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This man is such a fucking moron! Treasonous behaviour does not “work itself out”! Corruption does not “work itself out”! Rape, murder, war crimes do not work themselves out! What has worked itself out? The Republican party’s rationalization for their fucking destroying our country & ignoring crime!

You tear kids away from their families, everyone who ever knew you thinks you're garbage, and your big reward is a $50K paycheck and a lifted diesel truck? Your high school classmates still won't return your calls, but at least you can ride high on the way to ruining lives.

Why is Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean? This guy sold all kinds of illegal drugs, including fentanyl. His drugs resulted in deaths. It took months of FBI sting operations to arrest him. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Trump pardoned him. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know he had granted her son a full pardon.

bbc.com

Again, and it blows my mind that this barely gets any coverage: data centres have played a key role in re-coupling US emissions to economic growth, and accelerating the coal-boosting impacts of the LNG export boom and Trump's coal mandates

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 9mo ago

New analysis out today from Rhodium Group showing data centres were one of the major drivers of the first rise in total economy-wide emissions in the US in years Uncontrolled growth of demand has helped boost coal growth, in conjunction with the LNG export boom -> rhg.com/research/us-...

a chart showing rising ghg emissions in the US - partly thanks to buildings

This is........pretty wild A collection of "insiders" say they don't think data centres are (the present tense is important) slowing down decarbonisation (mostly the "innovators") This comes out 1 day after a @rhg.com US emissions update that *explicitly* names DCs as a core cause of rising GHGs

Hyperscalers with sustainability goals are already reporting higher emissions, and technology companies are telling investors that they plan to invest hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars, into new data centers, increasingly at gigawatt scale.

And yet when we asked our Heatmap survey participants “Do you think AI and data centers’ energy needs are significantly slowing down decarbonization?” only about 34% said they would, compared to 66% who said they wouldn’t.


There were some intriguing differences between different types of respondents. Among our “innovator” respondents — venture capitalists, founders, and executives working at climate tech startups — the overwhelming majority said that AI and data centers are not slowing down decarbonization. “I think it’s the inverse — I think we want to launch the next generation of technologies when there’s demand growth and opportunity to sell into a slightly higher priced, non-commoditized market,” Joe Goodman co-founder and managing partner at VoLo Earth Ventures, told us.
Ketan Joshi
‪@ketanjoshi.co‬
New analysis out today from Rhodium Group showing data centres were one of the major drivers of the first rise in total economy-wide emissions in the US in years

Uncontrolled growth of demand has helped boost coal growth, in conjunction with the LNG export boom ->

rhg.com/research/us-...
Heatmap News@heatmap.news · 9mo ago

Two out of three of Heatmap insiders said data centers won’t slow down decarbonization — and some even think data centers will boost renewables. Google also edged out Microsoft as experts’ best hyperscaler on climate. Read more from @zeitlin.bsky.social: heatmap.news/insiders-sur...

Susan Collins cannot be trusted with voting on our next Supreme Court Justice. She voted for the three justices that overturned Roe v. Wade. And she's going to do the same damn thing if Alito retires unless we win this election.

The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.

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Russian-born American businessman Konstantin Sokolov gave $11M to MAGA Inc. and donated to Trump’s ballroom. He was recently tapped to lead Trump’s $201M TRIPP+ investment fund. @luchkov.bsky.social and I dug into his past and found that his former partner worked for Oleg Deripaska.

Inside Trump Donor Konstantin Sokolov’s Business Ties to Russia

This investigation is part of an ongoing examination of Konstantin Sokolov’s network.

maligninfluenceoperations.substack.com

Trump is getting ready to lift sanctions on Russia so his family and oligarchs can make billions by purchasing Lukoil's profitable overseas assets for less than they are worth. This sale would be a bribe from Putin. That is all Trump wants.

The way to deal with the right is simple: out vote them. deprive them of power and influence. do not operate like they have anything to contribute and constantly ridicule their stupidity

“Altman said, ‘we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.’” How about we let them happen to you, exclusively, first, and then we’ll decide if we’re game? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

politico.com