CleanTechnica: Renewables Gallop Ahead Down Under — A Queensland Sample
Back to my sunny morning discourse: at present, according to the NEM Watch widget, solar and wind are supplying upwards of 70% of Queensland’s electricity. Remember, this is a live feed. The rest of the power is coming from black coal and a little gas. Queensland’s main export is coal!
Bernie Goldbach: Taking a Google Selfie
I need to share these observations with the youngest students in my classrooms because they’re new to the concept of surveillance capitalism.
Via Jeremy Cherfas
How to Geek: How I Use Reddit to Stay on Top of The News
Now we have r/news and r/worldnews that many people know about, but there are tons more:
r/UpliftingNews: With a lot of news focused on negative and sensationalist headlines, I’d like to take a moment and point out that positive news sources do exist, and r/UpliftingNews describes itself as a place to read and share positive and uplifting, feel-good news stories.
r/GeoPolitics: Interested in other countries and how geography affects politics and international relations? This sub analyzes local events in terms of the bigger global picture; it’s a mix of discussions on geopolitics, news, and opinions.
… and more.
ABC (U.S.): Search underway for suspects in deadly Tuskegee University homecoming shooting
One person was killed and several others, including students, were injured when a barrage of gunfire erupted early Sunday on the campus of Tuskegee University in Alabama, marring the school’s centennial homecoming festivities, authorities said.
“Marring”?! That hardly seems sufficient.
The Atlantic: Bob Woodward’s War Is — I’ll Say It — Good
At its core, Woodward’s book is about diplomacy. Just past the sundry tidbits about Trump — most horrifying, the former president’s ongoing chumminess with Vladimir Putin, a charge that Trump’s campaign denies — there lies a serious history of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. I have reported on these stories myself, and I can’t say that I found any faults in his account. If anything, I’m unashamedly jealous of how he managed to get a few big stories that eluded me. One of the most stunning sections of the book captures Putin mulling the use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine — and all the quiet diplomacy that pushed him back from the brink. Newspapers hinted at this threat at the time, but Woodward reveals the backstory in robust and chilling detail. (Jon Finer, the deputy head of the National Security Council, says that Putin’s decision on whether to deploy the nuke seemed like a “coin flip.”) When Biden frets about the possibilities of nuclear escalation, he’s not just recalling his youth in the earliest days of the Cold War. He’s confronting a very real risk in the present.
Last Updated: 10.Nov.2024 18:13 EST
