Doug Brown
@bugdrown.bsky.social
Husband to T. Friend to animals. Oxford comma(ndo). Excel fanatic. Power Query proponent. Database dude. Retired guy. I don't know anything anymore.
Virginia just officially defined agrivoltaics. Here’s why that’s a big deal for solar-plus-farming projects.
Virginia lays groundwork to combine more solar with farming
A new state law aims to spur agrivoltaics projects where crops or livestock thrive amid solar panels, as AI power demand booms and concerns about farmland…
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😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:
😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
The people who falsely accused an Olympian of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are the same people telling you to trust them about the war with Iran
Fauci may invoke his 5th Am right, despite Biden’s pardon, which applies only to crimes he “may” have committed in the past. Unless Congress grants him immunity from using his statements against him, he has a reasonable fear of future prosecution from this DOJ. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions at GOP-led Covid hearing, calls Rand Paul ‘unhinged’
The former top health official said he was invoking the Fifth Amendment to avoid the possibility that Republicans on the Senate committee might try to prosecute him for perjury.
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1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
Every election is about trying to figure out which candidate gets closest to your issues that can still actually win the election. I realize that people here find that infuriating.
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There is growing opposition to the infrastructure surrounding data centers, too — particularly the transmission lines needed to power them, which often must cross land belonging to private citizens. (via @us.theconversation.com) https://to.pbs.org/4ypsxmZ
When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?
There is growing opposition to the infrastructure surrounding data centers, too — particularly the transmission lines needed to power them, which often must cross land belonging to private citizens.
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“Prebunking” has been found to be very effective in neutralizing disinformation
capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · 3w agoJournalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/
Timeline cleanse: You're watching Mei & Kira, two sea otters (Enhydra lutris) at the Toba Aquarium in Japan, help clean the pool area after playtime. The reward is an ice treat. Enrichment activities like this promote mental wellness. Let's talk about the SUCCESS of sea otter conservation.
Russian Z-blogger Golman gives his expert commentary regarding the meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy: Grandpa Trump praised Zelenskyy, said you [Ukraine] need to strike deeper, so, guys, brace yourselves and double down. Hard times are ahead...
"The magnesium pill in my body." Mars the cat comforts his human, Svitlana, in a shelter during a Russian attack. 📹: moroz_svitlana_ / Threads
ICYMI @readfrontier.bsky.social @nickbowlin.bsky.social + @propublica.org @shaw.al identified at least 114 oil field wastewater injection wells across Oklahoma that are located within a half-mile of a public water supply well. Oklahomans should check the map here www.propublica.org/article/enid...
To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk
Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one ...
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A man wrongfully imprisoned for 30 years won an election to reform Louisiana's criminal justice system. The state eliminated the office he won. Then the Attorney General was indicted, the governor promised a pardon, and the Supreme Court intervened. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...
A wrongfully convicted man won an election. The state eliminated his office. Then Louisiana's attorney general was indicted, the governor promised a pardon, and the state's highest court intervened.
A state attorney general has been indicted for threatening public officials, the governor has vowed to protect her, and Louisiana is now staring into the abyss of a constitutional crisis."
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I love how the DC Mayor’s office is present for all the Trump supporters. Remember, the regime stole a billion $ from us last year.
ICYMI — Fox had to apologize for Mr. Not-So-Wonderful @kevinolearytv’s lies 🤥
Ken Paxton, GOP's MAGA Christian TX Senate pick, and his not wife
Just here to say ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good as she was driving away. Sue me.
Just finished "Bad Company" by @greenwell.bsky.social. An excellent book—well written, and an easy read on the important subject of private equity. Highly recommend.
“Imagine living next to this” @nonewdatacenters.bsky.social
Scrapping the cap is the most common-sense solution for the Social Security solvency crisis!
Martin O'Malley@martinomalley.bsky.social · 2mo ago“That surplus, intentionally built up since 1982, is being depleted sooner than they thought back then because of income inequality. Because no person making more than $182,000 pays another penny in Social Security.” Read the full article here: thehill.com/business/per...
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide
Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationw...
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OMEN ALERT Our team on the ground at the Kennedy Center reports....RAINBOW
