Reposted by Heide EstesGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission. 16863165
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026This is an impressive innovation, and a massive improvement over burning agricultural waste in the fields or in pits, though my understanding is that once the syngas is burned, the process becomes carbon neutral. 011
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026cool! voynich might have been mis-bound, scrambling the pages. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oc… @LisaFaginDavis 101
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026i keep confusing sam altman with sam bankman-fried and as ai goes roguer i’m less sure it’s a bad comparison 010
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026parallels between SpaceX and the India Company: vast, powerful, and greedy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/opinion/… 100
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026The US could make AI data centers build out solar arrays and windmills. Instead, we are building more gas-fired electric production capacity than any other country … in fact, more than the next eight biggest developers. 000
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026With 300-plus articles in three weeks (tallied by @ibramxk ), the media hounded Dr. Jason Arday to death after a guy ran his PhD thesis through AI and claimed fraud. Don’t believe it’s because of race? William O’Reilly has published thousands of stolen words in several books and articles; he’s […]hcommons.socialOriginal post on hcommons.social 002
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026private equity is terrible for the US. it already gutted local news and contributed mightily to the nationwide housing shortage, and is hard at work gutting medical practices, nursing homes, and hospitals. moderately the good news: its business model — buy a corporation, load it with debt, sell […]hcommons.socialOriginal post on hcommons.social 001
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026how..is..it..legal… that trump keeps paying foreign corporations billions of US taxpayers’ dollars *not*to*build* wind farms www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/climate/… 022
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026Hegseth is: - testing everyone in the military for testosterone levels - booting everyone who’s transgender - denying promotions to (and effectively firing) women and Black officers Is there any possibility of doubt that he’ll go after enlisted women next? #kinderküchekirche […]hcommons.socialOriginal post on hcommons.social 000
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026basic fail … or the system designed to waste as much of my time as possible? 000
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/202625 years from now, if not sooner, the rest of the world will have abundant cheap renewable energy, and the USA will still be trying to transition away from fossil fuels, and will be trounced in international markets […]hcommons.socialOriginal post on hcommons.social 020
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026listening to horowitz playing beethoven with headphones because i lived in lower manhattan and the war planes practicing for the air show this weekend is the sound of 9/11 021
Heide Estes @hestes.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026an incredible story about being the subject of investigation by the fbi and cia, because an unidentified person called in a tip. harpers.org/archive/2013/09/life-as…harpers.orgLife as a Terrorist, by William T. VollmannUncovering my FBI file 010