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🛠️ Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
#energy

Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
Colombia’s energy transition is not just playing out in policy papers — it’s unfolding in oil fields, coal towns, and courtrooms. Jacobin spoke with engineers, unionists, and President Petro himself about trying to realize a post-extractivist economy.

#Microsoft finishes swallowing #Github, the largest repository of #OpenSource software.
GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | The Verge

GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Microsoft is bringing GitHub into its AI engineering team. It’s part of an AI shakeup, following the GitHub CEO resigning.

Just finished "Freshman Year" by Sarah Mai. It's a pretty good autobiographical fiction graphic novel about the first year of college, and instead of trying to make things fit into a plot, it lets them float apart and remain unresolved, which is nice. Not so much explicit wisdom, but in offering a realistic picture of the personal struggles & emotional moments of the college transition, I feel like it's pretty valuable.
#AmReading #GraphicNovel

Tried switching to #ghostty on both macOS and #NixOS. On macOS, it replaced iTerm2 for me and the transition was pretty smooth. Also worked fine with fish and starship ootb. Just the still persisting SSH issues (which are blamed on ghostty being too new for external applications to recognize it)…

Just used the Token Transit app in Vancouver to pay for the Aquabus.
I’m so used to these kinds of apps being terrible. This was a really nice experience. App Clip from QR code. Seamless transition to the App Store app. Simple login via phone number that properly autofills the code. 👍

THIS👇👇👇👇👇
https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114949958179517536
( And it highlights the fact that we need to rethink utilities, recognizing them as services necessary for a modern equitable society to function)

THIS👇👇👇👇👇
https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114949958179517536
( And it highlights the fact that we need to rethink utilities, recognizing them as services necessary for a modern equitable society to function)

"Israel and America’s war with Iran is not just a strategic throw of the dice. It is a fundamental shift in how power operates in a multipolar world. Though a transition toward new models of collective security remains theoretically possible, as the foundations of US global hegemony wither under Donald Trump the current trajectory favours entropy over order. The danger is not merely in acts of war, it is also in the chaos they leave behind."

Chaos engulfs Iran. What can Britain and Europe do?
Whether it is a democracy or a dictatorship, a state that loses a long war usually faces a dangerous reckoning. For four decades the ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic of Iran were anchor

#DegrowthOslo25 morning plenary on livestream: https://isee-degrowth2025.no/live-stream shorltly.
"Confronting Inequalities in the Green Transition" with Piketty, Hor…

UN chief puts faith in market forces to combat climate change, urging governments to accelerate renewables transition and avoid new fossil fuel investments. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

UN chief tells AP that market forces could be what ends fossil fuels
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change. Guterres in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press highlights the falling costs of renewable energy like solar and wind. Guterres warns that investments in fossil fuels could become financial losses. He stresses the urgency of reducing emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal set by the Paris Agreement. While some scientists believe that ta…

Just updated Tvmarks to 3.0 as I finally transition it to typescript.
I avoided typescript before as Postmarks was not and Glitch really struggled with the build step needed for typescript.
Typescript will only make adding new features easier as adding bugs will be harder.
I continue to love Tvmarks and I use it every day!
https://

A Prediction for Maximum Supercooling in SU(N) Confinement Transition
Prateek Agrawal, Gaurang Ramakant Kane, Vazha Loladze, John March-Russell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10091 …

A Prediction for Maximum Supercooling in SU(N) Confinement Transition
The thermal confinement phase transition (PT) in $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills theory is first-order for $N\geq 3$, with bounce action scaling as $N^2$. Remarkably, lattice data for the action include a small coefficient whose presence likely strongly alters the PT dynamics. We give evidence, utilizing insights from softly-broken SUSY YM models, that the small coefficient originates from a deconfined phase instability just below the critical temperature. We predict the maximum achievable supercooling in $…

"Pakistan’s solar surge is turning the energy system on its head"
#Pakistan #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Pakistan’s solar surge is turning the energy system on its head
With power bills soaring and the national grid failing, Pakistanis are taking the energy transition into their own hands—and creating a bottom-up solar revolution.Beth Gardiner reports for Yale Environment 360.In short:Pakistan’s solar use exploded from 4% to 14% of electricity generation in just th...