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i hate digger and i love how much i hate digger. i am going to see the movie again in two days with more friends. it is climate change freddy got fingered

'Digger' review
The first 20 minutes of the film set up a brilliant comedy that skewers our modern lives today. And then it spends about 2 hours making us feel awful for thinking the first 20 minutes were good, on purpose, over and over again. It is a joyless, colorless film that poorly parodies Citizen Kane and Dr.
Strangelove intentionally, making a mockery of essentially all modern American liberal political commentary and comedy. And a parody of a parody is interesting but uncomfortable and challenging to watch.

A parody of Donald Trump today is neither funny nor poignant and the movie knows that. By the film's conclusion, you're left wondering whether spending big budgets to make climate films at all makes any sense. It
would be reductive as well to say the film inspires you to take on the actual
catastrophe outside, because its so confident in its future of doom that really, you're only left with a wordless unease about the idea of apocalypse fiction itself. To watch "Digger" is to experience a deeply miserable punk rock waste of more than one hundred million dollars, à la Freddy Got Fingered - but you will not laugh, unless you're laughing at yourself for being in the theater at all.

I enjoyed Digger, and then I hated Digger, and then I enjoyed hate-watching Digger, and then I felt weird because the movie flat out told me to feel disgusting for enjoying hate-watching Digger, and to like hating myself, and I didn't want to listen to that part, and that's the point. Andy Kaufman couldn't have done it better. The Wolf of Wall Street tried to pull this trick and failed. Vice and Don't Look Up both tried to pull this trick and failed. So many other meta-media films have tried to do this recently and they're boring because they are entertaining. Digger is so boring, and frustrating, and uncomfortable, and that's why it works, and I hate that, too, which I also love.

Digger will be a massive commercial flop and then go to streaming where it'll be remembered as a cult classic forever. I will watch this movie again and again, and I will find new things to hate to love and love to hate. I couldn't recommend it more highly to anyone who wants to see a piece of ridiculous high-budget avant garde mistakenly promoted as a mass appeal "dark comedy" because it stars Tom Cruise. And yet even the inaccurate PR is part of the point of Digger, to reel you in with precisely the bait it wants to chide you for taking.

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 7h

There's only one Fickling "Nowadays, LNG is failing on all three. It’s never been clean,these days it’s not cheap, either: Just buying gas for an existing plant can cost more than building a brand-new solar-plus-storage system from scratch" Bloomberg's very best🌞🔋 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7h

I am so excited to go watch Digger. I keep seeing intensely negative reviews and they're all probably pretty correct but I am still excited because it's such a rare treat to get a specifically fossil fuel themed movie and they're not all going to be Daniel Day Lewis with his milky shakes

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7h

In a situation of massive demand growth, you can have lots of renewable energy but still also see rising emissions on the power grid So this permitting bill could do everything promised: enable huge amounts of renewables but the broader question of how that actually impacts US emissions isn't clear

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7h

There has been a huge exodus from an overarching project of fossil fuel phase-out for the power grid, and a massive flip in the US energy industry (clean and dirty) towards presenting their efforts as meeting data centre demand Not hard to find examples but Fervo is a good one

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Scaling 24/7 Power for the AI Era: The Enhanced Geothermal Data Center Corridor - Fervo Energy

Enhanced Geothermal Energy is Poised to Power the Future of AI

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7h

Something I haven't really seen touched on very much is that, compared to previous permitting reform debates in the US, a much higher %'age of new clean power is servicing data centre growth rather than fossil fuel elimination. www.woodmac.com/blogs/energy...

There are also sections designed to help development in specific energy sectors, including electricity transmission, solar and geothermal power. Another key provision would compel data centre developers to cover the cost of any transmission investment needed to support their facilities.

The political impetus behind the bill has been a bipartisan recognition that the current permitting system makes it too difficult to develop both fossil fuel and low-carbon energy infrastructure in the US. Surging electricity demand from new data centres for AI has made the case for reform more urgent.

“America is entering a new era of energy demand,” said Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, one of the Democratic sponsors of the bill. “It should not take decades to build the infrastructure our country needs.”

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 7h

If you’re in Regina at this time, consider coming to my talk “Data Refineries” about AI data centres in Canada. Open to all and free.

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 17h

The diesel car is not only harmful to our lungs, but is now also considered toxic to its owner. Dutch motorists looking to sell their diesel cars are finding it difficult; the second-hand car market for diesels has collapsed, and even exports of second-hand diesel cars are falling.

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Auto op dure diesel amper nog verkocht: 'Dieselrijder is een uitstervend ras'

Sinds de oorlog tussen de VS en Iran zijn de brandstofprijzen enorm gestegen. Diesel is de laatste tijd vaak duurder dan benzine.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17h

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s worth a read. Agricultural systems are full of tradeoffs and just labeling something “sustainable” or “regenerative” does not necessarily make it so. Data are needed to understand what’s going on and get a full picture of costs and benefits of different practices and technologies.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Helpful new paper: “Regenerative agriculture should not be viewed as universally beneficial. Rather, its environmental performance depends on the balance between changes in productivity, production emissions, and land-use consequences across interconnected food systems…”

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Regenerative agriculture: we need better evidence to inform policy

Regenerative agriculture: we need better evidence to inform policy, Copping, Joshua P, Balmford, Andrew, Bradbury, Richard B, Dicks, Lynn V, Field, Rob H, Wade, Ruth, Finch, Tom

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

I'm sorry I'm so bad at reading mentions! But Ty for sending it. I hope they publish it somewhere

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mount Hotham October 3 2025 (snow) vs October 2 2026 (wet grass).

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICYMI: Australian ski resorts had originally planned to close this weekend - in fact they closed a month ago, at the end of the High Country's warmest winter on record, a season where warm rain dominated snow.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So grateful I get to include this comic in my book as a way of saying thanks ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This has been an open secret in Australia for some time, with the federal government going to great lengths to *appear* as if they have effective climate policy, while rubber stamping mine after mine. It's disgraceful, and they are not held to account for it.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026

From what I've read so far, the federal permitting bill does not increase fines or impose new penalties (e.g. jail time) for data centers that violate local pollution laws by running "backup" fossil generators way more than permitted, an increasingly common practice that harms nearby communities.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026

Bluesky locals discuss some underappreciated aspects of the global fossil-fueled data center boom. Good conversation!