BFD: Revolution Wind is delivering power!
If Rev Wind has the same capacity factor as South Fork Wind did in its first year (46.5%), it will generate 2.74 TWh of electricity annually, equivalent to 34% of power use in the state of #RhodeIsland! /1
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Trump proving to China that their long-term strategy to be the leading producer of electricity from wind and solar as well as electric vehicles was a really, really good decision.
The crime is not just the killing of people who surrender. The crime is telling the enemy that if they surrender, they will be killed. Because when the enemy hears that they cannot surrender peaceably, the war changes from a strategic conflict to a blood-soaked deathmatch.
Mr Laimonas Jakstys Mr Jakstys was aware from the proceedings before me in the morning of the 19 January 2026, that he would be going into the witness box to be cross examined at 13.30. I adjourned early that morning and started earlier in the afternoon so that Mr Jakstys would start in the witness box and be sworn in at 13.30. The video link was running at this time and throughout the first day. Mr Jakstys gave his evidence through an interpreter. Right at the start of his cross examination, he seemed to pause quite a bit before replying to the questions being asked. These questions were interpreted and then there was a pause before there was a reply. After several questions, Ms Walker then informed me that she could hear an interference coming from around Mr Jakstys and akse dif Mr Jakstys could take his glasses off for a period as she was aware smart glasses existsed. The interpreter, who was sitting in the witness box alongside Mr Jakstys confirmed to the court that she could also hear the interference coming from around Mr Jakstys. It was later ascertained that Mr Jakstys was wearing smart glasses. I asked him to remove them before continuing with his cross examination. After a few further questions, when the interpreter was in the process of translating a question, Mr Jakstys' mobile phone started broadcasting out loud with the voice of someone talking. There was clearly someone on the mobile phone talking to Mr Jakstys. He then removed his mobile phone from his inner jacket pocket. At my direction, the smart glasses and his mobile were placed into the hands of his solicitor. I asked both counsel to deal with this issue at the end of that day's evidence being given by Mr Jakstys. When Counsel inspected the smart glasses at the end of the first day's hearing, they connected to Mr Jackstys' phone when they were switched on. In the morning of the second day, I directed that the video link was to be switched off. etc - full text at original link paras 110-114
"...Mr Jakstys' mobile phone started broadcasting out loud..."
These paragraphs from the "smart glasses" case are for the ages.
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Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
Biodiesel and wishful thinking can only get you so far.
This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop.
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I shall be a bestselling writer. After Imago, each of my books will be on the bestseller lists of LAT, NYT, PW, WP, etc. My novels will go onto the above lists whether publishers push them hard or not, whether I’m paid a high advance or not, whether I ever win another award or not. This is my life. I write bestselling novels. My novels go onto the bestseller lists on or shortly after publication. My novels each travel up to the top of the bestseller lists and they reach the top and they stay on top for months . Each of my novels does this. So be it! I will find the way to do this. See to it! So be it! See to it! My books will be read by millions of people! I will buy a beautiful home in an excellent neighborhood I will send poor black youngsters to Clarion or other writer’s workshops I will help poor black youngsters broaden their horizons I will help poor black youngsters go to college I will get the best of health care for my mother and myself I will hire a car whenever I want or need to. I will travel whenever and wherever in the world that I choose My books will be read by millions of people! So be it! See to it!
One of the self-affirmation notes that Octavia E Butler would write for herself 😭
"I shall be a bestselling writer... My novels will go onto the above lists whether publishers push them hard or not, whether I’m paid a high advance or not, whether I ever win another award or not."
Probably lining up gleefully to make sure their kids are the first in line for a RFK Jr.-certified Ethelyne Oxide nebulizer.
I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/
The odds that Ellison's CNN makes him the headliner talent for what's left of the network is distressingly nowhere near zero.
Getting engineering and CS people to understand this and then move past their anger at it to actually doing something meaningful and useful with it is like the vast majority of my work these days
Threw together a quick and dirty folk-punk basement studio version of my new anti-ICE protest song "Come Thru Us."
It's only on Bandcamp! Digital download is $5 and 100% of proceeds benefit LUCE: Immigrant Justice Network.
Y'know, the Ides of March are right around the corner.
The “eat more protein!!!” message is popping up all over, usually in the context of encouraging more meat.
This could have huge impacts on land use requirements, water use & pollution, emissions etc.
Americans consume >200 pounds of meat/person/year. We should eat more plants/less meat instead.
When I tell my students we’re going to discuss the ethics of AI in class, they often assume we’ll be talking about plagiarism and academic integrity. And we do, eventually. But we start here: the illusion of seamless computer magic is built on worker exploitation.
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
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The video with this gave me feels, as the son of a firefighter.
Partially it was rage that we could be spending a fraction of the hideous amount we've poured into AI slop to make actual, beneficial advancements like this the rule rather than the exception.
Media & police commonly report that “speed wasn’t a factor in a crash.” What they mean is the driver wasn’t technically breaking the speed limit, or at least not too much.
But speed is ALWAYS a factor, in how much distance is needed to stop, how well crash victims can be seen, and whether they die.
"More than that, though, is how we as a nation spend money on war and 'immigration enforcement' as if it’s endless, while skimping on all the expenses that actually help our fellow humans," writes @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...
I vote just be an ass. These are the same ppl that who didn't want to wear masks during a global pandemic, and try to shame others who are currently still doing so...
Yes, Qatar is a leading supplier to the world of helium, one of Earth’s rarest elements. Please know that the number 1 end user of helium is not balloons. It’s hospitals. One MRI machine needs 2,000 liters of liquid helium to keep the magnet cool enough to operate.
www.rsna.org/news/2023/ja...
No joke, I think this might be one of the most important roles for tech-savvy Millennials/Gen Xers.
We caught a glimpse of an amazing world, one that was almost entirely free of corporate or political influence because the suits hadn’t caught on yet. We could talk with ANYONE in an age of landlines
lol
Worth remembering that he built in a way to waive the fee on a case by case basis. So, get into his good graces (say by investing half as much in his crypto), and the fee magically goes away!
Yeah this definitely happened today. At my daughter’s school.
Fuck ICE.
You might think clinging to fossil fuels is a terrible mistake.
Remember when he was announced as the nominee and I said he was a collaborator and fuck him and people were like no actually he’s ok?
Anyone want to eat their words? Not me
Utility safety concerns about plug-in solar panels prompted 5 states to delay votes on enabling legislation. Germany has 1.2 million balcony solar panels registered with no safety problems reported. Here's my @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...
