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Climate hawk. DC-based journalist. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://Hillheat.news/subscribe

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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

<insert Torment Nexus meme here>

06.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

"It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family."

06.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

More from the Fuck Around, Instead Find Out Party

06.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly. It is a victory but we need to press the advantage

06.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

at this rate Trump is going to launch a full-scale invasion of Puerto Rico

06.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

remember "Don't be evil"?

06.03.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Top 10 Reasons Data Centers Must be Stopped While AI data centers enrich the Big Tech elite, our water, climate, and communities pay the price. Our leaders must act.

"while AI and data centers are funneling unimaginable wealth to Big Tech billionaires, they’re shoving all the risks, downsides, and damages of this technology onto us"

06.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now we have dumb, politically incorrect wars

06.03.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The decision to fire Noem was made in late January. If I was even more clever I would have recognized that the GOP senators knew Trump had fired Noem because he was replacing Noem with one of their own.

06.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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BIG PEPCO NEWS: If you're angry about high electricity bills, the D.C. Court of Appeals just tossed out the Public Service Commission's last two-year rate increase (for years 2024-2026) for Pepco on procedural grounds.

BUT: I'm told no immediate bill changes for D.C. customers.

05.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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Trump's War of Terror on the Territorial Integrity of the United States Presented by WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS and LOGCAP V JTF-SB

I researched the role of the One Big Brutal Bill and Pentagon procurement for the Fort Bliss operation (WEXMAC 2.x TITUS) and the growing military campaigns inside the US here

04.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows Preparations to shutter Camp East Montana in El Paso come less than eight months after facility’s opening, according to an internal ICE document.

It would be remarkable if the wildly expensive, Pentagon-organized, deadly ICE concentration camp at Fort Bliss is really going to close

04.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

it's fun watching whales barf

04.03.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The #NC04 primary is too close to call. The AIPAC-AI PAC backed @foushee.house.gov is ahead of @nidaallam.bsky.social by 1202 votes (less than 1% of votes cast) by the current count. Recounts in the two counties are expected if the margin stays less than 1%.

04.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Influence Spending Booms, Signaling Monumental Clashes Ahead Disrupting jobs, fueling a data center boom, even killing off this em dashβ€”artificial intelligence is the conversation policymakers, and the rest of us, just can’t escape.

Washington lobbyists received almost $130 million for work related to AI, as Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google led the spending blitz. Some of the biggest jumps came from frontier labs OpenAI Inc. and Anthropic.

04.03.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Like this

Like this

03.03.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"So" fits

03.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Per the Texas Democratic Party, nearly a third of Williamson and Dallas County voters are being turned away when they try to vote due to confusion over polling locations, caused by Republicans opting not to hold countywide unified Joint Primaries.

03.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

The DLGA is hardcore

03.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nearly Half of Colorectal Cancers Now Occur in Younger Patients, Study Shows

People born in 1990 are twice as likely as those born in 1950 to develop colon cancer, and four times as likely to develop rectal cancer.

Aren't microplastics great?

03.03.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The article is a good one, it's exposing the extraordinary extravagance of the hyperwealthy

03.03.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.

A little confused by "instead" here.

The saying isn't "fuck around, instead find out"

03.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 1348 πŸ” 280 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 36
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The New Miami Gold Rush

The net worth of the top 0.1 percent doubled from 2020 to a collective sum of $24.9 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, and now accounts for 14.4 percent of the total household wealth, according to the Federal Reserve.

03.03.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The @thirdway.bsky.social definition of "gutsy" is fighting for billionaires

03.03.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop Secret Money - Phonebank for Nida Allam Β· Protect Our Power Join Sunrise Movement to get out the vote for Nida Allam as corporate interests dump millions in the race last minute. Special interests are willing to spend endlessly to protect their military contra...

One last phonebank for @nidaallam.bsky.social!

03.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Week in Climate Hearings: Hot Weather NASA and NOAA weather reauthorization bills move forward, as do Trump BLM, NASA, NIST, FERC, and nominees

As the Trump nominee to head NIST, Purdue Engineering dean Arvind Raman will be in charge of instituting the policy banning foreign scientists from working at NIST.

Raman first joined Purdue as an immigrant graduate student from India.

Life is funny

03.03.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Week in Climate Hearings: Hot Weather NASA and NOAA weather reauthorization bills move forward, as do Trump BLM, NASA, NIST, FERC, and nominees

The period for public comment on the ongoing privatization and illegal breakup of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is closing March 13th.

03.03.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
TropicalTidbits.com Middle East temperature map https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=me&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2026030218&fh=0

TropicalTidbits.com Middle East temperature map https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=me&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2026030218&fh=0

It's pretty damn hot in Iran.

02.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We get SLAPPed down
But we get up again

02.03.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yo @ghostpanther.bsky.social have you optioned Water Knife

02.03.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0