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A Colorado State University researcher didn't plan to study rooftop agrivoltaics. She was furious when solar panels appeared over her research plots without warning. What her data showed next changed the direction of her career — and quietly launched a new field of urban agriculture.

Denver alone has an estimated 5,000 acres of flat rooftop space sitting largely unused above a city that needs both clean energy and local food.

They're really getting desperate.

The anger and anxiety over electricity in America is palpable. You can see it in packed utility commission hearings, in protests against companies, and in furious reactions on social media.

And you can see it in the polling. Across poll after poll, more people are saying that they can’t afford their bills and they think utilities need to change how they make money. And they are also very cynical about data centers.

So will this be the push utilities need to finally change the way utilities pay for infrastructure?

This week, we dig into three indicators. First: 75% of Americans say their home energy costs have gone up, and a quarter of Americans now consider utility bills unaffordable. Second: 86% of California voters said executive pay should be tied to affordability. And third: 71% of Americans would now oppose a data center being built near their home, a 49-point swing in less than a year.

Western drug companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into China, to develop medicines that can be resold at premium prices in Europe and the United States.

China dominates all phases of the pharmaceutical industry, from new drug development, testing, and mass production.

Solar power generated more electricity than coal in the United States for the first month ever, marking a historic milestone in the country's energy transition. In May 2026, solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity while coal fell to 12.2%, highlighting the rapid growth of renewable energy and the continued decline of coal-fired generation. Solar has now become the third-largest source of electricity in the nation, behind only natural gas and nuclear power.

could be big - watch this space

Just in time for Pride month, Marsha Blackburn and the Heritage Foundation's anti-LGBTQ censorship is back (now supported by OpenAI).

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8750947

We often hear a lot about China’s “Authoritarian Grip” over the internet, but how tight really is the Red Dragon’s hand on censorship?

Requirements:

• A flash drive or two
• This specific, weird old hybrid tabletbook (the T100TA)
• An iso of Android x86 4.4 r5
• Some kind of LiveUSB situation that includes a 32-bit bootloader, even though the CPU of this vexing thing is 64-bit (MX Linux works)
• A copy of Genymotion-ARM-Translation_v1.1.zip
• A copy of the 4.0.8.45720 folder of RProp's libhoudini repository on Github

Instructions, by which I mean "what I did":

1. Use LiveUSB to prepare the eMMC for Android KitKat. GPT scheme, a ~100MB FAT32 partition for ESP, and the whole rest of that bad boy ext3. Not ext4; I tried.
2. Make a bootable drive from the Android iso, boot it, and install to the ext3 partition. Choose yes on read/write and installing grub.
3. Reboot to the LiveUSB. Mount the ext3 partition and open a file manager there as root - I have no idea whether this is necessary.
4. Add this nonsense to the end of Android's /system/build.prop file:

ro.product.cpu.abilist=x86,armeabi-v7a,armeabi

ro.product.cpu.abilist32=x86,armeabi-v7a,armeabi

ro.dalvik.vm.isa.arm=x86

ro.enable.native.bridge.exec=1

5. Find the function "do_init()" in Android's /system/etc/init.sh file and add these lines inside of it at the same level of indentation as their neighbors, directly above the line "postinit":

mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

echo ':arm_exe:M::\\x7f\\x45\\x4c\\x46\\x01\\x01\\x01\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x02\\x00\\x28::/system/bin/houdini:P' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

echo ':arm_dyn:M::\\x7f\\x45\\x4c\\x46\\x01\\x01\\x01\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x03\\x00\\x28::/system/bin/houdini:P' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

6. Take a copy of the "system" folder from that RProp repo and paste it onto a copy of the "system" folder from that Genymotion zip. Replace any files that already exist.
7. Take the folder resulting from step #6 and paste it onto Android's /system/ folder. Replace any files that already exist.

And that's it (well actually, you might need to set the permissions for the houdini file and enable_houdini script in /system/bin to executable; I'm not sure). You can now play that touchscreen version of Uplink that you've wanted to play ever since you were a kid and you got your hopes up about it when you saw it was in a Humble Bundle, but then realized it was only for tablets and you didn't have a tablet. Easy as that.