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Adam C

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Chemist concerned about climate; former state-level clean energy analyst; current federal energy officer; he/him, AMAB; views own

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Dance: 10⁻¹, Looks: EEK! @andrew3000.bsky.social · 7h
Iran is much heavier. Saved you a click
1. US weighs massive bomb against Iran
Military plans would use the "mother of all bombs" on Iranian energy and nuclear sites if Trump orders it.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13h
This is so absurd and so painful to read. Such a gross and cynical betrayal of public trust in climate action and clean energy.
“Data centers, when built in a thoughtful strategic way, can be grid assets as opposed to grid burdens,” Goldfield said. “And AI growth is incentivizing utilities to change in a way that decarbonization alone doesn't.”
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The 51st @51st.news · 16h
Children account for 45% of e-scooter injuries and, according to one trauma nurse, several D.C. riders end up in their ER every week. Should e-scooters be banned? 51st.news/dc-experts-w...
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Experts warn that e-scooters risk death and severe injuries
The recent death of a city official in a scooter collision, alongside riders landing in the ER “every week” has trauma experts questioning whether rental e-scooters should be allowed.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/10/2026
Hi @techcrunch.com you had a typo in your headline, I fixed it for you
A person who works at the company Anthropic sent
a false report to the police using a program that
automatically fabricates police reports
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ah, we simply started a war with Iran, got American service members killed via negligence, massively increased global costs, and decided that the best solution is to partner up with the President's favorite fascists to slightly lower them and fundamentally betray our promised and principles.
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Timely youtu.be/3fDGcZ8qpPM?...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In which I argue for censoring companies. And mean it. futureearth.substack.com/p/why-is-big...
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Why Big Tech is Saving Big Oil
Amy Westervelt, the founder of Drilled, on who shapes the way we think, the oil-tech alliance, and the case for censoring companies.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The Chief Advocacy Officer at the American Clean Power Association was formerly the Senior Vice President of Policy, Economics, and Regulatory Affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, and Executive Vice President of Government Affairs at America’s Natural Gas Alliance. No, really.
Frank Macchiarola
Chief Advocacy Officer
Frank J. Macchiarola is the Chief Advocacy Officer of American Clean Power (ACP). In this role he leads the clean power industry's advocacy function including ACP's government affairs and political
engagement at the federal and state level.
Prior to joining ACP, Frank served as Senior Vice President of Policy, Economics, and Regulatory Affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, and Executive Vice President of Government Affairs at America's Natural Gas Alliance. Earlier in his
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Meanwhile, reporters uncritically carry water for this turd grenade of a permitting deal by noting hat "clean energy" groups like American Clean Power Association are behind it without noting they've been co-opted by fossil fuels.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026
I wrote this story bc I was frustrated at the lack of discussion about the Mohegan Tribe in mainstream coverage of the Sun’s sale. I had to pitch it around for nearly a month before my editor at The Guardian finally said yes. Native stories deserve to be told & Native voices deserve to be heard.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms theonion.com/dnc-releases-preemptiv…
DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Got flu/covid shot. Bought Tums and Ben and Jerry's with coupon. Winning
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/10/2026
Think tanks will soon start releasing non-peer-reviewed modeling of how the permitting bill might affect pollution, if they haven't already. Most will secretly have lots of ideology-driven thumbs on scales. One big way to tip the scales is by ignoring pollution associated with oil and gas exports.
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 05/10/2026
I thought this might be an exaggeration, but no! Despite all the talk of technology neutrality, it appears the permitting reform proposal would weaponize claims for federal damages — but in practice, only for fossil fuels.
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Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Welcome to your match against an NWSL team that won’t make the playoffs
Drew Carey at the whose line desk says where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter
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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This will happen everyday with the "permit reform" bill. Obama waived S106 for the border wall; this bill will remove all opportunities for cultural resource review. 🏺 #historicpreservation #S106
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the bill is being blocked by one man, and that man is Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie." Sounds like NY needs a new Speaker
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I admire whoever makes this event into a Halloween costume
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brb figuring out how to nominate for Pulitzer
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ESPN, give me NWSL/NSL multiview, cowards
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Taylor Vincent @tayvincent6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sorry, I uploaded before the crop saved: Better version
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Taylor Vincent @tayvincent6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wowow Sophia Wilson Red card. I guess consistency for hair pull rule enforcement. #NWSL #BAON
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clean energy is the cheapest way to add electricity to the grid. So is a clean grid realistic? I say yes. The real question is how fast we tear out our old one. That’s up to us. New op-ed for @livescience.com! Check it out here: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Trump can't stop America's shift to clean energy. And we can accelerate it.
The cost of clean energy just keeps falling as the price of coal ramps up. Politicians promising affordability will follow those savings no matter who is in the White House. And in the meantime, there...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If there were any justice, this case would cost the DA his job.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ah, well. Disappointing, but what are you gonna do. I watched them win 89 times this year. Can’t complain. Good luck to all the advancing teams that don’t have signature racist chants. Go Brewers!
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why would you trust any bill that comes out of this senate
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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 28/09/2026
Time to defend home ice 🏠 Save your seat for your team's home opener now! 🎟️ thepwhl.com/en/schedule/opening-weekend-2026-27
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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 28/09/2026
‘Solar farms contained a greater bird abundance and species richness than arable farmland, but this varied with solar farm management’ We are comparing solar to bleached land though, so let’s not pretend anything. The birds, like the pollinators though, can be leveraged to better food production.
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Solar farm management influences breeding bird responses in an arable-dominated landscape
Solar farms are increasing in Britain, but their biodiversity impact is under-studied. We explored bird populations on six solar farms in the East Anglian Fens, using an adapted Breeding Bird Surve...
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ex-USGCRP folks have thoughts... www.climate.us/news-feature...
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A response from former USGCRP leaders on proposal to revise the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Former executive director of the U.S. Global Change Science Program and several colleagues describe the rigor of the process that produced NCA5.
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Put Sanchez and Chawinga on the money
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm maybe in the twilight zone but watching my first Canadian football game and the Edmonton kicker is 9/9 field goals, CFL record. Also there was just a defensive pass interference OT challenge overturning, you know, normal sports stuff
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Amaze amaze amaze
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/new-yorker... 1/ "Schneider-Mayerson suspects there may be an unspoken “cultural #climate consensus” at work, in which media gatekeepers have concluded that global warming deserves no more than a sliver of our collective attention spans." @sammyroth.bsky.social
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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot
The climate silence is coming from inside the house.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have been censored by mainstream media* So have published the piece they silenced on my own site. drilled.ghost.io/the-unbearab... Please buy the book The New York Times doesn’t want you to read! geni.us/broughttoyouby *this is a bit
geni.us
Amy Westervelt, investigative reporter and host of Drilled, shows how the tentacles of corporate propaganda infiltrated our media ecosystem, undermined democracy, and now threaten the very nature of t...
Order now:
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m only 3 chapters in since my preorder dropped while I was at a no-device conference but: no shock here that this is an absolute must-read
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
"Heavily drink warm bourbon from mason jars while swathed in an L.L. Bean Hudson Bay blanket and start a small bonfire using J. Crew catalogs as kindling." buff.ly/ux2yV5x
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Fall DIY Projects That Help Numb the Pain of Existence
“Find an abandoned barn and weave excessive amounts of string lights through the rafters until you’re satisfied with your oversized altar to fall. Heavily dr...
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Would Jesus take a job on the Death Star if they gave him a promotion to GS-14
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These updates from the @nytimes "Climate Forward" event are so self-serving as to be almost funny.
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I asked Kate Martin a very important question. Since she was raised in southern Illinois, is she a Car -- "I'm a Cubs fan. Go Cubs. Go Bears. I was raised right."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Perfect animal
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