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[olive✨🚀 @olliwelsh]

Finally here! Motion Design 2024. #Houdini #C4D

[Ángela Perversa @AngelaPerversa]

Punk is not dead
1969-2026-♾️

[christina! @cronchybaguette]

thank you marjane

[bad travel takes @vigneshr4m]

people who liked m83 before midnight city versus people who liked m83 after midnight city

[olive✨🚀 @olliwelsh]

oh

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

The Odyssey's IMAX popcorn bucket is an IMAX camera.

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

We had eliminated measles and are about to lose our measles eradication status

We had eradicated screwworm but its making its way back

Keeping these scourges at bay requires active surveillance and action

[olive✨🚀 @olliwelsh]

That's.... that's a heatpump...

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

The French hate air conditioning.

So Paris built a 120-kilometre machine under its streets for producing cold.

It’s called Fraîcheur de Paris, and it does for summer heat what district heating did for winter: centralise the problem.

Instead of every museum, office, hotel, hospital and shop bolting its own cooling plant onto the building, Paris moves cold through pipes.

The network sends water chilled to 2 to 4°C through buried supply lines. The water enters a connected building, absorbs heat through an exchange station, then returns at 12 to 14°C to be cooled again.

It essentially functions with two pipes. One carries the cold out, the other carries heat back.

The production plants cool the circuit from 12°C to 4°C. Some sites use the Seine as a heat sink. In colder periods, the system can use the river’s own temperature for free cooling, which means the machines work less and the electricity demand drops. The Seine water doesn’t become the building water. It stays separate, passing temperature across heat exchangers.

The scale is pretty strange when you see it written down though.

It's got 15 production sites, 4 storage sites, 120 km of underground network with 924 subscribers. This has resulted in 7 million square metres cooled, and 493 GWh of cooling sold.

A cold utility running beneath one of the densest cities in Europe.

The Forum des Halles has been cooled this way since 1979. The Louvre since 1986. Galeries Lafayette, Opéra Garnier, Hôtel de Ville, Station F, La Samaritaine and the National Assembly all sit on the same idea. Tourists stand in the Louvre looking at paintings while a municipal cold loop does part of the dull work below ground.

The boring part is the breakthrough.

Cold can be stored at night in chilled water or ice, then used during daytime peaks. The network is monitored from a control room with more than 125,000 control points. A delivery station inside a building takes 5 to 7 times less space than a standalone cooling installation and avoids the roof and façade clutter that turns cities into compressor farms.

That matters because conventional air conditioning solves heat by moving it somewhere nearby. In a dense city, thousands of private machines mean thousands of outdoor units rejecting heat into streets, courtyards and roofs, plus refrigerants, noise, vibration and maintenance spread across every building.

Paris’s public cooling network has a stated coefficient of performance of 4, against 3 for a wet standalone system and 2 for a dry standalone system. Against an equivalent set of autonomous installations, Fraîcheur de Paris says the network gives 100% higher energy efficiency, 35% less electricity use, 90% fewer refrigerant-fluid emissions and 50% lower CO2 emissions.

The climate backdrop is the real reason this exists.

Paris ran a full crisis exercise called “Paris at 50°C” in 2023. Météo-France’s 2050 reference trajectory for France points to heatwave days becoming five times more frequent, hot nights rising sharply in urban centres, and some local extremes around 48°C becoming possible.

The city signed a 20-year concession in 2022 with Fraîcheur de Paris, owned 85% by ENGIE and 15% by RATP. The contract is worth a projected €2.4 billion. The plan is to extend the network by 158 km by 2042, add 20 production plants and 10 storage sites, and reach more than 3,000 subscribers, including hospitals, nurseries, schools and care homes.

This is basically the infrastructure version of admitting that summer is becoming a public systems problem...

[Rick von Hagn 🗽 @r_vonhagn]

Conservatives will work themselves into the most conspiratorially paranoid frenzy over the spread of ticks and alpha-gal, but will cheer and clap-on budget cuts that actually do threaten their ability to consume beef through the spread of parasites.

[Haala ⚢ @haalaphrodyke]

The fact that a superhero director is showing more artistic integrity in the face of tech bros trying to colonize our artform should be a permanent blight on Scorsese's career until he works to undo that harm

[Harry Nordlinger (New Account) @NewNordlinger]

I made a comic about this

[olive✨🚀 @olliwelsh]

@Srirachachau I keep thinking I'm going to move back to California but... ugh man...

[olive✨🚀 @olliwelsh]

WHAT

[olive✨🚀 @olliwelsh]

@NickZararis I can't help but quote that monologue every other day

[Nick @NickZararis]

Network (1976) is one of the great films of all time. Prescient beyond belief

[olive✨🚀 @olliwelsh]

@ChazakielDoremi AI and Terminal are weak but the rest??? man...

[brian @brianonhere]

zoomer coworker was describing their weekend in chicago having never seen the video…. imagine my delight….

[Barry Hertz @HertzBarry]

Possibly the most anti-art statement to so far be uttered from the relentlessly impatient, and thus intellectually infantile, pro-AI crowd. Time is not the enemy of film — it is the key.

[olive✨🚀 @olliwelsh]

@MyNameIsK117 happy pride goddamn

[Ian McMillan, CMT @the_chart_life]

Listen, I’m a big “the index is the index” guy, but they are openly looting the coffers.

This is 100% fraud.