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@gwwest.bsky.social

Interested human of Nature, Architecture, Science, Building, Passive House, Politics, Wisdom & Wow.

9.5K followers26.9K following3.8K posts

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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

Big Brother is watching, but now we can watch Big Brother right back. I love that MapQuest is flipping the script. Apple Maps, where you at?!

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Sen. Adam Schiff
@schiff.senate.gov

This is a five-alarm warning to every job and industry that relies on our sandy beaches and beautiful bluffs for its livelihood. Soon, you too could see your environment for sale to Big Oil, Elon Musk, and any other high bidder that buys its way into the White House ballroom.

latimes.comTrump wants to strip California of coastal protections unless state meets list of demandsFuture federal funding of California's coastal management program is suspended, "unless and until the identified deficiencies are satisfactorily addressed."

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awkword
@awkword.bsky.social

You may be considered a terrorist if you’ve complained about AI Trump and the Justice Department have “declared war on… opponents of AI,” with opponents of AI being classified under NSPM-7 as “further[ing] the propaganda or other goals of a foreign power” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think...

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Alt National Park Service
@altnps.bsky.social

And so it begins. The Justice Department is suing Alaska election officials to block certification of November’s U.S. Senate race if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.

reuters.comUS Justice Dept sues to block possible Alaska election of Democrat to SenateThe US Justice Department on Thursday sued to preemptively block Alaska from certifying the results of its US Senate race if the Republican ‌incumbent candidate loses by a narrow margin, saying voters...

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Eric Lipton NYT
@ericlipton.nytimes.com

Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com

Then this piece on how a giant Russian energy company has secretly invested in an Alaska natural gas project, and its efforts are the topic of discussions between Trump envoys and Putin www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️
@savethecbc.bsky.social

🇨🇦🇺🇸 CBC News reports Canadian diplomats received routine guidance to avoid U.S. midterm candidates before Washington alleged potential interference. The U.S. Embassy also cited Joly's tariff comments. Where's the line between legitimate trade diplomacy and election meddling?

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@gwwest.bsky.social

#trumpregime is threatening the entire world, & looking at the entire world as an excuse, claiming foreign meddling, when reality and opinions of the policy decisions of every country don’t stop just because one country is having a midterm election. #ridiculous 

npr.orgTop 2 Democrats on Intel say they're preparing for Trump to claim foreign meddlingThe top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees said they are working under the presumption that the president will seek to justify election interference by alleging fraud.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

awaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fP...

youtube.comCould This Actually End Citizens United?YouTube video by Robert Reich
Americans for Tax Fairness@4taxfairness.bsky.social

Before Citizens United, the top 15 political contributors spent just $15 million on the midterm election. Now, the top 15 have spent $962 MILLION. That's up 6,400%. THIS is why our system is so rigged. We really, really have to end Citizens United and tax the rich.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original
@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social

The Washington Post reviewed a Heritage Foundation database of voter fraud cases and found 85 cases relating to allegations of noncitizens voting between 2002 and 2023. 85…over TWO DECADES. This entire administration is built on lies.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Trump's family has pocketed $3 billion in cash and gifts since the 2024 election. Much of that came from crypto schemes as he deregulated the industry. That money could pay for a full year of SNAP benefits for 1.3 million people, or more than 600 million free school lunches. Second Gilded Age.

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@gwwest.bsky.social

The #enshitification of #time itself. Leap-seconds align clocks with real daylight. This is a problem for static software timekeeping, so now we have abandoned keeping our clocks aligned with the real world for our software. “OK computer” As you command 

smithsonianmag.comIt's Official: Timekeepers Have Gotten Rid of the Leap Second—and Introduced the Leap Hour InsteadSince 1972, experts have added 27 seconds to Coordinated Universal Time to keep it aligned with Earth's rotation, but it has been an imperfect fix
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@gwwest.bsky.social

This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary #spyware delivered via targeted ads. #malware #privacy #web #internet #cybersecurity

citizenlab.caExposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen LabThis is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Ca...

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Jon Cooper
@joncooper-us.bsky.social

⛽️ Gas prices have now been above $4 for more days than ANY other year on record. Trump’s war with Iran has forced Americans to spend an extra $107 BILLION on gas alone — roughly $2,000 per household.

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Catherine Rampell
@crampell.bsky.social

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.comCFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil TradesChairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.