Albert Pinto
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development. I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
492/ "For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the US since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran" "120 of them were children & 26 were teachers" www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...
"The entire tax code needs to be overhauled if a guy like Zuckerberg can cash $4 billion in stock options and the company can write it off and avoid paying $355 million in taxes by calling him a "researcher" " -- @scarylawyerguy x.com/scarylawyerg...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 13h ago"Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. " www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
i got ratioed (complimentary), the quotes on this are worth checking out 🤍
dame@dame.is · 13h agoi challenge you to post one optimistic take or belief today on bluesky this needn’t be toxic positivity, just good ol’ run of the mill optimism/hope in the face of a torrential downpour of doom
Quite the thread of barking mad quotes from hegseths speech
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h agoUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, having a totally normal day: “Lord, here I am. Send me. Send me to fight the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me.”
rich long tradition of republican voters who worry about Environmental impacts of industry when an industry negatively impacts where they live. this is why data center opposition is bipartisan issue with more than 80 percent disapproval. See also anti-nuclear, anti-fracking political coalitions.
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 10h ago“This is the first time in my life that an issue is going to directly impact me.”
Cannot talk of the US as one entity when it comes to energy. "New England heats with fuel oil. The Southeast heats with electricity. The Midwest heats with natural gas. Same country, completely different energy systems. Every county in one map:" ht John Bistiline x.com/JEBistline/s...
“A mother described to me that she had prepared her child’s snack and placed it in her backpack, kissed her face, and sent her to school. What was returned to her was her child’s backpack with an uneaten sandwich.”
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14h ago492/ "For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the US since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran" "120 of them were children & 26 were teachers" www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...
13/ A single Joint venture Chinese-European owned plant will make Spain one of the world's top battery manufacturing countries by capacity. Stellantis and CATL €4.1 bn JV investment in a 50 GWh battery plant is a route to technology transfer. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com bsky.app/profile/fber...
Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham.bsky.social · 11mo agoBattery giant CATL remains in talks with Spain’s government over a plan to have 2,000 Chinese engineers, technicians and managers work on establishing a €4.1 billion ($4.8 billion) manufacturing plant in Zaragoza, according to a company executive.
This is wrong: Trump and Republicans in Congress gave BILLIONS in tax breaks to Big Tech companies building AI data centers. So YOUR tax dollars are subsidizing their AI data centers — at the same time you pay higher electricity and water bills.
This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...
“A mother described to me that she had prepared her child’s snack and placed it in her backpack, kissed her face, and sent her to school. What was returned to her was her child’s backpack with an uneaten sandwich.”
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14h ago492/ "For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the US since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran" "120 of them were children & 26 were teachers" www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...
Top tier trolling here
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · yesterday“People all around the world are looking to Americans to stop their government. Now is the time," the IRGC said. "Americans need to rise up and put an end to this miserable situation that their country, and the world at large, is facing." www.newsweek.com/5-takeaways-...
485/ Iran & Houthis are timing their military offensive to inflict maximum damage on Trump/GOP for midterms. Trump's panic is palpable. Soaring Fuel, energy, food prices -> govts being toppled. His tactic of blaming Ukraine for their bombing of Russian oil infrastructure is not going to fly....
“People all around the world are looking to Americans to stop their government. Now is the time," the IRGC said. "Americans need to rise up and put an end to this miserable situation that their country, and the world at large, is facing." www.newsweek.com/5-takeaways-...
5 Takeaways From Iran Letter to Americans and What It Means for Trump’s War
newsweek.com
And it misses the fact that the Trump administration just supported domestic solar manufacturing with minimum import prices! The reality is always more interesting than the narrative.
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · yesterday7/ the whole US is a petrostate discourse misses the fact that the country is the second largest installed base for solar power in the world. solar and battery boom continues under trump. It’s the EV and wind boom that has been curtailed bsky.app/profile/jose...
I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 2d agoThe average voter is amazing
"'This administration knows exactly what they’re doing, and their main goal is to end legal immigration to the United States.'"
Trump to Foreign Students: F*ck Off
Trump promised green cards for “the best and brightest”—but he’s making legal immigration a gauntlet of red tape, fees, and threats.
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Solar power made up 11.3% of US electricity this July, up from 9.5% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 9.5% of US electricity, another record high!
Solar power also continues to skyrocket in Texas, with generation up 47% compared to last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 12.6% of Texas' electricity, a record high!
Trump and his Republican allies insist China is to blame for how unpopular Data Centers are They think we are all Morons
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 2d agoBreaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
NEW: The big story is not Chinese EVs everywhere —but Chinese EV factories everywhere. And its not just Chinese firms going out. Our CM-FDI database tracks every foreign Solar, Wind, EV and battery manufacturing plant built in 21st century. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com
@washingtonpost reported earlier that hospitals insurance costs next year are projected to spike by the most in 2 decades, partly "due to medical providers’ increased use of artificial intelligence to find more claims they can bill for" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
4/ Fortunately, carbon accounting crusader @ghgpolicy.org , who was on the technical board overseeing the revisions, resigned & brought a formal complaint. This has brought the whole process under scrutiny & a reboot of the process.
2/ Industry captured the process of revising forest methodologies, resulting in an insane proposal that would allow firms to claim emissions reductions credits even as their emissions increased. @worldresources.bsky.social, the institutional home of the GHG-P, backed this new methodology.
Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵
Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.
newrepublic.com
*This* is how AI will kill us. [#3 of an ongoing series.] bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d ago@washingtonpost reported earlier that hospitals insurance costs next year are projected to spike by the most in 2 decades, partly "due to medical providers’ increased use of artificial intelligence to find more claims they can bill for" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
