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#Agrivoltaics is the practice of purposefully shading agricultural crop lands with solar panels
in order to enjoy the dual benefits of solar electricity and increased food production.
A new study I
co-authored with my colleague, Uzair Jamil, found that
👍 partial shading to benefit crop production even works when the solar panels do not.
This has interesting policy ramific…

How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions
Canada can meet its carbon emission reduction targets, make food cheap again and open up a gigantic trade surplus with the U.S. by shading farm crops with solar panels.

Everyone can go ice skating. You can go ice skating, even if you’re really bad at it. And if you fall, strangers will rush to help. And they’ll laugh with you when you laugh. Because this is Minneapolis.
And one of these days, damnit, everyone can go skating and just worry about the ice and not ICE. One day. When we get those occupier assholes out of here.
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Sources: Comcast, Netflix, and Paramount submitted second-round WBD bids on December 1; Paramount's includes financing from Apollo and Middle East wealth funds (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount…

Paramount Skydance's Latest Bid for WBD Backed by Arab Wealth Funds
The second round of offers for all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery are in from Paramount Skydance, Netflix and Comcast. And the new, higher offer for all of WBD from David Ellison's Paramount is backed in part by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

Marques Brownlee plans to shut down his wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: it had 900K downloads and $95K in user spending since its 2024 launch (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/mkbhds-wallpaper-app-panels-is-shutt…

MKBHD's wallpaper app Panels is shutting down | TechCrunch
"We knew it was niche... and ultimately, we weren't able to turn it into the vision I had," Marques Brownlee said.

CBP Agents Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez ID’d in Alex Pretti Shooting — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Left-leaning gun groups say they’ve seen a surge of interest since fatal Minneapolis shootings | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/liberal-gun-groups-minneapolis-shootings-b2911839.html

from my link log —
Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd.
https://jonathanchang.org/blog/setting-up-spotifyd-on-macos/
saved 2020-10-18

Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd
How to save a ton of memory and compute power by switching to a Terminal-based Spotify client.

"Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first"
#Amazon #Bees #Insects

Trump's Crackdown in Wake of Shooting Blocks Legal Pathways for Migrants (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/us/politics/trump-dc-shooting-immigration.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p48#a251202p48

Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary,
has advocated for a new travel ban on visitors from an unspecified number of countries
following the shooting death in Washington DC of a national guard member by an Afghan national.
Noem posted to X her proposal on Monday night after she said she had spoken with Donald Trump,
whose first term travel ban on seven Muslim countries faced widespread criticism and followed a rocky legal path before it was eventually upheld …