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Texas grid: Solar beats coal for the first time this year. 78 billion kWh from sun vs. 60 billion from coal—without federal help or reliability issues.
Read more → https://grist.org/energy/solar-to-overtake-coal-on-texas-grid-for-the-first-time-ever-this-year/
#nbpy
The horse was the biggest neigh-sayer at the conference.
California's Westlands Water District is converting 136k acres to 21GW solar/battery. Farmers lease land, redirect water, powering 9M homes. 150 contracts signed.
Read more → https://grist.org/energy/were-harvesting-the-sun-a-huge-solar-project-grows-in-california/
140 countries just backed a landmark U.N. ruling: failing to fight climate change is a "wrongful act." It started with law students in Vanuatu.
Read more → https://grist.org/international/in-a-rare-show-of-global-unity-countries-adopt-landmark-climate-ruling/
Pennsylvania town wins $145K verdict against slaughterhouse over tainted water, proving community can take on powerful industry despite lenient laws.
Read more → https://grist.org/accountability/blood-in-the-well-one-towns-fight-against-the-slaughterhouse-polluting-it/
I'm reading Alston Chase's "Harvard and the Unabomber". The events were a little before my time and I feel comforted that I didn't live in that dumbest timeline. I have so many thoughts
After a Michigan ice storm trapped residents for weeks, one utility plans to bury all new power lines. Proactive, not reactive—costly but climate-proof.
Read more → https://grist.org/solutions/a-simple-yet-expensive-way-to-climate-proof-the-grid-bury-the-power-lines/
India's vast solar park will soon power Austria—showing a major nation can industrialize without coal's detour.
Read more → https://grist.org/energy/a-first-among-major-nations-india-is-industrializing-with-solar/
US grid ready for hot summer. Record solar and battery additions boosted reliability, not Trump’s forced-to-stay-open coal plants, per NERC report.
One of the best things I learned at North Bay Python was about Lodge cast iron cookware. I love my 4 qt dutch oven.
Conversely, I had a really interesting conversation with Claude bout abortion -- health pros and cons, etc without hitting a single guardrail. But, as usual, its not about the LLM, its about the people running the LLM.
Read more → https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/meta-abortion-ai-chatbot-leak-teen-info-ban/
Happy Crowdstrike outage day
Do your company's data scientists think they are entitled to their customer's PII?
Still reading "Harvard and the Unabomber" and beginning to think Aston Chase, who seems to like to draw parallels between himself and the Unabomber actually has more in common with the Unaburger, and the crime and victims are lost in the intellectual preening.
Nike's recycled World Cup uniforms are a real step forward, even if true circularity is still years away.
OWASP rates XSS as high frequency, low impact. That was before webMCP.
Any JavaScript on a page can register tools with the browser's LLM — including injected payloads. The model trusts both. We validated a full kill chain from injection to C2 exfiltration in five minutes.
Defenses exist, but need more than 500 characters. Full writeup:
https://blog.arachnovato.com/script-injection-makes-webmcp-a-force-multiplier-for-attackers/
#security #webmcp #mcp #ai
Trump rebrands billions in Biden-era clean water funds as MAHA. But the same dollars flow — and critics warn future cuts could stall lead pipe removal.
Read more → https://grist.org/buildings/bidens-clean-drinking-water-plan-is-being-rebranded-as-maha/
Parks offer $3 in local economic benefits for every $1 invested, new report finds.
Read more → https://grist.org/cities/your-local-park-is-bringing-in-the-green-and-by-that-we-mean-money/
In a California district where 65% of voters are Latino, a Bernie-backed professor driven by neighbors' six-hour health care drives challenges party orthodoxy—and may win either way.
Venice's sea lavender has a climate superpower: it traps 12x more carbon underground. Learn about this vital plant's role in wetlands.
Read more → https://grist.org/solutions/the-beautiful-venetian-plant-with-a-secret-climate-superpower/
I can tell things aren't going well for Republicans. More new accounts blaming Democrats crop up all the time
If you're going to use AI to write your posts, work on your prompting
RE: @ubernostrum@infosec.exchange
It probably would take a few tokens more than that, but they're not wrong. I've done it on the other side of it, convincing Claude Code that I'm using my security superpowers for good. Eventually, it becomes a helpful collaborator.
This is a good article, but I would argue that the AI assistant is *predictably more* prone to social engineering than a human. Not that they don't serve a sole in customer service, but Human in the Loop is still a necessity.
A dam removal deal built on compromise is under threat. Will a hard-won truce between conservation and water users survive political theater?
Read more → https://grist.org/politics/brooke-rollins-potter-valley-project-california-dams/
A loophole lets neonic pesticides on nearly all U.S. corn go nearly unregulated. A beekeeper lost 85% of hives annually. But growing pressure for change is building.
When a 70-foot toxic geyser erupted, a quick-thinking witness and a farmer teamed up to block it from reaching the Pecos River.
Read more → https://grist.org/energy/70-foot-wastewater-geyser-reflects-new-mexicos-latest-oilfield-challenge/
After preparing dinner, everything smells like cilantro and I have no regrets
