David Kissling

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China might hit their 2030 goals for solar deployment early. Very early: next month

'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this monthwww.abc.net.au While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.

Stancil was correct

What we're seeing with Twitter and even the fringier stuff; Truth Social, Gab, Rumble, etc. is really important. It is an extension of what happened on cable and radio. The right wing owns and builds platforms. They control the media means of production. It's had a massive effect.

The Substack boys are becoming indistinguishable from any other small business tyrant

Shot/Chaser

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Just gonna re-up this piece I wrote last week for @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Andreessen’s entire political agenda is just “the government should help my investment portfolio by not investigating fraud.” What an empty husk of a man. www.techpolicy.press/the-little-t...

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money

The “Little Tech Agenda” is Just Self-Serving Nonsense | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press The “Little Tech Agenda” has nothing to do with innovation or technology. It’s just a VC wish list, writes Dave Karpf.

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i hope the second biden admin nukes crypto from orbit first because it’s bad but second because i want these pigs to squeal

It's about the crypto money, Pelosi and Schiff voted against Biden's crypto regs bill.

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THE HOME RUN DERBY KING, TEOSCAR HERNÁNDEZ! #HRDerby

Lol the entire point of the NBA Cup was to make the NBA relevant during NFL season. So much for that

NBA Cup could move back several weeks in 2025dlvr.it When Amazon’s NBA package begins in the fall of 2025, the streamer could shift the NBA Cup (expected to be part of its media rights agreement with the league) back several weeks. According to the Sports Business Journal, the NBA Cup (previously known as…

The interest that UK Tories have with American right wing politics makes me think that the internet has made their independence vestigial and they'd be happier applying for statehood

Like a harbinger of doom, Liz Truss has arrived at the RNC.

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not really sure that choosing the authoritarian oaf for vice-president really does much to distance the campaign from project 2025’s “government by authoritarian oaf” vision

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This is what AOC and Bernie get for sticking by Biden, and we can debate the policy, but this is a super-tangible win for the left side of the Democratic Party

did he already move?

NEW: Marco Rubio has been informed that he is NOT Trump’s VP pick, two sources tell Politico

Pretty sure there's zero overlap between the idiots in Bouie's mentions and the people TL is talking about here

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It's with a heavy heart I say that we must ban AR-15s to stop Republicans from trying to kill Donald Trump.

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Climate change denialism takes many forms. San Francisco’s onerous historic window regulations, which forbid homeowners from replacing old wood windows with inexpensive modern models that insulate much better, are one of them. www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

They wanted to replace their home’s windows. S.F.’s ‘ridiculous’ rules nearly turned into a $40K permit nightmarewww.sfchronicle.com San Francisco requires homeowners hoping to replace old wood windows to use the same material in order to match the city’s character — which can drive up costs.

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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction for George Harrison. Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood with Prince stealing the show at the end. What a guitar solo! George's son, Dhani plays guitar and he looks blown away with happiness. youtu.be/dWRCooFKk3c?...

2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwoodyoutu.be 2021 Remastered Edit: Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison & Prince pay tribute to George Harrison at the 2004 Induction Ceremony

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In Opinion “I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay, adding: ”With an effective campaign that speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly.”

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

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Kind of a niche concern but @jbouie.bsky.social is a fellow e-bike dad and that is a demographic and perspective I 100% want on the opinion page of The New York Times.

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so uh on top of decimating HUD... project 2025 is proposing to kill the 30 year mortgage. good luck ever buying housing again

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Genuinely bizarre outcome of the post debate debacle fallout is that now Biden is getting a ton of earned media and for the first time in years getting straightforwardly positive news stories written about him

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i think this is pretty reasonable and objections i have to Biden stepping down over and above that are generally of the form "so how you gonna make him do that" and "what happens next" and "jesus have you guys thought about any of this shit"

my view on whether Biden should stay or step down varies between "I don't fucking know" and "I DON'T FUCKING KNOW, BUT AT HIGHER VOLUME" based on how much caffeine I've had

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1/ I've always maintained that reason Biden's been behind is that he's had a low approval and the election has been a referendum on his presidency. To win, he needs people to understand that the alternative is worse. With some Project 2025 stuff going mainstream, I think we're starting to see that.

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A lot of folks signed up for Biden 2020 thinking it would be Obama Part 3, & I think there's a fair bit of buyer's remorse at the top. The donors do *not* like how far the party has moved away from them, & they feel like they don't have a candidate. So they're trying to get one.

cynical interpretation of the $90m donor money freeze is actually that the admin has been too pro-labor for their tastes and this coupcoupnut drama has been a perfect cover for them

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Just my opinion but I feel like this points at a very rewarding campaign strategy which is to do as many events as possible with unions & service workers. You are going to lose non-college grads but the question is by how much, and grads will not punish you for foregrounding workers

The most interesting part of polling to me continues to be education polarization. Trump is +13 with non-college grads, Biden is +25(!) with college grads. Probably tells you something about why the right is so desperate to destroy higher ed (and ed in general)

maristpoll.marist.edu

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CUT CUT CUT prospect.org/economy/2024...

Inflation Is Whipped. Someone Wake Up Jerome Powell.prospect.org Time for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

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idk what the right thing to do is but it's pretty telling to me that the people in politics who I respect like AOC and Bernie are saying "we gotta make sure the leaky rowboat doesn't sink" and the people drilling holes in the bottom are like, Scott Peters

Like my feeling since Biden wrapped up the nomination has been that Biden is a leaky rowboat we've all been crammed into, and while being on a leaky rowboat sucks I'm rooting for it not to sink and annoyed at the other people on the boat who are seemingly determined to drill more holes in it.

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We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

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Convicted felon Donald Trump was supposed to be sentenced today, before the Gang of Six on the stolen supreme court re-wrote the rules for him. There's no rule of law in the United States while the courts remain captured.

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B I D E N B O O M

US equity market had massive "atoms over bits" vibes today. NVDA down over 5% but homebuilders rose over 7%, third-best day since at least 2003 for equally-weighted S&P 500 stocks relative to market-cap weighted S&P 500 stocks, small caps soared while Tesla dropped 8%.

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i sort of doubt this has anything to do with "A.I. took everyone's jobs" than with "saying A.I. took everyone's jobs sounds a lot better to investors than 'the government letting people file their taxes for free without buying turbotax fucks our business'"

Tax preparation company Intuit to lay off 1,800 as part of an AI-focused reorganization plan

Tax preparation company Intuit to lay off 1,800 as part of an AI-focused reorganization planapnews.com Tax preparation and financial software company Intuit announced an AI-focused reorganization plan Wednesday that includes laying off about 10% of its workforce.

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Yesterday's BNEF report on LFP batteries costing just $59/kWh got me thinking about pumped hydro. I remember an NYT story years ago about a pumped hydro project in the Grand canyon that tribes opposed. The details I noted were that it was going to take over a decade to build and cost over $100/kWh.

Batteries with moderately good energy density for $50/kWh would have been seen as a miraculous science fiction technology a decade ago. Now LFP batteries like this are here, in production, being put in in real cars being built in China.

China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shiftswww.bloomberg.com We no longer need to model for when cell prices drop far enough to decarbonize road transport. That day is here.