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The minister says the situation in Cuba is "extremely tense", as a US-led blockade of oil to the country causes widespread power cuts.

Fucking sickening, heartbreaking, disgusting. Hospitals, ambulances, water pumps, so much infrastructure shut down and so many lives hurt and lost because of it, all of this at the whim of the world's most brutal empire because they can't stand to have their will resisted so close to their shores by a society that has chosen time and time again to stand proud for the dream of a better world, a world without this blood-soaked hegemony.

stillnaomi

I don't think there's any way to help Cuba get fuel directly, but links below if you want to help them with other goods in this terrible time

CSC campaigns in the UK against the US blockade of Cuba and for the Cuban peoples' right to self-determination and sovereignty

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PLEASE HELP SHIRA SURVIVE A TRANSMISOGYNIST MURDER ATTEMPT

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She is currently out on the street with no food or medicine trying to recover from surgery. She desperately needs help!

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Sunfish, origami, one square sheet of paper

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im not feeling so good about AI and data center journalism right now. these headlines are very shocking! so i clicked through.

for background: Lake Tahoe residents live in California and get their energy from Liberty Utilities, a California energy provider. Liberty Utilities gets 75% of its energy from NV Energy, a Nevada energy provider with the power lines and energy going to Lake Tahoe. NV Energy has a contract to stop supplying energy to Liberty once a new transmission line is built that can serve Tahoe.

based on the headlines you'd never guess that

the energy supplier NV Energy already sold its CA assets to CA-based Liberty Utilities in 2009 and told them to find their own energy provider within five years

Liberty Utilities did not do that (it's hard and costly and they're a small provider!) so NV Energy granted temporary extensions in 2015, 2020, and 2025

Liberty Utilities is struggling and having to raise energy prices because fire insurance has gone through the roof. CA has a Wildfire Fund that helps energy providers with this, but Liberty Utilities isn't covered by it

NV Energy is building new transmission lines that should give Liberty Utilities access to energy from other providers

NV Energy will continue providing energy to Liberty Utilities until the new transmission lines are finished

so the headline is insanely misleading rage bait. a Nevada energy supplier is finally ending their 16 years of temporary energy service to Tahoe residents in California because the infrastructure for letting a different provider serve Tahoe is about to be built. Tahoe residents are kinda screwed but their plight has been 16 years in the making.

Tahoe residents complain that prices have gone up, but it's not because of ai, it's because of fire insurance! Liberty also isn't trying to increase profit to fund ai stuff. they asked for an 11% return on equity (max allowed shareholder profit) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) instead brought them from 10% to 9.75%. larger energy provider PG&E is also down, from 10.28% at 9.98%, but PG&E is way bigger and benefits from the CA Wildfire Fund! which is to say Liberty is allowed less profit than before they had to raise the prices, and less profit than larger energy providers despite carrying way more risk.

if the new providers cost more, then Tahoe residents will probably be sad about even more price increases, but they're not going to lose power because of NV Energy. NV Energy already gave 16 months of notice for Liberty to find a supplier on the new transmission lines. if Tahoe residents lose power, blame sits squarely with Liberty Utilities and CA/CPUC.

#thoughts on ai aside the newfound scrutiny of electrical infrastructure is good I think but the media landscape turns everything into a #gotcha moment. I also don’t like the instinct to minimize energy issues when they are found out to not be bc of ai. let’s all get more #angry #energy is always top of mind these days bc of PECO and anyone in Philly will know #it’s getting worse. but that’s to do with consolidation of power and resources and general govt mismanagement bc the state doesnt rly give #a fuck about the city.#for those angry about ai data centers or data centers for cloud purposes or anything else #please ask yourself why these changes are possible #and perhaps even wonder about the groundwork laid for decades to make this possible #think about prisons water privatization use of taxes sink holes non permeable ground mining here and abroad etc

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her name was Juniper Blessing, she was 19 and she was just doing her laundry

wispthicket

From one of her friends on a Reddit post.

#this is devastating

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OH MY GOD… tonight I thought my baby Qais had died after his body suddenly stopped moving in my arms, and I screamed his name while begging him to open his eyes again.

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The doctor told us that because of severe bleeding and malnutrition, Qais fell into a complete coma, and his tiny body may not survive much longer without urgent treatment, blood units, and proper nutrition that I cannot afford alone.

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I beg you as a devastated mother in Gaza watching her child disappear between life and death. Please, don’t leave my baby Qais alone in this nightmare—donate now and help me save his life before it is too late.

Gofundme - Vetted#679

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Hamid Yaraghchi (Iranian, 1984) - Late Night Baby (2023)

This guy I briefly dated recently is an ostensibly nice guy (nonpejorative) and I knew him as a friend prior to dating him and he also is friends of my friends who I trust, thus after several confessions from him and an unsuccessful attempt to ask me out (warning signs), I months later developed something like a crush that then fizzled almost immediately once we started dating. Normal incompatibilities aside (which could only be discovered in a dating context - things like planning, heterosexual norms being played out in ways I didn’t like, fiscal responsibility, boring sex, etc.), I later (post break up) saw his YouTube algorithm which showed that he is, in fact, on the outer edges of the manosphere.

In hindsight, this was somewhat predictable, but I chalked up some of his beliefs, none of which were particularly extreme, to his own emotional experience and trauma at the hands of patriarchy and the unique racist systems of punishment that black men experience. The key thing I forgot though, is that patriarchal punishment to expressions of patriarchy isn’t necessarily linear and is often filtered and refined through online spaces, due to efforts to relieve a core sense of despair (and really to affirm misogynistic beliefs for the illusion of alleviation).

Anyway, our break up totally devastated him (his words) and for a while he was hanging on by a thread because he had decided to hang his self worth onto his romantic prospects with me. And so I wonder if he slid further into that Internet space in the process, since he, like many men, struggles to rely on his loving friendships and positive routines to bolster his sense of self (sleeping well, eating well, engaging in helping activities, etc.).

Astonishingly enough, he starved himself for three days after I broke up with him. We dated for a month. I won’t be callous about this, but ultimately this does speak to the incredible difference in our approach to relationships.

#at the hands of patriarchy is somewhat literal he was beat as a kid by his mother which is so incredibly awful