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Absolutely incredible to see the clean-energy turnaround of Tri-State, the power generation co-op that only recently notorious for clinging to dirty sources. Thanks for the reporting, @coloradosun: coloradosun.com/2024/08/14/tri…

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After years of dings, coal-fired powerhouse Tri-State now noted for switch to solar, wind

Tri-State Generation after years of troubles is now winning applause for plans to switch faster to renewable energy.
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Dang nothing like a good tax credit to make co-ops finally act like co-ops
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Luis Villa
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customer-owned coops exist to provide their customers with cheap goods. So… afaict they were acting like a customer-owned coops the whole time?
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@luis_in_brief Ehhh, they had some pretty big "autonomy and independence" violations, locking their members into multi-decade contracts that prohibited them from doing more than 5% self (distributed) generation, to the point where members were suing to defect and do their own renewable development -- which was at that point lower cost. TSGT needed financing to get out from under their big past fossil capital investments.
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@luis_in_brief But the trick of securitizing existing assets with very low cost (state backed) debt to get them off the balance sheet doesn't work for co-ops, because they're already ~100% debt financed, sometimes with below market rates from the USDA, which means there's much less in the way of savings to be had from refinancing.
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@luis_in_brief They also did this thing where the CO PUC was going to maybe let the member co-ops exit without paying the termination tariffs, so Tri-State begged FERC to be their regulator instead, and FERC agreed, and came to a different conclusion than the CO PUC:

tristate.coop/dc-circuit-court…

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms FERC’s exclusive jurisdiction over Tri-State exit charges | Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc

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@luis_in_brief
In addition to the direct-pay tax-credits, the IRA provided a refinancing mechanism through the USDA that I think also played a big role in facilitating the early retirements:

rd.usda.gov/programs-services/…

Empowering Rural America New ERA Program

The Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program helps rural Americans transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy.
Rural Development
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@luis_in_brief It looks like they've applied for USDA New ERA funding in conjunction with their 2023 resource plan, but haven't heard back from the feds about it yet. They did get a $75M 0% interest loan from USDA though.

tristate.coop/tri-state-advanc…

Tri-State advances transformative electric resource plan with unopposed settlement filing | Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc

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Nathan Schneider
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Through all this I am grateful that member co-ops were putting TS's feet to the fire. Those were not easy moves.
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Grassroots Economic Organizing
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@luis_in_brief If the members decide they want the co-op to provide clean power, the leadership needs to work to make that happen. If the members want clean power generation and the leadership acts to subvert that desire, it is a failure of the cooperative structure, not it working as intended. Here's one example of co-op members taking (back) control of their electric co-op to rectify failures of this sort 👇

youtube.com/watch?v=KIJHRMCxbr…

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@GEO_Collective @luis_in_brief Absolutely. And the Tri-State story is very much one of member organizing, as well as inspired managerial leadership. I had the opportunity to report on part of this story—Delta Montrose, the first CO co-op to leave TS—in my book Everything for Everyone, and here: thenation.com/article/archive/…

Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op | The Nation

Is our energy grid a sleeping giant of collective ownership?
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Until Dawn remake arrives on PC October 4, requires PSN account gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/unti…

#UntilDawn #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck

Until Dawn remake arrives on PC October 4, requires PSN account

For those interested in the Until Dawn remake from Ballistic Moon and PlayStation Publishing LLC, it's set to arrive on October 4th.
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Vancha :mfrl:
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I wonder if they even notice such a thing in their sales. I don't think most people are interested in yet another launcher, even on windows, but there's not much anyone can do about it(legally) anyway.

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Mesa 24.2.0 released with a new shader cache implementation gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/mesa…

#Linux #Mesa #OpenSource

Mesa 24.2.0 released with a new shader cache implementation

Mesa 24.2.0 is out now bringing with it the usual advancements for open source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers on Linux.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Valve attempts to deal with jokes, memes and ASCII art reviews on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#Steam #Valve #PCGaming

Valve attempts to deal with jokes, memes and ASCII art reviews on Steam

I'm sure you've all seen some of the more playful user reviews on Steam, but they're not exactly helpful for figuring out if you want to buy a game and so Valve have a new "Helpfulness System" they're testing.
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NNM and NEM
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I wonder when Valve will take serius about XFS support on steam because with some games support of XFS is a mess !
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I wish they'd do something about the utterly hilarious "how to start game" guides. That's sarcasm btw. The first one was mildly amusing. The rest, not so much.

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Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.10 Beta 'Tenth time's the charm' fixes some real nuisances gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stea…

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Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.10 Beta 'Tenth time's the charm' fixes some real nuisances

Valve have released yet another Beta for the upcoming release of Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6, this time fixing some really annoying issues.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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On October 15-17, we are joining #SCCON24, the annual gathering of local governments, associations, and businesses. Join us at Hall 25, Booth 524!

📅 15 – 17 October, 2024
📍 Berlin, Germany

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Nextcloud will be present at the Smart Country Convention 2024 - Nextcloud

We are delighted to showcase and discuss our latest release, Nextcloud Hub 9, at our booth during the Smart Country Convention 2024.
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dancing cat
Oh yeah! I'm feelin' it!
#MoodoftheDay
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poster
New Zealand political poster. You could put this in Australia as well. Same sense of humour!
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The non-promise looks more reasonable with a giant tank of Downer (tm) in the background.

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Aba Panu Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hmuP9y

#meteorite

Aba Panu Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler. Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2hmuP9y

Aba Panu Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR

L3 Pathscan Enabler 5 GIMP Photomatix Pro
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"Comet Pons-Brooks Last Night on Earth - Dedicated to Alyn Wallace."

Andrea Girones, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#comet #astrophotography

"Comet Pons-Brooks Last Night on Earth - Dedicated to Alyn Wallace." Andrea Girones, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
#astrophotography #Comet

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Milkyway at night.

TreeLab Oleg Kuchurivsky, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Milkyway at night. TreeLab Oleg Kuchurivsky, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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black dog, white sheep
"Just hangin' with my buds!"
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Muse
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You can feel the tail trying to wag down there!

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Northwest Africa (NWA) 5205 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hqDfRa

#meteorite

Northwest Africa (NWA) 5205 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler. Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2hqDfRa

NWA 5205 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR

LL3.2 Pathscan Enabler 5 GIMP Photomatix Pro Zoomable panorama link coming soon!
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"Perseid Meteor Shower 2024 Highlights - Real Time 4K"

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#meteor

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"Milky Way setting over Lake Tyrrell, Vic."

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"Milky Way setting over Lake Tyrrell, Vic." patrickkavanagh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Aurora and Perseids."

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#meteor

"Aurora and perseids." Stephan Sprinz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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i think its dinnertime
example_burgers.py: 2D inviscid Burgers using Discontinuous Galerkin with upwind transport and slope limiter
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who up discontinuously galerkining their inviscid burgers

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P1R4CY

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it's really funny to see where python's abstractions start to break down because this is totally normal for a c programmer but if you showed it to a first year compsci student they might cry

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Surveillance Watch · an interactive map revealing th intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources & affiliations ..

👉🏻 surveillancewatch.io/

Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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The Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Humble Bundle has some killer games in it like Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/the-…

#RPG #Gaming #SteamDeck

The Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Humble Bundle has some killer games in it

The Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Humble Bundle has launched, and once again you've got a good deal to bag some quality games for cheaps.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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"If there’s ever a definition of a company that got too big — so big it basically owns and operates the web — then surely it’s Google."

US courts declared Google an illegal monopoly; Could this be a first win for our collective #digitalprivacy ?

techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/brea…


Breaking up Google would offer a chance to remodel the web | TechCrunch

Just for a minute, as we digest the information that Google has been found to operate an illegal monopoly, can you imagine a web without Google? An
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I think this article barely scatches the surface of the issue with Google. I recommend The YouTube Effect to see the problem with just YouTube, let alone wider Google. Android is a whole world of competition problems too.

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So let's say that we cultivate the most ethically minded CS graduates ever, and then they go off and work for [insert whatever tech company you find most objectionable] - then what? Will they know what to do? What CAN they do?

I've been asking myself this question for a while. Starting to tackle it... this new paper is a first step.

"'It’s Not Exactly Meant to Be Realistic': Student Perspectives on the Role of Ethics In Computing Group Projects" (ACM ICER, open access) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/363…

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Always nice to see this at the top of the charts!

Open Minds (Mindjack #1)

When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.

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#YA #dystopian #SF #Scifi #books @bookstodon

Best Sellers in Teen & Young Adult Dystopian eBooks Top 100 Free list At #2: Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn Open Minds (Mindjack Book 1) 3745 reviews Kindle Edition $0.00

Mindjack - SUSAN KAYE QUINN

Visit the post for more.
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USPOL, LA-Z-Boy

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re: USPOL, LA-Z-Boy
btw, the La-Z-Boy factory is in Kentucky. Which is why I thought there might be a connection.

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Soberanía de datos, racismo y control migratorio

#MigrarSinVigilancia

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Soberanía de datos, racismo y control migratorio

En este análisis Ulises A. Mejias sugiere que el concepto de raza sigue siendo un elemento clave en el ejercicio de la soberanía hi-tech en la frontera, reproduciendo injusticias coloniales y extractivas contra grupos cada vez más vulnerables en las …
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Valve’s bespoke Steam Deck OS will be officially available on Asus’ ROG Ally

When exactly that support will come is still anybody's guess, though.

arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/08…

Valve’s bespoke Steam Deck OS will be officially available on Asus’ ROG Ally

Ars Technica

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Two Point Museum announced from the devs of Two Point Hospital / Two Point Campus gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/two-…

#TwoPointMuseum #Gaming

Two Point Museum announced from the devs of Two Point Hospital / Two Point Campus

Two Point Studios are back with another quirky building and management sim. Following up on the successful releases of Two Point Hospital and Two Point Campus the next in the series is Two Point Museum.
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Go capture and breed some Frogs in the Mudborne demo, from the devs of beekeeping sim APICO gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/go-c…

#IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck

Go capture and breed some Frogs in the Mudborne demo, from the devs of beekeeping sim APICO

Developer ellraiser of TNgineers is back again with another wonderful casual exploration, discovery and breeding sim. While APICO had you do beekeeping, Mudborne has you breed all sorts of Frogs.
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Valve upgrades Steam Families and Game Recording in the latest Steam Beta gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#Steam #SteamDeck #PCGaming

Valve upgrades Steam Families and Game Recording in the latest Steam Beta

A fresh Steam Beta Client has been released for Desktop and Steam Deck, with a few fixes and upgrades and the change for Steam Families is especially nice.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Valve confirm plan to get Steam Deck's SteamOS on the ROG Ally and more handhelds gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#SteamOS #SteamDeck #ROGAlly

Valve confirm plan to get Steam Deck's SteamOS on the ROG Ally and more handhelds

We've known for a long time that Valve planned to get the newer SteamOS that's on the Steam Deck out for more systems, but they've been a bit quiet on it. Now, they've confirmed it's still the plan for the likes of the ROG Ally and other systems.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Steam store pages are about to get a lot cleaner, Valve puts an end to game advert spam gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stea…

#Steam #PCGaming #Valve

Steam store pages are about to get a lot cleaner, Valve puts an end to game advert spam

This is a bit of a win for consumers I think, as some developers were making a right mess of their Steam store pages as Valve have now announced some big changes.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#Steam #Valve #pcgaming
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Aho
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I just wish there was a better filtering so I get Linux native only and those that are playable thanks to proton should be marked and displayed if selected option to see "proton" games.
Today when I say I want Linux only I get loads of ms-windows stuff which not even verified with proton.

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Retro-gaming Linux distribution Batocera 40 released gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/retr…

#Linux #RetroGaming

Retro-gaming Linux distribution Batocera 40 released

Batocera 40 got released last Sunday (2024-08-11) packing a lot of fixes, new goodies, emulator updates and extra hardware support.
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#linux #Retrogaming

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Nextcloud Community Conference and Contributor Week: one month to go!

We are waiting for you in MotionLab.Berlin on September 14-15 for an unforgettable weekend of talks, hangouts, coding and community spirit!

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Nextcloud Community Conference 2024

Join us for the Nextcloud Community Conference 2024, an exciting week of coding, design, discussions, talks, and fun!
Nextcloud

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graphic

What a sweet story!

The married tuba-accordion duo who opened a pizzeria


The musicians spent 10 years renovating a derelict old building in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and turned it into a thriving business.

The married tuba-accordion duo who opened a pizzeria

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politician, probably Welsh

Welsh Government Commits to Making Lying in Politics Illegal


"The Labour-led Welsh government has committed to introduce “globally pioneering” legislation that would in effect make lying in politics there illegal.

"Members of the Senedd described it as a historic moment that would combat the “existential threat” that lying in politics poses to democracy."

WOOHOO!

Welsh government commits to making lying in politics illegal

Labour administration says ‘globally pioneering’ legislation will be brought in before next Senedd elections in 2026
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We could use a big dose of that here in the US.

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new kind of Benadryl that lets you meet the hat enby

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Raygun

Raygun is now Australia's most famous dancer. What does she reveal about our attitudes toward dance?


"Why do Australians feel that dance is mainly for performance, rather than participation? We get up and sing tunelessly at karaoke, but shy away from dancing in public. The most recent arts participation report from Creative Australia shows that while one in six Australians engage with music, only one in ten Australians regularly dance. It seems we’re just not a nation of recreational dancers."

Perhaps toxic masculinity?

Raygun is now Australia’s most famous dancer. What does she reveal about our own attitudes towards dance?

Raygun has forced us to focus on many aspects of dance that are often ignored in Australia, including the role of dance in communities and the politics of dance.
The Conversation

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Ex-Blizzard devs new RTS 'Stormgate' out in Early Access, works on Linux but may need a small fix gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/ex-b…

#RTS #Linux #Gaming

Ex-Blizzard devs new RTS 'Stormgate' out in Early Access, works on Linux but may need a small fix

Stormgate is a fresh RTS game set in an all-new science fantasy universe, it's hit Early Access today free to play but you may need a little tweak on Linux to run it.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #RTS

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