JaneZ
@janez27.bsky.social
Community advocate, fan of native plants, and potter.
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Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader.
Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence.
Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management
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Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence.
Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management
kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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September 17, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader.
Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence.
Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management
kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence.
Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management
kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
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France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
April 15, 2026 at 5:09 PM
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
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This is a trend that should be legalized in every state and country. Balcony solar allows renters and others who could otherwise not benefit from reduced utility bills to tap into the power of solar. Is it legal in your region? www.thecooldown.com/green-home/v...
Virginia to legalize 'balcony solar' as more states advance legislation: 'Removes all kinds of barriers'
Virginia is changing the game with new laws allowing plug-and-play solar panels, making clean energy accessible to more residents.
www.thecooldown.com
April 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
This is a trend that should be legalized in every state and country. Balcony solar allows renters and others who could otherwise not benefit from reduced utility bills to tap into the power of solar. Is it legal in your region? www.thecooldown.com/green-home/v...
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If you want to help legalize balcony solar (plug it into your outlet!), this page will help you see where your state is in the process and what you can do about it.
Brightsaver is working on this nationwide. Nonprofit. Legal in Utah and Maine. Lots of bills in other states. brightsaver.org/state-tracker
Plug-in Solar Legislation Tracker
Track plug-in solar legislation across 30+ U.S. states. Daily updates on bills, committee votes, and policy changes for balcony and portable solar panels.
brightsaver.org
April 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM
If you want to help legalize balcony solar (plug it into your outlet!), this page will help you see where your state is in the process and what you can do about it.
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Research on cities deploying batteries, heat pumps, and EVs together shows that meeting the fossil fuel reduction targets would save 22 to 37% of energy costs; the transition pays for itself.
Mayors Stop With Empty Promises and Start Deploying at Scale
C40 cities just redoubled their promise to cut fossil fuel usage in half by 2030. Here is how they can actually keep that promise — and save money doing it
open.substack.com
May 4, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Research on cities deploying batteries, heat pumps, and EVs together shows that meeting the fossil fuel reduction targets would save 22 to 37% of energy costs; the transition pays for itself.
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California is exploring placing solar panels where they can help save water, crops, and reduce urban heat islands. Increases health benefits, $$ savings, resource preservation. There is nothing more effective than whole systems design to solve multiple problems. www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/p...
California's first-of-its-kind solar project could save 63 billion gallons of water annually
California's canal-top solar pilot has wrapped up, and the early results suggest the idea could do much more than generate clean electricity.
www.thecooldown.com
May 10, 2026 at 9:20 PM
California is exploring placing solar panels where they can help save water, crops, and reduce urban heat islands. Increases health benefits, $$ savings, resource preservation. There is nothing more effective than whole systems design to solve multiple problems. www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/p...
Another great idea of where to place solar panels. Using them to create shade is "stacking functions" - a key strategy in permaculture design. Where you place things can either be wasteful or highly efficient, especially if it can then perform more than one service.
July 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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Trump’s new budget adds an extra $500 billion to fund wars abroad — about $3,700 more for every household in America — while cutting health, jobs, housing, and education.
Put simply, it takes more of your money for foreign wars, while making life in America even more unaffordable.
Put simply, it takes more of your money for foreign wars, while making life in America even more unaffordable.
April 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Trump’s new budget adds an extra $500 billion to fund wars abroad — about $3,700 more for every household in America — while cutting health, jobs, housing, and education.
Put simply, it takes more of your money for foreign wars, while making life in America even more unaffordable.
Put simply, it takes more of your money for foreign wars, while making life in America even more unaffordable.
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A closer look at Trump's 2027 budget
April 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
A closer look at Trump's 2027 budget
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We need your help.
The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.
The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.
April 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
We need your help.
The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.
The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.
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“Fix your hearts and live.”
"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating."
www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...
www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...
Fix Your Hearts or Die
It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.
www.the-reframe.com
February 23, 2026 at 12:03 PM
“Fix your hearts and live.”
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"When in doubt, draw a distinction."
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
February 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
"When in doubt, draw a distinction."
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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New macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.
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The GOP’s reconciliation bill is one of the worst environmental bills I’ve ever seen.
It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.
It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.
May 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The GOP’s reconciliation bill is one of the worst environmental bills I’ve ever seen.
It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.
It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.
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I found this super helpful. And deeply saddening, but really helpful and actionable
New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I found this super helpful. And deeply saddening, but really helpful and actionable
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
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House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.
House GOP Reveals Plan to Devastate Medicaid and Food Stamp Programs
House Republicans have a released a budget plan that would take a wrecking ball to the welfare programs used by millions of Americans.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.
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Sounds... efficient? "There are no more civil servants now than there were in the late 1960s, even as the population they serve has grown by two-thirds." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Trump wants to bring back the spoils system of the 19th century.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sounds... efficient? "There are no more civil servants now than there were in the late 1960s, even as the population they serve has grown by two-thirds." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
www.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
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Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic.
This is devastating
This is devastating
These overhead rates are negotiated. Lowering it unilaterally to 15% is another way to destroy science in the US. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
February 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic.
This is devastating
This is devastating
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*credit card* debt? he’s carrying more than a million in fucking *credit card debt*?!? that’s even fucking stupider than at least 50 fucking percent of every other stupid and dangerous thing he believes, that’s “would be broke 5 years after winning the lottery” stupid
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.
February 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
*credit card* debt? he’s carrying more than a million in fucking *credit card debt*?!? that’s even fucking stupider than at least 50 fucking percent of every other stupid and dangerous thing he believes, that’s “would be broke 5 years after winning the lottery” stupid