Tim Chambers

Climate Skeptics Are Tapped by Trump Administration to Justify Regulatory Rollback A report is challenging decades of scientific findings to undermine the EPA’s authority.

Climate Skeptics Are Tapped by Trump Administration to Justify Regulatory Rollback

Trump likes to push the lie that wind turbines cause cancer, but the only way that would happen is if you grounded them down to a powder and snorted it, probably; kind of like inhaling air pollution from burning fossil fuels.

Small repairs Drinking Sunday coffee in the hyper-normal

Small repairs: a Sunday morning aside. werd.io/small-repairs/

Online news publishers face 'extinction-level event' from Google's AI-powered search While many factors often drive traffic fluctuations, publishers say the introduction of Google's AI Overviews has led to dramatic declines for news outlets and other online information sources.

Why having an open social web discovery system like #surffeeds is more important than ever. www.npr.org/2025/07/3…

Musk’s Boring Co. Burns $900M, Delivers Tunnels, Not Hyperloops — Bloomberg Also today: Chicago tackles $1 billion budget hole, and AI gives researchers a hand across fields.

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Watch the Earth split in real time: First-ever video reveals 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds caused by an earthquake | - The Times of India Science News: In March 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, marking the strongest seismic event in over a century. A nearby CCTV camera captured

Watch the Earth split in real time: First-ever video reveals 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds caused by an earthquake
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Online news publishers face 'extinction-level event' from Google's AI-powered search While many factors often drive traffic fluctuations, publishers say the introduction of Google's AI Overviews has led to dramatic declines for news outlets and other online information sources.

While many factors often drive traffic fluctuations, publishers say the introduction of Google's AI Overviews has led to dramatic declines for news outlets and other online information sources.

Scotland Trolls Trump With Massive New Wind Farm on His Doorstep “Stop the windmills! You are ruining your countries,” Trump ranted days earlier while on a visit to the country.

Scotland, how can we ever thank you enough?! You’re supporting our people during a time when a madman holds us all captive. You didn’t bend the knee. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

AI data center planned for Wyoming will use five times the power used by all state's residents Do you think this AI trend is a fad? Well, here's a big clue right across the Colorado border that it's not going anywhere!

Destroying the planet to immiserate labor to enrich a few dozen billionaires. The Butlerian Jihad can't come soon enough. kygo.com/ai-data-cent...

Really reassured this conversation between Trump and Medvedev is happening between two rational leaders with a firm grasp on diplomacy and an unwavering commitment to the well-being of their people.

And we're officially at the end of being able to trust the jobs numbers in this country ever again.

Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie

Meanwhile the usual MAGA crowd, including folks like Matt Taibbi and Jonathan Turley are claiming that the release (which, again, if you read it, shows that the key piece of evidence was likely faked by the Russians) is proof that the entire Russian interference story is made up.

Delusional.

Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

The Interior Department released a new order Friday saying it may no longer issue any permits to a solar or wind project on federal lands unless the agency believes it will generate as much energy per acre as a coal, gas or or nuclear energy. via @jael.bsky.social
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Democrats are unpopular — but still winning The party has a near-historically low favorability rating. This is mostly due to disaffection on the left, where voters still say they'll vote Democratic for the midterms

ICYMI: Over at Strength In Numbers, we have written a pretty comprehensive post with everything you need to know about the Democratic Party's favorability polls: Who they're losing ground with, why, and whether it matters for the midterms: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democratic...

On average, the party not in control of the White House gains 6 points from this point in the midterm cycle to Election Day (next Nov). Sometimes they gain more (11 points in 2009-2010!), sometimes less (2018 — started high).

Dems up +2.3 today.

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Excellent panel about what’s next for the federated technology and innovation.

#FediCon #MastoAdmin

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What it feels like being at #Fedicon

Johannes Ernst at Fedicon with a slide that says "what if turned the entire web social"

@j12t talking about how we grow the open social web further, and turning the web social by default

Johannes Ernst providing a framework for thinking about going from Millions to Billions Slide is Social Media Landscape and shows lots of big closed platforms

Now @j12t presenting on Millions to Billions and says the entire open social is 0.1% of the entire market share.

We’ve got to be friends with everyone but the “overlords”.

#FediCon

And of course, hit the #FediCon hashtag and you’ll get all the posts including bridged ones.

When listening to @j12t at #FediCon talking about universal identities, I kept thinking about #OpenID and how it tapped into the broad internet, and virtually disappeared in a few years.

Instead, we have all those “log in with {an overlord}” buttons, obviously pushed by the wealthy and powerful […]

Finished with my talk at #FediCon, which put "conveying non-manipulated truth" at the center of the narrative for the open social web, and that overlords don't do that, I sink into a seat in the audience and I see this headline.

"Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers" "Trump has fired […]

Another great talk from my friend @chris on his journey in setting up https://socialbc.ca/explore.

Boris stands on stage behind a podium in front of slide presentation 'beyond microblogging AT protocol for building unique socialmapps"

Day 1 session 5 #FediCon with @boris talking open social beyond microblogging.

Newsom’s right: “Democrats need to stop the bullshit.”

We play fair. They’re gerrymandering and rewriting the rules in real time.

It’s not about the high road anymore.
It’s time to fight back.

Why Did Meta Invest Billions in Scale AI? Meta's $14 billion investment in Scale AI could reshape the future of AI data labeling. What does this mean for AI's evolution?

Data labeling is the unsung hero of AI development—Meta's billion-dollar bet on Scale AI reveals its pivotal role in future innovations.

The Forgotten History of Civil Defense During the Cold War

The basic premise of civil defense during the Cold War was that the people closest to a nuclear attack would die immediately. The question then was, how to protect the survivors?

The Best Robot Videos of the Week What makes CHILD the ultimate tool for humanoid imitation? Explore its loco-manipulation capabilities and open-source design.

Check out the best robot videos of the week!

Some day we’ll have a real President again. Not a madman holding the country hostage. And yes, I am an optimist.