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Renewables on the march in coal country.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/records-tumble-as-nine-wind-and-solar-projects-1-gw-of-batteries-join-grid-in-just-three-months/

Records tumble as nine wind and solar projects, 1 GW of batteries join grid in just three months
If Angus Taylor thought there was "too much wind and solar" on Australia's grid back when he was federal energy minister in 2018, have we got news for him in 2026.

Introductory review that quotes from me (article and interview) as well as Peter Victor and Jason Hickel.
Decoupling emissions: Can we really have green growth?
https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/102270/decoupling-emissions-eco…

Decoupling emissions: Can we really have green growth?
A new report claims that countries are already decoupling growth from emissions. But does that mean growth can continue forever?

Every paragraph rings true here, at least WRT my experience at work in the last six months.
We've killed a lot of sparrows.
The AI Great Leap Forward
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

At home a busy ~5.2kWh import start to the (cold, ~5°C) day with a pasteurisation cycle (~2.9kWh, 8A/~2kW grid limit) with a 7-minute pause in the middle for low grid frequency, two spikes of a dishwasher eco programme (~0.7kWh, ~2kW), then a DHW production spike (~0.4kWh, ~1.3kW), then space heating (~0.7kW), all before 08:00! #grid

The Avant-Garde Never Left: Robert Hughes Described the Revolution and Then Declared It Over
Robert Hughes wanted it both ways. In the final moments of "The Shock of the New," his landmark 1980 BBC series on modern art, he declared the avant-garde dead and then, in the same breath, described its beating heart. He told us that the radical project of art was finished, that the market had swallowed it whole, that the institutions had filed its teeth down to nothing.

The Avant-Garde Never Left: Robert Hughes Described the Revolution and Then Declared It Over | David Boles, Blogs
Robert Hughes wanted it both ways. In the final moments of “The Shock of the New,” his landmark 1980 BBC series on modern art, he declared the avant-garde dead and then, in the same bre…

Bucky Brooks' top five 2026 NFL Draft prospects by position 2.0: Garrett Nussmeier rises up QB rankings https://www.nfl.com/news/bucky-brooks-top-five-2026-nfl-draft-prospects-by-position-2-0-garrett-nussmeier-rises…

Nei Paesi Bassi un centro sociale ex occupato prevede di comprare l'edificio (dal comune) per 1,7 M€.
#Milano il

Grote Broek - Wikipedia

flickr_growth: Flickr friendship network (2008)
A network of declared friendships among Frickr users. Nodes represent Frickr users and a directed edge (i,j) represents a directed declaration of friendship from i to j. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 2302925 nodes and 33140017 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Timestamps
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Let's consider combining security of supply (ensuring sufficient dispatchable power capacity) with relieving grid congestion and increasing resilience, we argue in @… today.
When we need more dispatchable power - likely by the early 2030s according to grid operator TenneT - it could be placed decentrally in the form of gas t…

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…