Batteries are so cheap, solar doesn’t sleep. Thanks to plummeting prices, analysts say that solar plus batteries can now provide round-the-clock power in the sunniest parts of the world, undercutting fossil gas and reshaping grid planning. Cities like Muscat, Oman, and Las Vegas can already hit that steady power mark for up to 99% of the hours in a year, while Hyderabad, Madrid, and Buenos Aires can get 80-95% of the way there using the same setup. Ember https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-every-hour-of-every-day-is-here-and-it-changes-everything/
#ShareGoodNewsToo

this sticker, from Sam Pao, hits so hard-- powerfully reframing the situation in a quick-to-read, & hard-to-unsee way

this is the power of street art, folks

#SamPao #StreetArt

"These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality." "And that's why we are passing draconian laws just to enforce this."

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rlqfvptybv5n44apuvpotjtb/post/3lsml6vzy7c2s

> On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (…) "In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date. It's been that way since long before 9/11 and I have no idea why." After digging into the raw data, I believe I have figured out why.

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

Normally, when sharing an article, I try to pick one or two quotes that I feel are worth highlighting.

This article simply contains too many. I can only implore everyone to read this.

It doesn't stop. It is mind boggling. And it is unforgivable.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000

https://archive.is/37RtH

#Israel #Genocide #unforgiveable

🔖 This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers: Redwood Materials plans to repurpose EV batteries to build renewable-powered microgrids | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/26/1119402/this-battery-recycling-company-is-now-cleaning-up-ai-data-centers/ #BookmarkShare

The stories about 10x engineers never include:
• Adding meaningful test coverage
• Updating outdated README sections
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Listening to burned-out coworkers
• Improving on-call runbooks

No glory in these things, but those that do them are the ones you desperately want to keep.

They plant trees they don't expect to sit under.

The heat wave that hit Japan last week would not have happened without human-induced climate change, according to an analysis from a nascent center focusing on weather attribution. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/26/japan/science-health/june-heat-climate-change/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #heat #climatechange

I'm curious to know how many people on the Fediverse are multilingual compared to non-multilingual.

How many languages are you fluent in (that is, you can either read, speak, and/or write it to get by in most situations)? Feel free to boost this to increase the sample size, and feel free to comment which languages you're fluent in!

#AskFedi #Poll #Language

I went out to do some light grocery shopping. On the way back, I walked from one patch of shade to another just like I used to do in the summer on the Texas A&M University campus. Or like I do in Dune: Awakening.

Looks like 14/15 for me.

Quiz: What does DOGE know about you?

https://www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/quiz-what-does-doge-know-about-you/

The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of these two facts:

1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it.

Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

Well played.

Not everyone can protest, and not everyone can defend institutions. But we can care and empathize. We can find the local groups in our communities that can make a difference for someone and help them. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/democratic-resistance-trump

@thegibson Oh I think I found it:

https://adversarialfashion.com/

purchasing offset certificates from all my friends who would have run red lights but chose not to, so I can safely get wherever I need in a hurry

Please help @thecarpentries if you can: https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/

@Fledglingnerd @pluralistic

I love stories where a libertarian town falls apart like this one written about in @TexasObserver in 2017: https://www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-freest-little-city-in-texas/