Richard B. Simon

It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?

France publishes new provisions making solar mandatory on parking areas France has enacted provisions mandating solar installations on parking areas, detailing calculation methods, exemptions, and fines for non-compliance.

Especially the parking lots.

www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/18/f...

Huge gorgeous megasolar farm, restaurant in the club house

This has been happening in Japan, they way over-built golf courses back in the bubble in the 80s. Some huge beautiful megasolar farms on them now

SO IF YOU SEE A COUNTRY WIHOUT EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS Or ONE WHERE THEY ARE NOT CREATING TOUCH, POINTED SATTRE AGAINST POLITICIANS and POLICIES, BE AWARE. A SILENCED CARTOONIST IS AN INDICATOR OF AN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR FREEDOM Of EXPRESSION EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS are DEMOCRACY'S CANARY ina COAL MINE ANTENAES

@anntelnaes.bsky.social is right:

“A SILENCED CARTOONIST IS AN INDICATOR OF AN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR FREEDOM Of EXPRESSION.

EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS are DEMOCRACY'S (dies in darkness WaPo) CANARY in a COAL MINE.

Just confirmed I'm one of the author victims of the blood sucking company Anthropic that stole my book to train it's LLM. I filed a claim and it felt really good. If you're an author who may have been victimized, you can find out here:

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Ah. Me too. Teaching Big History

MAGA ppl grew up laffing with Archie and not at him, they did not get the satire.

Republican = chaos

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Yup.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open"

That's it. That's the whole story.

Devadip tho

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187th day of the year that WindWaterSolar powered the @California_ISO grid for part of the day.

Gas down 37% v '23 & 17.3% v '24
Solar up 45% v '23 & 15.2% v '24
Batteries up 206% v '23 & 59% v '24

Demand down 1.1% v '23 & 1.4% v '24 despite more AI

Working on it. Hoping to finish reading in time to catch the film writ big.

See you tomorrow night in Denver & Tuesday in Boulder — @rosecityband.bsky.social + Prairiewolf!

This is a more accurate portrait of Portland.

obviously still wrong. Robert smith is clearly the singer for the smiths. It’s thinking of James T. Cure.

“Writes *and* plays guitar.“

I had a palontology prof who had dined with his colleagues on thawed mammoth. The verdict: ”it tasted like shit.” A little freezerburnt after 10,000 years or so in the fridge.

So considering he reposted that AI medbed thing last night there's a nonzero chance his own advisors have been showing him AI Fox News clips in the oval office and he thinks they're real

Literally “governing“ while addled on purposefully misleading Fox aggrodisinfotainment. Explains much. About the entire GOP apparatus, frankly, for the past thirty years. Who runs the country? Murdoch.

Like *does* this material still exist on Paramount’s servers and what is their plan for it, if any — or how might it be re- liberated. or has it been sold, scraped, licensed?

I’d like to see some reporting (Which in the SonicNet/ATN days we likely would have done). The angle that this is important cultural heritage thats been disappeared is interesting and I think important. Hey, @wired.com …

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

doomed to wander the earth forever chanting “Aleeeeembic … Allllleeeeembic …”

When zombie Phil drops a bomb, it turns everyone whose bell it rings into a zombie.

I’d hope it would be to something like ebsco rather than to OpenAI et al. Perhaps they yanked it so it couldn’t be scraped and rendered worthless … too optimistic?