Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Markham Nolan ☘️

@markhamnolan.com

810 followers 1.5K following 790 posts

Strategist | Editor | Advisor | Founder Worked at NOAN, Storyful, CBS News, WWE & more ‘Ask not for whom the web trolls, it trolls for thee’ markhamnolan.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 13d

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
- George Bernard Shaw

1 2

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 7h

😬

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Chaz Ebert, the widow of Roger Ebert, said "nominations are officially open for the inaugural FECK Awards -- a groundbreaking new initiative celebrating individuals and organizations who elevate humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness."

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

130 1.5K 3.9K

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 13h

Also they perform best at either end of the day which aligns with household consumption

Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️

AFN Network+ @afnnetwork.bsky.social · 14h

1/ How should the UK respond to mounting pressure from climate change, health problems, and global instability? Our Roadmap for Resilience report calls for rapid and urgent action on food, at a scale not seen since WW2.

Full report: tinyurl.com/369s6wuy

#UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap

The title of the image is A national opportunity for positive transformational change. The image shows a vision for how land, diet and farming could be transformed by 2050, with farming which is more mixed, low carbon tech and more resilient, land where farming and livestock are more integrated, peatlands restored and landscapes are being used for multiple purposes. And diets where people are shopping and fruit and green veg is more accessible. Text on the image shows that if these three transformations can be achieved, then they will result in benefits including billions saved in healthcare, strengthened national resilience, healthy food, improved water quality, new rural jobs and enhanced biodiversity.

2 5 3

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 13h

Have heard of similar panels being used as fencing on the continent

2 1

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 1d

14 years ago today. The amazing duality of American life.

Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️

Green Collective @greencollective.io · 5d

Even in a month full of notable highs and lows, one stood out: during September, the Irish grid emitted its least amount of CO₂ in a single month in modern times.

Our estimate is 577k tonnes. A lot but, as the chart below shows, just a few years ago we were seeing months with almost *1.4M tonnes*.`

A line chart of monthly CO₂ emissions from the Irish grid. The x-axis runs January-December and there is one line for each year. The y-axis shows tonnes of CO₂ each month.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

8 19

Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️

Green Collective @greencollective.io · 1d

With strong winds and high imports, the island of Ireland saw more renewable generation than fossil fuels in September. Rare, and great when it happens: we estimate CO₂ emissions for the month hit an all-time low.

(from our latest "Irish Grid Monthly" -- sign up for free now)

#SpeirGorm #EnergySky

A treemap of the electricity mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, gas, and waste-to-energy. Larger sources are annotated with the GWh and percentage of total generation that source comprised.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

2 9 27

Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️

Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 1d

As prices for wind and solar drop, favoring fossil fuels means the U.S. is “putting all of our money on a horse that’s already lost,” as one clean energy advocate put it.

The Trump Administration Is Cutting Billions in Clean Energy Investments—But the Savings Are Overstated - Inside Climate News

Just days after announcing sweeping cuts to clean energy programs across the country, the Trump administration appears to be upping the ante—potentially clawing back billions more in federal funding. ...

insideclimatenews.org

15 32

Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

www.scientificamerican.com

4 34 97

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 2d

It’s a cross we bear

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 6d

Jesus is the most famous Palestinian, JD, you sham Christian

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 7d

Charlie Dalin won a solo, non-stop around-the-world yacht race, setting a new world record (64 days) all while battling a rare form of cancer. Toughest sportsman in the world? I think so.

🤯

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Battling cancer made Vendee Globe win 'more complicated', says skipper Dalin

It is tough enough for any sailor just to complete the non-stop round-the-world Vendee Globe, let alone win it but winning it while battling cancer, as French skipper Charlie Dalin did in January, is…

www.france24.com

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 7d

Not an accident that DHS posts a photo of a volunteer on the @katmabu.bsky.social congressional campaign getting handcuffed. Pure intimidation of opposition voices via a federal account.

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 7d

Also there is another full circle in that indicating in prompts the Flesch Kincaid level you want your output at is a great way to improve the readability of LLM outputs. So still very relevant, for those of us who care.

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 7d

Lovely circularity that the foreword of that book is from the Educational Director of the Columbia Broadcasting Service - CBS

Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

1.4K 2.1K 6.8K

Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com · 7d

I find it so baffling that a new leader like Bari Weiss would be allowed by her own team send such a tone deaf all-hands message. Even a quick audience sense check with AI shows it would bomb. Mine: claude.ai/chat/c3d2884...

Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...