isaac
@sevier.io
Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: “To fight oligarchy, build local democracy"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/to-fight-oligarchy-build-local-democracy/
Latest: “To fight oligarchy, build local democracy"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/to-fight-oligarchy-build-local-democracy/
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Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.
climateandcommunity.org
In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
hey everyone i'm logging off for a bit. i have to, like, clean my apartment, go for some walks, spend time with friends, sleep, heal, make up for a year plus of being wholly subsumed by a year of building a new project! take care of yourselves and i'll see y'all in a couple of weeks.
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
hey everyone i'm logging off for a bit. i have to, like, clean my apartment, go for some walks, spend time with friends, sleep, heal, make up for a year plus of being wholly subsumed by a year of building a new project! take care of yourselves and i'll see y'all in a couple of weeks.
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What are the best books about AI?
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
What are the best books about AI?
This is an updated visual from here:
"Only public institutions, free of the requirements to make an energy transition profitable, can rise to the combined challenges of deep, long-standing racial and economic equity, rapid grid transformation, and steep emissions reductions."
"Only public institutions, free of the requirements to make an energy transition profitable, can rise to the combined challenges of deep, long-standing racial and economic equity, rapid grid transformation, and steep emissions reductions."
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This is an updated visual from here:
"Only public institutions, free of the requirements to make an energy transition profitable, can rise to the combined challenges of deep, long-standing racial and economic equity, rapid grid transformation, and steep emissions reductions."
"Only public institutions, free of the requirements to make an energy transition profitable, can rise to the combined challenges of deep, long-standing racial and economic equity, rapid grid transformation, and steep emissions reductions."
If you guys like this come find out what we're gonna do in 2026 😁👉 @publicgrids.org
Yeah, more fuel for @sevier.io‘s fire:
Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If you guys like this come find out what we're gonna do in 2026 😁👉 @publicgrids.org
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Portfolio Website of Jocelyn Harper ⭐
Made to look like a Terminal... because I'm a nerd.
jocelyn.dev
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Yeah, more fuel for @sevier.io‘s fire:
Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.
8. For-profit utilities charge 14% more (13.3 c/kWh, 2023 average) than cities (11.7 c/kWh) and 16% more than rural coops (11.5 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: For-profit utility prices rose 2.7 c/kWh from 2019-2023, 225% more than cities (1.2 c/kWh) and 270% more than coops (1 c/kWh).
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Yeah, more fuel for @sevier.io‘s fire:
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Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.
8. For-profit utilities charge 14% more (13.3 c/kWh, 2023 average) than cities (11.7 c/kWh) and 16% more than rural coops (11.5 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: For-profit utility prices rose 2.7 c/kWh from 2019-2023, 225% more than cities (1.2 c/kWh) and 270% more than coops (1 c/kWh).
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.
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THE POPE: and... let's do chips and guac, to share. Chips and guac, right? If I get chips and guac you're going to eat some, right? They make it right at the table
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
THE POPE: and... let's do chips and guac, to share. Chips and guac, right? If I get chips and guac you're going to eat some, right? They make it right at the table
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Starting Nov. 1, S.F. will enforce a two-hour parking limit for large vehicles. Residents must obtain a Large Vehicle Refuge Permit or face tickets and towing.
These two neighborhoods reveal the fallout of the city’s rising RV crisis and the lives caught in between: bit.ly/4oMd4bb
These two neighborhoods reveal the fallout of the city’s rising RV crisis and the lives caught in between: bit.ly/4oMd4bb
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Starting Nov. 1, S.F. will enforce a two-hour parking limit for large vehicles. Residents must obtain a Large Vehicle Refuge Permit or face tickets and towing.
These two neighborhoods reveal the fallout of the city’s rising RV crisis and the lives caught in between: bit.ly/4oMd4bb
These two neighborhoods reveal the fallout of the city’s rising RV crisis and the lives caught in between: bit.ly/4oMd4bb
"An internal dataset obtained by El Tecolote recorded 698 unique vehicles btw May & September, a cumulative log of every observed vehicle home in the city. This contrasts sharply with the city’s quarterly tally in September of 404..."
NEW: San Francisco’s “compassionate” RV permit program is failing the people it promised to help. A months-long investigation by @eltecolotesf.bsky.social reveals a rushed, chaotic rollout, leaving hundreds at risk of losing their homes.🧵 Here’s what we found: bit.ly/47LB1sc
SF’s RV towing blitz has begun. These are its biggest failures
San Francisco’s RV towing has begun. Internal records show shifting rules, scant infrastructure and hundreds of families at risk.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"An internal dataset obtained by El Tecolote recorded 698 unique vehicles btw May & September, a cumulative log of every observed vehicle home in the city. This contrasts sharply with the city’s quarterly tally in September of 404..."
People want enormous amounts of change from the electricity system and it will never be delivered in existing utility commissions. The disappointment of being misled about this is going to be widely felt.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
People want enormous amounts of change from the electricity system and it will never be delivered in existing utility commissions. The disappointment of being misled about this is going to be widely felt.
Make some time for this. It's critical to how you'll understand the next decade of energy politics, here in the U.S. and everywhere.
Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...
www.thedigradio.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Make some time for this. It's critical to how you'll understand the next decade of energy politics, here in the U.S. and everywhere.
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Data centers are concentrated in these states- and here's how that is effecting electricity prices: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...
Data centers are concentrated in these states. Here's what's happening to electricity prices
Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
www.cnbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Data centers are concentrated in these states- and here's how that is effecting electricity prices: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...
The PUC exists to protect industries not people, exhibit 1000
Our top story: A state regulatory agency blocked our analysis of public data about crypto mining operations and their energy use. So we conducted our own independent investigation ...
Crypto's Cryptic Texas Takeover
State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.
www.texasobserver.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The PUC exists to protect industries not people, exhibit 1000
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Happy Friday from me and Robyn
Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Robyn
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Happy Friday from me and Robyn
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putting the art of the deal and rich dad, poor dad on my desk when the nyt comes to interview me as a business guru
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
putting the art of the deal and rich dad, poor dad on my desk when the nyt comes to interview me as a business guru
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This is, without a joke, actual honest to God heresy if you are a Christian. I'm not saying more than the usual consumer protection, this is designed to harm people, stuff that I usually say about AI, but its just funny that AI's next big thing is: "Actual Heresy Machine."
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is, without a joke, actual honest to God heresy if you are a Christian. I'm not saying more than the usual consumer protection, this is designed to harm people, stuff that I usually say about AI, but its just funny that AI's next big thing is: "Actual Heresy Machine."
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Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?
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Really looking forward to this! It turns out learning the arcane ins and outs of NYC government and the budget are WAY more interesting when you have a mayor who enables you to believe there can actually be meaningful change!!
Join us at CUNY Law on Wednesday!
Details & Registration 👇
Join us at CUNY Law on Wednesday!
Details & Registration 👇
For New Yorkers newly excited about municipal power, this coming Wednesday, @lpenyc.bsky.social invites you to a conversation featuring NYC Councilmember Sandy Nurse, Fiscal Policy Institute Executive Director Nathan Gusdorf, and our departed captain, @corinneblalock.bsky.social.
Local Power: How to Make NYC More Equal
Building on our recent event, LPE NYC Night School is examining how we can make real, lasting change in NYC. How do we contend with the outsized power of finance and real estate and build a world…
lpeproject.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Really looking forward to this! It turns out learning the arcane ins and outs of NYC government and the budget are WAY more interesting when you have a mayor who enables you to believe there can actually be meaningful change!!
Join us at CUNY Law on Wednesday!
Details & Registration 👇
Join us at CUNY Law on Wednesday!
Details & Registration 👇
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We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
One of things that has radicalized me most was living in Kern County.
People held at the Core Civic-run ICE jail in Kern County, California are denied medical care, access to their attorneys, and, for disabled detainees, the most basic accommodations, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
ACLU Suit Targets “Dire” Conditions at CoreCivic-Run ICE Jail in California
“No human being, immigrant or not, should be subjected to these horrendous conditions,” said one of the plaintiffs.
truthout.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One of things that has radicalized me most was living in Kern County.
From members of the UAWD caucus of UAW: dailystruggle.org/overcoming-r...
Overcoming Rural Worker Exploitation: Building a Militant Sectoral Manufacturing Strategy - Daily Struggle
As the rural working class is being exploited for profit through predatory tactics that decimate rural communities, some rural workers have built rank-and-file power to mount militant strikes that spa...
dailystruggle.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
From members of the UAWD caucus of UAW: dailystruggle.org/overcoming-r...
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more on h.res 876, which i could find almost zero articles about www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...
Amnesty International USA Welcomes Introduction of Gaza Genocide Resolution
The Congressional resolution recognizes Israel’s actions against Palestinians in Gaza as genocide.
www.amnestyusa.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
more on h.res 876, which i could find almost zero articles about www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...
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In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.
climateandcommunity.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
"...what prevents families from electrifying? The answer is rarely 'too few incentives to consume smartly'. More often...costs, opacity & uncertainty. [Requiring] consumers to adapt to the network is not consumer-oriented, but by definition network-oriented, no matter how beautifully we package it."
Thoughtful piece (in Flemish) from @rbae.bsky.social on the impact of electricity market complexity on citizens and the energy transition.
I doubt most people even understand their bills - so motivating their actions via bills is an uphill battle.
www.tijd.be/opinie/algem...
I doubt most people even understand their bills - so motivating their actions via bills is an uphill battle.
www.tijd.be/opinie/algem...
Moet de burger het energiesysteem dienen, of het systeem de burger?
Als we de energietransitie willen versnellen, moeten we de complexiteit bij het systeem durven te houden in plaats van ze bij de burger te leggen.
www.tijd.be
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"...what prevents families from electrifying? The answer is rarely 'too few incentives to consume smartly'. More often...costs, opacity & uncertainty. [Requiring] consumers to adapt to the network is not consumer-oriented, but by definition network-oriented, no matter how beautifully we package it."