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<p>&quot;No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don&#x27;t want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.&quot; ~ Lee Hyeon-seo</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/botanicalgardens/" rel="tag">#BotanicalGardens</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/change/" rel="tag">#change</a></p>

At my previous full-time role I worked on a simulator for just these sorts of black start events. The US has come very close to having regional outages of this scale several times in the last decade, and our black start capability is largely untested to my knowledge (by which I mean largely untested in real-world scenarios).<br><br>Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/why-restarting-a-power-grid-is-so-hard/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/why-restarting-a-power-grid-is-so-hard/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">4/why-restarting-a-power-grid-is-so-hard/</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/electricpower/" rel="tag">#ElectricPower</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/powergrid/" rel="tag">#PowerGrid</a> <a href="/tags/blackstart/" rel="tag">#BlackStart</a><br>

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJhfxOZp-o" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJhfxOZp-o"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJhfx</span><span class="invisible">OZp-o</span></a></p><p>«<a href="/tags/project2025/" rel="tag">#Project2025</a> is a radical <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/conservative/" rel="tag">#conservative</a> <a href="/tags/agenda/" rel="tag">#agenda</a> — but what if its ideas are coming to <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#Europe</a>? This video dives into “<a href="/tags/thegreatreset/" rel="tag">#TheGreatReset</a>,” a real <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#EU</a>-focused plan backed by <a href="/tags/orbán/" rel="tag">#Orbán</a> allies. It aims to weaken <a href="/tags/brussels/" rel="tag">#Brussels</a>, kill <a href="/tags/eucourts/" rel="tag">#EUcourts</a>, and put <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> back in <a href="/tags/national/" rel="tag">#national</a> hands. We explore the origins, the goals, and why it’s more than just a theory. Watch till the end — this isn’t just <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a>. It’s the future of <a href="/tags/europa/" rel="tag">#Europa</a>» <a href="/tags/eumadesimple/" rel="tag">#eumadesimple</a> <a href="/tags/eums/" rel="tag">#EUMS</a></p>

It&#x27;s odd to me that people talk about data centers in terms of megawatts, a measure of electric power. For one example among many, a Bloomberg article from March about Microsoft cancelling data center plans began:<br><p>Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence.<br></p>&quot;Data center projects that...amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity&quot; is a nonsensical statement. The (technical) capacities of a data center have to do with storage, compute, transmission, and latency. I understand there&#x27;s probably some Fermi calculation along the lines of converting electric power to compute capacity using the TDP of NVIDIA&#x27;s latest GPUs or something like that. Nevertheless, it&#x27;s misleading to speak this way, not to mention lazy. It is oversimplifying in a bad way, treating data centers as utilities that supply a commodity when that is just not the case (at least not with AI, where prices for services still fluctuate fairly wildly).<br><br><a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#DataCenters</a><br>

<p>&quot;We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.&quot; ~ John Trudell</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/plants/" rel="tag">#plants</a></p>

<p>The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ~ Alice Walker</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/landscape/" rel="tag">#landscape</a> <a href="/tags/botanicalgardens/" rel="tag">#BotanicalGardens</a></p>

<p>My latest blog post: Admitting Defeat</p><p><a href="https://mikecoats.com/admitting-defeat/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mikecoats.com/admitting-defeat/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mikecoats.com/admitting-defeat</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p>Sometimes you have to bail out before the sunk costs sink you. Having a good idea isn’t the same as having a good product.</p><p><a href="/tags/battery/" rel="tag">#battery</a> <a href="/tags/cell/" rel="tag">#cell</a> <a href="/tags/electronics/" rel="tag">#electronics</a> <a href="/tags/hardware/" rel="tag">#hardware</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/prototyping/" rel="tag">#prototyping</a> <a href="/tags/usbc/" rel="tag">#usbC</a></p>

<p>&quot;Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.&quot; ~ Carl Jung</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/love/" rel="tag">#love</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/bridge/" rel="tag">#bridge</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a></p>

<p>Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors<br>---</p><p>For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-governor-power-transfers-gop?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-governor-power-transfers-gop?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-carolina-governor-power-transfers-gop?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northcarolina/" rel="tag">#NorthCarolina</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/elections/" rel="tag">#Elections</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#Power</a></p>

<p>How GOP Lawmakers’ Power Transfers Are Reshaping Everything From Utilities to Environmental Regulation in North Carolina<br>---</p><p>The GOP-led North Carolina legislature spent nearly 10 years trying to control the elections board. But it’s also taken aim at other commissions in the state by shifting who has power to appoint members that historically belonged to the governor.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-legislature-power-transfers?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-legislature-power-transfers?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-carolina-legislature-power-transfers?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northcarolina/" rel="tag">#NorthCarolina</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/elections/" rel="tag">#Elections</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#Power</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>

<p>Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys&#x27; network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is. ~ Jimmy Reid</p><p><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/fountain/" rel="tag">#fountain</a> <a href="/tags/flowers/" rel="tag">#flowers</a></p>

<p>The fascist fan boy continues to emulate his heroes </p><p><a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a> headquarters has become the latest federal building to display a giant <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> banner.</p><p>Large banners of Trump now hang from multiple federal buildings in Washington, including the nation’s top law enforcement branch, in an unabashed statement of <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/influence/" rel="tag">#influence</a> over the <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/strongmen/" rel="tag">#strongmen</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#tyranny</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-banner-doj.html?smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-banner-doj.html?smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/</span><span class="invisible">politics/trump-banner-doj.html?smid=url-share</span></a></p>

<p>Well well well...<br>- - - - -</p><p>Nonilex -- <span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span></p><p>In his message, written entirely in capital letters, <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> said he had instructed ⁠the <a href="/tags/defense/" rel="tag">#defense</a> dept to postpone the strikes pending the outcome of the talks. He also told <a href="/tags/foxbusinessnetwork/" rel="tag">#FoxBusinessNetwork</a> that <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> wanted badly to make a deal, which could come inside 5 days.</p><p>A source briefed on ​<a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a>&#x27;s <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#War</a> plans said <a href="/tags/washington/" rel="tag">#Washington</a> had kept it informed of its talks with <a href="/tags/tehran/" rel="tag">#Tehran</a>, &amp; that <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a> was likely to follow Washington in suspending any targeting of <a href="/tags/iranian/" rel="tag">#Iranian</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> plants &amp; <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> infrastructure.</p><p>- - - - -<br>And, at Teh Tweeters:<br>- - - - -</p><p>Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) -- adamscochran</p><p>5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:</p><p>* $1.5B notional worth of S&amp;P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip.</p><p>* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold.</p><p>More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close.</p><p>Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!</p><p>- - - - -</p><p>And once again, with <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>, there will be no consequences whatsoever for his actions</p>