Rory Landon Aronson

Working on @farmbotio

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@WassymBensaid Please add an option to make the assistant less verbose. I don't want "Awesome! I can definitely do that" type filler - I want to get back to my music or conversation with passengers ASAP. I would much prefer affirmation and rejection chimes along with brief on-screen text.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Even if you are tired of seeing these plots, you want to see this.

WindWaterSolar breaks two more records on May 16, supplying 80.75% of 24-hour demand and >100% of demand for 10.25 hours on the @CaliforniaISO grid

Fossil gas also drops to yet another record low of meeting only 2.54% of demand (12.47 GWh)

Counting imports (57% WWS), WWS met 86.8% of 24-h demand.

Gas down 61%, solar up 60%, wind up 9.4%, and batteries up 326% in '26 v '23

46 straight and 112 of 136 days of > 100%

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@alex_avoigt Is it a big deal to stop and charge? Not usually. But would I pay more for more range? Yes. Because I want the optionality to occasionally stop for food/bathroom where there aren't chargers, or to save some time getting home after a day on the slopes. More options = consumers win

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@alex_avoigt I agree most ppl will not regularly make use of large batteries, but a lot of people would, more often than you'd think. I regularly go on trips that are 250 miles one way. I can rarely charge at my destination. It would be great if I could go both ways and charge back up at home

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@CAgovernor Thank you!! And keep accelerating!! Let's see:
⚡ L2 chargers in every new parking lot
💵 Expanded instant rebates for EVs, e-bikes, home solar and battery, heat pumps
📃 Fastracked and free permitting for all green energy projects
⛽ Scaled DMV registration fees based on mpg

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@TechTekedra Congratulations! What an epic accomplishment across technology, regulatory approval, societal trust, and data transparency. Pedal to the metal on scaling! Fun to think of how low the crash rate can go when the majority of vehicles on the road are autonomous 😃

[Waymo @Waymo]

Our new safety data is in 📈

Over 170M miles through Dec 2025, the Waymo Driver was involved in 13x fewer serious injury or worse crashes than human drivers in those same cities.

At our current scale, that means preventing a serious injury crash every 8 days—a real, positive impact on road safety.

Learn more: https://t.co/ByLqcu0J58

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@SecWar The real solution is Congressional lawmaking that fortifies the 4th amendment against AI surveillance, as well as additional safeguards against fully autonomous weaponry. But I just don't see that happening until the balance of power shifts. Troubling times :(

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@SecWar I sincerely hope in moments like this Dario is able to call up Demis, Sam, and others, and have a sober conversation - competition aside - about whether or not the industry will stand united against these demands. The right choice is obvious, but industry cooperation is necessary

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@soumithchintala The big labs should create a consortium where they each contribute safety protocols and agree on what is an acceptable 'passing grade' for a model to be publicly released. In the absence of real regulation, they should all play by the same agreed upon rules. Put the egos aside.

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today.

Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025.

Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon.

Now here's what you're "saving":

Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity.

Coal costs $69–$169/MWh.
Wind costs $27–$53/MWh.
Solar costs $38–$78/MWh.

99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind.

That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room.

And the human cost of what you're "saving"?

460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023)

All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.

[Riley Coyote @RileyRalmuto]

holy sh*t. this is hands down the coolest website i have ever found in my life. it's a live feed of the freaking Hubble Telescope AND James Webb Space Telescope. and the resolution is honestly so incredible i didn't think it was real.

unbelievable.

https://t.co/YQNsG9TVwe

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@elonmusk @paulg Man, just stfu. I used to look up to you. Incredible engineer and entrepreneur, passionate about sustainable energy, badass cars and rockets, truly visionary, just inspiring... Now I can't even recognize you as anything more than a sick person who's lost their soul. It saddens me

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@BlanquistB @Afinetheorem Moot point. Basically all consumers across political/religious/IQ/whatever spectrum just want the lowest price. The economics of scaled renewables will win in the end.

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

This is short, readable, and great. Most interesting: solar costs falling so much as are batteries that "warm sunny places" can just overbuild the solar. Residential spikes for a/c? No prob: sun is shining & strong! Energy mix is a bit harder for cold places but there are options

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@escapefrommelos @nikitabier You'd still be free to post whatever. But low quality engagement bait that is just a straight up falsehood (and clearly not trying to be ironic either) is 👎👎 and shouldn't have an economic incentive imo. Actual jokes on here don't get noted

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@JoeTegtmeyer @niccruzpatane I'm rooting for Tesla, but waving away the need for comprehensive data transparency because it's 'the other guy's talking point to create fear around Tesla' is irrational. Waymo is doing the right thing from a policy standpoint and I hope Tesla follows.

[Rory Landon Aronson @roryaronson]

@JoeTegtmeyer @niccruzpatane Random videos (that look amazing) from influencers is not enough, and neither is Tesla's quarterly Autopilot crash numbers because that's predominantly highway miles. The numbers should speak for themselves when the tech is delivering, like they do for Waymo.