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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 17h

#DonaldTrump 's war - Someone buying an electric #Peugeot2008 today could recoup the extra costs of the electric variant in just three years despite the electric equivalent of the Peugeot 2008 costing €12,000 more www.brusselstimes.com/2336668/elec... #ElectricVehicles #ActOnClimate

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Electric vehicles becoming cost-effective faster due to rising petrol prices

The time to recoup extra costs for all electric vehicles has fallen as petrol and diesel prices continue to increase.

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 18h

Me trying to separate out the home improvement projects from the work-from-home projects, from the art projects, crafting projects, writing projects, and tinkering projects that also happen at home.

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Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

ALT: Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h

Time for this classic again.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 22h

I am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a card-carrying sayer of "it's more complicated than that", sometimes it's not!!!!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are progressive politicians so reluctant to admit that conservatives are wrong about something

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI Won't Solve Humanity's Problems Because Our Problems Aren't Caused By Lack Of Intelligence "Humanity’s problems are not caused by a lack of intelligence, our problems are caused by greedy plutocrats like Zuckerberg." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ai-wont-so...

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AI Won't Solve Humanity's Problems Because Our Problems Aren't Caused By Lack Of Intelligence

Video reading by Tim Foley:

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's me, here to talk about my banned book about talking dogs again. Also, my not banned book about that is a gay romance. Go figure.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

Our recent poll of Democratic voters found 75% say they would feel "very positive" upon hearing news that "President Donald Trump has been impeached and convicted by both houses of Congress and has been removed from office." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...

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What Are Democrats Thinking?

Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love 2 do a *gentle*-ass workout on a Sunday that inexplicably leaves me shivering uncontrollably. Not ideal.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's especially obnoxious is, if they're right, and the threat is real, imminent, and already out of control, them leaping in front of the problem this late in the game will do precisely nothing.

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Proud to work at the @inquirer.com, where today our entire five-page Opinion section is about the many ways Trump’s White House has become a house of corruption. The Inquirer is keeping Freedom of the Press alive in the city where it was founded. But that’s not all! 🧵

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We deserve a government we can be proud of — one that actually works for working people. It pisses me off that we even have to fight for that. But we do. And we’re going to fight for it together.

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

five projects under construction well over 500MWh #battchat #netherlands 🔋🔋🔋 www.linkedin.com/posts/renssa...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo

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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News

Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Transphobia is genuinely an elite fixation that is much less popular than most politicians and media outlets would have you believe.

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thinking about electrification of US rail. I wonder if a way to bait freight operators (who own the rails) into investing in the infrastructure is to get them into the grid battery market. Pair catenary spans with gridscale batteries, let them use that capacity to do big scale virtual power plants.

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One other advantage thermal energy storage has is that it can piggyback on the waste heat of another valuable high-temperature process. When energy is cheap, run your high temp/power hungry process, generate value, and capture a fraction of the waste heat in thermal storage for later use.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 27/09/2026

Substation batteries could **DOUBLE** Germany’s solar: ‘technical potential identified across 1,313 rural substations…could enable ~150GW additional photovoltaic capacity…130 GW current capacity…batteries absorb peaks when transformers reach capacity…~1% curtailment of additional solar generation’

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Henrik Larsen @henriklarsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today is another one of these days, where you can home charge your EV in Denmark to 400 miles of range for 12$, but in the meantime the Trump administration lowers the efficiency requirements for new combustion engine cars. Utterly ridiculous. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c...

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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Streisand Effect, Activate.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The movie about everyone's favorite Nazi and the leading donor to the Republican Party.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So what Duckworth actually said was worse than that short clip I saw... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmYs...

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What should Democrats do if they win?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

I wonder if I maybe don't say this enough: the gas-fired data centre boom is *planned* but not *inevitable*. In fact, the plans are fragile, and this petrotech dream only works if everything lands with perfect timing and poise. stand.earth/insights/wes...

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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why electrification is inevitable: Heating costs as of Sept. 20th in France for a 100m2 home: Heating oil - €2300 Gas - €2100 Wood pellets - €1000 Heat Pump - €800 Only one of these technologies also let's you sleep during a heatwave.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a philosopher of mind I’m fascinated by so many people having to confront the nature of consciousness, and also think the most important thing is that Sam Altman goes to jail.

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At this point I kind of expect RFK Jr. & Trump to mark the occassion with an executive order banning women of childbearing age from accessing acetaminophen.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips

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How to Vote / Cómo Votar

A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026

Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh boy. Okay. I am going to respond earnestly and genuinely, because I totally understand why this would seem like a contrary concept! Many librarians, educators, and guardians want to encourage their kids to read more, but don't see how graphic novels might help. Let's talk about it!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just went downstairs, walked three minutes to a boulangerie, and got a warm baguette. Tell me again why 15-minute cities are bad.

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"In its pursuit of 'energy dominance' through oil and gas production, the Trump administration is giving the world ample reason to transition away from fossil fuels," writes @chrisnelder.bsky.social: www.transitiontimes.net/tt-16-iran-i... via @transitiontimes.bsky.social 🔌💡

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TT#16 – Iran-ic Energy Dominance

Just as soaring food prices resulted in the Arab Spring, soaring fuel prices today could spell doom for petrostate leaders. In its pursuit of 'energy dominance' through oil and gas production, the Tru...

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Been boycotting them for years over Gaza, but surely this is a recession indicator, yeah?

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/09/2026

AI panic ignores “the climate and ecological crisis, the rising fascism that is borne out of climate politics, the making of climate refugees, and the growing inability of people just to get by from day to day. It’s such a disconnect from what seems to be actually happening.” @alexhanna.bsky.social

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Climate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real ‘danger to humankind’ – and the planet

Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Addressing this atrocity needs to be on the Reconstructed America Turbo-Hague roster.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... >>

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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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