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More Countries Are Factoring Fairness Into the Clean Energy Transition - Inside Climate News

insideclimatenews.org/news/28072026/fairness-in-clean-energy-transitions/

Countries around the globe are proving that cutting greenhouse gas emissions doesn’t have to come at the expense of vulnerable communities, workers, Indigenous peoples or ecosystems.

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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/10/harry-potter-fans-force-relocation-of-430m-undersea-cable-to-avoid-dobbys-grave?CMP=bsky_gu

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

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Vibe-Coded Flattery

tedium.co/2026/08/09/vibe-coding-insincerity/

A botched app release highlights a problem I’ve been seeing with a glut of new, vibe-coded projects in my inbox.

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By day five of my labour, I didn’t want an ‘ideal birth’. I only wanted to survive

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/06/labour-ideal-birth-women-yvette-cooper-maternity-reforms?CMP=share_btn_url

Yvette Cooper’s maternity reforms must change a system that too often fails women when they’re at their most vulnerable, says journalist and author Natalie Morris

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The data center fight in Kentucky is about democracy

kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/10/the-data-center-fight-in-kentucky-is-about-democracy/

When the trickle of interest in data centers became a flood, and when the proposals swelled from small data centers to massive hyperscale complexes, concerned Kentuckians began speaking out.

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Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/09/zuckerberg-superyacht-boat-alaska

Small cruise ship rescued skiff in south-east Alaska even though Meta billionaire’s $300m megayacht was closer

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A California Program Is Bringing Down the Cost of Heat Pumps by Buying Bulk

wired.com/story/california-group-buy-bringing-down-heat-pump-costs/

The approach is like a Costco for heat pumps, and it’s helping make installations more accessible as heat waves worsen.

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The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

wired.com/story/the-ai-slop-backlash-is-actually-having-an-impact/

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

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Heat Is Killing Texas Prisoners, and State Leaders Won’t Shell Out for AC

motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/heat-stroke-death-texas-prisons-air-conditioning-bills/

The system for choosing who gets a “cool bed" is “arbitrary, inadequate, and ineffective,” a judge ruled.

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Balkanize The Video Game Industry

aftermath.site/podcasts/aftermath-hours-podcast-ea-saudi-arabia-rami-ismail/

"I want this industry to just shatter into a million beautiful shards that all have their own heroes, their own things, their own structures, their own funding methods"

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Dark Ages

sevencrowsgames.itch.io/dark-ages

A post-apocalyptic, historical fantasy game of personal ambition, community strife, rights claimed and rights denied.

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A note on the necessity of a sex scene

patreon.com/elabambust/posts/anatomy-of-fuck-144773968?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

In my view all sex is cringe B) Thank you for reading if you want to support me you c- oh FINE. This is going to get, uh, explicit. I’m gon

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This Simple White Line Is America’s Greatest Unsung Innovation

wsj.com/business/white-line-road-invention-america-250-8ce6bb89?st=A3gRgp&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

You know about the lightbulb and the iPhone. This is the unknown story of another ingenious creation that changed a nation.

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Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta Magazine

quantamagazine.org/why-am-i-left-handed-20260713/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

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RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History’s Biggest Killers

defector.com/rfk-jr-is-making-his-bid-to-become-one-of-american-historys-biggest-killers

True to the spirit of America, the most catastrophic thing to happen at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month was not the attempted mass shooting in Atlanta of the agency’s public health workers, but rather the sudden firing of its newly sworn-in director, Susan Monarez, because of her belief in science, which […]

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We’re Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True

defector.com/were-just-going-to-keep-doing-2020-again-until-all-the-wrong-stuff-is-true

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there is just not a lot to hang your hat on. It was, in the manner of every single thing befouled by…

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Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window

tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-secretly-circumvents-community-vote-for-massive-ai-data-center-45-year-old-rules-lock-gilroy-residents-out-of-public-comment-window

Surprise, it's a data center!

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MacKenzie Scott Steps Back Into Spotlight With New Book

nytimes.com/2026/08/08/business/mackenzie-scott-new-book.html?smid=bsky-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Ms. Scott, the former wife of Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, announced Saturday that she had written a new novel, her first book since 2013.

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Millennial Cringe

patreon.com/posts/164275916?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=android_share

A large part — maybe even the majority — of my generation has nothing to say and no culture of our own. And that part includes many artists,

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Arizona man uses truck to bend flock camera in Apache Junction

fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-man-uses-truck-bend-flock-camera-apache-junction

A Pinal County man used his work truck to bend a license plate-reader camera in Apache Junction over privacy concerns.

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ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change

mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/abc-cbs-and-nbc-aired-nearly-200-segments-about-three-us-heat-events-without

From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ABC, CBS, and NBC closely tracked the extreme heat as it moved across the country, repeatedly reporting threatened or broken records and warning viewers about dangerous conditions.What the networks did not explain was why these events kept arriving in rapid succession. Instead, viewers saw extensive reporting on dangerous and record-breaking heat without an explanation of how human-caused warming is making such extreme weather more frequent and severe.

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How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/09/us-wildfire-smoke-clean-air-clubs

Mutual aid groups that gave out PPEs in Covid are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities

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THE LAST QUIET THING

terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing/ascii

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

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PHANTOM OBLIGATION

terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation/ascii

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection

daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app.

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/planned-amazon-data-center-could-become-the-biggest-climate-polluter-in-the-u-s/

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate

currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record.

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The Watchdogs Are Barking Themselves Hoarse

theatlantic.com/politics/2026/08/trump-ethics-corruption-crypto-watchdogs/688187/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a78b219e029de000157f10a

Remember Housing Secretary Ben Carson's $31,000 dining set? Or Ivanka Trump's endorsement of Goya beans? The rush of ethics concerns this term has made the Trump administration's first-term scandals seem almost quaint, @rosesheinerman writes.

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America’s new oligarchy

ft.com/content/2472ef5a-798d-4e7b-b4be-020855cf387e?shareType=nongift

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