taraconnolly.bsky.social
All things energy transition, climate justice and safe streets in the EU. Formerly at Greenpeace, Friends of The Earth and Global Witness. Now working at @beyondfossilfuels. Irish immigrant in Brussels.
👤 Joined on 18 October 2023
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@taraconnolly.bsky.socialVery VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans." This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end.
Show Postjohn fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
Show PostAll the other issues aside, this attitude is a big part of why I see genAI coding in particular as a very material climate / fossil fuel threat A chatbot blurting out tens of thousands of lines of code each time instead of a person designing one efficient, good, smart app once = wild energy bloat
Show PostI think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims
Show PostThis is an understandably popular take here but there is basically no evidence for this sort of opposition-contagion Also: why wouldn't it apply equally to the several hundred gigawatts of planned gas facilities data centre developers are choosing to build? I don't think it works like this
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