Week 41

Reuters: "Portugal will launch a pioneering auction for rights to sell green hydrogen for injection into the national gas grid in the coming weeks, with crucial state aid being discussed with Brussels"

H2 View: "Caltrans signs $80m contract with Stadler Rail for hydrogen trains in California"

TechXplore: "A European consortium on Wednesday said it had in a world first successfully tested a gas turbine fully powered by hydrogen, opening the way to slashing carbon emissions in energy-intensive industries like cement... French energy company Engie, the German Aerospace Center, Siemens Energy, Britain's Centrax and European universities were part of the EU-funded consortium Hyflexpower that carried out the test at a Smurfit Kappa paper packaging factory near the French city of Limoges"

"@BrentToderian@mastodon.online

The busy bank of the Seine in Paris. This used to be space for cars, now for several years it’s been a special place for people. All it took was leadership. Oh, and fighting and winning a court battle when that leadership was challenged"

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The same directors did try later to make up for their mistake though, partly in another movie - Jupiter Rising. The heroine was working class (a cleaner girl who was 'special') and the bad people are an intergalactic empire who 'own' Earth. Their dominance have Matrix-y aspects, they can erase people's memories to make sure they are not known but the control is not like Matrix level which symbolizes government that every libertard should tremble in fear about whenever they hear its name. The overlords of JR are of a feudal type and mostly interested in humans as products, they want to harvest them and become rich. So in essence they are capitalists, cornering their markets, producing their products and above all, exploiting.

After the first, the Wachowskis realized what they had done. They had created a magnum opus, a magnifique travail for every anti-gov ultra libertard fuckjob out there and they wanted to reel in some of their "message".

II and III shows some easing of the boundaries between the humans and "AI". Smith gets something of Neo in him, who will later help the machines survive. The concept of The One is taken down a notch, there've been others before. This way the "us against them" situation if muddled, weakened, placed in the backburner if you will. If the theme music of the first was Rob Zombie's Dragula the theme music for the next two would be Why Cant We Be Friends? Corporatists after all want gov off their case, beaten down, be their bitch, but they dont want it completely gone. They want an entity to subsidize them, socialize their losses, and act like a capitalist enabler when they are making huge profits. All this libertard stuff is supposed to stay at cosplay level, go buy some guns play the weekend warrior, act the independent maverick type in your own little delusional sphere but stay in the corporate ladder, and respect the markets. You are not supposed to rock the boat, because these f--kers live on that boat. They are the boat, this is the world in which they've already won. There is no need to change that.

The first Matrix movie was anti-government pro-corporate propaganda. How about the second and the third? They were trying to mend fences with those two..

PV Magazine: "Queensland reforms hydrogen pipeline laws.. The Queensland Parliament has passed new legislation that will see hydrogen pipelines regulated in the same way as fossil fuel gases, creating clearer regulatory pathways and safety assessments for hydrogen projects"

Scalise nearly died after a shooting? Crazy.

AP: "The White House picks West Virginia and the Philadelphia region for hydrogen hubs, a source tells AP"

Railway Age: "First U.S. Hydrogen Powered Passenger Trainset Testing at [Department of Transportation Technology Center].. in Pueblo, Colorado"

AP: "White House poised to announce winners of competition to produce hydrogen fuel"

The Lever: "In September, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced an anti-corruption reform plan that would.. ban [lawmakers] from trading stocks, bar political donations from lobbyists or political action committees, create an ethics code for Supreme Court justices, and more. Recently, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) gave his support to these measures as part of his negotiations with Republican House leadership, bringing renewed attention to Khanna's proposal"

"@hub@cosocial.ca

Don't forget to change your DNA when you learn it has been compromised"

"Moog Aircraft in the UK will lead a ground-breaking collaboration project, assisted by Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) programme grant funding, to develop key technologies for future liquid hydrogen gas turbine fuel systems"

Arab News: "DuckDuckGo CEO says Google’s billions got in the way of a deal with Apple.. The CEO of privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple about a potential contract failed because the smartphone maker was reluctant to give up Google’s multibillion dollar paychecks, according to newly transcripts of a landmark antitrust trial of the Alphabet unit"

"Rep. Tlaib grieves Palestinian and Israeli Lives lost after Hamas Attacks, Calls for end of Apartheid"

Firstpost: "Sealed Gaza neighbourhoods stare at imminent blackout as Israeli airstrikes reduce region to rubble on Day 5"

#Palestine #Israel

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"@dangillmor@mastodon.social

Japanese city is the latest to realize before it was too late that the corrupt Olympics bosses routinely screw the "host" cities. Fiscal disaster averted"

Kyodo News: "Olympics: Sapporo joins exodus of potential hosts"

"India’s First Green Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Hits Delhi Roads.. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated a groundbreaking initiative in Delhi on Monday by flagging off the country’s first green hydrogen fuel cell bus"

China Daily: "China's first hydrogen fuel cell ship completes maiden voyage"

"@claytoncubitt@mstdn.social

Top Google result for my bank/broker is a sponsored link run by a phishing operation. Good job Google!"

Renew Economy: "Andrew Forrest’s iron ore and green energy giant Fortescue Metals has signed its third major green hydrogen supply deal in a week, this time turning back to the US-based electrolyser company Plug Power that was to be its partner for its huge Queensland manufacturing plant.

Fortescue announced overnight that it named Plug Power as the preferred supplier of the 550MW of hydrogen electrolyses it will need for its Gibson Island green hydrogen and ammonia project in Queensland"

FuelCellsWorks: "BP Joins H2accelerate Collaboration To Enable The Scale Up Of Low Carbon Hydrogen As A Fuel For Heavy Duty Vehicle Sector"

🔥 🔥 Red Hot

CleanTechnica: "Red-Hot Green Hydrogen Field Just Got Hotter (and Greener)... Photoelectrochemical cells can push green hydrogen directly from water without the need for standalone solar panels... The Intertubes have been burning up with news of the first billion-dollar unicorn to emerge from the boiling stew of green hydrogen startups... Last week, a US startup called Electric Hydrogen raised 380 million in a Series C round of funding on the basis of building a better electrolyzer. That raised the company’s valuation over the $1 billion bar, earning it the title of the industry’s first unicorn"

NYT: "'[E]nmity toward Israel over its decades-long occupation of their land' remained strong, particularly as Israel's government expanded settlements in the Palestinian West Bank after the agreements. On Saturday, when Palestinian gunmen from the blockaded territory of Gaza surged into Israel, carrying out the boldest attack in the country in decades, it set off an outpouring of support for the Palestinians across the region. In some quarters, there were celebrations even as hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians were killed... Demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinians took place across the region, including in Bahrain, Morocco, Turkey, Yemen, Tunisia and Kuwait..

[I]n Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, a policeman opened fire on Israeli tourists, killing two Israelis and an Egyptian.The ripples spreading from Gaza underscored what many officials, scholars and citizens in the region have been saying for years: The Palestinian cause is still a deeply felt rallying cry that shapes the contours of the Middle East, and Israel's position in the region will remain unstable as long as its conflict with the Palestinians continues"

Firstpost: "California Governor signs Right to Repair into law in a major win for the movement"

Politico: "On Saturday, the California governor signed a first-in-the nation bill prohibiting the use of four food additives because they’ve been linked to serious health problems including cancer"

Politico: "Newsom signs first-in-the-nation corporate climate disclosure bills.. The laws will require large corporations operating in the state to disclose both their carbon footprints and their climate-related financial risks"

"@Hypx@mastodon.social

EU regulatory framework for hydrogen almost complete says Commission President"

"@anildash@me.dm

Roughly 1/3 of all sites on the Internet just entered the fediverse"

TechCrunch: "Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plug-in that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the [Mastodon] fediverse.. By using the plug-in, blog owners have the potential to reach more followers as they’ll be able to share their posts to other platforms and, in turn, receive replies from those platforms that are transformed into blog comments"

Fast Company: "Net neutrality is back, and telecom giants are up to their usual dirty tricks... Opponents of net neutrality have endless money to burn on lobbying and influence operations, and they’ve shown no qualms about breaking the law or straight-up lying to achieve their goals"

FuelCellsWorks: "With increasing sightings of the [Honda] hydrogen CR-V being tested on public roads in Japan, anticipation is mounting for its official launch"

FuelCellsWorks: "On October 8th, World Hydrogen Day [was] celebrated, a date that nods to the number 1.008, the atomic weight of this chemical element"

GN: "India and Saudi Arabia Sign MoU for Green Hydrogen Supply"

FuelCellWorks: "Cleanergy Solutions Namibia Kicks off Construction Works for Africa’s First Public Refuelling Station With Onsite Green Hydrogen Production"

"@WWBugs@mstdn.social

.. Mississippi #River dredged to make it suitable for larger ships. The Army Corps of Engineers has known for decades that its continual efforts to deepen the #Mississippi River for bigger ships would eventually trigger the #saltwater crisis that has now gripped the New Orleans area for weeks"

"@BrentToderian@mastodon.online

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved transit, not only did it transform the city’s public life & economic success, but the traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER"

Before After

Arab News: "Malaysia looks to UAE for help in energy transition efforts... UAE, Malaysia sign $8bn renewable energy agreement.. Malaysian experts see the UAE — a major oil producer which in recent years has become a leader in developing renewable energy and green hydrogen technologies — as a natural partner to help the Southeast Asian nation reach its goal"

H2 Central: "Nikkiso Expands Operations in the US to Support Its Growing Hydrogen Business"

Now that I think about it, most of my DIY tools are read-heavy, lookups, mapping so forth requiring minimal data in the background, retrievable in a single JSON file pull. Javascript can handle that on its sleep. Settings stored in a cookie => no complex server infra needed. That gives me ideas.. 🤔

Got me some sour red cabbage. Coupled with some jar cooked steak - dam.

Apparently the firing had to do with "conflict of interest" issues during privatization days in Russia in the 90s. These Clinton people are up to their neck with Russia Russia Russia, while oligarchs were destroying the country some might have benefited via kickbacks. I'm sure that's why they took up to Russiagate so eagerly, it was the ultimate misdirection, and a great excuse to cover up an embarrasing loss to a former game show host.

He might be a little butthurt for being fired from there

Politico: "Lawrence Summers.. criticize[s] Harvard for student statement blaming Israel"

Arab News: Israel is 'entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,' and the attacks by Hamas 'did not happen in a vacuum,' 31 Harvard student organizations have said. Releasing a 'Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine,' the organizations said Israel had forced Palestinians to live in an 'open-air prison for over two decades.' The statement added: 'The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years'"

Academic/Activist Randa Abdel-Fattah: "Palestinians have tried every single avenue [to resist non-violently]. BDS is a peaceful movement that was called by the civil society. It is criminalized in the US. I just got back from there, and we would had panel discussions, they tried to shut us down. We protest, 8000 people in the Great March of Return [in Gaza], protested peacefully, we were shot at with live ammunition. We go to social media, and advocate there, we get shut out, silenced on social media. Every single avenue - international law for instance, US will veto and shut that route down. All these peaceful avenues are pursued by Palestinians and that is never good enough. No form of resistance is good enough, it is only acceptable if you are a dead Palestinian"

*Nix on Droid choked. Ditching that setup, trying out SBC (single board computer), HDMI monitor, wireless kboard instead. SBCs can run full Unix, not the shit version on Droids.

"@chaser@mastodon.au

Hamas launches ‘completely unprovoked attack’ *(if you ignore 50 years of occupation)"

The Lever: "Swamp Thing.. Republicans’ temporary speaker, Patrick McHenry, received 90 percent of his campaign cash this year from lobbyists and industries he regulates — and only $856 from small donors"

"@BrentToderian@mastodon.online

Looks dumb, right?

This is how we design many cities"

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#Billionaires

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"@wilbr@glitch.social

'Israel's right to exist' is curious framing I hear often. If armed water defenders broke out of an Indian Reservation and attacked a nearby US town I wouldn't be talking about America's 'right to exist.'.. Billions of dollars a year & millions of people say Israel will continue existing in some form. The question is if Netanyahu's government and policies should exist, and what equitable truth & reconciliation would look like for Palestinians...

The idea that the only possible way to allow the victims of genocide to survive is to just straight up give them the cities and houses of Palestinians doesn't set up conditions for justice, and continued blockading and encroachment ditching Palestine into smaller and more impoverished areas with random (and daily) escalatory violence just pours salt in the wound. The West created a messed up situation and finances its right-wing government's activities. Arabs pay the price, as we see so often"

The Lever: "Insurers Are Gaming Medicare — To The Tune Of $140 Billion.. The federal government is losing as much as 140 billion dollars per year by subsidizing private Medicare Advantage plans, according to a bombshell new report. In the groundbreaking investigation, health care researchers identified the four major ways that private insurers systematically exploit the taxpayer-funded national health insurance program while denying care to the nation’s most vulnerable patients"

Some thought we'd never see the day..

"@Linux_Is_Best@mastodon.social

Microsoft, quietly, has published a guide on how to download and install Linux.

No... Seriously... It is not a joke...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

The article was published September 29, 2023 (9 days ago).

The guide provides every option available, too. Starting with using their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), to using a Virtual Machine, and even on "Bare Metal" alongside Windows.

That's right, Microsoft now tells you how to dual-boot Linux. 🤯"

H2 Central: "Green Hydrogen – Masdar and Boeing Join Forces to Accelerate the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Industry in the UAE and globally"

Reuters: "First hydrogen train in Middle East to begin trials next week, Saudi energy minister says"

NYT: "E-Bikes Are Convenient. They Can Also Cause Fatal Fires... Just before midnight on a Friday in January, a fire tore through a three-story house in East Elmhurst, Queens, injuring 10 people inside and killing a 63-year-old man who was trapped on the second floor. Five days later, on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, another fire broke out in the basement of a house in Forest Hills, Queens, where an unauthorized day care center was housed. Eighteen children were injured, one seriously.

The cause of both fires was rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which power the e-bikes and e-scooters that have become ubiquitous on city streets.. [but] deadly, unintended consequence has emerged: Storing and charging such bikes and scooters indoors can create a tinderbox. Last year, the batteries caused 216 fires, with 147 injuries and six deaths. As of Feb. 27 this year, they were responsible for 30 fires, 40 injuries and two deaths, according to the Fire Department"

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Stiglitz: "One of battles has been with IMF when they wanted to change their charter to force developing countries to have capital market liberalization. When the IMF was founded in 1944 with Keynes, Keynes did not believe in capital market liberalization. So the institution he helped create [.. some years later] stabbed him in the back"

NYT: "Gaza Has Suffered Under 16-Year Blockade.. Held in place by Israel and Egypt, the blockade restricts imports to the region and prevents most people from leaving"

F24: "Gaza: blockaded enclave scarred by war and poverty"

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Stiglitz: "Neoliberalism.. assumed away market imperfections (like imperfections in information and imperfect risk markets)...

With imperfect risk markets, trade liberalization could make everyone in every country worse off.

With imperfect capital markets, capital market liberalization may be welfare [as in standard of living] decreasing"

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BTW Israel created Hamas

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"Invading by land air and sea".. sea is a dinky boat, air is a dude on paraglider.. If they cause X amt of casualties Israel will cause 10X, via real sea, real land, and real air force on an area that is already an open-air prison.

Attacks from Gaza should be seen as prison riots rather than an independent sovereign actor's atttacks on a neighbor.