As we all crawl through the Cloudflare slowdown, it is a powerful reminder that the international economy is not flat but built around key chokepoints. And those chokepoints are sites of vulnerability as well as opportunity. www.amazon.com/Underground-...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Microsoft has been leading a big tech push to use generative AI to enshittify the nuclear power plant licensing process Absolutely on brand www.404media.co/power-compan... ainowinstitute.org/publications... @ainowinstitute.bsky.social @sofiaguerra.bsky.social

"The demand from these [data] centres is outpacing the development of new renewable energy sources and pushing up electricity costs." ccpi.org/country/irl/

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.

It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition. #SpéirGorm #ClimateChange

"So given all the notes he struck during the campaign, it is revealing to consider those Mamdani left unplayed. One in particular stands out: Throughout the long mayoral campaign, Mamdani rarely spoke about climate change..." heatmap.news/politics/zoh...

A must-listen interview with one of the writers, Declan Lawn, if you’re a #BlueLights fan

Sinéad O'Sullivan: John Collison is only half right. Ireland’s problem isn’t just process, it’s psychology

"In the leaked document, Amazon executives warned that transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping its projections confidential, even as they feared inviting accusations of a cover-up" www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...

"One voter had glued a photo of their dog Honey to the bottom of the ballot, marked No 1." www.thejournal.ie/spoiled-vote...

Larry Ellison name-checked Wild Bioscience at the recent Oracle AI world conference, telling the audience that it could help provide "food security around the world”.

For the Irish @independent.ie I spoke to the Dubliner leading the plant biology division at Larry Ellison's Technology Institute in Oxford - he's just raised a $60m series A for his agtech startup Wild Bioscience www.independent.ie/business/tec...

“This is the largest increase since modern measurements started in 1957 and is well in excess of the 2022–2023 increase of 2.3 ppm.” Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️ www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

Two G700s no less Maybe the second one is a spare to follow the first one in case it breaks down, like that infamous CEO - of GE I think - once had www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

The soil health = human health connection Relevant to U2's The Edge and his co-founding of soil health startup Oath wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/why...

Speaking of AI data centers, have you flown into Dulles International Airport near D.C. recently? Welp, you landed smack in the middle of Data Center Alley, the world's *densest data center hub.* Its making power bills skyrocket in Baltimore. You can see the U-shaped runways in the center. 🫣

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet. If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S. Read this in @bloomberg.com👇 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers. This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Thorough, important, and gripping journalism. Please take time to read.

Sounds trite or for kids when you read it in ordinary times. It's something to remember, share and practice in times like these. TH White might usefully, given Merlin's age, have set up a moment or two where he needed to RE-learn things. It's not a failure to have to remind yourself of what's true.

"My father and his scientist colleagues warned that dams and water-intensive farming were unsustainable in a warming climate. But their voices were drowned out." Must-read essay by @nikahang.bsky.social in @time.com time.com/7321571/iran...

Such sad news Manchán was unique…and someone we badly needed to listen to in the times we’re living through

This is the *most* British science story. Rain ☔️ Enthusiastic amateurs. Quietly recording 1000s of records. To be mirrored later by the volunteers who digitised each of those original hand written numbers. Sometimes it’s not the data - it’s the people that make the story.

Today we pay tribute to our friend, Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, a scientist, peacemaker, and visionary whose life’s work forever reshaped humanity’s connection to the natural world.

New Dutch advert:

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends. 90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts. 90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends. Public ownership would make a difference.

No shit. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Screengrabs from River Bride kingfishercam. #cork

One for @andyburnham.bsky.social Here’s an AI analysis of the ongoing annual impact of Covid in the UK Sizeable GDP win if you can mandate cleaner air mitigations that put even a dent in these numbers

"You have to stand up to bullies and you have to tell them straight, ‘you are stupid.'" Former Irish president Mary Robinson tells Matt Frei that Donald Trump's comments about climate change are "incredibly reckless". Read and watch here:

Former Irish president and UN high commissioner for human rights Mary Robinson has labelled Donald Trump “stupid” and a “bully” who is complicit in the famine and genocide in Gaza.

Someone had to say it

NEW: Tesla's "Full self-driving" is failing to detect oncoming trains at railroad crossings. Tesla drivers tell NBC News their cars didn't detect train horns, flashing lights and descending crossing arms. We even caught the issue on camera. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

In today’s Sunday @independent.ie this seems crazy and very very damning www.independent.ie/business/iri...

Palantir reportedly due to sign a new defence related deal with the UK during the Trump visit How can this go ahead given the Mandelson context?!

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson. Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer. What a carousel of cronyism

People being pissed on from a great height, the rivers are full of shit and Janan’s response is ‘It’s not raining at all, the uplands are all sunny, and go right in, the water’s lovely As for the batshit Cameron stuff, substances have totally addled his mind (or maybe it’s all a deliberate wind-up)

It’s not enough. They should pay the $150k fine per book.

Post 2 of 3 in my rethinking rivers mini series highlights how rivers have their own distinct rhythms. Life evolves to match these rhythms — and when we disrupt them, ecosystems unravel. So rhythmic in fact that you can make music from them. Dig in to find out how. And stay tuned for the final post.

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Kind of bleak medium.com/@andrew.frel...

How to hasten the AMOC collapse and make Britain uninhabitable (or at least really miserable).

This piece is so good that I feel weird and kind of gross for both discovering it four days after the fact and sharing it after midnight. But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist. But you all already knew that. Didn't you?

“The council is planning to extend the Palantir system to processes for providing support to children with special educational needs.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This explains why Russia is working so hard to melt the Antarctic ice sheet

That disastrous reshaping of the world's ocean currents that would leave the EU in an ice age & shift the world's fertile regions thus causing persistent global famine? According to science, it's no longer "low probability." Sleep tight.

Makes you wonder if people in the Trump administration have an office pool to see who can kill the most people.