David Savage

The committee from The Good Place arguing: “He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep on giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy.”

Lost as waste heat plus all the fossil fuels we burn just to move other fossil fuels around.

In the most recent lawrence Berkeley lab analysis it is suggested that data centers on net *don't* increase rates on average (that is, states with large load growth saw smaller rate increases or rate decreases).

The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against rampant AI development.

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics…

…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.

read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

I grew up vacationing in Klamath country, swimming in these rivers, jumping off rocks, etc. Even from across the country, seeing the return of the salmon runs to this region has been one of my very favorite stories in a year full of not-great ones.

If the Georgia PSC race is anything to judge by, a whole lot of generalist pundits are going to have to learn a whole lot about rate cases (this is bad! Support subject matter specialist journalists who've put in the time!)

Tbh this was Prey but with the voyageurs instead of US troops

Live laugh lose

True trident behavior

Tactically, she was perfect.

Debs museum in Terre Haute is well worth visiting

This man has Clyde Frazier levels of sauce.

The Cuomintang are taking refuge on Staiwanten Island

How does she think bay area yimby organizing tactics translate to other regions, especially those that aren't just other big blue coastal cities like Seattle or NYC or Boston etc

So basically what was already happening with the back stop siting / NIETC stuff?

Implication is this is a federal compromise. Not sure how much that matters when so much of the problem is at township/county level. Unless part of the renewables deregulation is overriding those local siting decisions.

It should not be that hard to just say "yes I'm going to try to get this done. I'm not going to lie to you and say it's a done deal. But we're going to take our best shot at it" about any ambitious policy.

Already made that trade and it's totally worth it. The bikability rules.

There's a lot of support for Platner in that liberal bastion, the comments section of the New York Times Opinion section.

As somebody who does not much care about baseball but does care about hating Los Angeles, go Blue Jays.

Illmatic best album of the 90s in any genre

CBS NEWS headline: Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

CNN headline: Stranded and injured, he drank his own urine to survive in the wild. Here's how an American hiker made it home

The difference between the French and Americans in two headlines. 😆

Sorry @alecluhn.bsky.social

I think tamales might be better than tacos in this case since you can just keep a cooler full next to the door but this is a good idea.

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

Not true. They simply believe there's more money to be made criticizing democrats. It's just business.

Have the control group eat Michael Jordan to cause maximum controversy.

On the other hand if you aren't willing to walk away (that is, be a voter while making a *credible threat* of becoming a nonvoter) what leverage do you have to get a candidate to do something you want them to do that they don't want to do

It is, but the important thing is that a candidate can't readily distinguish "this person didn't vote because they care about some issue that i don't" from "this person didn't vote because there was something good on TV", at least not at a population level (they're not reading your posts)

So here's a key question: do you think that this framing is an effective way of convincing the people who currently believe this to change their minds (assuming changing their minds is a desirable outcome)?

This is why asexuals have the only objectively correct taste in music