easy for historians to point out when the US was no longer the dominant country in the world.
July 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Looking back, it will be easy for historians to point out when the US was no longer the dominant country in the world.
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In very rough terms, 1 unit of clean electricity displaces dirty units as follow:
Heat pump: 3
EV: 3
Cement: 2 to 3
Heat pumps and EVs get efficiency multipliers, and switching to calcium silicate cement means you can absorb CO2 rather than emit it with limestone cement.
Heat pump: 3
EV: 3
Cement: 2 to 3
Heat pumps and EVs get efficiency multipliers, and switching to calcium silicate cement means you can absorb CO2 rather than emit it with limestone cement.
Take a quick peek at the future of cement. One possible future that is, if we choose to take it. It's a pretty glorious one.
youtu.be/9b4io87tNf4
youtu.be/9b4io87tNf4
Sublime: Cleaning up cement, one electron at a time
YouTube video by The YEARS Project
youtu.be
July 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In very rough terms, 1 unit of clean electricity displaces dirty units as follow:
Heat pump: 3
EV: 3
Cement: 2 to 3
Heat pumps and EVs get efficiency multipliers, and switching to calcium silicate cement means you can absorb CO2 rather than emit it with limestone cement.
Heat pump: 3
EV: 3
Cement: 2 to 3
Heat pumps and EVs get efficiency multipliers, and switching to calcium silicate cement means you can absorb CO2 rather than emit it with limestone cement.
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
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No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage – an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.
June 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage – an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.
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Whether your thing is:
Climate Change
Industrial Competitiveness
Civil Liberties
Immigration
Sound Fiscal Policy
Healthcare
Nutrition Assistance
This reconciliation bill is so terrible it boggles the mind
Climate Change
Industrial Competitiveness
Civil Liberties
Immigration
Sound Fiscal Policy
Healthcare
Nutrition Assistance
This reconciliation bill is so terrible it boggles the mind
June 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Whether your thing is:
Climate Change
Industrial Competitiveness
Civil Liberties
Immigration
Sound Fiscal Policy
Healthcare
Nutrition Assistance
This reconciliation bill is so terrible it boggles the mind
Climate Change
Industrial Competitiveness
Civil Liberties
Immigration
Sound Fiscal Policy
Healthcare
Nutrition Assistance
This reconciliation bill is so terrible it boggles the mind
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It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend
After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
Climate Change Demands More Air Conditioning
An often-disparaged technology is a lifesaver, not a luxury.
foreignpolicy.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
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“I’d like to say there’s a silver lining here,” Mr. Jenkins said. “There isn’t much of one. We’re dismantling substantial portions of the most important climate policy the U.S. has ever passed.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
Repeal of Clean Energy Law Will Mean a Hotter Planet, Scientists Warn
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“I’d like to say there’s a silver lining here,” Mr. Jenkins said. “There isn’t much of one. We’re dismantling substantial portions of the most important climate policy the U.S. has ever passed.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
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This week's blog post is here, and it's about LLMs as a cultural phenomenon:
Keeping up appearances | deadSimpleTech
The only reason that LLMs took root in the first place was because our societies in the anglosphere have already developed cultures solely devoted to gaining status and keeping up the appearance of do...
deadsimpletech.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This week's blog post is here, and it's about LLMs as a cultural phenomenon:
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The winter peak is coming. There are numerous potential solutions out there, from right-sized heat pumps to geo-exchange (ground source heat pumps) and thermal storage to thermostatic control. Time to work on the right mix to meet the moment.
By 2034, ISO New England predicts winter peak demand will nearly match summer peak demand as the electrification of heating accelerates. Read more: bit.ly/4iXpIAD
Enhanced long-term forecast predicts steady growth in energy use, peak demand - ISO Newswire
The ISO projects the region's annual electricity consumption will increase by about 11% over the next decade.
isonewswire.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The winter peak is coming. There are numerous potential solutions out there, from right-sized heat pumps to geo-exchange (ground source heat pumps) and thermal storage to thermostatic control. Time to work on the right mix to meet the moment.
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"80% of the time, 1/3 of the grid isn't being used. That means we have plenty of room in most hours to accommodate new load. The Nicholas Institute did a pretty cool study on this recently, and it has been in the news ever since." 🔌💡
-Constellation CEO, Q1-2025 Earnings Call
-Constellation CEO, Q1-2025 Earnings Call
May 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"80% of the time, 1/3 of the grid isn't being used. That means we have plenty of room in most hours to accommodate new load. The Nicholas Institute did a pretty cool study on this recently, and it has been in the news ever since." 🔌💡
-Constellation CEO, Q1-2025 Earnings Call
-Constellation CEO, Q1-2025 Earnings Call
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Honestly why are scientists even complaining about government funding cuts? They can all just go work in biotech, which is surely on a massive hiring binge with stocks near all time highs thanks to the prudent and sensible pro-innovation FDA reform I was assured would happen
May 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Honestly why are scientists even complaining about government funding cuts? They can all just go work in biotech, which is surely on a massive hiring binge with stocks near all time highs thanks to the prudent and sensible pro-innovation FDA reform I was assured would happen