Why Alexander the Great look like he played lacrosse at Yale and now works wealth management at UBS

When you write a report for Congress, and the authorship later changes to someone who didn’t write the report. This is a bad practice by the Congressional Research Service. Every CRS Report. #ClimateTwitter #EnergyTwitter crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/…

1.5C is dead or almost dead may be factually correct, but giving up on the target may also be politically wrong. #ClimateChange theguardian.com/environment/20…

The most shocking insight from this article is that 35 is considered middle age. via The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/12/02/bus…

A man in his seventies turned onto the Capital Crescent Trail and drove for SEVEN MILES, hitting a woman in her 80s. Police: “The driver was confused, unaware of their surroundings, and continued to drive along the trail.” For seven miles!

Vive La France

Kudos to the ⁦Council of DC⁩. Transit should be free like police or fire service, and we desperately need to get people out of their cars in DC. washingtonpost.com/transportation…

Great bill to reduce traffic violence in DC. Thanks CM Janeese Lewis George!

What’s better than Georgetown University?

...the gross continuous power generation at the current yield level would be just 2.5 MW. NIF cost about $3.5 billion to build. Basically, we're many orders of magnitude away from an inertial confinement power plant along every possible dimension.

From net energy gain to practical deployment may be decades away. In the meantime, will RE power sources be so cheap that fusion is largely irrelevant? washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

This is the decade of trade policy as climate policy. #CarbonTariffs reuters.com/markets/carbon…

New paper from UC Berkeley scholar Kate Pennington finds that new housing made rents within 100m fall by 2% and displacement risk fall by 17%

So what Mastodon server are people using while we watch the Twitter bird go up in flames? nytimes.com/2022/12/13/tec…

Drives me crazy that people are still pining away for some magic blue-light arc-reacor sci-fi energy source to save us when solar and wind are out there doing it, as we speak.

⁦Elon Musk⁩ cares about free speech as long as it doesn’t concern his private jet. nytimes.com/2022/12/14/tec…

I can promise u most "progressives" have never experienced the fear of driving/walking in Ward 8. By far one of the most life threatening things u can do in DC. Too bad our experiences get silenced for political gain

The ⁦Elon Musk⁩ Free Speech Police is at it again. nytimes.com/2022/12/15/tec…

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