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“Finish every day and be done with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his daughter in 1854.

Bruins name David Pastrnak captain.

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

Just a reminder that you can go millions of miles between oil changes when you drive an EV www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Ok what is the most death metal biology term? Cytokine storm? Programmed death 1? Executioner caspase? Other?

Aldous Harding: one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. Strong recommend if you have a chance! csindie.com/kiwis-aldous...

Georgia State plays at Kennesaw State this weekend. About 23 miles separate the schools. There are approximately 20 Waffle House locations between the two schools.

The Salt Lake Tribune is a 150+ year-old newspaper that went the nonprofit route several years ago. It now brings in $13MM in revenue vs $12MM in expenses. Enough to support a robust news operation. This is the way for metro news orgs. www.cjr.org/first_person...

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.

Go dawgs!

5. I can’t do this if I am getting a couple of these emails a day — and there’s no reason I should spend my time reading someone’s paper and writing back if they couldn’t be bothered to spend their own time writing the email they sent to me in the first place.

This is 572 5 year biomedical research grants to study cancer, heart disease, blindness, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, diabetes, infectious disease, etc…

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

this is my new favorite diagram

So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power. Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.

If your government doesn’t treat the rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions & the rapid adaptation to the warming that is already baked in as its two organisational axes, what legitimacy does it still have? All other issues - the economy, defense, health, or AI - are extensions and enablers.

If you want an example of why having political appointees deeply involved in grantmaking... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

When visiting Taco Bell becomes a righteous act of propaganda defiance, that is very convenient for me, a person who was already there anyway

In which I argue that AI is delivering the coup de grace to the postwar model of the mass-delivery "multiversity," and that this should be seen not as a disaster or tragedy but as an opportunity for curricular, pedagogic, and institutional self-reinvention: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Actually the planet is the winner. Trump's war has given a boost to the green transition that no Democrat could have matched.

PSA: For anyone looking to dabble with solar, this is an incredible opportunity to access balcony solar, brought to you by @brightsaver.bsky.social. $400 for two 180 W panels + the 120v microinverter! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

A more salient question about the US is not available

The cycle of stronger, more frequent extreme weather events is caused by human activity over the last two centuries. It will accelerate until we stop burning fossil fuels and allow our natural carbon sinks (forests, oceans) to heal. These are the facts, and no serious scientist debates them.

Some of the French, you may recall, were famously mad about this.

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

Can't wait!

Democrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...

gonna start talking like this to my boss

These good people are selling balcony solar units at cost--a few hundred bucks to join the solar revolution. thank you @brightsaver.bsky.social !

They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.

University administrators promoting AI as "inevitable" need to reckon with the damage that it is doing to the culture of teaching and learning, whatever promise it may have in some fields. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

“The Greatest Own Goal Ever” Roger Bennett, founder and CEO of Men in Blazers, commenting on the last 48 hours of the U.S. men’s team World Cup performance. #worldcup #usmnt #fifa

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

The Cato Institute, hardly "woke" and much respected among conservatives, have 2 great articles about how well Haitians do in America. They outperform American citizens - reach higher education, earn more & commit less crime on average. www.cato.org/blog/haitian... www.cato.org/news-release...

‘Historians may eventually view SpaceX’s public-market debut as “one of the defining peaks of all time. It’s the thing you see around the top,” Grantham said.‘ www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/j...

OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by the owners of 400 local newspapers nationwide for mass copyright infringement. The publishers claim the two tech companies illegally scraped their content to train their AI models — jeopardizing local journalism in the US.

This is such a fantastic thread. Thank you @portersqbooks.bsky.social !

As we approach America250, I wish to point out that if not for woke George Washington mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox, we probably wouldn’t have made it to America001.