“Last night I had a very strange experience: About two thirds of the way through reading a Web page about myself, Tim Bray, I succumbed to boredom and killed the tab. Thus my introduction to Grokipedia. Here are early impressions.”
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/1…
Australia's renewable energy boom is coming—and it could solve a surprising problem.
Over the next decade, we'll build more clean energy infrastructure than the past 30 years combined. But where will thousands of construction workers live in regional towns already facing housing shortages?
A new RE-Alliance report shows worker accommodation can become lasting community assets: refurbished aged-care homes, workforce villages transformed into suburbs.
Mark Bray, a historian who has taught courses on anti-fascism at Rutgers university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared’.”
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If only we had a name for countries that don't allow their citizens to leave....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/anti-fascism-mark-bray-rutgers-university
Bhutan announces that it is migrating its national ID system for roughly 800,000 residents from Polygon to Ethereum, with completion expected by Q1 2026 (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bhutan-migrates-ethereum-national-id
@… explains why Mastodon feels like it has a much brighter future than legacy social media really well here:
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115560976942889…
And so it continues: US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain.
No matter how many peace deals a Western leader states to broker, if you don't respect human rights you don't deserve the #NobelPeacePrice
#AntiFa
"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink. I want you to think about elections in this future. I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this."
🗜️ A Review of the Research and Development of Brayton Cycle Technology in Nuclear Power Applications with a Focus on Compressor Technology
#energy