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jael holzman

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hi, i write about climate change and renewable energy. i also play music sometimes. some secret third thing. “the fight” newsletter @heatmap.news. also in the band @ekkoastral.bsky.social. email : jael @ heatmap dot news 🖤

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1h

bari weiss has an audience of at most 500,000 that largely consists of rich elites with reactionary opinions

putting that kind of person in charge of a mass media company that serves millions would be considered a bad business decision in any context

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

also - one last datapoint before I take HS for his morning walk. I posted the column on X, too. it has sunk without trace because it has a link in it. even ignoring the owner and the politics, that was a good reason to stop feeding the beast.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

anyway, I am pleased with this column, I think it is good, I hope you read it rather than just shouting at me for what you think it might say

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

By Jonn Elledge

Illustration by Roy Scott / Ikon Images
“Acomputer terminal,” Douglas Adams once wrote, “is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.” In the same way, while the platform known in happier times as Twitter is famously not the real world, that’s never meant it can’t affect it.

One of the less upsetting ways those effects can manifest is outlined in a new report from “reputation management consultancy” (euch) Montford Communications. Posting to Policy explores the way wonks, politicos and shitposters alike drive government action through the raw power of their takes. “A niche account posts something punchy. It lands,” the report explains, with more full stops than is acceptable anywhere but LinkedIn. “Traditional media pick it up. Politicians respond. And policy follows. This is the ‘posting to policy’ pipeline and it’s fast becoming the new normal.”

Not all the examples the consultancy gives of this pipeline in action are entirely convincing. The “Nick, 30 ans” meme may have generated discourse, but it has not, as far as I’ve noticed, led to attempts to actually rethink intergenerational fairness; and while Robert Jenrick’s fare-dodging video made some waves, the shadow justice secretary is not, appearances notwithstanding, a shitposter. The most persuasive example offered is the transformation of Motability from a worthy but obscure scheme allowing those in receipt of mobility allowance to lease cars, to a “something must be done”-level spending scandal through noise on X alone.

Montford’s argument isn’t wrong: it’s abundantly clear by now that things that happen on the internet rarely stay there, and while hacks and wonks hang out on the same platforms as those with actual power it’s unsurprising that ideas sometimes migrate from the former to the latter. That, though, does not mean these conclusions are either new or significant. I can think of things I put on the internet ten years ago that g…

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 3h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 2h

you guys can't see my saved posts right

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3h

ratio me. please. it’s a badge of honor

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3h

superchunk is on bluesky!

Superchunk @superchunk.bsky.social · 3h

DENVER - our first club show in the Mile High City since 1999(!!) tomorrow night @ The Gothic Theatre! Get there early for Case Oats!

TIX: www.axs.com/events/90253...

Riot Fest 2013 📸 @greeblehaus.com

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

The entire point of Esmeralda 7 was that it was one big mega-project comprised of many solar farms at once, and the environmental review was nearly done

Ending the review and forcing each facility to go through its own review is canceling the mega-project!

#greensky #energysky #climatesky

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

BLM is now trying to say the Esmeralda 7 solar project is not canceled because now companies have to submit their projects individually for environmental review.

This, err, means it is canceled, because what was once a giant solar project is now a bunch of separate little independent solar projects

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management responded to 8 News Now on Friday afternoon to clarify the meaning of a “canceled” notice on the Esmeralda Seven Solar Project. A decision to combine the environmental reviews for the seven projects is being changed to give each project the option of submitting their proposal separately. The BLM’s statement: “During routine discussions prior to the lapse in appropriations, the proponents and BLM agreed to change their approach for the Esmeralda 7 Solar Project in Nevada. Instead of pursuing a programmatic level environmental analysis, the applicants will now have the option to submit individual project proposals to the BLM to more effectively analyze potential impacts.”

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5h

she bari on his weiss til she vomits. (it takes five seconds)

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

bari weiss is music for rich people

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

now THIS is bait from an unserious person

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 6h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Don Incognito @shuadc.bsky.social · 6h

Also why is it the Decemberists and not the Decembrists

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

ok but at least NMH is good

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

now THAT is a bad take

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

it is a bad musical for kids who want boring tim burton the album

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

no i just really hate the decemberists

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

i’m happy you’re happy

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

exist

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

they’re invading portland BECAUSE this band sucks

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 6h

Come on, Portland has been through enough in recent weeks Jael!

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

unfortunately yes

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · 6h

Portland can only take so much at once

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

canceled for hating decemberists

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

the three good decemberist songs are

“los angeles i’m yours”
“july, july”
“here i dreamt i was an architect”

the rest is droning pirate cosplay for white people who either have a black ink flower tattoo on their arm or really want one

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