Social Entropy
@energycheckup.bsky.social
“Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?”
Applied anthropologist, climate/energy efficiency consultant/advocate/troll, local gov appointee (until they read what I say here). Very concerned we don’t have enough 🍿 for the apocalypse.
he/they
Sonoma
Applied anthropologist, climate/energy efficiency consultant/advocate/troll, local gov appointee (until they read what I say here). Very concerned we don’t have enough 🍿 for the apocalypse.
he/they
Sonoma
No doubt the same when Britain is invaded
The BBC has been banned from using the word Kidnap to describe the Kidnapping of Maduro.
No doubt when Greenland is invaded they will be banned from using the word invasion.
No doubt when Greenland is invaded they will be banned from using the word invasion.
January 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
No doubt the same when Britain is invaded
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When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
The GOP is officially National Socialist. Trump picks his drug cartels just like he does his energy providers, his journalists and social media platforms, and his car and chip manufacturers.
His crimes are always organized to benefit TRUMP FIRST
His crimes are always organized to benefit TRUMP FIRST
🔸 Pardoned: Ross Ulbricht. Ulbricht deliberately operated Silk Road as an online criminal marketplace intended to enable its users to buy and sell drugs and...."
🔸 Pardoned: Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted in the U.S. smuggled more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
🔸 Pardoned: Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted in the U.S. smuggled more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
January 4, 2026 at 7:49 AM
The GOP is officially National Socialist. Trump picks his drug cartels just like he does his energy providers, his journalists and social media platforms, and his car and chip manufacturers.
His crimes are always organized to benefit TRUMP FIRST
His crimes are always organized to benefit TRUMP FIRST
More commas needed
If you used to get "online" with a string like this, you're old too.
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January 4, 2026 at 7:39 AM
More commas needed
Carrole O’Connor must be rolling over in his grave to see his greatest character, Archie Bunker, running the country into the sewer
Trump described the invasion of Venezuela to watching TV. Of course he did. He watches several hours of Fox News programming every day.
January 4, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Carrole O’Connor must be rolling over in his grave to see his greatest character, Archie Bunker, running the country into the sewer
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January 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
This bug is a feature
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 2:06 AM
This bug is a feature
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Mamdani gets it: the task of ecosocialists is to show that we can build a fairer, greener world faster than centrists.
January 2, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Mamdani gets it: the task of ecosocialists is to show that we can build a fairer, greener world faster than centrists.
Rest assured, librarians are working on this 👇
I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information
In an age where AI slop websites have made entire categories of information difficult to find, what we need is Yahoo (or Dmoz): a human-curated list of reliable websites, organized by topic.
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Rest assured, librarians are working on this 👇
I wish I had a nickel for every time I caught an engineer making a basic numeracy error
I realize now I may be the only humanities person who is mad at the assumption we have bad math scores.
I'm not saying SAT (or GRE) math is hard, but I don't think their assumptions about the scores of non-STEM faculty would hold up at all.
January 3, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I wish I had a nickel for every time I caught an engineer making a basic numeracy error
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What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
Green power is NOT making your energy bills go up.
Blame the intransigence and greed of boomer elites for that
Blame the intransigence and greed of boomer elites for that
Don't let naysayers fool you:
Batteries added to grid now cost little:
At $70/kWh-pack & $140/kWh-system, 11.2 GW of 4-h batt (current level on CAISO grid) w/15-y life, w/2025 demand 208,576 GWh, cost only 0.2 c/kWh extra:
100c/$ x $140/kWh-st x 11.2 GW-st x 4h/(208600GWh-el/y x 15y)=0.2 c/kWh-el
Batteries added to grid now cost little:
At $70/kWh-pack & $140/kWh-system, 11.2 GW of 4-h batt (current level on CAISO grid) w/15-y life, w/2025 demand 208,576 GWh, cost only 0.2 c/kWh extra:
100c/$ x $140/kWh-st x 11.2 GW-st x 4h/(208600GWh-el/y x 15y)=0.2 c/kWh-el
Battery pack storage costs for WindWaterSolar are dropping so low that they eliminate the argument for using fossil fuels or nuclear moving forward.
Battery pack prices for stationary storage now down to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease in just one year.
www.ess-news.com/2025/12/09/b...
Battery pack prices for stationary storage now down to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease in just one year.
www.ess-news.com/2025/12/09/b...
January 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Green power is NOT making your energy bills go up.
Blame the intransigence and greed of boomer elites for that
Blame the intransigence and greed of boomer elites for that
“… here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent, in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry”
- Peter Gabriel
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent, in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry”
- Peter Gabriel
Perigean tide in Monterey Bay. Today’s high tide is among the highest in several decades, near record territory.
#MitchellsCove #KingTides #SeaLevelRise
#MitchellsCove #KingTides #SeaLevelRise
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“… here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent, in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry”
- Peter Gabriel
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent, in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry”
- Peter Gabriel
Another reason Gavin Newsom can’t be trusted with any higher office
Like oh huh - in one of the most chronically drought plagued states the Governor known to be extremely friendly to wealthy business interests vetoed a bill that would require them simply *to estimate or report annual water usage* even tho their water usage is totally NBD & doesn't matter at all? OK
January 2, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Another reason Gavin Newsom can’t be trusted with any higher office
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that capitalists haven’t yet figured out how to monopolize and meter sunlight?
"The US power sector is poised for a landmark transition in 2026, with all net new generating capacity expected to come exclusively from renewable energy and battery storage, according to forecasts from the US Energy Information Administration"
Renewables and Battery Storage to Deliver 100% of New US Power Capacity in 2026, EIA Forecast Shows - GreentechLead
All net new generating capacity in the US is expected to come exclusively from renewable energy and battery storage, IEA said
greentechlead.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that capitalists haven’t yet figured out how to monopolize and meter sunlight?
Translation:
In MAGA utopia white ppl will eat sand (but only if they get out of their old cars and scoop it up themselves)
In MAGA utopia white ppl will eat sand (but only if they get out of their old cars and scoop it up themselves)
An official account of the United States government is dreamposting about deporting 80+ million citizens
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Translation:
In MAGA utopia white ppl will eat sand (but only if they get out of their old cars and scoop it up themselves)
In MAGA utopia white ppl will eat sand (but only if they get out of their old cars and scoop it up themselves)
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TRUMP'S BAD BIRD CALL
Fossil fuels kill more birds than wind power.
Oil pits kill 500,000 to 1 million birds each year.
That's at least twice as many birds as wind turbines.
And that doesn't account for loss of avian life due to climate disruption.
www.businessinsider.com/cats-kill-mo....
Fossil fuels kill more birds than wind power.
Oil pits kill 500,000 to 1 million birds each year.
That's at least twice as many birds as wind turbines.
And that doesn't account for loss of avian life due to climate disruption.
www.businessinsider.com/cats-kill-mo....
December 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
TRUMP'S BAD BIRD CALL
Fossil fuels kill more birds than wind power.
Oil pits kill 500,000 to 1 million birds each year.
That's at least twice as many birds as wind turbines.
And that doesn't account for loss of avian life due to climate disruption.
www.businessinsider.com/cats-kill-mo....
Fossil fuels kill more birds than wind power.
Oil pits kill 500,000 to 1 million birds each year.
That's at least twice as many birds as wind turbines.
And that doesn't account for loss of avian life due to climate disruption.
www.businessinsider.com/cats-kill-mo....
2025, RIP
December 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
2025, RIP
@kqedforum.bsky.social
My favorite climate-fiction thriller to date is Even If Everything Ends by new Swedish author Jens Liljestrand. So believable, I couldn’t put it down (just re-released with a new title, The Burning).
My favorite climate-fiction thriller to date is Even If Everything Ends by new Swedish author Jens Liljestrand. So believable, I couldn’t put it down (just re-released with a new title, The Burning).
December 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@kqedforum.bsky.social
My favorite climate-fiction thriller to date is Even If Everything Ends by new Swedish author Jens Liljestrand. So believable, I couldn’t put it down (just re-released with a new title, The Burning).
My favorite climate-fiction thriller to date is Even If Everything Ends by new Swedish author Jens Liljestrand. So believable, I couldn’t put it down (just re-released with a new title, The Burning).
@kqedforum.bsky.social
My favorite nonfiction book this year was The Heart of American Darkness, using Conrad’s novel as a frame for understanding the bewilderment and horror that settlers brought to our colonial frontier
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
My favorite nonfiction book this year was The Heart of American Darkness, using Conrad’s novel as a frame for understanding the bewilderment and horror that settlers brought to our colonial frontier
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
HEART OF AMERICAN DARKNESS | Kirkus Reviews
A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontier—much of it committed by European settlers.
www.kirkusreviews.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
@kqedforum.bsky.social
My favorite nonfiction book this year was The Heart of American Darkness, using Conrad’s novel as a frame for understanding the bewilderment and horror that settlers brought to our colonial frontier
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
My favorite nonfiction book this year was The Heart of American Darkness, using Conrad’s novel as a frame for understanding the bewilderment and horror that settlers brought to our colonial frontier
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
CAISO grid demand is actually decreasing in CA…
New loads from EVs, building decarbonization, and data centers are being fully met by new lowest cost demand-side management and generation technologies, particularly solar, wind, water, and batteries
New loads from EVs, building decarbonization, and data centers are being fully met by new lowest cost demand-side management and generation technologies, particularly solar, wind, water, and batteries
220 days in 2025 (v 132 in '24; 56 in '23) w/WindWaterSolar >100% of demand for part of day in CA
In-state WWS: 51.5% of demand; in+out-state WWS: 60% in '25
Gas down 17% v '24; 38% v '23
PV up 13% v '24; 39% v '23
Bat up 50% v '24; 180% v '23
Demand down 1.9% v '24; 1.3% v '23
In-state WWS: 51.5% of demand; in+out-state WWS: 60% in '25
Gas down 17% v '24; 38% v '23
PV up 13% v '24; 39% v '23
Bat up 50% v '24; 180% v '23
Demand down 1.9% v '24; 1.3% v '23
December 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
CAISO grid demand is actually decreasing in CA…
New loads from EVs, building decarbonization, and data centers are being fully met by new lowest cost demand-side management and generation technologies, particularly solar, wind, water, and batteries
New loads from EVs, building decarbonization, and data centers are being fully met by new lowest cost demand-side management and generation technologies, particularly solar, wind, water, and batteries
Expecting white boys to use hammers is an economic policy doomed to fail
The economic disruption/sabotage of deporting millions of workers at time of near full employment is only just beginning to be felt.
“Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
“Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work
More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
www.texastribune.org
December 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Expecting white boys to use hammers is an economic policy doomed to fail