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This giant floating ball is creating cheap, clean unlimited energy just by bobbing in the ocean! And how it works makes a lot of sense! It's called Ocean 2, a prototype that's now live and generating power, developed by the Portland-based team at Panthalassa. As the ball bobs in the waves, water is forced up through a tube beneath the surface and into the sphere. That water then drains back out, spinning turbines and producing electricity. The simple and uninvasive design means that these devices could be built and deployed in deep open oceans quickly and affordably without harming marine ecosystems. And because they don’t have to be close to shore like other renewables, the potential to harness the open ocean’s power is huge! #GoodNews #cleanenergy #waves

In this July 24, 2025 exchange, Trump is fact-checked in real time by Fed Chair Jerome Powell over the cost of a Federal building project, a dispute that is now at the center of a DOJ criminal investigation into Powell.

How every Craigslist category gave birth to the internet products and services we know today. #craigslist #internethistory

Theory of the Firm. This is how private equity is creating market power in industries that used to not have market power. We are getting oligopoly type outcomes, then perfectly competitive outcomes. Which means the world of finance is killing capitalism.

Two in three pets are euthanized because their owner cannot afford to pay for medical care. This is almost exclusively connected to private equity purchasing veterinary practices across the country.

The problem isn’t the Dietary Guidelines. The problem is that over 90% of Americans don’t follow them because the systems that surround us make it hard to. Because: -Our food system is built for corporate profit, not people’s health. -Healthy food is often more expensive, harder to access, and aggressively out-marketed. -We underfund school meals, nutrition education, and public health programs. -And structural barriers, like poverty, time, and lack of support, make it hard for people to turn guidance into action. Meanwhile, our agricultural system prioritizes profit over nutrition. We subsidize corn, wheat, and soy, the backbone of ultra-processed foods, while fruits and vegetables get a fraction of the support. And the USDA’s current policy proposals only reinforce that same system. So no, the answer isn’t pretending the guidelines are broken. And it’s definitely not blaming a food pyramid that hasn’t been used in 20 years and that no one followed at the time anyway. The answer is building a food system that makes following those guidelines actually possible. Let’s start talking about that. Because we deserve better than staged “solutions” and fake fixes from leaders who want to manipulate our genuine concern for their own power, control, and political gain.

That’s why we still have data. We can even trust but pretty soon. We won’t even have that.

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