JoAnn Welch

No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills

It was so easy; I don’t get people

If Mamdani could meet with Trump every day we’d have Medicare for All by the end of January.

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A beautiful sunset on the greenway in Nashville

You don’t get views like this when you commute by car.

I biked home from work on the pitch dark greenway at 5:45 pm

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Special election

The federal government shutdown does NOT impact voting in the U.S. House District 7 Special Primary Election. #VOTE until 7pm today!!

Text message from Pete Buttigieg soliciting donations and me replying no because of his bad endorsement in the Seattle mayor’s race

If you are going to have kids, be prepared to fold queen size bedsheets by yourself.

Harper Reading Room. UChicago looks beautiful in fall. It's the right season to visit and fall in love or renew your acquaintance with this campus.

UChicago would like a word www.flickr.com/photos/irony...

Just biked home from work, time to do like three hub Nashville requests…

Unsubscribed from a company whose marketing includes sustainability and carbon offsets yet started using an “AI concierge” to text me every month about my order. 🙄

She’s not wrong

Text on sign: Hell Yeah I am STOKED about sunflowers. Thank you for planting them. Everyone pls be nice to them. They are going to be so pretty!!! Row of sunflower emoji

Sign within the sunflower laden traffic circle sign

One of my neighbors planted sunflowers in a traffic circle.

Another one of my neighbors added this sign.

I love Capitol Hill.

Is there a hub Nashville request to get a traffic light changed to whatever type can recognize cyclists and doesn’t need the weight of a car to change?

To be fair, Nashville wants none of this. The state is trying to force it on us

The baby seems to like it more because they get more wind/better view. She always seemed very tucked away like if they fell the shell would protect her arms and legs. @immortalcashew.bsky.social

No clue if there’s research or consensus. It’s definitely a different riding experience for where weight is and I could see how it maybe wouldn’t be as safe because the kid is so much higher off the ground but it seemed safe enough to me for my baby especially for rides just for fun on a greenway

Okay I kept saying Yeti seat but I meant this one… a.co/d/1aK1qPw

Do you happen to want ours? We haven’t used it in a couple of years and it’s just sitting in our shed. Ours is orange.

I probably wouldn’t have felt comfortable until a year with both for the trailer. Yeti seat was good for younger.

Now at 14 months she is big enough to sit in the UA next to her sister (almost 4) with a helmet on on the back bench (closest to the cyclist). We’ve also pulled her in a burley trailer with a helmet on at this point I think. @immortalcashew.bsky.social anything to add?

Toddler Bike Helmet for Boys and Girls, Adjustable Kids Helmets from Infant/Baby to Children, 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 Years Old (Galaxy,XS) Amazon.com : Toddler Bike Helmet for Boys and Girls, Adjustable Kids Helmets from Infant/Baby to Children, 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 Years Old (Galaxy,XS) : Sports & Outdoors

This was the smallest helmet we could find, fit a 9 month old. That was when we started biking with our first daughter in the yeti seat. With our second daughter, her first bike ride was at 3 months old in her car seat in the urban arrow www.amazon.com/dp/B09DKS2Q3...

It’s amazing! Going to go out and do yard work. I wish the humidity was lower but I’ll take it

I have been putting off mowing because of the heat. Maybe I’ll do it next weekend…

Excited for this!

I’m looking for the application form. Has it closed?