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CLARITY is closer than ever. The bill is strong. It will benefit the American people by making the US financial system faster, cheaper and more accessible. It will also ensure that the US leads in the global race to build the next generation of our financial system. Huge thank you to the Senate, their staff, and 3.7m @standwithcrypto advocates for helping to get this legislation to where it is today. Mark it up.

Climate science is now moving away from the most extreme scenarios. @RogerPielkeJr explains why on our podcast: "Our expectation for future emissions has come down dramatically, largely because there was an assumption everything was going to go towards coal... Another big factor—and it’s one that really hasn’t made its way into climate projections yet—are changing outlooks on global population. The leading climate scenarios still have 12, 13 billion people on the planet in 2100 and still growing. And demographers are now seriously talking about a global population peak soon after mid-century."

Malthus's central claim—that population growth inevitably outpaces food production—was already wrong by the time it appeared in print. Between 1700 and 1798, the population of England grew 62.3%, while bread became 36.2% more abundant relative to the average income. humanprogress.org/earth-days-bad…

NUCLEAR 101: Fast reactors use fast-moving neutrons to make better use of nuclear fuel. They can operate on both fissile material and recycled fuel from other reactors to drastically reduce waste while increasing the performance of nuclear power plants. energy.gov/ne/articles/nu…

New ep of What's Up with Tech? 🎙️ Agentic Voice AI For Business — how agentic voice AI is moving from novelty to genuine business infrastructure. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/age… #AI #VoiceAI #AgenticAI #Podcast

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he infrastructure is held by firms. The regulation is imposed by the state. Democracies can’t escape this loop.

Data center demand is not impossible because of turbine blade shortages. We’ve done this before: In 2002, the US grid added 57 GW of natural gas capacity in a single year, and almost 200 GW in 5 yrs. That’s higher than data center forecasts. Then what’s the problem? 🧵

🇯🇵 LATEST: Japan’s enterprise-focused blockchain Japan Open Chain to launch “EJPY,” a yen-pegged stablecoin for B2B settlements.

Who Owns the Most Satellites? visualcapitalist.com/sp/gx04-who-ow… #SpaceEconomy

Europe’s solar boom is running into a new problem: too much power. Prices are going negative, grids are overwhelmed, and energy is going to waste. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Many of the onshore wind farms along the coasts of the UK and Denmark are falling apart after only 10 years. A study reveals that energy contributions from wind farms begin to fall sharply after only 10 to 15 years, leaving the skeletons of steel and plastic blowing in the wind. The economic analysis reveals the lifespan of an onshore turbine is not 20 to 25 years, as stated by the wind industry itself, supported by the UK Government. This peer reviewed British study reveals that the energy production of onshore wind farms falls substantially as they get older, due to wear and tear. Energy and environmental economist, Professor Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh), carried out the statistical analysis of wind farm performance data in the UK and Denmark. He concluded that load factors, like electricity generated as a percentage of capacity, declined a lot faster than expected, suggesting a baseline 10 to 15 year lifespan. This is when the technical life of most turbines crunch to halt, and become unprofitable to continue. Rising maintenance costs makes them uneconomical. The study found the average UK wind farm's ability to meet electricity demand had fallen by a third after around 10 years, leading to a conclusion that many are fully uneconomic to run after only 12 years. While the wind industry generally forecasts a 25-year lifespan, the data reveals a different reality about the viability of keeping them spinning so long. Many companies now 'repower' (replace old turbines with new ones) long before the 25-year target to maximise subsidies and output. This often ends the lifespan of the original hardware much sooner. The wind farm study is published by the 'Renewable Energy Foundation on the Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark, 2012'.

Verification isn’t a check but a structure. The essence of RAI is not training people, but designing the pathways where judgment flows.

The gap won’t close. But it shows where power, information, and decisions distort—where things stop or fail to integrate. It’s not a problem but a lens. If it won’t close, make use of it.

If the planets were the same distance from Earth as the Moon, this is how they would appear in the sky

The United States set a record for energy production in 2025 for the fourth consecutive year. #TodayInEnergy bit.ly/4nqYeqX

Most “AI on your data” demos break the moment you ask a cross-platform question. Tugger explains why, and how a warehouse + semantic layer makes Claude or ChatGPT actually useful at work. More at @TuggerApp tuggerapp.com x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Few realize Perseverance isn’t solar‑powered. It runs on a Pu‑238 nuclear battery (MMRTG), a power source that keeps working through dust storms and deep cold on Mars.🪫⚛️

The graphic excitement in a tweet about batteries replacing gas But actually, it only replaces the least frequent part of gas (OCGT), while CCGT gas still provides 4% And it conveniently ignores that coal provides 62% of all electricity 🤣 explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/qld1/?r…

Die beste Nachricht des Jahres: 44 Weltklimarat-Autoren ziehen die Katastrophenszenarien von 3-5 Grad Erwärmung zurück. Alle Quellen und Hintergründe heute in meinem Beitrag für Tichys Einblick und Achgut. Wann gibt es hierzu Sondersendungen in ARD und ZDF ? Sondersitzung des Deutschen Bundestages? Wann kommt die Abschaffung der CO2-Abgabe, des Verbrennerverbots und des Heizungsgesetzes ? tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/klima…