A powerful and eloquent Op Ed by the the Anthropocene Institute's Guido Núñez-Mujica about how California should follow the global pro-nuclear tide and repeal its nuclear moratorium. Article link in reply.

CA will get on board or lose out, on economic benefits and leadership opportunities. It will only sort of be a "climate leader."

Despite huge solar and wind efforts, CA has not decarbonized its power sector much, b/c it used solar and wind to replace other carbon-free sources like nuclear. It still gets over 40% of its power from gas. A true climate leader would use renewables to replace fossil fueled generation instead.

#Nuclear #OpEd

https://capitolweekly.net/california-is-asleep-at-the-wheel-on-nuclear/

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"From the perspective of soothing the conscience, this is a mighty thing – for those in Paris, London and Ottawa. It does not save a single life on the ground in #gaza or the #westbank, provide a single meal for a starving family, or rebuild a single destroyed school. But President Emmanuel Macron, and Prime Ministers Sir Keir Starmer and Mark Carney can all commune as a triumvirate of principled statesmen."

- Dr Binoy Kampmark for MEMO

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250802-diplomatic-merchandise-exploiting-the-issue-of-palestinian-recognition/

“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that #InnovativeTechnology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial #spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative #AItools.

As the #Canadian #technologist and #engineer #UrsulaFranklin once said, fantasies of technology would have it that innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. But more often than not, in the real world, it is “#NeedsDriven, #scrappy, on #location, #iterative, #practical, #mundane”.

The real pioneering #technologies of today are genuinely useful #systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose #TopDown “#solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely #innovative #technology really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage

#OpEd / #EleanorDrage / #tech / #FrugalTech / #Cambridge #LeverhulmeCentre / #FutureOfIntelligence <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation>

Embedded video Activist Anas Habib, who padlocked the embassy in #TheHague tells MEE he acted due to Egypt's complicity in the Israeli #genocide

#palestine #eygpt

#middleeast #oped

Host/author Ava Warriner

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/if-egypt-free-gaza-will-be-free-says-activist-who-locked-cairo-embassy

“It would usually be at about this moment that readers would expect this typically #bearish column to issue a stern #warning about the dangers of this speculative dash for trash. But Goldman’s numbers don’t really support it. Over the past 35 years, these spikes in #speculative #trading activity have tended to result in above-average equity market returns over three, six, nine and 12 months. It’s on a two-year view that returns tend to falter.

“The recent rise in speculative trading activity signals near-term upside risk for the broad equity market but also increases the risk of an eventual downturn,” Goldman says.

In #Australia, the evidence is less clear; the history of reversals in momentum like we’ve seen is decidedly up and down, with no clear pattern that would predict how even the next three months go. That said, our market does tend to follow the broad trading patterns and direction of Wall Street.

All we can say is that #investors continue to *bet on absolutely everything going right* – and they’re betting on it in increasingly aggressive ways. History and the numbers do say the party can go on for a while to come, but this level of speculation could make the hangover nasty.”

#OpEd / #feast / #famine <https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/chanticleer-wall-st-global-short-squeeze-20250728-p5mi8d> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/08sG3>