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So, lemme 'splain why this is nonsense...

Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference The confessions of a concerned bird.

"As a former X (formerly Twitter) employee... I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical...1/3
theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

The most astonishing part of Elon's and The Boring Company's idiocy in this is that they actually built not just a single-lane, but a *single-track* car tunnel rofl

To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."

Earth breaks yearly heat record and lurches past dangerous warming threshold Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold.

I wonder how far past 1.5C we'll be before we finally stop pretending that we can still stop at 1.5C.

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further

one of the reasons I love congestion pricing so much is that it provides a simple and straightforward fix to traffic, which is bad for productivity, health, and climate.

it literally fixed traffic overnight. it’s the closest thing we have to a modern miracle.

One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport — Human Transit Blaise Pascal knew he was dying.  He was in his 30s and had been sick most of his life, but at least he didn’t have to worry about being forgotten.  He had already made groundbreaking contributions in...

I've been thinking about the design of the very first fixed route public transport network: Pascal's 1662 "five penny carriages" in Paris. Please share. humantransit.org/2024/12/one-...

Last year, I toured a few circular sanitation systems designed/installed by aneco in various cooperatives in a few of Geneva’s ecodistricts. The system at Soubeyran was particularly interesting.

She tried.

Success took 16 years.

It's worth noting that the US is also one of those countries who emitted the most to date (if not the worst offender) and will probably emit more due to the load growth. The US should have more responsibility in not only reducing its own emissions but also helping developing countries decarbonize.

Shiny Happy People- kids in robust, fully funded Pre-School on the Big Day out

Dad and Daughter on vacation, one of the 42 days the get PER YEAR!

People living, chilling in a geothermal pool in Iceland

The Goddess Bjork, Debut and Post are in my Top 10,...and the Sugarcubes, absolutely off the charts great

I always think of those hellish conditions in Iceland:
-93% Unionization
-Universal Healthcare
-Non-stop Geothermal & Hydro power
-One of the highest per capita GDP
-24 mo. Maternity/Paternity Leave
-2008 Economic Crash- Bankers/CEOs in jail FOR DECADES
-Bjork

If you bike to work, you live longer, new study confirms If you’re looking for an affordable and accessible way to live longer, skip the pricey wellness retreats and quirky biohacks—just bike to work.

“The long-term health benefits didn’t stop there: commuter cycling was also linked to a 24% reduced risk of cardiovascular hospitalizations, a 51% lower risk of dying from cancer, and improved mental health, as measured by fewer prescriptions for anxiety and depression.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

This is probably the most important story of year in the energy transition. ~600 gigawatts of new solar added to world grids today. That will produce ~1,000 terawatt-hours of clean electricity, or ~25% of all US electricity use or 2/3 of India's. In one year! Simply massive & it's accelerating. 🔌💡

China’s oil consumption peaked in 2023, CNPC says China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023 at 399 million metric tons (7.98 million barrels per day) and is expected to fall 1.3% to 394 million tons in 2024, CNPC Economics & Technology Research Institute said on Friday.

This is huge: China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023, says the research arm of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). Will decline 1.3% in 2024, despite ~4.8% GDP growth projected this year. Why? EVs! (Mostly) www.reuters.com/world/china/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗

A screenshot of a social media post that states a Florida woman was arrested this week after allegedly threatening a health insurance provider. Lakeland Police said the woman became increasingly upset during the call which she ended with delay denied depose you people are next. On the left is a mugshot of Briana Boston, the middle aged white woman with blonde hair and a blue shirt. On the left is the mugshot of Luigi mangioni, He is a white man in his twenties with dark curly hair and thick eyebrows.

When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything".

Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something.

They just don't care about YOU.

It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late. The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.

“The phenomenon is known as #InducedDemand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” slate.com/business/202...

YouTube video by CNA Insider How Online Gambling Took Hold Of Philippines And Indonesia: Will The Crackdowns Help? | Insight

I always try to eat at jollijeeps or carinderias, and I keep seeing more and more working class folk doing some sort of online gambling while eating/smoking in these spaces. A dude even asked me if I play "scatter" and I had to Google it.

We might have an online gambling epidemic in this country 🇵🇭

Dynamic cycling enhances battery lifetime - Nature Energy Lithium-ion batteries degrade in complex ways. This study shows that cycling under realistic electric vehicle driving profiles enhances battery lifetime by up to 38% compared with constant current cyc...

Good news: if you lab test lithium-ion batteries the way they are actually used in real-world vehicles (lots of stop & start), you find out ... they last about 40% longer than previously estimated!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Battery prices are now just $115 per kWh on average - down from $1436 in 2010. The driving force behind the storage boom and EV adoption, in one chart.

#energysky

www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

Journalist Atom Araullo wins game-changing civil suit vs red taggers Araullo is not only awarded a total of P2.080 million in damages, his civil case is the first application of the Supreme Court’s earlier decision that finally defined red-tagging as harmful

'Araullo is not only awarded a total of P2.080 million in damages, his civil case is the first application of the Supreme Court’s earlier decision that finally defined red-tagging as harmful.'

China is set to add a record 260 gigawatts of solar this year.

For perspective, that’s more than the total added globally in 2022, which was a record year.

It’s nearly 6x more than the US, the second-biggest market, is set to add this year

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#energysky

Baseload power generators not needed to guarantee supply, say science and engineering academies Group of science and engineering academies agree that baseload power plants not required to support a renewables dominated grid, and are likely to make it more expensive.

Well, well, well.

Seems not everyone agrees we must have methane-gas "firm" generation in our grids.

reneweconomy.com.au/baseload-pow...

I’ve said for awhile that some low hanging fruit on parking reform is to eliminate parking mandates for any business that serves alcohol

Sadly, after talking to DOE officials, it looks like the higher ups agree with the banning of e-bikes and the lack of support for non-car EVs in the Philippines "because of safety issues".

One Director who's supposed to promote EV adoption even cited the MMDA to defend their position. 🤦

US sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nations U.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.

This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally.

Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

What Lies Beneath: The Embodied Carbon Iceberg Under our Home and Buildings Learn more about the deadly carbon iceberg that sits under our homes and buildings.

for handful of followers who have never heard this terrific term coined w/ @lanefab.bsky.social...
car parking is an iceberg of embodied carbon. like an iceberg where most of ice is invisible underwater, you can't see most of effects of carbon impacts from parking
www.treehugger.com/embodied-car...

This is important, but one thing that is also key to remember is that policy fights about cycling often happen in data-unready institutions. Transport advocates are held to unrealistic data standards, while the status quo defenders are absolved of the slightest responsibility of self-reflection.