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Jennifer Karppinen

@atlsky.bsky.social
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Exploring emerging technology and trends. Powered by clean energy. Easily distracted by economics and cats.

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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This episode alone makes my recent Verge sub renewal so worth it. @reckless.bsky.social gets to the heart of the issues, which is probably why Mark Zuckerberg declined to come on Decoder. www.theverge.com/podcast/9993...
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What Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer about Meta Glasses, Muse, and teen safety
It’s a big week for Meta, and for Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s what we think the CEO of Meta needs to answer about the company’s product strategy.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Sort of defeats the purpose of anonymous email addresses if it just exposes your email address. Apple needs to do so much better. Thank you @404media.co for raising enough awareness to drive a fix! www.404media.co/apple-fixes-...
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Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
For a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers’ real email addresses. Apple only fixed the issue after 404 Media covered it.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My #ShowYourStripes for Atlanta. We don’t call it that other name, but it is clearly getting hotter.
Warming stripes for Atlanta
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Dems should run on this
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
There is an irony in Iran targeting PLCs in US infrastructure given it was PLCs that were the target of the infamous Stuxnet worm, a suspected Israeli/US attack that destroyed centrifuges in Iran used to enrich uranium almost 20 years ago. www.wired.com/story/iran-l...
wired.com
Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure
As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/02/2026
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works: www.404media.co/this-app-war...
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to…
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
So certainly the PSC has taken this extremely low cost of capital into consideration when setting the rate base and ROE for Georgia Power ratepayers right? Right? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: DOE issues $26.5B loan to Southern Co.
The loan — the biggest DOE says it has ever issued — will pay for new or expanded natural gas and nuclear generation, as well as hydropower, battery storage and transmission upgrades.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So there are leaders who will stand up and fight to protect victims. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer
PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a ‘national emergency’ of online misogyny
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So while capacity expansions will continue to increase costs for Georgia Power ratepayers, Georgia taxpayers are supposed to eat the cost here too? “A tax break for data centers will cost the state $2.5B this year—664% more than the $327M they projected 8 months ago.” www.ajc.com/business/202...
ajc.com
Georgia’s sales tax breaks for data centers tally more than $2.5 billion
The data center industry’s rampant growth in Georgia means taxpayer-backed incentives also balloon beyond earlier projections.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“Reconsideration is not delay for delay’s sake. I think it is responsible governance, and it reflects our obligation to balance growth with stewardship.” The petition will be heard today. georgiarecorder.com/2026/02/13/a...
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Advocates ask regulators to reconsider Georgia Power expansion • Georgia Recorder
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Environmental groups are asking state regulators to reconsider some of the Ge...
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Way to lead @ncstate.bsky.social
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Politico’s Power Switch newsletter really puts the current situation in perspective. A fracking sector struggling to deal with its very real, growing waste stream while the wind sector continues to fight against unhinged attacks.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
WoodMac: Solar accounted for 58% of all new electricity-generating capacity added to the US grid through 3Q 2025, with more than 30 GW installed. When you add storage, the combination accounted for 85% of new capacity in 3Q 2025.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Why does this seem more like a @theonion.com headline?
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
@ossoff.bsky.social Please vote no. This is a bad deal for Georgians.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“[T]he unheard of cruelties of the enemy have so effectually unified us that I believe there are not four persons now in Portsmouth who do not [oppose] the Tyranny of Great Britain.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-17...
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October 17, 2025 (Friday)
On the morning of October 18, 1775, a small fleet of Royal Navy vessels opened fire on the seaport town that is now known as Portland, Maine.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Living in a large residential building, we get lots of flower deliveries. This one, combined with the cooler mornings this week, makes me feel like fall might finally be a reality for Atlanta.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#SistersInLaw really should create some Andy Dod themed merch 🤣 @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @jillwine-banks.bsky.social @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Private credit imploding inside First Brands and OpenAI continuing its chip deals. Our financial markets seem just fine.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“A society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social reminds us that societal changes shift the values we want to commemorate. Our commitment to understanding the truth of our history should not. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-12...
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October 12, 2025
On October 9, President Donald J.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“Everybody understands you can't make a living farming”: A fifth-generation farmer and Virginia county supervisor surprises neighbors by cutting a deal to sell the family farm to a data center developer. (Fauquier Times) @profgalloway.com
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
That’s a really bad bubble to burst x.com/kevrgordon/s...
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
There’s a cruel irony that not moving fast enough to counter climate change could make some renewable energy sources less viable. “The Citigroup analysts see ‘potential signs of climate change’ as among the causes of the decline in output.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Citigroup sees UK clean energy sector suffering from falling wind speeds
Analysts collected data on historic speeds from 170 wind stations across the U.K. and found wind has been “on a declining trend.”
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Any long-term focus that we have built up is being dismantled by the Trump administration. The US is becoming ill-prepared to face national security challenges, and this isn’t a capability that we can swiftly build back. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. — Cornel West
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. A quote by cornel west.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Not dystopian at all. How long before they arm the drones too? www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
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Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones
Flock Safety is pitching its police-style drone program to private businesses. It could bring aerial surveillance to shopping centers, warehouses, and hospitals.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Proud to be represented by @ossoff.senate.gov and @warnock.senate.gov
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Not sure many realize coal doesn’t combust completely, leaving a toxic ash behind. With the current administration weakening regulation around coal ash and pollution from coal plants in general, expect to hear more contamination stories. www.al.com/news/mobile/...
al.com
Arsenic, cadmium leaks from coal ash in coastal Alabama rival 2008 disaster, study says
A new study of the Mobile River finds heavy metal contamination even at levels above that seen after the 2008 Kingston coal ash spill.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Washington’s tariffs on aluminum imports will not incentivize Alcoa to invest in the US — the metals producer’s largest market — even as the company pulls back from expansion in Canada, among its biggest production sites, the company’s chief executive said in an interview. @semafor.com
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The canary in the data center (Ian Frisch, Dealbook)
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell h/t Robert Glazer
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katie brigham @kbrigham.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
AI for geothermal startup @zanskargeothermal.bsky.social just located a historically large, untapped reservoir that it says will help put greenfield geo exploration and discovery back on the agenda
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This AI for Geothermal Startup Just Announced Its Biggest Find Yet
Zanskar’s second geothermal discovery is its first on untapped ground.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/09/2025
The Sunbed King stifles a yawn at Chequers while Keir twitches at the press | John Crace
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The Sunbed King stifles a yawn at Chequers while Keir twitches at the press | John Crace
Trump was in his own Truman show, everyone else satellites to his ego – even the PM, who was just another beta male
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Axios: Both men pushed back against Trump's false claims of voter fraud in Georgia during the 2020 election, and while [Geoff] Duncan has kept up his criticism of the president, Raffensperger has remained silent.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I can only imagine the recommendations coming out of the National Coal Council www.canarymedia.com/articles/enn...
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The coal-powered car
In 1932, a Philadelphia inventor experimented with a car/locomotive hybrid that was ran on coal. But the coal-powered car isn't necessarily a thing of the…
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?" -- Protest sign at airport where South Korean workers, including engineers with work visas, were returned www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...
Protester at airport in South Korea holds up a sign that reads, in Korean:

 ‘Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?’

Credit: Dasl Yoon/WSJ
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Read this in @technologyreview.com The Checkup yesterday, but seeing it again this morning, feel like it’s a message we need to spread widely. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/11/1...
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We can’t “make American children healthy again” without tackling the gun crisis
Gun violence in the US is a public health crisis—and should be dealt with as such.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“Kirk’s actions & rhetoric do not justify what happened to him because they cannot be justified. But Kirk was not merely someone who showed up to college campuses & listened. It should not be controversial to plainly state some of the impact of his work.”
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Political &other targeted violence in America can’t be ignored. Something feels different about this moment—abt the normalization of violence in our culture. The question is how to solve it. We often write about leadership in [Dealbook]; right now, we could use more of it. @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Columbia Law School: Last year, at least 459 counties/municipalities across 44 states severely restricted renewable energy through buffer requirements, fees and bans that limit what their neighbors can do with their land—a 16% increase YOY. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Misinformation, fear and politics – how a South Dakota county drove away millions in solar energy
Colton Berens was looking forward to the added income from his farm, but armed with rightwing falsehoods, other Selby residents opposed the move
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Brian Kemp’s attendance this year at the Aspen Festival indicated his larger political aspirations. His strongest platform *was* economic growth. While other factories pulled plans this year, Hyundai/LG persisted… until now. www.wrdw.com/2025/09/09/s...
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Some detainees in Ga. raid were legally working, lawyer says
Georgia could face economic backlash after an immigration raid near Savannah, according to an attorney representing some of those who were detained.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
“A republic that allows its leaders to kill without law, to wage war without strategy, and to deploy troops without limit is a republic in deep peril.” Retired Navy captain Jon Duffy via @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 9, 2025
As Joe Perticone outlines in The Bulwark today, Republican lawmakers are greeting the release of the lewd letter in Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book depicting the outline of a child and apparently sign...
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“You have people that don’t feel that they’ll directly benefit from these services unwilling to pay into it,” Corrigan Salerno, Transportation for America Americans are losing the thread here. Public transit – like transmission – isn’t about direct benefit. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
politico.com
Transit ‘death spiral’ could stymie climate fight
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Definitely not a golden age…
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Phil Rosenthal @philrosenthal.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
OK, @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social, this is perfect…
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
@nathanielbullard.com takes us back to school w/ a map of the 72 GW of gas gen under dev/constr. Those 146 plants include Georgia Power’s additions to Plant McIntosh & Plant Yates (first Mitsubishi M501JAC turbine delivered 8/15) but the utility has filed for 5 new CC units (~4000 MW) across GA.
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Is it also a crime to burn that banner?
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Where we’re headed…
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