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For those joining in person @ihr.bsky.social, a wine reception will follow the seminar! 🍷

Makes me a bit crazy hearing those in the western climate movement describe the energy transition as happening because solar is now the cheapest source of energy as though it's a kind of agent-less market-driven process. It's happening almost exclusively because of Chinese industrial policy!!!

a close up of a woman 's face with the words why 'd you do it written below her Alt: a close up of a woman 's face with the words why 'd you do it written below her

Your every use of generative AI is a stab in the heart to a creative person (actually several).

Can't believe this has been 13 years already. The world is unrecognizable today.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Canadian wildfire smoke changed the songs of New York birds, study finds The massive wildfires that blanketed New York in smoke in the summer of 2023 affected how often some birds in the state sang and chirped.

www.timesunion.com/environment/...

Mexico mourns Pedro Friedeberg, a major figure in contemporary art Surrealist artist Pedro Friedeberg, considered one of the most prolific and eccentric artists to come out of Mexico, died at his home in San Miguel de Allende on March 5. He was 90 years old.

mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/mexi...

The Hinkley C UK nuclear reactor will produce 3.2GW, it will cost £50bn.

For that the UK could have built 40GW of Wind Turbines in 1/5th of the time.

Which would even on the least windy days of the year produce TWICE as much electricity.

Nuclear is an unnecessary RIPOFF.

Closeup of Lupino under an arched doorway, looking up with eyes wide open and mouth open in an expression of enthusiasm.

Ida Lupino in 1935 as the “heart interest of Harold Lloyd in ‘The Milky Way.’” Lupino had to drop out of this film due to illness.

"Do you want to want for the party that wants to return to transgender mutilation surgery for children? These are the choices" -- with the economy reeling, Mike Johnson is leaning hard back into culture war issues

From the correspondence course craze in the early 20C to MOOCs one hundred years later, the commodification of education was but a lucrative side hustle for unis. Now the compulsory technologization of education is fully integrated into extractive capitalism. What a time to be a professor.

Trump’s Epstein scandal somehow got worse | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, is black rain over Tehran a sign of the Apocalypse?

Buried bodies near a NM ranch? New evidence that Epstein may have been murdered? The bolstering of Trump's teen-sex accuser? The Epstein Files have gone wild, and there's one thing we can say for sure

Federal authorities are tied to a massive coverup

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

How Indian government agents in Canada targeted Modi’s opponents | Globalnews.ca The RCMP has linked six Indian diplomats and consular officials to a wave of shootings, killings, threats, arsons and extortions in Canada.

globalnews.ca/news/1081111...

Gov. Kay Ivey commutes death sentence of Charles 'Sonny' Burton | Alabama Reflector Burton's scheduled execution for a 1991 murder he did not commit had sparked protests and a national outcry.

BREAKING via @rchapoco.bsky.social: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton to life imprisonment. Burton was scheduled to be executed on Thursday for the 1991 murder of Doug Battle, in which he was not the triggerman.

A Simple Test to See How Ready You Are to Fight Fascism Hagen Blix, co-author of "Why We Fear AI" joins BJ to talk about how it's not artificial intelligence you need to be afraid of, it's the billionaires. And our host, Rosie Tran, covers how to protect y...

Are you ready to fight fascism? There's a simple yes or no question you can answer to find out:

www.stupidsexyprivacy.com/a-simple-tes...

#ICYMI

Ice floes drifting down the Hudson (about a hundred miles north of the city), with a ribbon of mist adorning the far shore.

(Each floe is replete with a tiny frankenstein, too small to perceive at this distance.)

What's hilarious is that these putatively commie-hating right-wing anti-coffee bros all end up sounding like Karl Marx

Can you imagine how long a human researcher would take to answer the question 'where is President Cleveland buried?', but Bing managed to come up with an answer in *microseconds*.

A cretinously wrong answer. But *microseconds*. THE RESEARCH GAME HAS CHANGED FOREVER.

everyone getting put in this against their will should sue the shiiiiiit out of grammarly

I've never used grammarly but if you have an account, I'd throw it in the trash and set it on fire because what the actual fuck

Debunked: A graph about bisexual women shared with false claims it is about transgender kids The post was promoted by the head of X, Elon Musk, and viewed tens of millions of times.

A post and graph shared widely on social media misleadingly suggests that up to 23% of young adults had identified as transgender.

The chart is actually about the prevalence of bisexuality in women.

jrnl.ie/6979815

“Fossil Fuels as a Weapon of War”: U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Exposes World’s Dangerous Reliance on Oil Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel this week as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran threatens global energy supplies and the broader economy. Iranian officials say no oil will be allowed to leave the ...

20% of the world’s oil and gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz.

Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."

Getting NYC Event Permits Is a Mess. They Want City Hall to Cut the Red Tape. Thousands of groups put on events in public space every year, but navigating the system system is “a maze,” said one East Harlem organizer.

Thousands of groups put on events in public space every year, but navigating the system system is “a maze,” said one East Harlem organizer.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/10/p...

Post your favorite “The Lord of the Rings” character, wrong answers

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character (wrong answers only).

they really have one trick and its not fucking working

we keep operating like trump flipped some kind of switch to make the gop more misogynistic and racist but this path has been clear since the 50s. you dont get here without goldwater, reagan, nixon, the bushes and mccain/romney. trump didnt come out of nowhere. the monster was always there.

How taxpayers are still getting screwed on Kristi Noem's Big Beautiful Jet The infamous 737 is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.”

Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, but a luxury 737 she has traveled on remains in government hands.

DHS is reportedly using money meant for the Trump administration’s self-deportation program to lease the plane and is in the process of buying it outright for $70 million.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.