was thinking this morning about how the US kinda gave up on solving problems, so we get a string of obvious cons that pretend to solve problems instead. carbon capture, hyperloop, moon factories, AGI, crypto, plastic recycling, widened highways

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

The age of earth based astronomy is over. With multiple countries and companies each launching thousands of LEO satellites like this in constellations, it'll be impossible to see the stars without them interfering. It also tremendously raises the risk of Kessler syndrome.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

(Reuters) - Amazon's Leo has proposed a new constellation of up to 5,105 satellites to provide direct-to-device voice and data connectivity, joining a growing race among satellite operators to beam cellular service directly to smartphones. @reuters.com $AMZN

Good grief, this hits home.

1) assassinate peace negotiators and IRGC leadership during a set of surprise attacks 2) Death of previous leadership and negotiators creates space for hardliners to sabotage peace negotiations 3) Assassinations and regime change is back on the table... 4) see #2

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2w ago

The idea of overthrowing Iran’s regime is returning to the agenda in parts of the Trump administration after diplomatic efforts failed, the Financial Times said in an analysis.

Uncle in Iran says the country’s south is being destroyed. Trump is following through on his “bridge and power plant day” threats but it’s simply not registering here the way that it should.

Truthout@truthout.org · 3w ago

The U.S. has struck more civilian infrastructure in southern Iran in its sixth consecutive day of attacks on Friday, including key bridges and a tower at a crucial port.

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.

Projections of carbon capture capacity versus projections of solar power production

Disgraced president of Honduras seems to have been pardoned by Trump so he can propagandize against the democratically elected presidents of Mexico and Colombia and undermine his own country's leftwing. @billscher.bsky.social on a story that nearly no U.S. media are writing. They should be.

Washington Monthly@washingtonmonthly.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump pardoned a right-wing authoritarian convicted of cocaine trafficking, apparently to reinstate him to power in Honduras and undermine left-wing governments in Mexico and Colombia. So why isn’t America media covering it? @billscher.bsky.social writes.

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed

BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.

bbc.co.uk

Literally love the rule of law so much

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Might be time to bust out one of my favourite climate stories of all time: how BECCS was mostly a kind of model hallucination

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

Fiona Katauskas@fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Been listening to a lot of left-leaning US podcasts this week & it's amazing how little they care abt the impact this is having on the world. Lots of discussion about gas prices in the US & how it'll affect the midterms but zero reflection on the global economy or how poor countries will be crushed.

🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)

Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute

A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.

stopgreedbuildgreen.org

Some sources say it can be crypto or yuan. Others just say crypto. Is this just US sources trying to hype crypto while putting their fingers in their ears about the extent of a China/BRICS win?

graham steele@grahamsteele.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Broke: legitimizing crypto will help solidify the dollar’s status as reserve currency. Woke: legitimizing crypto will help facilitate money laundering and sanctions evasion. Bespoke: legitimizing crypto will help displace petrodollars.

In Lebanon, nearly 1 in 5 people has been displaced by Israeli attacks, leaving the government to manage a modern crisis without modern digital infrastructure. www.wired.com/story/we-wer...

‘We Were Not Ready for This’: Lebanon's Emergency System Is Hanging by a Thread

In Lebanon, nearly 1 in 5 people has been displaced by Israeli attacks, leaving the government to manage a modern crisis without modern digital infrastructure.

wired.com

Last night, there was a collective breath of relief as a two-week ceasefire was announced -- one that would include Lebanon as confirmed by Pakistan's Prime Minister. Today, Israel is refusing to adhere to that and it is putting the entire world at risk. Here's @timep.bsky.social's quick response ⬇️

The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy@timep.bsky.social · 4mo ago

With extreme urgency, TIMEP calls on the United States and governments worldwide to press Israel to adhere to the regional two-week ceasefire in Lebanon.

As everyone focuses on Trump and the U.S., Israel just continues committing war crimes with impunity.

Ahmad Algohbary@ahmadalgohbary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Israeli Army: Largest Strikes on Lebanon Since War Began The Israeli military says it carried out its widest wave of airstrikes on Lebanon since the start of the war with Iran, launching 100 strikes in just 10 minutes.

Humiliating for us in the US if we don't form crowds of similar size to condemn the atrocities of our leaders

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

As I said on MSNOW on Sunday, we need Democrats to be talking about and demanding the REMOVAL of Trump now! It doesn't matter there are not the votes in Senate to remove him--let Republicans go on record defending Trump's war crimes! More importantly Democrats should be taking fight to Trump now!

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

Trump's genocidal insanity will leave office with him. But, unless that happens now, his lasting legacy will be the stain that sticks to the United States for a century; the country so flawed, cowardly and toothless, that it was unable and unwilling to stop an obviously mad tyrant.

um so who’s bringing sanctions against the u.s.? why isn’t the unsc calling an emergency meeting? why aren’t democrats doing a full court press for impeachment? this shit makes putin look moderate by comparison.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⚠️ Trump threatens to destroy the “whole civilization” of Iran:

God help us.

The only appropriate response tbh

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

impeach him. try to do it once a month, if necessary. build the case over and over to not just the American people but to the world that this isn’t the way things should be here, that this isn’t the way we should use our power abroad.

Got to work on this cool project with @cplusc.bsky.social to revitalize manufacturing to address climate & energy needs. Check out the report out today!

@batul.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Supply in critical electricity component parts like transformers is insufficient to meet demand and costs have risen more rapidly than other sectors. The need for rapid electrification grows daily, but transmission delays are holding back renewable & storage projects.

This is quite something. I learned this history from visiting this museum several years ago.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it...

it will never cease to fill me with anger and sadness how israel instrumentalizes the holocaust to justify its policies and deflect criticism of itself while conducting itself in ways that mirror the atrocities committed against us and calling this observation "holocaust inversion"

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just a meme shared on Lebanese social media And yes this is a real story. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias and explicitly warning Christians and Druze not to shelter them

we gotta send so many guys to the Hague

Fal Rising@falrising.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.