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Aimee

@aimeenvironment.bsky.social

Renewable energy nerd, graphic designer with a strategic branding focus, reader o’ sci-fi and urban fantasy. The internet was built by and for cats. Author of Powerful Branding, A Guidebook for Clean Energy Companies to Build Thriving Brands

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ACLU@aclu.org · 3h ago

Police officers have repeatedly used Flock's surveillance network to access data about people they know and track their whereabouts. This is indefensible, warrantless surveillance — help put a stop to it at aclu.org/gtfo_

"Flock collects over 20 billion license plate scans each month in over 5,000 U.S. communities. Flock’s cameras capture: What your car looks like; Where you go; Who’s in the car — down to race, tattoos, and whose jersey you’re wearing." Image of a surveillance camera. ACLU logo.
Meade Krosby@meadekrosby.bsky.social · yesterday

Smoke has arrived in Seattle, but the other side of the Cascades is absolutely brutal. Wenatchee and other towns (e.g., Plain, Entiat) have been over 1,000 AQI today. Please use air purifiers, N95 masks, and avoid being outdoors if you’re able - there is no safe level of wildfire smoke exposure.

A screenshot from the PurpleAir app showing a map of Air Quality Index readings around Wenatchee, Washington, ranging from 747- 1161
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · yesterday

While this is a HUGE WIN, there's more work to do. It's time to DOUBLE DOWN in pressuring Congress. They need to revoke the OMB Proposal. Members of Congress who fail to stop the Proposal will be out of a job January 3rd, 2027, we will make sure of it. 🧵

The graphic displays a photo of Russell Vought and a news clipping from Politico reading: "Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump's grant overhaul. Language is included to delay the president's move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval." The graphic reads: "WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DELAYED VOUGHT'S OMB GRANT PROPOSAL"
ACLU@aclu.org · yesterday

BREAKING: A federal court dismissed the DOJ's attempt to illegally seize the private data of millions of Colorado voters. In 20 out of 20 rulings, courts have prevented the Trump administration from unlawfully accessing voters' private information.

Aimee@aimeenvironment.bsky.social · 2d ago

Read enough speculative/sci-fi fiction and one immediately knows this dirty orange sky is a sign of apocalypse. Also, good morning and welcome to fire season in the Pacific Northwest.

Rising sun shining through hazy, smoky air.Rising sun shining through hazy, smoky air. The outline of an evergreen silhouettes the right of the frame.
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3d ago

A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!

Line chart titled "A first year above 2 C in the mid-2030s looks increasingly plausible". It shows global mean surface temperature from 1940 to 2050 as the annual anomaly against the 1850 to 1900 baseline, in degrees C. Data is ERA5 from Copernicus, running to 31 July 2026. A thin gold line shows individual years, wobbling around a thick dark blue smoothed trend. Both sit near 0.2 C through the 1940s to the early 1970s, then climb steadily from the mid-1970s onward. Three red dots mark the first year each threshold was passed. 0.5 C in 1980, 1.0 C in 2010 and 1.5 C in 2024. Labels beneath note the gap of 30 years between the first two and 14 years between the second and third. Everything above 1.5 C is shaded pink. Two dashed lines run forward from 2025. A blue line follows the 15-year trend of 0.42 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2037. A fainter grey line follows the 30-year trend of 0.27 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2044. Two orange circles mark estimates for the developing El Niño, at about 1.5 C for 2026 and about 1.7 C for 2027.
Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 3d ago

Situation was apparently more extensive than we thought. Our podcast also went rogue and is spreading our stories in audio form. We continue to investigate how it managed to escape our sandbox, but suspect that this modern RSS technology is exhibiting signs of awareness. The industry is concerned.

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 4d ago

Clarkesworld has recently discovered that their August issue successfully breached containment and gained access to the Internet, where it is presently hacking reader's minds. "Oh no, what will we do? Who knew that stories could be so powerful?" said Neil Clarke, when approached for comment.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 4d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Aimee@aimeenvironment.bsky.social · 4d ago

This string helped me articulate feelings I haven’t yet been able to turn into words. I’ve often been an early adopter of tech. But not AI. The narrative around it sets my teeth on edge. I was starting to chalk up the discordance I feel about its use to getting older. That I was missing something.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5d ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · last wk.

"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."

The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.

Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...

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Christian Roselund@roselund.bsky.social · last wk.

The devil is in the details and this is complex. At my day job, we are currently analyzing this. One major problem: these "previously authorized" (by the FCC) models of inverters mostly aren't inverters. They are inverter components. Not clear how existing inverter models will be treated.

Commercial Solar Guy@commercialsolarguy.com · last wk.

Even though I buy ‘domestic content’ inverters to get the project wide 10% tax credit, this is going to affect me. From Roth:

The FCC’s determination covers inverters produced in any foreign country, regardless of the manufacturer’s nationality. The restrictions apply only to new models and do not affect previous models of inverters. Foreign-produced inverters may remain eligible for conditional approval if the Department of War (DoW) or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) determine that they do not pose unacceptable risks.
Christian Roselund@roselund.bsky.social · last wk.

This is a really good time to buy all the rare books that you were ever interested in, and build a personal library that can be shared with others and later donated a secure location. I've already started. Icelandic sagas, 19th & 20th century political economy, and other topics.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.