Concrete Cowboy

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Your 401(k) could shrink due to climate risks. A lawsuit argues that your employer has a duty to protect it A novel legal challenge alleges that a real estate company breached its duties by failing to protect retirement savings from climate-related financial risks.

Class action lawsuit launched against real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield for failing to protect their workers' retirement funds from climate financial risk.

Great summary in @fastcompany.com

#greensky #retirement #pensions

www.fastcompany.com/91503468/you...

A photo of wind turbines on a hill and details of a live event

Both "A" words; 1 conference. RSVP now to join us on April 3 for a symposium all about merging affordability and climate policy. We just announced the speakers and the panels. It's free to attend but you must register and we do expect the event to fill up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Are you a collector, dealer, expert, or unspecified fiend who wants to be interviewed about SILVER? I’m listening. Sarah dot archer at gmail. 🩶

[Exit Murderer.]

Mitski review – pop meets performance art in a masterful spectacle The Shed, New York CityAt a six-night residency, the singer creates an immersive world filled with wry humor and big emotions

i know people on here don't rly care about culture coverage but sharing because I'm proud I did it: reviewed Mitski's new residency at NYC's The Shed @us.theguardian.com

seeing her perform for the ninth time in 9 years (!), I feel confident saying that Mitski is in her triumphant era.

“So, we don’t even respect big homies,,,, I know Killa doesn’t — and for me?? I neeeeeverrrr”

A small brown and white dog stands in a yard. The caption reads, "Tell Kristi [Noem]. I want her to know it was me."

Consolidation is hella failing 🫡

we got senators talking about nuremberg 2

senator sheehy should be fired and arrested. what a fucking traitor.

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

Raskin should be the House Democratic Leader

While in some ways authoritarian consolidation is working, in many other ways it’s hella failing

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

I often return to Chappelle's Black Bush sketch.

Minimum table ante, yes.

The real stakes:
- No clerks
- No building
- No operating budget
- No shadow docket
- Riding the circuit
- 25 justices; 9 chosen by lottery per case

We can go back to normal once they stop ignoring the law, data, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution.

I am not looking for a politician to explain why blowing up 100 little girls is good

oh so the president has a rash from a little bit of rope play and bsky jumps into full kink shaming mode. not surprised really, just disappointed

Modeling Monday 🧵

Data centers are the new load forecasting problem

So we updated EPRI's Powering Intelligence methodology to move beyond trend extrapolations and "chip shipment math" and into something planners can actually use: a state-level project pipeline to grid load mapping

Energy pundits who've been focusing on affordability should be thinking seriously about the spikes in natural gas and electricity bills that retail customers are about to see as the illegal US/Israel war on Iran drives up global oil and gas prices - and the role & history of US O&G export policy.

from a standpoint epistemological view you have to take this view particularly seriously

During my lifetime, the American conservative agenda has been preoccupied with expanding violence in schools—and normalizing violence against children more broadly.

School shootings, campus sexual violence, bathrooms bans, ICE raids, and now bombing a girls’ school in Iran.

There’s still time to apply for this Energy Policy Analyst role to work with me at Gridworks! Role is focused in the non-coastal western U.S. feel free to reach out with questions.

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

Grace is a foreign concept to these people. 🤬

Remember that actions against transfolk are the tip of the spear

“Please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials.”

Read more at: www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

I've worked for over a decade on data-driven software to make buildings more comfortable, energy-efficient, and grid-responsive. R&D shows consistent 15-25% savings potential, but real-world adoption remains low - and not for reasons different software can solve. I wrote a paper about why. Preprint: