Climate, energy, political change. I like my cities dense, my wilderness wild and my baseball teams winning. He/him.
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Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
Largest US power grid auction prices rise by 22% to new heights due to energy-guzzling AI data centers.
Its another rate hike caused by Big Tech and socialized onto all ratepayers.
We need to stop AI data centers if we want an affordable, reliable, and sustainable power grid.
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
Itâs very telling that in our technology-obsessed age, tech that could actually seriously improve our livesâlike CO2 monitors and upgraded HVAC systemsâare ignored by the powers that be. Thereâs no money to be made in actually improving the world!
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
America is finally being run like a business: a business acquired by private equity thatâs being stripped for parts before being liquidated.
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
An important lens for the coming years. The oil industry doesnât want drill, baby, drill. It isnât itching to increase supply. It wants new demand. And AI is the ticket.
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
Unless Seattle changes course, this is its future in 10-20 years: A city where the only people who can thrive have intergenerational wealth
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Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
weird that the Senateâs âonly aerial firefighterâ doesnât know LA + Lahaina wildfires werenât USFS ground or responsibility. đ¤ (Unlike Dixie, Hermitâs Peak, dozens of other exs.) The amount of misinformation/disinformation going around the wildfire space right now isâŚa lot.
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
building publicly-owned renewables in NY (@publicpowerny). fighting for building decarbonization done by unionized workers in RI (@climatejobsri). passing a "polluter pays" climate bill in CA (@StopBigOil).
the climate fight continues under trump.
shorturl.at/Kw09f
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
So maybe the people who regurgitated industry claims about AI innovation inevitably requiring an enormous build-out of resource-intensive data centers were wrong?
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
Hard to properly articulate how absolutely loathsome this perspective is .
âItâs not really enjoyable to make music now⌠it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people donât enjoy the majority of time they spend making music.â Founder of @suno_ai_ @MikeyShulman
Always interesting to hear someone with a completely opposite view to me.
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
In the coming weeks, HuffPost is going to ax upward of one-quarter of our newsroom.
Under @gzornickâs leadership, my team won awards, broke major stories and beat our monthly traffic goals by threefold.
How does dismantling us serve long-term business or journalistic goals?
.@peretti will soon gut another newsroom, this time HuffPost. The cuts we heard about this week would devastate our news-gathering operation, just as Trump prepares to take office.
It's a tough business and I'm not naive about cuts - but is he also another exec bowing to MAGA?
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
The Trump economy will be all about making the real world look more like your auntâs Facebook feed
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
A 1,070-MW coal plant, once slated for retirement by 2023 and now the #9 largest GHG polluter in Indiana, appears to be on the verge of executing a long-term agreement to sell a majority of its energy and capacity to an unnamed data center developer.
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
Jeff Passan:
âWhatever you want to call it â an unconscionable case of miserliness, a magnificent failure of stewardship, or, to keep it simple, cheap ownership â the Mariners are actively blowing one of the best opportunities in baseball.â
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
the movie makes abundantly clear, like so clear, a toddler a could understand it, that part of what upsets Seeger et al is that Bob doesn't care enough about lefty politics. (open the schools)
The â60s folk singers didnât hate Dylan because he went electric, as âA Complete Unknownâ suggests. It was because he didnât care about their lefty politics.
@mcmoynihan in @TheFP:
thefp.com/p/truth-about-bob-âŚ
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
when i say i believe the bible is clear i specifically mean these verses
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
You definitely donât want the top Oversight Committee Democrat attracting media attention. That would be so dĂŠclassĂŠ.
Hard to believe Trump beat this party so handily despite the talent and savvy at the top.
The cancer-stricken 74 year old Democrats chose to make the face of congressional oversight during the Trump admin is a self-described policy "wonk" who's openly critical of colleagues engaging the public in floor speeches or mass media, which he calls "performative" and "bloviating".
Rep. @GerryConnolly: "I've got colleagues for whom the job is performative...bloviating on the floor or getting on cable television or something."
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
WE DID IT!!! New York just made history, becoming the second state in the country to pass a Climate Change Superfund Act that will #MakePollutersPay for climate damages!
This kicks open the door for more states to follow. Letâs go!
New: Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed the NY climate superfund bill, which will require fossil fuel companies to put up $75B.
Hereâs the approval message. Sounds like there will be some yet-to-be-seen tweaks, but basic premise of the bill remains intact.
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
Can you imagine if the Biden Administration was proposing a policy that would raise natural (methane) gas prices by 31%? The WSJ opinion page would lose their minds.
In fact, you donât need to imagine it. Hereâs just one headline where they slammed Biden for high energy prices.
Caleb Heeringa @ bsky retweeted
A lot of folks have zeroed in on this sentence in our reporting: "Reached by text, Lil Wayne made a sexually explicit overture to a reporter and did not respond to questions."
I'm going to share the text he sent, but first some backstory...
Last year we discovered a COVID relief fund meant for struggling arts venues had given $200M+ to wealthy musicians. But we didn't know HOW they spent it â until now. We got the literal receipts, with @TheNewsHam and @ByKLong reviewing thousands of pages of accounting docs
