When the big line goes down and you need it to go up
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Ethan Freedman
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Just be cool, man. Reporter: science, nature, agriculture, climate. Bylines at Scientific American, PopSci, Sierra, Slate, Fatherly, etc. He/Him. RTs =/= Endorsement. Opinions solely mine. Old posts delete en masse. Chicago www.ethanpfreedman.com
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago
Oh, sweet prince, with your small wings as broad as our city’s shoulders, you embody not just the meaning of your name - belief, but also our hope, joy, and our responsibility to protect you and all of those that need the respite that our big shoulders can afford. 3/4
I’m on a train and feeling wistful so I’m gonna rank covers of Maybe This Time from Cabaret 6 - Tony Bennett Hard to place this legend at the bottom, but it just doesn‘t work, there’s no bite
Maybe This Time
YouTube video by Tony Bennett - Topic
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It's been two and a half months since the Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared and it is now the biggest the country has ever experienced and the second largest the world has ever seen. Dozens of cases continue to be reported each day across three separate provinces. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n077-...
Very possible I have more hope for the Mets, the other team in my polyamorous baseball life, than the Pirates by this time next week
Ethan Freedman@ethanpfreedman.com · 5d agoThey’re gonna be under .500, trade away prospects for like two meh relief guys, miss the playoffs three games back in the wild card, 2027 shutdown, gotta wait til next decade
V cool to see this team collapse against, uh, the Reds and Diamondbacks one week before the trade deadline
It would be so cool to read a story about how kicking the can down the road on the Colorado impacts the *river*. Everything is so focused on the interstate/upper-lower basin conflict and who takes the biggest L. Meanwhile the river continues to dwindle.
Idk man, I legitimately don’t get this opinion. The most? Out of anybody? Not a chance. Also, even if you accept the premise of this statement (you should not), its worth a question of what kind of future he wants to build — and for whom From: nymag.com/intelligence...
This kind of idea could shape energy landscapes too – imagine if utility customers had more power to demand what kind of generation their utility was building That said, making that a climate win would likely require reversing some (growing) anti-renewable sentiment (see link in next post)
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5d agoI remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
I see the Pirates strategy for this game is “pray for miracles“
Ok – I am motivated to report a story on this. If anyone knows anyone who's studied or thought a lot about how to design better public sports/athletic policy, lmk
Ethan Freedman@ethanpfreedman.com · last wk.The Chicago Park District has tennis courts at dozens? multiple dozens? of their parks all over the city, but offers classes at just one of them. If you don't get in, you're stuck with private groups and coaches that charge vastly more per hour.
Extremely personal and specific gripe from someone who just narrowly missed out on a tennis class spot due to tech/bureaucracy delays ––– there is clearly demand for more inexpensive sports classes in public parks and cities should meet that demand
Quoting this not as a “dunk” but a sincere q to CDR experts: aren’t there a couple issues with this type of carbon removal? Namely 1) the CO2 removal is not permanent as we respire it back to the air & 2) it’s not clear what the DAC energy source is, thus unclear if net carbon-emitting or -removing.
emily thai@ethai.bsky.social · last wk.7 years after I first learned about CDR, back when Climeworks was saying they might sell me a soda or a rock... I finally have my deepest wish... a direct-to-consumer DAC carbonated beverage www.drinkmisan.com
Good stuff here "It can feel threatening or even morally suspect to take a critical view of something that you love and value and are used to promoting uncritically... Loving your beat isn't a prerequisite for covering it well, of course. But it isn't disqualifying, either."
Elise Cutts@elisecutts.bsky.social · last wk.Improving trust in science is not the point of science journalism.
Come to Chicago we are keeping print media alive
Chicago’s new indie print publications want to highlight today's cultural scene - Chicago Reader
New publications like Gab, Write That Down!, the pub, The Issue, and more are invoking the long history of creating outside mainstream media.
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Absolutely horrific "The Marshall Project interviewed or corresponded with seven men... They described poor medical treatment, and loneliness while being locked in their cells. Many said that prison employees had grown inured to other forms of self-harm. But fires were impossible to ignore."
At Joliet prison, desperate men set themselves on fire
The Joliet Treatment Center, designed to treat people with serious mental illness, repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires despite two deaths, an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ a...
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Niche post, but does anyone know why this account has stopped crossposting from X?
SportsNet Pittsburgh {bot}@snpittsburgh.selfhosted.social · 2mo agoBryan Reynolds just loves to rob homers in left field 👀😂
I guess it’s ok for one more day at least
Ethan Freedman@ethanpfreedman.com · last wk.I am sad to be a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates
This is foolish: People don't need natural gas. We need warm housing, hot water, and cooked food, all of which can be done better with electricity. Saying utilities have a constitutional right to sell natural gas is like saying Sherwin-Williams has a constitutional right to sell lead paint.
