By Autumn Johnson ~

A federal court judge ruled on Friday that five former Twitter employees from the old censorship-obsessed regime must pursue their claims against the company in arbitration.

The layoffs, which heavily impacted the platform’s content moderation team, were part of Musk’s changes to save the company money while turning the platform into one that supports free speech. However, five former employees disputed Musk’s terms for severance pay and alleged he failed to provide adequate notice before the layoffs, according to The Verge.

The Verge reported Monday that the former employees initially accused the company of failing to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act which requires 60 days of notice for company-wide layoffs. The plaintiffs reportedly later amended the complaint to include breach of contract claims:

“Twitter CEO Elon Musk initially promised three months of severance pay when he first assumed ownership of…

No country in the world is running on wind and solar power alone; no country ever will.

Calm weather and sunset guarantee it.

Every routine collapse in wind and solar power output (for the reasons above) requires the total capacity lost in consequence to come from somewhere, and that ‘somewhere’ is going to be a plant running on nuclear, coal or gas or, in certain places, hydro plant.

Every single MW of wind or solar is to be matched by another MW of the aforementioned dispatchable power sources. The alternative (ie the world without coal, gas and nuclear power) is no power at all, every time the wind drops and the sun sets.

Ah, the wind and solar cult retort, ‘you’ve said nothing about battery ‘storage’.

Well, in truth there’s not really much to say.

At this point in time the so-called giant batteries – ordinarily a bank of lithium-ion…

Germany and Britain are so heavily dependent on wind and solar, that gloomy, windless weather now presents an existential threat. The Germans have even coined a word for it: ‘dunkelflaute’.

If mass blackouts during freezing winter weather weren’t a threat to millions of lives, it would almost be comical.

What’s occurred is the perfect example of what happens when engineers are shown the door and starry-eyed ideologues with arts and sociology degrees are handed the controls.

The idea that densely populated, industrialised nations can run on sunshine and breezes alone is as crazy as it sounds; and the evidence that proves the delusion – provided by Germany and Britain – is simply incontrovertible.

As recounted on these pages, the Germans have shelved ideas to close their remaining three nuclear power plants; they’re maintaining and ramping up every single coal-fired power plant they have; and they’re in the process of building…