Dystopian

🚨🚨Late to this but this is a horrible story of very desperate Hungarian leaders who falsely tries to frame excellent journalist @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social for espionage for his great investigative work against the #Orban government's link with #Kremlin. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/hung...

Difficult to think of a more humiliating moment for the US. Certainly worse than Iraq or Afghanistan. You have to go back to the fall of Saigon to find anything comparable.

pictured: four completely different weapon systems that we decided should all be called "drone" for some reason

The killingly apposite Vietnam analogy, drawn by @rogermcshane.bsky.social. "Some around the Pentagon have reportedly begun calling [Hegseth] 'Dumb McNamara'"

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

10.25 AM. UK National Grid is currently whacking out 65.8% output by wind alone, solar another 23.3%. We are generating 114% of our demand & exporting 10% (4.7GW) to Europe & also replenish our pumped storage supply - using 4%. Fossil fuel is only generating 7.9% of output. #renewables #windpower

Just incredible. 99% fall in price!

Pulitzer-worthy

The deep, deep stench of corruption.

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

From the @osintwarfare.bsky.social twitter account...

Very much my experience. LLMs for coding are a force multiplier: if you know how to code you can produce more and better code. Leaving the LLMs alone does not work. E.g. the ones I've tried struggle to make small functions instead of one endless monster youtu.be/5DP0az1q_8M?...

Solar panels aren’t being held up in the Strait of Hormuz. A point worth making

Comedy gold

In spite of everything that has followed, blowing up the JCPOA remains the most destructive Trump policy in the long run (matched only by PEPFAR cuts).

Timothy Snyder's Rule number 1 in "20 Rules on Tyranny" is "Do not obey in advance". I'd take his advice over the vacuous hand-wringing of HE admins.

This is a decisive moment in the push to give Harriet the recognition she deserves. I actually gasped when I read the headline.

I wrote this week about how satellite images of the Middle East are drying up, as American firms clamp down for fear of aiding Iranian targeting. That is thickening the fog of war & making OSINT harder. Some Russian & Chinese firms are filling the gap. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Transit ridership in the Paris region is now 5% higher than it was in the pre-Covid period, as car traffic along the Paris ring highway & within the center city is 15 to 20% lower than pre-Covid. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...

Power prices on #Australia’s east coast to fall due to increased output from #renewables plus batteries www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Trump has learned to deeply resent Starmer, and that alone speaks very highly of the Prime Minister’s judgement."

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Interesting to see the downstream effects of the betting market. In general, it's probably a public good to have a betting market that provides probabilities on events for free to the public.

Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight" Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

In the news today, a cyclist on the pavement who killed a man is charged with manslaughter. By contrast, here's a van driver who killed a little girl. He was driving on the pavement: common, and illegal. Killed her. Only charged with dangerous driving. Fully let off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Can this be a solution?

The gulf that seems to have the same effect on American presidents as a lamp will have on a moth: irresistibly draw them in. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, they border each other...

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com whenever I see an insightful graph anywhere, I check who's it made by. Almost always the same person: you. How do you manage to do so much? Please never stop. Latest example: real surprise for me and the graphics is just beautiful

It just seems wonderful to reclaim city streets for traditional human interactions: walking, talking and playing

How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...

Right I know this is shocking, but guess what? The Oxford Congestion Charge is seeing LESS congestion and MORE people taking the bus. Try this one simple trick etc etc. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/more-people-...

Exceptional analysis from different angles with a rather soberin conclusion. Shashank being one of the most optimistic: neither Iran nor Trump want this to go on for very e

The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.

Writing something on delays & restrictions on satellite images of Mid East—incl Iran itself—introduced by US Earth-observation companies. Keen to hear from researchers on how much it affects them, availability of non-US images, etc. Comment here or if it's sensitive get in touch over Signal.

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Relatively low unemployment in two wonderful countries. Wonderful!

Incredible stuff! Having to pay for address data has been a big issue in e.g. publishing open source apps

Keir Starmer is once more locked in a death battle with his mortal enemy, Keir Starmer.

While the US lead forces have lost three aircraft, at least they managed to shot down three aircraft

Just incredible, throwing away an unassailable lead in research for no reason I can see. Freshly researchers trained at large expense will leave and never return

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT

Our focus on elite depravity shouldn’t distract us from the extent of mass public-level moral decay. There’s an army of little Kristi Noems out there.

There is no better patriotic sight than seeing Andrew arrested inews.co.uk/opinion/ther...