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In a much-anticipated move, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) passed a new rule today that’s finally going to streamline the backed-up US grid interconnection process. At the end of 2022, there were more than 2,000 gigawatts of bottlenecked new power generation and storage waiting to be connected across the US. That’s the same amount of electricity generation capacity as all the power plants currently operating around the country. Projects have faced an average wait of up to…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Laughter is an everyday reminder that we humans are animals. In fact, when recorded laughter is slowed down, listeners can't tell whether the sound is from a person or an animal. We throw our heads back and bare our teeth in a monkeylike grin. Sometimes we double over and lose our ability to speak…

Laura Lippman is so free of affectation that it can be hard to remember the crime writer is one of our living greats. (Superfan Stephen King called her “the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell”.)Lippman, who lives in Baltimore and has been publishing a crime novel every year or two since 1997, was a beat reporter at the Baltimore Sun when she published the first of her Tess Monaghan series, about a reporter turned private investigator that read like Nancy Drew for smart grownups. Over the past decade she has been…

Andrew Truelove needs a belt and a pair of socks. He takes his time getting up from the mattress he slept on the night before in the parking lot behind a Torrance shopping center. He smokes his first Lucky Strike of the day, then takes a Lyft to San Pedro, where he’s heard he may be able to get into a tiny house community.It’s May 17, Truelove’s 32nd day in California. Shortly after he arrived at LAX from his native Virginia, he hitched a ride to Slab City, an eccentric off-grid community in the Sonoran desert. Then he…

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Kokomo City, the debut feature by musician-turned-film-maker D Smith, sits in a clear lineage of classic documentaries about the LGBTQ+ community. Consisting of unadorned, verite-style interviews with four Black trans sex workers in Atlanta and New York – as well as a handful of trans-attracted men – it takes its cues from vivid, straight-talking films such as Paris Is Burning and Word Is Out.But Smith also drew influence from a film rarely mentioned in the same breath as staples of the queer canon: Todd Phillips’s pulpy,…

The volume required can be huge. In the US, chip fabs use far less water than the agriculture and power generation industries, and semiconductors haven’t spurred political tensions over water resources at national scale, says Chris Miller, a history professor at Tufts University in Massachusetts and author of the recent book Chip War. Still, squeezes have been a concern in TSMC’s home of Taiwan, where droughts have pitted local farmers, who saw their irrigation systems shut off, against the chip maker.Not just any water…

Twitter has launched its Creator Ads Revenue Sharing program in order to entice creators to stay on the platform following the launch of Instagram's Threads.Meta's Threads app launched last week and racked up over 100 million users in just a few days. Now, the threat of a competitor looks to have forced Twitter into an interesting move.On Thursday, Twitter shared the new program in a tweet, "We’re expanding our creator monetization offering to include ads revenue sharing for creators. This means that creators can get a…

Too Long; Didn't ReadAlexey is the founder and CEO of a startup that creates microapps. He shares his tips on how to get your startup off the ground. Alexey says the key to success is to focus on your niche and be smart about it. He also says to be flexible and smart about how you present your ideas. Too Long; Didn't ReadAlexey is the founder and CEO of a startup that creates microapps. He shares his tips on how to get your startup off the ground. Alexey says the key to success is to focus on your niche and be smart…

The European Parliament adopted a set of rules today to improve the EV charging experience, focusing on easier payments, charging speed, and availability. In a separate move, the UK government is also currently proposing new rules for easier payments and charging station reliability. Both sets of rules stand to improve the EV charging experience for Europeans and possibly the rest of the world. Public charging has gotten a lot of attention lately as electric car sales continue to grow…