Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects
The Interior Department said Thursday that it would add additional layers of review for wind and solar energy projects,
following Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at
ending any “preferential treatment” for renewable energy.
The new requirement threatens to trip up the approval process
as wind and solar projects race to begin construction by a deadline next July to qualify for tax credits,
whi…
Computer scientist Greg Nelson and I presented "Following AI's Footsteps from School to Society" at the 2025 UMaine Faculty Institute https://mycampus.maine.edu/web/uc-faculty-portal/faculty-institute-2025 including the IMPACT RISK framew…
glass: ordered set data structure for client-side order books
Viktor Krapivensky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13991 https://arxiv.org/p…
Climate Change Linked to Rising Cancer Cases in Kenya
https://web.archive.org/web/20250615200903/https://thekenyatimes.com/health/health-science/how-climate-change-is-fueling-a-cancer-epidemic-in-kenya/
So Bitvise, the developer of an SSH client that competes with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, somehow got hold of the domain putty.org and is using it to promote its own products.
Here's how Bitvise responded to a tech blogger/journalist who wrote about this situation.
https://blog.pupred.…
There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407…
So, driving home from a client call & up ahead of me on the freeway I see a giant blue pickup truck flying
4 count ‘em 4 giant flags behind the cab
I roll my eyes
Get a little closer…
Ok
US Flag
Massachusetts Flag
…progress Pride Flag
???Pride flag with “Don’t tread on me”
Did NOT expect that.
In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died. What’s going wrong? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/britain-ancient-woodlands-failing-regenerate-forests-climate-drought-heat-dis…
The president posted a furious rant on Truth Social Tuesday, saying that any of his followers who were interested in the Epstein case were falling for Democratic “bullshit,”
and compared it to the “totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election.”
Similarly to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Trump now claims that Epstein files are a “hoax.”
Unfortunately for Trump, Americans don’t care abou…