@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-10-23 13:00:44
"South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments"
#SouthAfrica #FossilFuels #Energy
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-10-23 13:00:44
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-22 20:32:19
The Trump administration faced a string of four significant legal defeats this week
as federal and state courts pushed back on a range of initiatives spanning immigration enforcement,
deportation authority,
voting policy,
and the use of the National Guard.
The rulings, delivered in quick succession, highlight the extent to which judges across multiple jurisdictions are scrutinizing the administration’s procedural compliance,
statutory interpretations,
@mia@hcommons.social2025-10-23 12:21:43
This quote encapsulates some of my thinking about AI and knowledge creators, language communities: '"Inclusive institutions" reward you for baking more cake. Inclusive institutions like the rule of law, contracts, and open competition ensure that if you invest, you will reap the rewards.
"Extractive institutions" are how elites grab instead of bake cake.
They siphon state revenues, seize assets, block competition, smother innovation, centralise power, explo…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-12-20 02:23:51
South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/south-africa-considers-site-near-african-penguin-colony-for-third-nuclear-pow…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-19 23:46:03
A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the AG (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/82…
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-22 06:50:35
The Gospel According to ICE: How Christian Nationalists Betray The Faith They Claim to Follow | Tim Hjersted https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-gospel-according-to-ice/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-11-21 19:52:36
"When #billionaires own major media outlets, “news” becomes something closer to state messaging. Not because the government controls it, but because the financial class that funds political power also owns the platforms that shape public perception."
#kleptocracy
Legacy M…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-20 17:46:12
A White House Power Grab on AI Would Be a Huge Mistake (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-20/state-ai-laws-should-not-be-banned-by-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p69#a251120p69
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-20 18:04:27
Remember that authoritarian movements of all kinds, but especially fascist movements, do not initially have the power to force an entire nation state to bend to their will. They need — not just benefit from, but absolutely •need• — the passive acquiescence of large numbers of people.
Loud, annoying, visible resistance punctures the lie that it’s inevitable, that people who keep their heads down will be rewarded in the end.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-01-11 23:01:48
I want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-19 09:18:42
Restricting #JuryTrials
"It will make only a marginal difference to the problem it seeks to solve.
"But it is fair to suppose that the main motive for the change is increasing the power of the state at the expense of the people by stripping out a check on the power of the Establishment."
MPs are right to rebel over jury plans | Morning Star
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-01-19 10:13:15
Francesca Hong interview…
“This campaign is about reclaiming the power of sewer socialism — how much it delivered for communities in terms of climate and clean water and investing in public education. This was a time where people saw that there can be a government for good.”
https://jacobin.…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-17 21:57:11
Syndicalist unions are fundamentally different from the bureaucratic trade unions that dominate today. Modern unions function as institutional frameworks that negotiate within capitalism, often acting to preserve the system rather than challenge it. They centralize power in hierarchical leadership, limit direct worker control, and prioritize legal contracts and state approval over genuine worker autonomy.
Syndicalism rejects this institutionalized framework. It refuses collective barga…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-20 07:35:55
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 04:32:41
Trump said Thursday evening he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters,
a former Colorado county clerk who is serving a nine-year state sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines
— even though the president's pardon power ionly applies to federal crimes.
https://www.
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-05 22:32:15
🛫 Madagascar’s military power grab shows Africa’s coup problem isn’t restricted to the Sahel region
https://theconversation.com/madagascars-military-power-grab-shows-africas-coup-problem-isnt-restricted-to-the-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-13 19:55:50
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson plans to invest $124M on venue space and a production campus in Louisiana; the state agreed to provide $50M in infrastructure funding (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@marcel@waldvogel.family2025-12-11 19:10:16
Paul Krugman compares the current US policy on digital media to a country trying to sell you illegal drugs: They know that what they sell harms people, but they have the money and power to make sure you will not intervene.
Very powerful comparison. #MustRead
"America has, in practice, become a digital narco-state."
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-09 13:16:19
Here's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-11 23:08:00
New York just doubled down on clean energy in a big way.
The state's Power Authority approved an ambitious update: 5.5 GW of renewable capacity including solar, wind, and innovative compressed air storage. That's 2.5 GW more than previously planned.
The goal? Help develop 15 GW total to hit climate targets while keeping costs down as demand surges.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-13 10:55:50
PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/po
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-06 10:35:30
The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-12 02:41:01
Trump's redistricting effort fails in Indiana as GOP lawmakers deliver rare rebuke (Patrick Marley/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/11/why-these-red-state-republicans-are-resisting-trumps-efforts-expand-gop-power/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p152#a251211p152
@lilmikesf@c.im2026-01-09 05:26:10
Texas ends American Bar Association oversight of bar exams ...
#Texas #SupremeCourtDecision issued an order this week finalizing opinion that the ABA should "no longer have the final say" on which law school graduates qualify to sit forvbar exam.
Recently
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy2025-12-09 05:01:25
Very happy to see Trump’s illegal block on wind farm development thrown out by a judge, along with the Orwellian justification given for it—a classic inversion of the truth. Every accusation is a confession, etc. (“The government argued that the states’ claims amount to nothing more than a policy disagreement over preferences for wind versus fossil fuel energy development that is outside the federal court’s jurisdiction.”)
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2025-10-28 09:16:54
Clive Lewis MP clearly gets it. The PM should pay close attention to what he says here about the integration of corporate power into the state.
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/the-integrity-gap-how-we-built-the-authoritarian-f…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-05 04:59:41
" If completed, it could provide enough power for 32,500 homes."
Large-scale solar farm in central WA gets green light from governor • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/04/large-scale-solar-farm-in-central-wa-gets-green-light-from-governor/
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-28 15:30:21
There tends to be this implicit assumption that only the state can provide services to the people. It's endemic to liberals. If authoritarians seize power, the thinking goes, there's nothing we can do.
But we have ample examples of the opposite. Trumpism is a specific type of authoritarianism where the state withdraws to allow corporations to control most things. They get a degree of autonomy and, in exchange, bow to the sovereign.
This is common in South American dictatorships (often those backed and supported by the US). So it can be helpful to look to these as examples of how to deal with that type of regime.
#USPol
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.page2025-12-08 08:37:40
Nuclear spin quenching of the $^2S_{1/2}\rightarrow {^2}F_{7/2} $ electric octupole transition in $^{173}$Yb$^ $
Jialiang Yu, Anand Prakash, Clara Zyskind, Ikbal A. Biswas, Rattakorn Kaewuam, Piyaphat Phoonthong, Tanja E. Mehlst\"aubler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05872 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05872 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05872
arXiv:2512.05872v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We report the coherent excitation of the highly forbidden $^2S_{1/2} \rightarrow {^2}F_{7/2}$ clock transition in the odd isotope $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}^ $ with nuclear spin $I = 5/2$, and reveal the hyperfine-state-dependent, nuclear spin induced quenching of this transition. The inferred lifetime of the $F_e = 4$ hyperfine state is one order of magnitude shorter than the unperturbed ${^2}F_{7/2}$ clock state of $^{171}\mathrm{Yb}^ $. This reduced lifetime lowers the required optical power for coherent excitation of the clock transition, thereby reducing the AC Stark shift caused by the clock laser. Using a 3-ion Coulomb crystal, we experimentally demonstrate an approximately 20-fold suppression of the AC Stark shift, a critical improvement for the scalability of future multi-ion $\mathrm{Yb}^ $ clocks. Furthermore, we report the $|^2S_{1/2},F_g=3\rangle~\rightarrow~|^2F_{7/2},F_e=6\rangle$ unquenched reference transition frequency as $642.11917656354(43)$ THz, along with the measured hyperfine splitting and calculated quadratic Zeeman sensitivities of the ${^2}F_{7/2}$ clock state. Our results pave the way toward multi-ion optical clocks and quantum computers based on $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}^ $.
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-04 12:01:51
Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-15 19:20:42
Trump will do anything to grab power and prepare for dictatorial rule
He now floats the idea of U.S. boots on the ground in Mexico
"to fight drug cartels",
once again reinforcing his complete disregard for the concept of state sovereignty.
According to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump has been pushing for
"the participation of U.S. forces” even though Mexico says it’s not necessary.
Nonetheless, The New York Times has reported that…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-30 19:01:35
"Australian State Secures Federal Support to Achieve 100% Net Renewables Goal by 2027"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-16 20:00:54
This week, public power is stepping up.
Great British Energy is targeting 15 GW of wind, solar and storage by 2030. New York's NYPA is building 5.5 GW of renewables. Bolivia launched its first Indigenous protected area with forest monitoring. Tennessee turned a former farm into Middle Fork Bottoms State Park, reconnecting floodplains to reduce flooding.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-16 03:30:47
Sources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants due to AI demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/trump-…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2025-11-01 05:45:41
Mike Schultz, the same weirdo from Hooper, Utah who thought he should have a say in my Millcreek representative choice by creating and funding a PAC that tried to trans scare people out of voting for the progressive candidate.
Thankfully, my neighbors and I like trans people and voted for a candidate that does, too.
Now, it appears Mike is using public funds to attack a judge who is following the law and upholding the power of the people, from whom the legislature gets its power…
@luana@wetdry.world2025-11-30 12:12:58
- 60 out of 100 times it’ll “sync” and freeze with all 4 LEDs on. The Wii U does a little beep but doesn’t show the controller and no inputs work.
- 38 out of 100 times the same thing will happen but with all LEDs off
- You need to remove the batteries in order to take the wiimotes out of these states
- 2 out of 100 times the wiimotes actually connect, but show with 1 battery bar and almost no inputs go through (and the ones that do are extremely laggy, except for the power button)
- The manual states that if this happens you can remove the batteries, wait 3 minutes and connect (without syncing) again. That does fixes it sometimes, but it really only worked once for each wiimote.
- A truly successful connection only happens after the “low battery one”, and even then it seems to be hard to achieve for the first time.
- Afterwards you’re supposed to be able to reconnect without syncing and then not encounter the issues anymore. That was true for the pink wiimote, but the blue wiimote had to be synced again. I spent quite a few hours trying and wasn’t able to get a successful connection.
- If you connect the pink wiimote that was working when the other wiimote is in the 4 LEDs freeze state it’ll break the connection of the other one and make you need to sync it again
- Now none of my aliexpress wiimotes are synced and idk when I’ll be able to sync them again
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 01:51:55
In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court,
gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office.
The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state.
Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to conservatives’ advantage.
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy2026-01-02 21:43:21
Big Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-04 10:45:50
Texas exodus underscores the state's fading relevance in the House GOP (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/texas-house-republicans-power-fading-00676389
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p5#a251204p5
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 19:34:13
#Gleichschaltung is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.”
Gleichschaltung refers to a process of #Nazification designed to turn Germany into a single party state under Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Even children were brought into the Nazification process. Participation in t…
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-01-02 00:54:13
😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-01-13 19:48:00
China just unveiled a game-changing energy storage breakthrough: the world's first 560°C "Carnot battery" that stores electricity as ultra-high-temperature heat and cold.
SPIC's pilot system has completed seven full cycles at 1 MW/4 MWh, offering a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries for long-duration storage.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 17:04:59
Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-11 04:07:12
A federal judge on Monday
struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects,
saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was
“arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.
Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-11 06:15:25
"The United States condemns the Houthis' ongoing unlawful detention of current and former local staff of the U.S. Mission to Yemen,"
U.S. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement.
"The Houthis' arrests of those staff,
and the sham proceedings that have been brought against them,
are further evidence that the Houthis rely on the use of terror against their own people
as a way to stay in power"
Pigott said
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-11-27 02:15:02
Neighbors with solar panels can now trade energy directly with each other, thanks to a breakthrough cloud-based system from Washington State University.
The platform lets communities share power locally, cutting energy costs by up to 12% in testing. It's a glimpse of how neighborhoods could become mini power grids, keeping solar energy local instead of sending it back to utilities.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-11-05 20:04:47
If you are trying to figure out the Cowichan Lands court ruling and what it means for private property, this article by the CBC's always-excellent court-reporter Jason Proctor, is, again, excellent.
This tidbit was particularly illuminating and should raise questions as to why we are in this state of 'panic' now:
"Back in 2017, Canada's Attorney General sought an order requiring the Quw'utsun to notify third-party homeowners, but the judge overseeing proceedings at the time rejected the application after the Quw'utsun said they weren't seeking title or possession of any private lands.
"However," Justice Jennifer Power wrote, "my decision does not prevent any of the defendants from providing informal notice to private landowners if they wish to do so.””
ie. Richmond, the Province, and others should have told the landowners not only that this court process was happening, but most importantly that *their property titles* were not being threatened!
#Indigenous #FirstNations #BCPoli #CanPoli #Reconciliation #Property
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cowichan-aboriginal-title-land-ownership-9.6965257
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-02 20:21:01
South Australia just hit a major clean energy milestone: 100% renewable power for an entire week, and 90% over the last month.
The state's wind and solar mix is proving that reliable renewable grids aren't just possible—they're happening now. With new transmission links and battery storage, they're on track for 100% net renewables by 2027.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 19:44:37
Trump's mad hubris has been coming fast and furious.
On Air Force One, next to a grinning and bobbing Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Trump doubled down on the notion that the failed state of Cuba would be next to fall,
finding time to threaten Colombia, Mexico, and even Greenland.
This isn’t evidence of great power.
But it is more than just the egotistical impulse of an unchecked imperial president.
It is a deliberate strategy that involves the gleeful destructio…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 21:03:02
What we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network rais…
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.page2025-11-25 09:06:23
Development of a projectile charge state analyzer and 10 kV bipolar power supply for MeV energy ion - atom/molecule collision experiments
Sandeep Bajrangi Bari, Sahan Raghava Sykam, Ranojit Das, Rohit Tyagi, Aditya H. Kelkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18707
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 05:37:52
Republicans hold a 219-213 majority in the House,
but they could lock in more seats if reapportionments go their way
Normally, redistricting only occurs after the US census counts residents in each state every 10 years.
But a demand from Donald Trump to lock in more Republican-leaning districts in Congress,
together with a changing legal landscape around partisan gerrymandering,
set off a chain of mid-decade reapportionments.
Republicans and Democrats have…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-26 00:51:55
When Monroe issued his famous doctrine in 1823, it wasn’t the chest-thumping declaration of hegemonic destiny that later generations made it out to be.
The Monroe Doctrine was, at root, a nervously defensive posture
— a hemispheric firewall against a reassertion of European imperial power in the post-Napoleonic world.
The U.S. was barely a functioning state itself, and its military reach extended no further than its continental borders.
The Doctrine’s function was …
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-10-26 16:37:29
I have been an “end Canada’s connection to the Monarchy”* guy for awhile now. I heard Canadian constitutional expert Phillipe Lagasse say once that it would be a very big lift for Canada to do so because of the requirement to get all provinces to agree on a constitutional amendment, etc etc. In his opinion, the most likely way for it to happen, then, would be for the UK population to end the Royal family’s power themselves.
Seems that is starting to become more likely.
*I avoid using the term Republican because I don’t want to be confused with any notion of advocating for anything like the USA. A Canadian republic can look and function exactly the same as it does today while ending the royal head of state. Bermuda being the most recent example.
#epstein #uk #royalfamily #monarchy #republic #AbolishTheMonarchy
https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGreens/115440697972592005