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Q&A: What change of power in #Colombia could mean for world’s fossil-fuel transition - Carbon Brief
https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-change

Q&A: What change of power in Colombia could mean for world’s fossil-fuel transition - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief examines what Gustavo Petro's election loss could mean for Colombia’s stance on fossil fuels and the energy transition.

Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide

Gonna start using the phrase "Hunter involved shooting" every time a deer gets bagged this fall.

Beginning next week, most Australians will get free electricity for three hours every afternoon.
That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries.
As the cost of clean energy keeps plummeting, it is more and more obvious how much money we waste, and how much financial risk we incur, by staying with fossil fuel.

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The latest on energy, climate and affordability

Testing the silver chloride based plating powder on some PCB samples that I milled.
It plates bare copper as well as, interestingly, ENIG coated surfaces but doesn't seem to deposit on non-metals.
I milled a cavity into layer 2 on this scrap board (ignore the solder paste granules this board has been used for stencil testing too and I didn't bother fully cleaning lol.
I used a combination of a lint-free swab and wooden toothpick to rub the plating composition over t…

I do not really understand this but also feel like I need one of these bikes
Taken from: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYmr3xIiCUj/

South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/23/tech-stocks-sell-off-mag7-samsung-sk-hynix.ht…

Tech rout intensifies as selloff grips global stocks
Global stocks sold off on Tuesday, led by deep losses for tech stocks following a losing session for the sector on Wall Street.

This week on #ProFed: the web client has its first non-public page: the settings page, complete with login. It's also the first page that doesn't just display data but saves it too. Small step, but it means the full web client stack is now tested end to end.

If AI is so good at coding, shouldn’t we not only see an increase in quantity (∗︎ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/), but also in quality?
Similarly, if we’re close to “fully automa…

It’s the day after Mother’s Day, the first one Elizabeth Soto has spent apart from her three children.
Sitting in jail in Wichita Falls, Texas, her face is washed out by the overhead fluorescent lighting,
and her dingy jumpsuit blends into the cinder block walls surrounding her.
Speaking through a glass separator, she tells me she celebrated the holiday with her children over the jail’s video-call system while they had dinner at their grandmother’s.
“I’ve been a full…