Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

Two of our "dependable" nuclear energy plants are not producing any electricity. Thank goodness the sun is shining, the wind is blowing, and electricity can be stored chemically in batteries though so we'll be okay. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/reactor-status/ps.html

One of my continuing and growing concerns about climate financial risk is that no one has the authority to monitor economy-wide financial risk. I spoke with Chairman Powell about this last week (at the 2:37 mark). Short thread. https://www.c-span.org/video/?528798-1/monetary-policy-the-economy

12. Under current law, that may be right. So let's change the laws. But when you're driving down the highway and see a car coming towards you, the responsible thing to do is to swerve - not to argue that you aren't allowed to drive in the other lane. /fin

Kinda odd that Yevgeniy Prigozhin was the subject of days of wall-to-wall press coverage and while I there were some references to his involvement in the Internet Research Agency, I didn't see any mention of the fact that he's under a felony indictment in the US for conspiring to get #Trump elected.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-thirteen-russian-individuals-and-three-russian-companies-scheme-interfere

#wagner #russia

President Zelensky's address to his nation
27/6/23
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey

It appears that #SCOTUS is not yet a complete tool of ultra right, GOP States Rights crowd.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-dismisses-louisiana-s-appeal-of-ruling-that-found-racial-gerrymandering/ar-AA1d3Duo

If you remember the Civil War was fought in the South’s perspective not in the name of pro-slavery, but in the name of State’s Rights, the “right to be bad if we want to”. 🙄 The same thinking that insisted on segregation, and today, hostility towards The Voters Rights Act throwing up multiple roadblocks in the way of convienent voting.

Laurillard (2012, p. 222) on teachers and tools. I agree with the sentiment, can't think of many examples from #highered

"...tools have provided the major engine of human development, because they improve the efficiency of human effort (Wolpert 2003). Teachers, as much as any other profession, need custom-built digital tools to help them with their ever more complex working environment. They deserve better support from digital technology."

https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-as-a-Design-Science-Building-Pedagogical-Patterns-for-Learning/Laurillard/p/book/9780415803878

Alabama "public officials don’t want public records to be made public because then they might be held accountable. That’s so obvious, everyone can see it. https://www.al.com/news/2023/06/whitmire-kay-ivey-keeps-public-records-secret-leaves-kids-locked-in-seclusion.html

Let us not forget that Coach Clueless never spent a day in uniform. How dare he do this! https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/06/23/marines-face-no-confirmed-commandant-first-time-164-years.html?t=MnkImN4cpWt6kBN1yzLdgw&s=09

Whose shaking the Jar?

3/ "2nd factor favoring non-prosecution of Clinton, acc to Midyear team, was that her emails were always used for official purposes..

Same cannot be said for the 337 docs w classific markings Trump took to MAL. Every 1 of them was, by definition, removed for an unofficial, non-gov'tal purpose. Indeed, Trump has publicly emphasized this point, declaring in interviews that docs were his personal property & that he had every right to take them. That makes 674 reasons to distinguish the 2 cases"

#Houston #ClimateChange Oppressive 100F heat for weeks, with the prospect of months to come, The garden relies on us and watering to stay alive. The #Texas electrical grid is reported under stress, I hate thinking about electrical failure and loss of AC, pondering why I failed to install a natural gas Generac System. Is it too late? At the time I was just thinking of Hurricanes. 🤔