Exclusive: Data Centers Are Now More Controversial Than Wind Farms Fights over AI-related developments outnumber those over wind farms in the Heatmap Pro database.

NIMBY crosses party lines. It's not just anti-renewable energy. heatmap.news/sparks/data-...

Eliza, Mike, and Bruce diving into the food/agriculture/meat/climate puzzle and talking solutions.

Kicked off DC Climate Week in style with “Reimagining Food for a Livable Planet” hosted by @bezosearthfund.org featuring @mikegrunwald.bsky.social & @brucefriedrich.bsky.social talking w @elizabarclay.bsky.social about their new books on ag, meat, & climate. I ate my first ever cultivated salmon.

6/ This convergence is driven by brutal political necessity.

Government reaction: Electrification offers a structural exit from a system that is now fundamentally unstable.

Its a shared logic of sovereignty & electrification across energy, industry, and defense. ht @picharbonnier.bsky.social

Chinese trucks could go 100% electric, halving road transport oil use: industry China’s industrial supply chains and engineering expertise provide a distinct competitive advantage, CiDi CEO Albert Hu says.

The Chinese are really moving fast on what was thought impossible until the 2030s. We are still so early in electrifying vehicles that are now larger polluters than power plants in much of the world

"Chinese trucks could go 100% electric, halving road transport oil use"
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

There’s a real disconnect in anglosphere discourse because a lot of it centres in the US where people aren’t seeing Chinese EVs at all, while much of the rest of the world is

A side point but there’s a lot of space in health care to absorb more labor if we suddenly do get job losses from AI.

Oh no

just had an extremely cursed thought. what if elder millennials are just unleaded gen x

NEW | Record exports of solar, batteries and EVs last month 📈

China’s exports for the ‘new three’ industries reached a record high of $21.9bn in March 2026, up 70% year-on-year, in the wake of the US-Israel war with Iran and changing export rebates for solar and batteries.

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

Might be time to bust out one of my favourite climate stories of all time: how BECCS was mostly a kind of model hallucination

The Forces of Scarcity Hitting Asia May Soon Spread Across the World

📣 Breaking:
"Resource scarcity tends to unleash dark forces in human psychology and capitalism."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

As Soumaya and I researched our book, companies kept describing a disconnect between what the President said about tariffs and their everyday reality.

So I visited Fall River, Massachusetts to see exactly how made-in-America seat cushions were being caught up in President Trump's tariffs...

I want this for you.

personally while "force majeure" was on the bingo cards I wasn't expecting to see phrases like "piracy" or "letters of marque" in contemporary discourse quite this much. maybe there's still hope for me to try out a swashbuckling era as a privateer

The @IEA projected that the world would use ~105 million barrels per day in 2026.

With the disruption in the Strait we are already predicted to go down to an average of 100mbpd for 2026.🧵

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

Reminder: The Trump regime cancelled nearly $500 million in federal contracts for mRNA vaccine development last year.

Gen Z is too young to remember when there wasn’t a horse in the hospital.

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

Some companies just don’t want to be saved

Try birding, it can be an incredibly affordable hobby to go outside and enjoy birds!

A few months to years in....

Lebron now playing in his 293rd playoff game, which is 34 more than the guy in second place (Derek Fisher) and *96* more than the next active player (Al Horford).

#NBAsky

That, sigh

The Fisher is so close feels crazy to me.

Oh no.

*Guillotine emoji*

“There’s no distinction between the priorities of OpenAI and of the US government” — The Equator Podcast How are the fascisms of today different from those of the past, and how can we collectively fight them? Equator’s Pankaj Mishra talks to the award-winning writer Naomi Klein about how history repeats ...

The great @naomiaklein.bsky.social talking with the splendid Pankaj Mishra. Self-recommending. overcast.fm/+ABWRw6NKW1s

I often see this thru lens of patriarchy but, yes. The friendly solidarity you can share/experience with complete strangers when you have babies & small kids is amazing