Where do I apply for the Nostradamus job. Seriously, this was the easiest fucking thing in the world to see coming.
Will
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Oh, a thousand hell yeah. Now let's do the rest of California! https://48hills.org/2024/03/after-111-years-sf-is-finally-moving-to-oust-pge-and-create-a-public-power-system/
Look, I know we've been flirting with M.P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud at a metaphorical level for, like, a while now. Getting literal is a bit on the nose, isn't it? https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/15/strange-purple-cloud-engulfs-city-sparking-toxic-gas-fears-20287552/
My wife says that as a 42 year old middle manager in a corporate setting I can't buy this @[email protected] shirt and wear it to work. Is she right?
Carbon capture may wind up being a useful tool, but letting oil companies and polluters profit from it is such a grift. I mean, look at this "net zero oil" bull. We need a carbon tax on emissions at the root source. We can quantify the carbon in a barrel of crude or a ton of coal, so let's tax it at extraction and fund publicly-owned climate solutions including distributed solar and mass transit and, if it's worth it, carbon capture.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831268/carbon-removal-climate-change-biden-funding-energy-department
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831268/carbon-removal-climate-change-biden-funding-energy-department
This kind of shit should make every American demand legislative action to protect us from PE firms *and* "AI" decision making. Taken from a long @pluralistic thread: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110837352708868589
Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image It's not that #conservatives aren't sometimes right - it's that even when they're right, they're *highly selective* about it. Take the hoary chestnut that "#IncentivesMatter," trotted out to deny humane benefits to poor people on the grounds that "free money" makes people "workshy." -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any-metric-becomes-a-target/#hca 1/
Keeping my fingers crossed
https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capital-big-tech-antitrust-predatory-pricing-uber-wework-bird-2023-7
https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capital-big-tech-antitrust-predatory-pricing-uber-wework-bird-2023-7
This really seems to encapsulate the modern Republican's functional worldview. Politics is only ever gamesmanship that cannot and should not be expected to impact their actual real lives. Their actual lives are governed by the rules of "the way things should work," which is just their assumption that everyone always lives with privilege (literally "private law") and receives their due on a case-by-case basis.
