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[Radio Reuben @RubyGold]

They will do whatever they want

There will be no repercussions

And the critical thing to understand I think is

They Don’t Give A Fuck

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇿🇦 Hundreds flee as South Africa anti-migrant mobs go door-to-door

Hundreds of foreigners fearing for their lives have taken shelter in community halls on South Africa's south coast, saying mobs of locals were going door-to-door telling them to leave the country.

[Radio Reuben @RubyGold]

Where are you Americans?

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Can we clap for the Albanians please? Over 100,000 of them took to the streets, shut down the capital protesting Maga Jared Kushner & Maga Ivanka Trump. Protecting their sacred lands from these vampires

[tern @1goodtern]

Covid infections affect your ability to fight other infections.

That's obvious to anyone who's actually looking.

[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...

[tern @1goodtern]

America is descending back into weird scienceless darkness.

[Radio Reuben @RubyGold]

🐓 🐓🐓🐓🍗

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

It's official.

MicroStrategy, $MSTR, is now facing its biggest unrealized loss in history, at -$10.8 billion.

In other words, after 6 years of buying Bitcoin, the company is now down -17% on its position.

By comparison, the S&P 500 is up +116% over this same timeframe.

Since MicroStrategy sold 32 Bitcoin at $77,135 per coin, their positions has lost -$11.8 billion in value.

This puts MicroStrategy's stock, $MSTR, down -77% since its record high.

Bear market is an understatement.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

He wanted to look tough. He posted a painting of himself surrounded by oiled-up shirtless men in tiny shorts waving pompoms. Safe to say this did not land quite the way he intended.

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The people of Albania are not messing around and are not going to allow their country to be sold off to Israel, Ivanka Trump, or Jared Kushner. This is what class consciousness looks like, and it is a beautiful thing!

[Parks Tau @TauParks]

[ALERT]🚨

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

Concise map showing typical El Niño wet/dry preciptation patterns from @climatehazards

https://t.co/4uNaPOFzrs

[tern @1goodtern]

Ok.
I've read "The Painful Truth About Long Covid" six times through, and I'm ready.

Here are ten clues in the article that point to the writer's bad faith.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

I pointed out last night that we would have to wait for confirmation on the ground when the sun came up to see if CENTCOM was telling the truth about knocking down every Iranian missile in Kuwait. This is why nobody can take *anything* we say at face value.

It’s both shameful and disheartening.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

BRUTAL indictment of @bariweiss by Scott Pelley:
"For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified." Then it gets worse...

[Jeremy Kaplowitz @jeremysmiles]

what is going on

[Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @KrutikaKuppalli]

This is the kind of soft power the U.S. once excelled at.

When I lived in Uganda nearly a decade ago, I watched China steadily expand its presence through investments in infrastructure and development.

It’s no surprise to see China playing a larger role today and embedding in the #Ebola response.

These are areas where the U.S. once led, building trust, partnerships, and global health influence through sustained engagement and programs like @USAID

[tern @1goodtern]

The USA is now the enemy of Europe.

Read that three or four times if it hasn't already sunk in.

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

“The science is clear: El Niño is arriving on our doorstep in the coming months with 90% certainty. The world must treat it as the urgent climate warning it is.” — @antonioguterres

UN urges countries to strengthen early warning systems.

https://t.co/QEN3ChHpgS

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

lol literally the moment I started to shake off the hasbara propaganda I grew up brainwashed by was taking a South African history class in college. The class never mentioned Israel once — but I couldn’t help noticing that nearly every one of the justifications and origin myths that propped up Afrikaner rule almost precisely paralleled the justifications and origin myths I’d been taught about Israel.