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If It Happens soon, he might get his wish.

Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them. Mandatory helmet laws and glow-in-the-dark spray paint just show who really owns the roads.

A decade on, the message is still the same:

“…the person operating the giant machine on public roads needs to be responsible for not killing people with it.”

my other hot take on birth rate discourse is that I really really don’t much care for seeing specifically *cis men* casually chatter about it.

Our nearest big town, Ellsworth Maine, has an old dam that someone turned into a projection screen. 1/

Look, the Iran war may be murdering school kids, causing a huge spike in energy bills, stiffling global trade, radicalising a generation of Iranians, tanking Trump's ratings further, and causing mass migration: but at least it's wasting billions that could be spent on creating a better society.

Vineyard Wind, country's first large-scale offshore wind project, finishes construction After years of starts and stops, construction on Vineyard Wind, the country's first large-scale offshore wind project, wrapped up this week.

Last night was a big night for offshore wind:

Vineyard Wind finished construction and Revolution Wind began sending power to the grid @wbur.org #energysky

www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

Two AMAZING dark skinned Black women rocking natural hair textures on Bloomberg Businessweek Radio like woooooooowwww

Today I joined my friend and reporter Norah Mulinda LIVE IN STUDIO with @bloomberg.com Businessweek, and this specific shot makes me emotional: two dark-skinned Black women in 'fros, talking economics, on national TV. A historic moment. 😭

Watch our interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIZ...

I’ve been on a cargo ship that came over from China to the NOLA port and like, 90% of that ship was raw materials. The ship’s center part (forgot the name for it) is deep and wide and the material is crammed in there. You’d need 100s (if not more) of trucks to move that much oil.

Offshore wind farms race toward completion despite Trump’s attacks Trump is trying to kill offshore wind. But two big East Coast projects are poised to start producing power, and others are hitting key construction…

Trump tried to tank these five offshore wind farms. But after winning their court cases, two are almost complete, and three are on the cusp of major milestones.

a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man . ALT: a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man .

Alternatively, they've never really grappled with the immense scale of global trade, oil or otherwise.

For most people, the largest unit of fuel they ever see (and recognize) is a delivery tanker refilling a gas station.

That being said, it's giving:

“If we look at kids who are immunocompromised, they are relying on the community to protect them…..They rely on community immunity. They rely on having a 95% vaccination coverage shield so they do not catch the measles."

Another reason why RFK Jr’s repulsive anti-vaccine crusade is so dangerous 😢

Revolution Wind Begins Delivering Power to New England Built by more than 1,000 local union workers, project expected to power 350,000+ homes with affordable, reliable electricity

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

#offshorewind

revolution-wind.com/news/2026/03...

China’s Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

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.

www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

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.

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

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

Come Thru Us, by Evan Greer track by Evan Greer

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.

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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.