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Opening a CD or DVD box. Sliding it into the player. Pressing play.
That simple ritual reminds us of something we're losing: the feeling of truly owning what we consume. Not renting access, not relying on servers, just you and your collection.
#dvds #cds

So the Canadian government is cracking down on anti-semitism (CBC: #israel #palestine #canada #cdnpoli #canpoli

EU Member States are deprioritising 'non-wires' solutions or non-fossil flexibility as alternatives for network expansion.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/20…

Following a blockbuster IPO earlier this month,
Elon Musk’s SpaceX experienced a rude awakening.
The rocket company’s shares have now been sliding for four consecutive days,
wiping out nearly all the gains the public offering had initially made.
Now the broader stock market is experiencing a similar and intensifying sell-off.
S&P 500 futures slid 1.6 percent on Tuesday,
while Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 2.8 percent, on track to wipe out over $1 trillio…

Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing
The global stock market is experiencing an intensifying sell-off, intensifying fears of a bursting AI bubble.

Quebec hydropower is now flowing to New York City—1.25 GW of clean electricity displacing fossil generation.
Meanwhile, Twelve launched America's first commercial e-jet fuel plant, turning CO2 and renewable power into synthetic jet fuel.
And China brought online a massive solar-battery-hydrogen complex to power industry with renewables.
Real infrastructure. Real progress. Today.
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Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome Everything here is about systems learning to work together at scale. Like the season’s long light, these links extend our reach, quiet but decisive, so that what once felt distant starts to feel close. Here is what moved this week. Top Climate Solutions Of The Week Progress showed

"Dr. Chen’s lawyers said that Ms. Herridge’s “claimed right to protect her source(s) glosses over exactly what she is shielding from Chen, the courts, and the public: the identity of federal official(s) who broke the law, abused their access to sensitive records to harm a private citizen and laundered that corrupt, unlawful conduct through a reporter to escape detection.”
Supreme Court Allows Reporter to Be Fined for Failing to Disclose Source - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/supreme-court-herridge-first-amendment.html

"People should not tie their feeling of their own worth to their income... Most people agree we shouldn’t judge people by their bank account or their earning power but we still do it. Hey we have flaws. We also judge people based on how attractive they are and how tall they are and other far from sensible things. Study after study shows we do this even if we want to pretend we don’t."

There's a general feeling that Judges shouldn't be able to make sentencing decisions that deviate from guidelines, except for the circumstances where it *would* be appropriate. How to identify those circumstances is the tricky part.
AI maybe?

After falling short in birthright citizenship case, Trump eyes new solution (Steve Benen/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-reacts-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/260630/p90#a260630p90

WELKER: You voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt earlier this year for failing to comply with subpoena.
Why shouldn't the same standard apply to the former AG Pam Bondi?
BYRON DONALDS: We'll see what happens when we get back to DC
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/p…

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
WELKER: You voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt earlier this year for failing to comply with subpoena. Why shouldn't the same standard apply to the former AG Pam Bondi? BYRON DONALDS: We'll see what happens when we get back to DC