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@nytimes @johnnydiaz__
Who is this person?
Who is this person?
Is @nytimes trying to tell us that the subject is a white man?
I routinely apply my own lived experience when legacy media @StarTribune @deenafaywinter fail to mention basic demographic information.
I routinely apply my own lived experience when legacy media @StarTribune @deenafaywinter fail to mention basic demographic information.
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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (13 April - 19 April 2026):
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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (13 April - 19 April 2026):
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EU approved €5B for climate projects in Germany and Czechia, funding peatland restoration for CDR, biomethane, and clean energy.
esgtoday.com/eu-approves-e5…
Exomad Green and Supercritical signed a 500,000t biochar CDR deal.
esgtoday.com/exomad-green-s…
Novocarbo secured a long-term CDR deal & renewable heat agreement with Stadtwerke Dessau.
mynewsdesk.com/de/novocarbo/p…
Mast Reforestation sold out MT1 biomass burial credits with major buyers like Bain and BMO.
finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy…
U.S. DOE reinstated up to $1.2B for carbon removal projects, including two DAC hubs targeting 2Mt CO₂/year.
reuters.com/legal/litigati…
MAX Burgers purchased 1,000-year biocarbon storage credits from Sweden’s first certified project.
max.se/om-max/pressru…
Mangrove Systems acquired Grain Ecosystem assets to expand its biochar MRV platform.
esgnews.com/mangrove-syste…
Google launched a California wetland restoration project as a CO₂ removal “living lab.”
blog.google/company-news/o…
Maryland passed legislation supporting biomass-based CDR technologies.
qcintel.com/carbon/article…
Climate Vault added Cowboy Clean Fuels’ Wyoming project to its CDR portfolio.
carboncapturemagazine.com/articles/clima…
@BeZeroCarbon expanded into Japan with Tokyo Metropolitan Government support.
bezerocarbon.com/insights/bezer…
CHAR Technologies acquired a Québec biocarbon facility and secured long-term offtake.
biochartoday.com/news/char-tech…
Deloitte launched an EU survey to design a carbon farming Buyers’ Club under CRCF. Deadline: 26 May 2026
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runne…
EPA issued a second-ever MPRSA permit for a mCDR pilot in Louisiana.
carbonherald.com/the-us-epa-iss…
Remove Accelerator selected 12 startups for Africa Carbon Removal Cohort 2.
linkedin.com/posts/remove-a…
Microsoft denied ending CDR purchases, citing only a slower, disciplined buying pace.
spglobal.com/energy/en/news…
Switzerland reported industrial CDR in its national GHG inventory for the first time.
bafu.admin.ch/en/latest-ghg-…
@cdr_fyi has released a market snapshot comparing Microsoft’s activity with Frontier-linked and other buyers.
cdr.fyi/blog/durable-c…
Carbon to Sea opened applications for an ocean alkalinity enhancement modeling workshop. Applications close 24 April 2026
carbontosea.org/2026/04/13/oae…
Carbon Removall launched its 2026 RFP for carbon removal projects. Deadline: 29 May 2026
…vall-carbon-25821996.hs-sites-eu1.com/removall-2026-…
@carbon_180 released CORE framework for equitable and transparent CDR.
carbon180.org/initiative/cor…
EU published guidance for cities on using CDR strategies.
op.europa.eu/en/publication…
European Marine Board report highlighted major MRV gaps in marine CDR standards.
marineboard.eu/publications/M…
esgtoday.com/eu-approves-e5…
Exomad Green and Supercritical signed a 500,000t biochar CDR deal.
esgtoday.com/exomad-green-s…
Novocarbo secured a long-term CDR deal & renewable heat agreement with Stadtwerke Dessau.
mynewsdesk.com/de/novocarbo/p…
Mast Reforestation sold out MT1 biomass burial credits with major buyers like Bain and BMO.
finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy…
U.S. DOE reinstated up to $1.2B for carbon removal projects, including two DAC hubs targeting 2Mt CO₂/year.
reuters.com/legal/litigati…
MAX Burgers purchased 1,000-year biocarbon storage credits from Sweden’s first certified project.
max.se/om-max/pressru…
Mangrove Systems acquired Grain Ecosystem assets to expand its biochar MRV platform.
esgnews.com/mangrove-syste…
Google launched a California wetland restoration project as a CO₂ removal “living lab.”
blog.google/company-news/o…
Maryland passed legislation supporting biomass-based CDR technologies.
qcintel.com/carbon/article…
Climate Vault added Cowboy Clean Fuels’ Wyoming project to its CDR portfolio.
carboncapturemagazine.com/articles/clima…
@BeZeroCarbon expanded into Japan with Tokyo Metropolitan Government support.
bezerocarbon.com/insights/bezer…
CHAR Technologies acquired a Québec biocarbon facility and secured long-term offtake.
biochartoday.com/news/char-tech…
Deloitte launched an EU survey to design a carbon farming Buyers’ Club under CRCF. Deadline: 26 May 2026
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runne…
EPA issued a second-ever MPRSA permit for a mCDR pilot in Louisiana.
carbonherald.com/the-us-epa-iss…
Remove Accelerator selected 12 startups for Africa Carbon Removal Cohort 2.
linkedin.com/posts/remove-a…
Microsoft denied ending CDR purchases, citing only a slower, disciplined buying pace.
spglobal.com/energy/en/news…
Switzerland reported industrial CDR in its national GHG inventory for the first time.
bafu.admin.ch/en/latest-ghg-…
@cdr_fyi has released a market snapshot comparing Microsoft’s activity with Frontier-linked and other buyers.
cdr.fyi/blog/durable-c…
Carbon to Sea opened applications for an ocean alkalinity enhancement modeling workshop. Applications close 24 April 2026
carbontosea.org/2026/04/13/oae…
Carbon Removall launched its 2026 RFP for carbon removal projects. Deadline: 29 May 2026
…vall-carbon-25821996.hs-sites-eu1.com/removall-2026-…
@carbon_180 released CORE framework for equitable and transparent CDR.
carbon180.org/initiative/cor…
EU published guidance for cities on using CDR strategies.
op.europa.eu/en/publication…
European Marine Board report highlighted major MRV gaps in marine CDR standards.
marineboard.eu/publications/M…
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This is a great read on how Jared Kushner, Affinity Saudi and Epstein connect to the mess of the current war. Re: a $2 billion commitment to Affinity Partners and MBS did an override of his own screening panel to invest $2 billion with a fund his own advisors called “unsatisfactory in all aspects”.
@andrewlownie @StuartSyvret @jebrittan2 @JoannaColes @MichaelWolffNYC
@andrewlownie @StuartSyvret @jebrittan2 @JoannaColes @MichaelWolffNYC
Pay attention to the many names of various corporate entities it could be mixed up with if people simply hear the word “Affinity.”
In Canada we saw a lot of oil companies forming with names resembling Hollywood production companies including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources & Pixar Petroleum, MGM Energy and Paramount Resources Ltd. theglobeandmail.com/business/indus…
Ruining Braunstein
I'm here to Ruin your Braunstein. By which I mean that I am going to attempt to connect the newest old thing in D&D with my favorite contemporary fantasy series.
I'm here to Ruin your Braunstein. By which I mean that I am going to attempt to connect the newest old thing in D&D with my favorite contemporary fantasy series.
I started drafting this essay nearly a year ago, but the recent Kickstarter for Jeffro Johnson's Winning Secrets gave me the impetus I needed to complete it.
The newest old thing is the Braunstein. The true impact of David Wesely's Braunstein was re-discovered by Griffith Morgan in the documentary Secrets of Blackmoor.
@MeSuespeaking @RealJMPeterman @MayorFrey @Tim_Walz @IlhanMN @MinnesotaDFL Understood.
Sadly, if institutions such as @HennepinAtty choose to ignore clear wrongdoing in videotape, some citizens may choose to take the law into their own hands, which would be wrong.
Government must do its job even if Somalis violate the law. share.google/NY4JT3tQ2omyvt…
Sadly, if institutions such as @HennepinAtty choose to ignore clear wrongdoing in videotape, some citizens may choose to take the law into their own hands, which would be wrong.
Government must do its job even if Somalis violate the law. share.google/NY4JT3tQ2omyvt…
@MeSuespeaking @RealJMPeterman @MayorFrey @Tim_Walz @IlhanMN @MinnesotaDFL @HennepinAtty share.google/AzxAWZZYiJjGQ7…
@MeSuespeaking @RealJMPeterman @MayorFrey @Tim_Walz @IlhanMN @MinnesotaDFL @HennepinAtty @threadreaderapp please unroll
Prime Minister Netanyahu‘s Remarks on the Proclamation of the Isaac Accords:
“I mentioned the United States, Israel & Argentina, but there are others who champion freedom. We see this with some hope, even great hope vis-à-vis the Latin American continent.
“I mentioned the United States, Israel & Argentina, but there are others who champion freedom. We see this with some hope, even great hope vis-à-vis the Latin American continent.
We see the beginnings of change, certainly we've seen enormous change in Argentina but I think that this is also a compass and a map for other countries, not only for their internal reforms but also for their external reforms, that is coming back to the alliance of freedom.
It begins with the two of us and with the support that is always there of the United States for free societies.
So, I hope very much that just as we had the model of the Abraham Accords here for countries in the region interested in advancing peace, and prosperity and security
So, I hope very much that just as we had the model of the Abraham Accords here for countries in the region interested in advancing peace, and prosperity and security
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
"This is the third visit of my friend, my chaver, Javier @JMilei, in Jerusalem. But he's not merely a personal friend and someone who I deeply admire as a great leader, a great economic leader and a great world leader.
gov.il/en/pages/event…
"This is the third visit of my friend, my chaver, Javier @JMilei, in Jerusalem. But he's not merely a personal friend and someone who I deeply admire as a great leader, a great economic leader and a great world leader.
gov.il/en/pages/event…
This is the first time in Israel's history, in 78 years, that we award a foreign leader with the honor of lighting a torch on our Independence Day. It's never happened before, and it's right and just that it happens now with Javier Milei. Congratulations!
Under your leadership, Argentina has spoken with moral clarity. This is the foundation of leadership. Politics always involves compromises, but if you only compromise, or if you mostly compromise and you don't stand up for the things you believe are right
Optical fiber is another huge constraint in AI DC expansion. YOFC is the mkt leader here, while Corning is the biggest player in US mkt.
in Q1, China's sales here grew 35% YoY w/ oversea orders growing by 55% YoY. Demand is very high to North America & Southeast Asia. Suppliers fully booked until 2027Q1. Px for certain product up 650% YoY.
In fact, supply is not coming online as fast as demand requires. Some major suppliers increasing product in 2026 includes HengTeng & Far East Smarter Energy.
As AI DC go fully optical, demand for optical fiber grew exponentially. Note demand in SEA, where many American & Chinese big tech are building Data centers.
in Q1, China's sales here grew 35% YoY w/ oversea orders growing by 55% YoY. Demand is very high to North America & Southeast Asia. Suppliers fully booked until 2027Q1. Px for certain product up 650% YoY.
In fact, supply is not coming online as fast as demand requires. Some major suppliers increasing product in 2026 includes HengTeng & Far East Smarter Energy.
As AI DC go fully optical, demand for optical fiber grew exponentially. Note demand in SEA, where many American & Chinese big tech are building Data centers.
Note that Optical fiber is not the only part of optical supply chain in short supply.
Everything from OCS to FAU to EML chips to SiPo Chips to MT-FA are in demand. Also as described below, equipment makers need to expand. 40% are for coupling, 40% for pkg/assembly, 20% for SMT.
Everything from OCS to FAU to EML chips to SiPo Chips to MT-FA are in demand. Also as described below, equipment makers need to expand. 40% are for coupling, 40% for pkg/assembly, 20% for SMT.
The future of optical transceiver Photonic IC is moving away from InP to Thin-film Lithium Niobate. TFLN is ideal for 1.6T+ products over long distance.
As AI DC keeps getting larger & require faster interconnect, TFLN is best choice. Below is China's TFLN supply chain.
As AI DC keeps getting larger & require faster interconnect, TFLN is best choice. Below is China's TFLN supply chain.
Claude can now audit your entire career trajectory and negotiate your salary like a $500/hour executive recruiter. For free.
Here are 18 prompts to bypass HR gatekeepers, map your leverage, and add $30,000 to your base pay:
(Save this before it disappears)
Here are 18 prompts to bypass HR gatekeepers, map your leverage, and add $30,000 to your base pay:
(Save this before it disappears)
1. The Resume Decoder
Situation: You are sending out 100 applications a week and hearing absolutely nothing back. You assume your experience is not good enough. In reality, the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is silently rejecting you before a human ever sees your file because you do not match their arbitrary keyword matrix.
Prompt: "Act as an aggressive ATS filter. Review my resume against this job description [paste both]. Give me the exact 5 keywords I am missing. Rewrite my professional summary to force a 100% match, and tell me which bullet points are wasting space."
Why it works: You stop guessing what the algorithm wants. You feed it exactly what it requires to pass the mechanical filter, ensuring your resume actually reaches a human hiring manager.
Situation: You are sending out 100 applications a week and hearing absolutely nothing back. You assume your experience is not good enough. In reality, the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is silently rejecting you before a human ever sees your file because you do not match their arbitrary keyword matrix.
Prompt: "Act as an aggressive ATS filter. Review my resume against this job description [paste both]. Give me the exact 5 keywords I am missing. Rewrite my professional summary to force a 100% match, and tell me which bullet points are wasting space."
Why it works: You stop guessing what the algorithm wants. You feed it exactly what it requires to pass the mechanical filter, ensuring your resume actually reaches a human hiring manager.
2. The "Multiple Hats" Trap
Situation: You are reading a job description that sounds like three different roles compressed into one salary. They frame it as a "fast-paced environment" where you will "wear multiple hats." They are actually trying to hire a whole department for the price of one junior developer.
Prompt: "Analyze this job description. Identify which responsibilities clearly belong to a separate, specialized role. Give me 3 direct, uncomfortable questions to ask in the interview to expose if this team is severely understaffed and prone to burnout."
Why it works: You force the AI to spot the corporate red flags before you waste time interviewing for a burnout factory. You walk into the interview ready to interrogate their actual working conditions.
Situation: You are reading a job description that sounds like three different roles compressed into one salary. They frame it as a "fast-paced environment" where you will "wear multiple hats." They are actually trying to hire a whole department for the price of one junior developer.
Prompt: "Analyze this job description. Identify which responsibilities clearly belong to a separate, specialized role. Give me 3 direct, uncomfortable questions to ask in the interview to expose if this team is severely understaffed and prone to burnout."
Why it works: You force the AI to spot the corporate red flags before you waste time interviewing for a burnout factory. You walk into the interview ready to interrogate their actual working conditions.
A THREAD ON THE "BULGARIAN ORBAN" 🧵
Folks, Radev won't be the new Orban, please, read past the clickbait headlines! Here's why:
1) The math isn't mathing - he won't get a supermajority, he needs coalition partners.
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Folks, Radev won't be the new Orban, please, read past the clickbait headlines! Here's why:
1) The math isn't mathing - he won't get a supermajority, he needs coalition partners.
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2) Bulgaria's external constraints are harder than Hungary's were when Orban took over. Bulgaria joined the eurozone this January, it is in Schengen, NATO, and depends massively on EU cohesion funds. Radev has said he would not use Sofia's veto power to block EU decisions. No one runs from where the money is, and it ain't in Moscow.
3) Radev is a party machine of ONE: his political project has no institutional depth. He's at the peak of his personal brand with zero machine underneath him. Bulgarian political history is littered with exactly this pattern: NDSV (42.7% in 2001 → gone), GERB as a personal vehicle that peaked and now survives on inertia, ITN (first political force in July 2021, ~1% now). Personalist projects in Bulgaria have a half-life of one to two electoral cycles.
From the Jewish Wisdom of Saving Lives to the Beetle That Changed the World: Genius of Béla Barényi
What if the man who made every modern car a rolling fortress of safety was the same visionary who sketched the original Volkswagen Beetle… decades before Porsche and Hitler? ⬇️
What if the man who made every modern car a rolling fortress of safety was the same visionary who sketched the original Volkswagen Beetle… decades before Porsche and Hitler? ⬇️
⬇️ Meet Béla Barényi — the Hungarian-Austrian engineering legend whose ideas literally redefined how humanity survives a crash. ⬇️
⬇️ In 1925, at just 18 years old, Barényi drew a radical “people’s car” chassis: rear-engine, boxer motor, air-cooled, with the exact silhouette that would become the iconic Beetle. ⬇️
🧵Roots of Liberty
A Primer on the Natural Origins of Rights
The Great Divide: Inalienable Nature v Contractual Consent
At the heart of the American experiment lies a profound ontological distinction that determines whether a person remains a sovereign moral agent or is reduced to a managed subject. This is the divide between inalienable rights and contractual permissions. That term ‘ontological’ is of foundational significance because it remains the target for negation and usurpation by powerful interests vested in the subjugation of man through the negation of the ontological function of America’s Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Republican governance.
The non-negotiable ontological foundation of the American order is the recognition that rights are not products of human will or social negotiation, but ontological properties of the human person grounded in the reality of his or her endowed created nature. Modern ‘contractarian theories’ attempt to substitute the ground of rights from what a person is (which is inalienable) to what persons agree to (which is alienable). This substitution is sometimes concealed by a rhetorical ‘natural rights language’ used as a deceptive gloss. In operation however, once rights are moved to the realm of contract, they cease to be rights (inalienable) and become revocable permissions (alienable) administered by a system.
A Primer on the Natural Origins of Rights
The Great Divide: Inalienable Nature v Contractual Consent
At the heart of the American experiment lies a profound ontological distinction that determines whether a person remains a sovereign moral agent or is reduced to a managed subject. This is the divide between inalienable rights and contractual permissions. That term ‘ontological’ is of foundational significance because it remains the target for negation and usurpation by powerful interests vested in the subjugation of man through the negation of the ontological function of America’s Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Republican governance.
The non-negotiable ontological foundation of the American order is the recognition that rights are not products of human will or social negotiation, but ontological properties of the human person grounded in the reality of his or her endowed created nature. Modern ‘contractarian theories’ attempt to substitute the ground of rights from what a person is (which is inalienable) to what persons agree to (which is alienable). This substitution is sometimes concealed by a rhetorical ‘natural rights language’ used as a deceptive gloss. In operation however, once rights are moved to the realm of contract, they cease to be rights (inalienable) and become revocable permissions (alienable) administered by a system.
2/ Why is understanding & recognizing this distinction critical?
If we switch the ground of rights from ‘what a person is’ (inalienable) to ‘what persons agree to’ (alienable), so called ‘liberty’ becomes conditional upon compliance, which is not liberty at all - even though it is often experienced as consumer freedom. With that switch, authority is relocated from the individual to the system administrator; be it the State, a Corporation, or a Digital Platform. The individual is no longer sovereign; they are merely a service user within a managed environment.
If we switch the ground of rights from ‘what a person is’ (inalienable) to ‘what persons agree to’ (alienable), so called ‘liberty’ becomes conditional upon compliance, which is not liberty at all - even though it is often experienced as consumer freedom. With that switch, authority is relocated from the individual to the system administrator; be it the State, a Corporation, or a Digital Platform. The individual is no longer sovereign; they are merely a service user within a managed environment.
3/
The following statements were predicated upon a rigorous ontological understanding that sought to articulate the ‘constitution of man’ which was fundamental to Constitutional Republican governance:
John Adams on the Law of Nature
"The rights of the colonists as Christians… and as men… may be best understood by reading… the law of nature…"
(John Adams, Novanglus, 1775)
🔥Adams establishes that rights are discovered through the study of natural law rather than being invented through the mechanisms of a civil compact.
James Madison on the Nature of the Right
"The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man… This right is in its nature an unalienable right."
(James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785)
🔥Madison argues that unalienability is tied to the very ‘conviction and conscience’ (moral agency) of the individual; internal faculties that the mind cannot, by its very nature, coerce or surrender to a social agreement.
Samuel Adams on Natural Rights
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property…"
(Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, 1772)
🔥By categorizing life, liberty and property as ‘natural’, Adams places them outside the jurisdiction of contractual negotiation or legislative adjustment.
George Mason on Inherent Liberty
"That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights… namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property…"
(Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776)
🔥Mason asserts that freedom and the acquisition of property are inherent to human nature, existing as operational realities before the formation of any government (and/or corporation!)
The American Founders viewed did not view rights as political preferences. They deeply understood, upheld and defended them as observations of reality rooted in the ‘Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God’. This is why the article I wrote over 2 years ago for @corTheory had the title ‘The Constitution & Our Constitution; Symbiosis’ - precisely because the architecture of Constitutional Republican governance is ontological (not political and not ideological) in nature, in purpose and in operation.
The following statements were predicated upon a rigorous ontological understanding that sought to articulate the ‘constitution of man’ which was fundamental to Constitutional Republican governance:
John Adams on the Law of Nature
"The rights of the colonists as Christians… and as men… may be best understood by reading… the law of nature…"
(John Adams, Novanglus, 1775)
🔥Adams establishes that rights are discovered through the study of natural law rather than being invented through the mechanisms of a civil compact.
James Madison on the Nature of the Right
"The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man… This right is in its nature an unalienable right."
(James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785)
🔥Madison argues that unalienability is tied to the very ‘conviction and conscience’ (moral agency) of the individual; internal faculties that the mind cannot, by its very nature, coerce or surrender to a social agreement.
Samuel Adams on Natural Rights
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property…"
(Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, 1772)
🔥By categorizing life, liberty and property as ‘natural’, Adams places them outside the jurisdiction of contractual negotiation or legislative adjustment.
George Mason on Inherent Liberty
"That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights… namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property…"
(Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776)
🔥Mason asserts that freedom and the acquisition of property are inherent to human nature, existing as operational realities before the formation of any government (and/or corporation!)
The American Founders viewed did not view rights as political preferences. They deeply understood, upheld and defended them as observations of reality rooted in the ‘Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God’. This is why the article I wrote over 2 years ago for @corTheory had the title ‘The Constitution & Our Constitution; Symbiosis’ - precisely because the architecture of Constitutional Republican governance is ontological (not political and not ideological) in nature, in purpose and in operation.
