Imagine making AI slop when bearded vultures already exist
#birds

Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of 'solar zealots' and Josiah Mortimer is enthusiastically along for the ride

Solar Energy UK's chief is unsurprised by the surge: “Solar has such a dramatic impact on bills. Even before the latest energy crisis, last year saw a record 258,000 small-scale installations completed, largely on houses. The two million [total] mark will be crossed within weeks.”

Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

“Bob, you’re bleeding.”

“I know! Isn’t it great?”

“No, dude, like a LOT of blood there.”

“Yeah! It’s awesome! …I feel kinda woozy.”

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

"If you’re looking for a sign from God as to whether hanging out with the richest man on Earth is right for you, pay attention when he sends you not one plague, but two."

Holy shit Noah Hawley is good (and this very clearly demonstrates that he understands the Alien assignment).

In my experience, the gays who were active in the gay rights movement support trans rights now.
The gays who stayed home and scolded the activists for stirring things up are the ones who are now trying to ditch trans people.

rooting for injuries on this one

Once Tulsi Gabbard is gone, he'll starting firing the men of color. Kash should be worried.

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Your phone will never take a good photo of the moon except for this one rare exception.

FWIW, the answer to this question is “no”

This is a good piece.

also

Religion is not a synonym for Christianity

You look at Elon Musk's actual life and no amount of money would entice me to trade for that life. He is miserable and carries that misery around with him. That misery has taken over all aspects of his being. All that money and yet so so miserable.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime.

Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

I've come to view "trans men are men" as an expedient akin to "born this way": at best, it's useful for trying to get cis people to understand that we are the gender we say we are in the simplest terms possible. Beyond that, it tends to elide the specific types of misogyny that trans men face

My right-wing misogynist Christian grandparents did not celebrate my transition to male, they threatened to disown me for ruining my sticker value as a brood mare. "Patriarchy elevates masculinity therefore it must also elevate trans men" is absolute horseshit. They Do Not see us as "real" men

Children ‘low-hanging fruit’ in fight to end trans care, official at pro-Trump thinktank says America First Policy Institute, which boasts close ties to president, discussed transgender policy ‘reform’ at DC event

look. trans people have known all along that eradicating us completely is the goal of these groups and that they have unlimited support at the highest levels. we've been shouting it from the rooftops trying to get people to believe us. please read this story. please take this seriously.

WHY does this look like a maternity shoot

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Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Exactly one year ago today:

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