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It took me way too long to figure out that, to create an output file with DOS-style line endings (as required by the iCalendar specification, for example) in #11ty, you just create a template file that has DOS-style line endings. Sometimes things that should be easy are.

Yeah, that's a cliffhanger.

Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…

Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others
His frivolous damages theory concedes that Trump views the presidency as a for-profit venture

National Diabetes Month: 65% Of Americans Open To Preventative Plant-Based Diets https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/diabetes-americanspreventative-plant-based-diets/

National Diabetes Month: 65% Of Americans Open To Preventative Plant-Based Diets
Sixty-five percent of Americans would be open to adopting low-fat, plant-based diets to help control blood sugar or prevent type 2 diabetes

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

The 28 point peace proposal is a mix of the Munich peace agreement, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop-Pact.
Two major powers conspire to carve up a smaller one, like with the Molotov-Ribbentrop-Pact. The victim of an aggression is pressured my western powers to give in to the aggressor, like with the Munich peace agreement.
This is terrible. This finally is the prelude to WWIII, and we all will suffer. In Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and also in the Americas. No exceptions.

POL-NOM: Pkw stoßen beim Ausparken zusammen Uslar (ots) - Neustädter Platz 25, Freitag, 23.01.2026, 15.50 Uhr USLAR (st) - Verkehrsunfall Eine 65 - jährige Fahrzeugführerin aus Uslar beschädigt beim Ausparken mit ihrem Pkw den abgestellten PKW eines 65 - jährigen Geschädigten aus einem ... https://www.presseportal.de/bla…

Sweden just hit a massive milestone: electric vehicles now make up 65.4% of all car sales, with pure battery EVs at 40.4% and plug-in hybrids at 25%.
Volvo EX40 led the pack, while combustion-only cars dropped to just 21.8%. And it's about to accelerate even more—new government incentives kick in for 2026.

EVs At 65.4% Share In Sweden - Incentive Scheme Incoming - CleanTechnica
November’s auto sales saw plugin EVs at 65.4% share in Sweden, up from 61.7% year-on-year. BEVs were up in share, while PHEVs were flat.

Heute vor 65 Jahren: Am 24.01.1961 kam es zu einem Absturz einer B-52 in #Goldsboro, North Carolina, bei dem zwei #Wasserstoffbomben unkontrolliert abgeworfen wurden. Eine dieser Bomben war nur einen von vier Sicherheitsschaltern von einer Detonation entfernt.

Commanders to start QB Johnson vs. Cowboys https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47407565/commanders-qb-josh-johnson-make-first-nfl-start-2021

Als Technik Nerd konnte ich dem Angebot für einen 21% reduzierten Full Array LED Fernseher von Sony einfach nicht widerstehen!
Am Black Friday gibt es die besten Rabatte auf die LED Fernseher. Dadurch würde ein OLED oder MicroLED dann doppelt so viel kosten, und das finde ich nicht gerechtfertigt.
Die LED XR Fernseher von Sony ja auch alles, was man sich wünschen kann.
Habt ihr euch auch schon für einen OLED Fernseher entschieden oder seid ihr wie ich noch bei LED?

Pew: 57% of US adults ages 65 prefer to watch their news, while among adults under 30, 45% prefer to get news by reading, 31% by watching, and 23% by listening (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

More Americans prefer to watch the news than read or listen to it
A majority of Americans who prefer to watch the news (62%) say they prefer to get it from TV, rather than another platform.

Minnesota jury says Johnson & Johnson owes $65.5 million to woman with cancer who used talcum powder | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/minnesota-jury-says-johnson-johnson-owes-65-5-million-to-woman-with-cancer-who-used-talcum-powder

#DB Bahnfahren ab 65 Jahren -
#Senioren #mobilitat

Tipps für Bahnfahren ab 65: Mit diesen Tricks zahlen Senioren deutlich weniger
Viele wissen es nicht: Senioren können bei der Bahn richtig Geld sparen. Diese Rabatte sind möglich.

Recursion, see: https://mastodon.peterjanes.ca/@me/115590594226287657

War gestern was? Ja, ich hab auch mitbekommen, dass viele Websites unerreichbar waren. Dank @… war weder meine Website, noch meine Mastodon-Instanz betroffen. Und wenn, wären nicht gleich grosse Teile des Web betroffen.
#cloudfare

#Cyberattaque sur #Weda https://www.01net.com/actua…

Manchmal liegt man völlig falsch 😂
“#pastpuzzle 413
🟩🟩🟥🟥 ( 65)
🟩🟩🟥🟩 ( 50)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0)
▪️▪️▪️▪️
3/4 🥉” https://www.pastpuzzle.de/

follow me on my own gotosocial instance: @…

Gotta love a "minor" release that completely rewrites configuration syntax and doesn't provide backward compatibility or migration tooling.

#ciddle 2025-12-21 (65)
1. ❌ ↘️ 85km
2. ❌ ⬅️ 179km
3. ❌ ⬆️ 111km
4. ❌ ⬆️ 76km
5. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/848540/google-app-fees-ext…

Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
Google will charge fees when Android developers link outside of the Play Store, or use alternative billing systems, and says it’s complying with the Epic injunction.

Flixtrain plant massive Flottenerweiterung mit Talgo-Zügen
Der Bahn-Konkurrent Flix hat bis zu 65 neue Fernzüge beim spanischen Hersteller Talgo bestellt. Chef Schwämmlein verrät, wann Fahrgäste damit fahren können.

I used to live in a house by the freeway. When I went anywhere, I had
to be going 65 MPH by the end of my driveway.
I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights. Now it looks
like I'm the only one moving.
I was pulled over for speeding today. The officer said, "Don't you know
the speed limit is 55 miles an hour?" And I said, "Yes, but I wasn't going
to be out that long."
I put a new engine in my car, but didn…

It's like no one doing music programming for radio and stores this year has even heard of #Whamageddon. 😐

"Sydney’s First Upcycled Skyscraper Named Finalist for 2025 Earthshot Prize"
#Austalia #Sydney #Buildings

Sydney’s First Upcycled Skyscraper Named Finalist for 2025 Earthshot Prize | Happy Eco News
Sydney’s Quay Quarter Tower, the world’s first upcycled skyscraper, has been named a finalist for the 2025 Earthshot Prize. The retrofit retained 65% of its structure, avoided 12,000 tonnes of embodied carbon, and doubled usable space. The project proves that reusing old towers can replace demolition as a sustainable, profitable alternative.

@… it was the only time I was allowed to sit close to the TV. The rest of the time I was constantly being told to move back or I’d go blind.

Das #RND berichtet von der Gerichtsverhandlung zu einer tödlichen Kollision zwischen Fehmarn und Kiel. Die Rahmenbedingungen klingen sehr unspektakulär: kein Alkohol am Steuer, alle drei am Geschehen Beteiligten, das Opfer, der Täter und ein Lkw-Fahrer, fuhren deutlich unterhalb der zulässigen Höchstgeschwindigkeit. Telefonate zur Tatzeit wurden ausgeschlossen. Die Ursache bleibt dabei unklar.
D…

»Firefox mit erweitertem Fingerprinting-Schutz:
Der Open-Source-Browser verfügt in der aktuellen Version 145 über neue Mechanismen zum Schutz vor Fingerprinting. Die neuen Massnahmen sollen das Tracking um 65 Prozent reduzieren.«
Dies ist sehr zu begrüßen und deren Klones wie der @… und @…

Firefox mit erweitertem Fingerprinting-Schutz
Der Open-Source-Browser verfügt in der aktuellen Version 145 über neue Mechanismen zum Schutz vor Fingerprinting. Die neuen Massnahmen sollen das Tracking um 65 Prozent reduzieren.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Antonín Dvořšk & Grieg Trio:
🎵 Trio for piano and strings no 3 in F minor, Op 65
#AntonínDvořák #GriegTrio

GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa dies at 65 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-rep-doug-lamalfa-dies-65-rcna252553
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p51#a260106p51

This week: MIT cuts carbon capture energy costs, transparent window insulation slashes building heating use, and battery prices drop enough to make solar-plus-storage competitive at $65/MWh.
In South Australia, a 200 MW battery will help stabilize the grid for more renewables. Progress is happening now.
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Welcome The week tilts toward the solstice. In the north, frost feathers windows at dawn; in the south, warm tides thread quietly through mangrove roots while pelicans skim bright water. We are keeping what matters and letting the rest go. MIT chemists teach carbon capture to sip, not gulp, energy,

2026 is being celebrated by Toho as Mothra Year, as this year marks both 65 years since Mothra first appeared on screen, and also 30 years since the Heisei-era Mothra trilogy.
Mothra's my girl (my wife knows, and she's okay with it). 😍
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news…

WAN-IFRA: news publications globally had an estimated combined revenue of $125.7B in 2025, down 0.01% YoY; print still accounted for 65% of total revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co…

Immediate unfollow. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/21/al-jazeera-launches-new-integrative-ai-model-the-core

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts."

Lawyer suing NFLPA for retaliation fired by union https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47696265/nflpa-fires-long-attorney-raised-legal-concerns

On Wednesday night, Nvidia released its highly anticipated/dreaded quarterly earnings report
— and Wall Street let out a sigh of relief,
— at least initially.
The multitrillion dollar chipmaker at the center of the AI boom reported
a ludicrous $57 billion in quarterly revenue,
netting it nearly $32 billion in profit.
Compared to the same quarter from the year before,
it amounted to a 62 percent surge in sales,
and a further 65 percent increase …

Oops! Nvidia’s Stock Is Falling Again After Its “Blowout” Earnings Report
After dazzling Wall Street with a "blowout" earnings report which saw its stock rise, Nvidia's stock is already declining.

Erbaulich angesichts der aktuellen Umstände nicht gerade. Dennoch wert, gerade jetzt wieder aus dem Regal geholt und gelesen zu werden.

@… Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This" just won the National Book Award for nonfiction. You might appreciate his acceptance speech. (It starts a few minutes from here, which is the intro of the finalists.)

@… I remember being referred to as “remote control” in those days.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Antonín Dvořšk & Grieg Trio:
🎵 Trio for piano and strings no 3 in F minor, Op 65
#AntonínDvořák #GriegTrio

Lessons from 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEvz11ckG_4

As a now-long-former subscriber to F&SF—because of my own limited time, nothing to do with what's documented—this is still disappointing to read (including today's update). https://www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/2025/11/12/a-dream-denied/

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Hula". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

SSD-Preise steigen rasant an
SSD-Hersteller müssen bis zu 65 Prozent mehr für NAND-Bausteine bezahlen. Im Handel steigen die Preise bereits erheblich.
https://www.heise.de/news/SSD-Preise-steig

Oh no! Anyway...
(The rest of the headline is the words "other services", which, hoo boy, CBC/AP.)
#cloudflare

California is turning a water crisis into a clean energy opportunity.
The Westlands Water District plans to build up to 21 GW of solar on farmland that's been fallowed due to water shortages in the San Joaquin Valley. The project aims to preserve agriculture viability while creating new jobs for farmworkers in the renewable energy sector.

California water district plans up to 21 GW of solar on fallowed farmland
A California water district has adopted a long-term plan to develop up to 21 GW of solar generation on agricultural land fallowed due to water shortages.

Apparently the "Brother printer support scam" is still a thing. Great job, search engines, certificate providers, browser developers, and every other tech field that's failed to stanch this over the last decade or two.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Antonín Dvořšk & Grieg Trio:
🎵 Trio for piano and strings no 3 in F minor, Op 65
#AntonínDvořák #GriegTrio

I'm in Pisa today. It's a trap. The tower is straight, just the whole city is tiltet,

Big win for environmental justice in New Jersey.
A state appeals court just upheld a groundbreaking 2023 rule that makes it harder for polluting industries to get permits in low-income communities and communities of color.
Industrial groups challenged it, but the court sided with protecting overburdened areas over economic arguments.

Court upholds New Jersey’s landmark environmental justice rule
It’s unclear if the industrial groups that are fighting the rule will keep fighting in court.

RE: https://corteximplant.com/@ann3nova/115736443343982175
But weren't the aliens in the film *more* advanced than the humans? 😈

Not one shiny penny. https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/mozilla_corporation_new_ceo/

Washington's cap-and-invest auctions have raised billions now funding transit, heat pumps, and clean energy projects. Japan is activating multi-trillion-yen green finance for resilience and transition. China commissioned a 1 GW floating solar farm paired with aquaculture.
Policy meets practice, at scale.
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Home batteries are quietly becoming a game-changer for grid stability. As installations surge, utilities are tapping residential storage to manage peak demand during extreme weather—deferring costly upgrades while boosting resilience.
The key to scaling? Treat it like market development, not just tech deployment. Simple enrollment, risk-sharing models, and coordinated action between utilities and manufacturers can unlock massive participation.

Programmatic alignment is key to scaling residential battery demand response
Utilities, battery manufacturers, technology providers and customers all operate under different incentive structures, writes Uplight’s Sneha Vasudevan.

Somehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes

I'm slowly and entirely accidentally working my way through the canon of stuntman Loren Janes. (No relation as far as I've been able to determine.) The first time I saw his name was in the credits for Masters of the Universe leading into a show I'd videotaped; the most recent was in Escape from New York (today). Pretty sure the most famous film he worked in was Back to the Future, which I've seen *many* times, but haven't yet watched again since learning he was involved. …

Japan is building the world's largest liquefied hydrogen carrier — a massive 40,000 cubic meter vessel set to revolutionize clean energy transport by the 2030s.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Japan Suiso Energy are teaming up on this groundbreaking ship, which will run on both diesel and hydrogen fuel. It features specialized tanks and advanced insulation to keep the super-cold liquid hydrogen stable during ocean voyages.

Japanese companies to build world’s largest liquefied hydrogen carrier
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Japan Suiso Energy will construct a 40,000 cubic meter vessel designed to meet global hydrogen demand in the 2030s.

Attention Economy [?] Attachment Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10OCOtHu73U

I had only just decided that my unplayable first WWF letter tray should be called a "boing" (as opposed to an "ognib") when my opponent played a first-tray bingo.

My local CBC outlet has started posting on X again after a 14-month absence. What's the urgent breaking story that warranted their return to the Nazi site? (With a link to YouTube, no less, instead of the CBC website.) #LdnOnt

A breakthrough for solar durability: UNSW researchers discovered that thicker aluminum oxide layers protect TOPCon solar cells from UV damage by blocking hydrogen migration.
The culprit? High-energy UV photons break chemical bonds, releasing hydrogen that degrades performance. But 7nm AlOx layers act as an effective barrier.

Thicker alumunium oxide layers can reduce ultraviolet-induced degradation in TOPCon solar cells
UNSW researchers developed an experimentally validated model linking UV-induced degradation in TOPCon solar cells to hydrogen transport, charge trapping, and permanent structural changes in the passivation stack. They show that thicker aluminum oxide layers significantly improve UV resilience by limiting hydrogen migration, offering clear guidance for more robust TOPCon designs.

Beyond Resistance — #climate…

Ikigai and Eudaimonia: Rethinking Activism as Purpose, Balance, and Lifelong Growth
Activism doesn’t have to be burnout. Drawing from Ikigai and Eudaimonia, this essay explores how purpose, alignment, and integrity can transform resistance into creation — turning social change into a sustainable path of meaning, balance, and flourishing.

things I learned from my first month of content creation, posting at least once per day :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4N9OqGW-Is

Somehow found myself at a Wikipedia page for the Roud Folk Song Index <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_folk_songs_by_Roud_number> and was reminded that, back in the Napster era, I collected something like 50 versions of _The Raggle Taggle Gypsy_. (Not one was…

Massachusetts just awarded 1.3 GW of grid batteries to avoid costly upgrades. Kenya is scaling compressed earth blocks that cool homes with far less cement. CATL and Stellantis are building a 50 GWh battery plant in Spain to supply European EVs.
Real capacity, real progress.
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Not to make light of the latter, but "Once again millions of Canadians literally forget how to drive after first snowfall"* is Canada's "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens".**
*<https://www.thebeaverton.c…

Australia just hit a massive milestone in its clean energy future.
The final tower is up on EnergyConnect—1,500 steel giants stretching across three states to link NSW, Victoria, and South Australia's power grids. These towers weigh up to 60,000kg and stand 65m high.
Due for completion by late 2026, this grid connection will unlock renewable energy flow across the country.

Last of 1,500 steel towers in Australia's largest transmission project erected finally erected
The last of more than 1,500 steel towers, each weighing around 60 tonnes, has been erected on the country's biggest transmission project.

audacity calibration / rejection therapy & resume refreshes for multipassionate people!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OusKewz-FxU

Guangzhou is quietly becoming a blueprint for sustainable cities.
The Chinese megacity has transformed urban living with vertical gardens replacing concrete, parks built over malls, and green spaces woven throughout. They're prioritizing clean transit and renewable energy while proving dense cities can actually improve quality of life.

2025 Highlight: Guangzhou Shows a Potential Future of Clean City Living - CleanTechnica
Looking back on 2025, my trip to Guangzhou in November was one of the most eye-opening experiences. I knew that the media portrays a distorted and outdated picture of China, but I really didn't grasp how much until seeing it with my own eyes on this latest trip. While visiting, my wife and I frequently talked about how it was like visiting the future. Everything was relatively new, even compared to when a friend was stationed at the embassy there a little over a decade ago. Technology was every…

Finally fixed (i.e. rebuilt) the long-broken iCalendar feed on my theatre website. I'm the only one who actually uses it, so it wasn't a priority, but it was a good opportunity to figure out a better way of handling things. As a bonus, I've already found it useful.
Next, the user-facing auditions forum!

Oklahoma is crashing the green hydrogen party with some serious innovation.
Startup Tobe Energy just landed $1.8M for their membrane-free electrolysis system that could slash production costs by up to 75%. Their secret? LED technology that simplifies the process and cuts waste heat.
With strong renewables and business-friendly policies, Oklahoma is positioning itself as a major player in the energy transition.

Green Hydrogen Startup Has A Message For Texas: Hold My Beer
The Oklahoma startup Tobe Energy aims to cut the cost of green hydrogen with a membrane-free, stainless steel, drop-in system.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@iode/115627516384696071
About eight years ago another division of the company I worked for got dinged on the digital signage–based surveillance mentioned here. But I'm really just sharing it because of the creative captions at…

the lie of the niche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxYsapyA0r0

Check out my latest article - "the lie of the niche"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-lie-of-the-niche?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

The Lie of the Niche: Why Being Multi-Passionate Is a Strength
In a culture obsessed with specialization, curiosity is treated as a flaw. This essay explores why wholeness, imagination, and multi-passionate lives may be exactly what this moment requires.

Looks like no one at #immich ever reported #cursed issue https://github.com/immich-app/immich/i

Why Being "Too Scattered" Is Actually Your Greatest Leadership Asset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-MkiLj_RcM

Is it still nominative determinism when the doctor's *initials* are D.R.?

The climate crisis wasn't caused by ordinary people—so why are they footing the bill?
Two activists in France are pushing to change that. Their "Tax Their Billions" campaign is shifting public opinion toward making billionaires pay their fair share for climate solutions.
It's about accountability and justice in the transition we desperately need.

Ordinary people can’t keep paying for a crisis they didn’t create
Meet Chloé Sublet and Léa Renault, two activists in France fighting to make billionaires pay their fair share so the cost of the climate crisis doesn’t fall on everyone else

Credo just dropped its 2025 ESG report, and it's all about making AI infrastructure greener.
The connectivity tech company is tackling one of AI's biggest challenges: massive energy consumption in data centers. Their solution? High-speed connectivity hardware designed for lower power use and reduced waste.
Beyond products, they're investing in education, health, and local communities.

Credo Releases 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. San Jose, California — Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved reliability and energy efficiency, has released its 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report. The report outlines ... [continued]

In the last ~6 months someone linked to their blog about using JS-free custom elements for page structure and style in place of a methodology like BEM, e.g. using `<my-element>`/`my-element {}` instead of `<div class="my-element">`/`.my-element {}`. Might have referenced [HUG CSS](https://

99% of us breathe unsafe air—and it's hitting low- and middle-income countries hardest.
The World Bank says we can cut exposure to hazardous air pollution in half by 2040, and it's actually cost-effective. Multilateral development banks are stepping up with funding, partnerships, and knowledge sharing to make it happen.

Investing in Clean Air: How Multilateral Development Banks Are Accelerating Access
We brought together multilateral development banks (MDBs) to showcase how they are helping countries tackle air pollution through knowledge, financing, and partnerships.

Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Hogtown

Ever notice how the most influential people aren't always the bosses?
They're the ones everyone trusts. The ones whose ideas somehow become the plan. The ones people actually want to follow.
That influence doesn't come from a title. It comes from showing up consistently. Making things clearer. Being the same person in every room.
Read more about building influence without needing permission:

Influence Without Authority: How to Get People to Listen Without Being the Boss
Learn how to build real influence without authority. Discover proven strategies for gaining trust, establishing expertise, and leading without a title.

Mongabay's environmental journalism packed a serious punch in 2025.
Their reporting exposed illegal Amazon activities, spotlighted conservation wins in Colombia and Mexico, and tackled wildlife trafficking. The impact? Real indictments in Brazil, policy recommendations, and action from major orgs like WWF.
Over 870 documented impacts—all empowering communities to protect their land and ecosystems.

How Mongabay's journalism made an impact in 2025
The guiding star at Mongabay isn’t pageviews or clicks; it’s meaningful impact. As 2025 draws to a close, we look back at some of the ways Mongabay’s journalism made a difference this year. Empowering Indigenous and local communities A Mongabay Latam investigation found 67 illegal airstrips were cut into the Peruvian Amazon to transport drugs, […]

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #16!! 💖🌊✨
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Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome First light of the year rises thin and tender, and somewhere a wren stitches the cold air with a single bright note. It feels like a cue to pay attention to what is being quietly built. This week gathers a clear theme of capacity made real. Money meets materials,

Solar panels and crops growing together? It's called agrivoltaics, and it just got a major boost.
DC-based Okovate acquired startup Fundusol to integrate Stanford & Carnegie Mellon tech that optimizes solar arrays for different crops using genetic algorithms. The goal: make solar farming economically viable for rural communities across the US.

Agrivoltaic Company Okovate Acquires Stanford University & Carnegie Mellon Tech Startup - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Agrivoltaics have been the name of the game in the past few years in the solar power industry. On the surface, it seems simple — find farmland that could benefit from co-location with solar power plants, and then plop some ... [continued]

Of all the Bluesky labellers, I regard this one as the biggest red flag.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@paulisci/115811466515746812
Had a serious internal debate about this: go for the purist option of the better newspaper-style headline or the essay-as-a-headline that's a poke in the eye to current stupid tech trends. Pretty sure my even…

Preparing for career pivots as a multipassionate person!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-mnZgZXoWY

China just flipped the switch on something remarkable: the world's largest liquid air battery.
The facility cools air to -194°C, liquefies it, and stores it in tanks. When power is needed, the liquid expands and drives turbines. It's paired with a massive solar plant in the Gobi Desert, turning thin air into a 600 MWh energy storage solution.

China powers up world’s largest liquid air storage project
The 60 MW/600 MWh storage project is co-located with a 250 MW photovoltaic plant allowing for a high level of green energy self sufficiency.

Looks like the "Six Degrees of Kevin Fox" website no longer exists, and the Wayback Machine doesn't have the underlying data. https://web.archive.org/web/20070629173548/https://www.aquezada.com/kevinfox/

Washington's cap and invest program is turning polluter payments into billions for transit and air quality projects.
In Kenya's drylands, builders are using compressed earth blocks that keep homes cooler while cutting emissions and costs.
Real progress, happening now.
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Welcome In the north, the morning light rests on frost like sugar on cedar needles. Far south, cicadas stitch a warm hum through eucalyptus shade. Nature holds its own quiet poise, and that balance is our theme this week. So many of these stories are about keeping what matters and

The Hidden Bias That Controls Every Decision You Make
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVAl9qHb3FI

Went to see a production of one of the "50 Greatest Plays of the Past 100 Years" tonight. It was... not good. Wondered why it was scheduled strangely and performed for free, and now I know.

Fun little experiment: block html-load[.]com and error-report[.]com at the DNS level and watch the web become unusable.

This week: Saudi Arabia completed the world's largest grid battery to stabilize power and integrate renewables. Egypt is building a 1 GW solar plant with 600 MWh storage. Communities in the DRC created a 1 million hectare biodiversity corridor.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome In the north, the morning light rests on frost like sugar on cedar needles. Far south, cicadas stitch a warm hum through eucalyptus shade. Nature holds its own quiet poise, and that balance is our theme this week. So many of these stories are about keeping what matters and

Buildings Cause 40% of Carbon Pollution--Here's How They Can Fix It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJsOjg61G60