The oligarchs hate renewables because they can't profit from them. Once everyone buys solar panels, their energy costs are free. It isn't only the oil industry that doesn't want this to happen. Utility companies don't want it either. Anything that helps people and doesn't make money is an anathema.
Is it time to let Deadpool kill the marvel universe yet?
Read this thread, and then remember everything I've been trying to tell y'all about the ways that "Generative AI" depends on violating consent and is being used to undermine the foundations of knowledge, consensus reality, and democracy.
I would genuinely like us to build a better, more compassionate, consent-oriented, marginalized-peoples-centered, & just technosocial paradigm of "AI," & for "AI"'s current paradigm to fuck right off into the sun, reduced to its component subaatomic particles, & lost even to the mind of god. Thanks!
Himalayan range, 2026.
𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚎𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐,
𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙸 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏
𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜—
𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖..
𝚄𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎,
𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐,
𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎.
𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚠𝚗𝚎𝚛..
𝚃𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐,
𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗
𝚞𝚗𝚋𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏.
#SeeingTruth
#Photography
Iran is drawing on a characteristic of money that has been around since at least the bronze age: enabling trade between strangers and across political boundaries.
Thou shalt not commit blasphemy against Samuel L. Jackson’s monologue in Pulp Fiction, motherfucker.
Under the right conditions, 1g of oyster shells can capture and lock away up to around 1.5g of the rare earth elements present dissolved in the surrounding water.
Tiny seafloor creatures play a vital role in coastal ecosystems. New research suggests microplastics may now be interfering with that balance.
For the record, gratifying as it is to have the Pope saying good things, the Catholic Church is a malign influence
Can they not just dip him in gold now? Surely there no need to wait!
scan of a gouache painting of Philly's mascot Gritty, a furry orange muppet with wild eyes, as a wrathful deity crowned with gold flames, dancing on modern imps of ignorance and cruelty, on the Columbia bridge over the Schuylkil, in front of a burning Cybertruck in the river, flanked by offerings of pretzels and Tastykakes. It holds up a progress flag on a hockey stick, a middle finger, a sprig of ginkgo, a big cup of Wawa coffee, one empty blessing hand, and a molotov cocktail ready to throw. The sky is pastel dawn colors over Fairmount Park.
so i don't live there now but i am From Philly, it's meaningfully part of me even 20+ years out
and i'm not into hockey but this guy has transcended mere hockey mascot, imo. i've been thinking about this kind of treatment for him basically since go & especially since they doubled down on the flag-
"The findings draw a clearer line between Thomson Reuters’ data business—which can involve selling names, addresses, car registration information, Social Security numbers, and details on someone’s ethnicity under the brand name CLEAR—and the specific tools ICE is ingesting the data into."
#Pinks
We are paying $3 per litre in Aus!
"They were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
—The Great Gatsby
Fundamental foundational reminder: It's human biases and human values all the way down.
The particular technology in question can matter in how exactly said values express, but the core remains:
Human biases, human values, human choices, and unquestioned human assumptions, leading to human death.
Trump's worst impulses could be reined in during his first term, Taylor wrote, but he cited recent reporting that officials around the president in his second term are afraid to challenge his belief that the military operation against Iran is a "complete success."
www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
DOGE canceled research grants because they mentioned LGBTQ.
The person making the call had no experience reviewing grants and admitted no research informed the decision.
And this is the incompetence making federal funding decisions.
#SheShed #Voices4Victory
The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community
Recent events show troubling signs that Islamophobia is tolerated in ways other forms of racism are not.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/pauline...
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.
This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's so tragic & so terrifying!
What's more terrifying is the kinds of things that are being said by Stephen Miller.
He's telling these #ICE thugs they are above the law.
But they are not & when this administration & all of the ICE savages are punished,I hope that there's absolutely no mercy!
The violence is on purpose.
With no Antarctica-style treaty to protect Greenland, a US takeover could mean scientists lose access.
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
