What a story. Ford CEO Jim Farley travels to China with his CFO in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic. They test drive an electric SUV from their Chinese joint venture partner Changan and suddenly realize Chinese automakers are now ahead of them.

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iOS 18 now applies some horrid little text animation when you send the all-caps word “WOW” in iMessage. Texting an all-caps WOW is one of the best things you can do on your phone and they ruined it.

for renewables, capital is fuel, when capital gets cheaper, more renewables projects become viable heatmap.news/economy/federa…

I realize that graphic design and “design thinking” did not save the world like everyone thought they would in 2015, but I think now we could actually do with a little more design, actually.

It's worth reading Robert Caro on the lives of women in the Hill Country, pre electricity: randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/…

Got to stretch my science journalism muscles with this one — in order to have any chance of scaling up, the carbon removal company Equatic.tech needs to crack one of the toughest problems in chemistry. But they may have done it? heatmap.news/economy/equati…

I have logged on. I have logged on to read the discourse.

I was SHOCKED when the CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs suggested they might not go through with the county's most important green steel project despite $500m from the Biden Administration, enough to write up my thoughts on the implications for Heatmap News. heatmap.news/economy/clevel…

"Just because politics and collective action are the only things that can solve climate change doesn’t mean they are the only things that can do something about climate change," write Emily Pontecorvo and Robinson Meyer in their intro: heatmap.news/decarbonize-yo…

Perfect filtered gray light in New York today, this hypermodernist pallor is what it’s all about

🧵Today, Heatmap News is releasing a big project we've been working on for the past year — a series of extremely in-depth guides to help individuals take the "highest-leverage" actions to tackle climate change. This is not just about carbon footprints. heatmap.news/decarbonize-yo…

Worth checking out the entire Heatmap News “Decarbonize Your Life” series, but this one from Robinson Meyer especially resonates. Buying an EV doesn’t just reduce your carbon footprint, it supports America’s supply chain buildout for EVs and batteries. heatmap.news/decarbonize-yo…

it turns out the problems are bad but the causes … the causes are difficult to collectively identify and address

Politic's is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)