Ross Macfarlane

Some poetic logic in having Boom enter the AI bubble at this point in the frenzy. I'm sure it will be a great success. Any thoughts, @rutherdan.bsky.social ?

Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.

This is the country that Trump, Vance, Rubio, Witkoff, Kushner & crew are throwing over 80 years of alliances to join.

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William Morgan: Coin honoring traitor and wanna-be tyrant Trump reflects America’s moral rot — Blog

Wanna-be tyrants and cheesy coins -- an analysis of the orange one's new dollar coin with a nod toward Nero. www.newenglanddiary.com/blog/2025/12...

Honduras Issues Warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.

Breaking News: Honduras has issued an international arrest warrant for its former president who was recently pardoned by President Trump.

Trump offshore wind halt illegal, judge rules Administration officials have been especially aggressive in targeting offshore wind projects.

Good news, if late coming. Judge invalidates Trump order stopping offshore wind on east coast. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/12/08/t...

Breathing easier -- study finds that congestion pricing worked in NY resulting in significant reduction in air pollution.

President Trump has pardoned around 100 people who have been charged or convicted of drug crimes, including some who have been major kingpins in conspiracies. All while murdering pawns who are making a few pesos to feed their families.

Love that area. Was at Big Sandy and the Cirque of the Towers in the 70s, too.

We were climbing the Becky/Kor route on the West Buttress of Musembeah above Baptiste Lake.

I live less than a mile from you, and have heard coyotes most nights recently. Thrilling. I have also heard them during the day in the local park, and seen then walking across our yard during the daylight.

Timeline cleanse. High in the Wind River range, Wyoming.

Uzbekistan Proves The Folly Of US Fossil Fuel Madness - CleanTechnica Representatives from China, Turkey, the Middle East, and Europe met in Uzbekistan last week to celebrate a new renewable energy initiative.

Exciting to see Uzbekistan see the future is in clean energy. Less exciting, but no surprise, they are partnering with China to make this future happen. Yet another example of US folly.
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How Trump flipped America's race conversation Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.

Guardrails against racist, xenophobic or dehumanizing rhetoric have all but vanished on the American right. What was once disqualifying — or the exclusive domain of online trolls — is now a fixture of national political discourse www.axios.com/2025/12/06/t...

Our concerns about all of these issues should be heightened by the fact that this AI boom will almost certainly be followed by a bust and lots of communities are going to be left with unfulfilled promises. 5/

"Data centers by design do not have a lot of jobs. It's predatory. They target cities desperate for economic development," LaTricea Adams, CEO of the Memphis-based group, Young, Gifted & Green 4/

Amarillo residents voice concerns over new data center Construction for Fermi America and Texas Tech’s 18-million-square-foot data center campus approximately 20 minutes outside of Amarillo is underway.

In Amarillo, TX, developers are building what they claim will be the world's largest data center, which will be another giant straw sucking water from the already overburdened Ogalala Aquifer. 3/ spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/ne...

Inside the Memphis Community Battling Elon Musk’s xAI A TIME investigation reveals data tying Musk’s AI data center to pollution surges in a historically Black Memphis area.

Story highlights Elon Musk's use of unpermitted gas turbines in a poor, majority black Memphis neighborhood to power his giant "Colossus" supercomputer which spiked air pollution in the neighborhood 2/ time.com/7308925/elon...

AI boom fuels "environmental justice" fears in communities of color Al data centers promise jobs in needed areas

The AI boom is heightening environmental justice concerns in impacted communities that have faced mounting air pollution, depleted water supplies, rising utility energy bills and other challenges. @axios.com @russcontreras.bsky.social 1/
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Cartoon by John Darkow.

The corruption continues to astound.
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Citation please. It has flown under radar.

Ironically, the rhetoric is identical to the language used by right-wing Americans who were opposing the immigration of Jewish families like Miller's ancestors who were fleeing the Nazis in the 1930s

If you're one of those who's swallowed the lie that "plants and trees are having a party with all the increased CO2 in the atmosphere and flourishing, it's all good", please read this.

Natural ecosystems ARE vital allies in the fight against climate breakdown, but that can only go so far.

Climate change is an affordability issue

Trump famously said that he thought crypto was a scam. Then he remembered -- he likes scams!

Stablecoin is also perfect for corruption. It is not an accident that the Trump family fortune has exploded since he has regained office, aided by things like the shady $2 B deal between UAE and Binance using Trump stablecoins, followed by Trump's pardon of Binance's owner, CZ. 1/

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

Washington’s Gallery of Puppets From Venezuela to Iran, the United States can always find ambitious would-be leaders willing to advocate regime change. But they don’t have their countries’ best interests in mind.

This piece from @currentaffairs.bsky.social sheds interesting light on Venezuela's "democratic savior", Machado.
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Regime change always looks fun and interesting easy until it isn't.