That picture…

There’s a Philosophy journal where we discuss this sort of far-fetched thought experiment with a straight face.

Actually it’s Gross Zero that I’d prefer.

Can't stop looking at this 7 way venn Interactive version moebio.com/research/sev...

Ex Pearl Jam drummer David Abbruzzese on Elon Musk and the gutting of USAID. "Fascism survives by turning corpses into math. It sells death as tradeoffs, budget lines, acceptable loss. People who would never step over a dying child on a sidewalk will vote for that spreadsheet every two years."

🇩🇪🌡️ Germany 2026 vs 1961–1990 normal: Jan −0.5°C, Feb +2.6°C, Mar +3.1°C, Apr +2.3°C, May +2.8°C, Jun +4.5°C. Yesterday: 29.9°C — +13.4°C above normal. The anomaly is accelerating. #ClimateData #Rstats #dataviz

Update: Jetzt ist es offiziell. Die Weltbank hat ihr Ziel, 45 Prozent der Gelder in Projekte mit Klimabezug zu investieren, aufgegeben. Experten befürchten, dass jetzt auch wieder vermehrt Öl- und Gasprojekte finanziert werden könnten (s. meinen Artikel unten). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Durch den #KI- Boom investieren die #USA erstmals seit Jahrzehnten mehr in Gas- und Kohlekraftwerke als #China. Das zeigt eine Prognose der IEA. Insgesamt wohl 50 Milliarden US-Dollar. Die Preise für Gasturbinen haben sich teils mehr als verdreifacht. table.media/climate/news...

Nur mal zur Klarstellung, falls es jemand nicht so ganz mitbekommen hat: Würden wir JETZT SOFORT Netto-Null bei den Klimaemissionen erreichen, also weltweit - dann wären die Hitzewellen nicht etwa vorbei, sondern sie blieben mindestens genauso wie sie jetzt sind. Prognose: Es wird noch brutaler.

New paper out NOW! 🎉 Do people care enough about unfair inequality for it to affect their subjective well-being? And does it matter whose earnings they perceive as unfair (their own, the rich, or the poor)? We find: not all perceived unfairness is equal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The reflecting pool debacle is a marvelous illustration of the interconnection between autocracy, illiberalism and incompetence. Trump broke the pool. Lied abt it. Said it was violent outside agitators. Now he’s created a vast security perimeter to prevent people from getting near it.

I love the way ‘science’ is reported. It’s as if there’s an association of all scientists, who know each other, all agree with each other, and occasionally make a centrally approved proclamation about what science has now discovered.

‼️The CEU is set to become a two-campus university again, HUN media reports. While Vienna will remain its main campus, degree-granting programs are expected to return to Budapest once the necessary approvals are completed. A step toward restoring the university's academic presence in Hungary! 2/1

Water Lilies (left half) - 1917/1920 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11271

Jean Arp, "Man Seen by a Flower"; bronze [1958]

I especially love this diagram.

I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview. The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.

In Klassenzimmern ist es 29-34 Grad heiß. Unterricht in Innenräumen kaum mehr möglich. Die Lösung der Schule: Rausgehen und Schatten suchen. Wo auch kein Unterricht möglich ist, weil ja 36 Grad im Schatten. Wir gehen als Gesellschaft mit dieser Katastrophe um, als lebten wir im 14. Jahrhundert,… 1/3

So könnte unsere Regierung für Herz und Hirn punkten: "Wir sorgen dafür, daß alle Klassenräume innerhalb von 2 Jahren Klimatisierung und (unterschätzt/notwendig) Lüftung bekommen. Das trifft va Gemeinden, diese bekommen von uns die finanzielle Unterstützung (Erhöhung der Grundsteuer)" #justdoit!

Sehenswertes Interview mit Ian Bremmer. Spannend, was er über die EU sagt. (OV, Langversion.)

Same goes for Austria - an exceptionally volatile decade.

Nice. "This triptych of unworkable ideas – keep trying to restore the old order, accept managed decline or hand over to the private sector – dominates much of the attention in the Global North." Exactly.

An intricate ritual sacrifice to appease our Brexit gods

UK will have its 7th PM in 10 years. But rising political volatility is a pan-European story. As colleagues & I show: post-Feb '22 the average tenure of a government-leading party in the EU is 3 years 6 months, down from 5 years 9 months over the preceding decade. ecfr.eu/publication/...

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

Ending AIDS assistance to South Africa because the government didn’t go along with Trump’s lie about white genocide. No reason for this other than the same white supremacist eugenics Elon Musk is busily promoting.

Mit dem Duo Euke Frank und Christian Nusser besteht bei der Krone Chance auf eine echte publizistische Wende. Es gibt ja auch konstruktiven Boulevard abseits des Kickl-Klickbaits (siehe auch Kleine Zeitung). Frank zeigt das gerade in der Krone Bunt vor.

It gets better. His company’s name: Greenwater Services. Did he once pay a bribe to Jim Traficant: yes, of course

Defending a monopoly at all cost.

This is ludicrous.

Rest in peace, Abdullah Ibrahim 💐 youtu.be/P5CGq4ZIsME?...

How Japan left the changing room after playing the Netherlands yesterday. [📸 BBC] Original post

Set aside for a moment the unprecedented corruption & lawless authoritarianism that should end his presidency every day. The best case scenario on any actual policy under Trump is "inferior rebadged version of the pre-existing thing." The worst case is "total bankrupt failure like his businesses."

Elliott Erwitt, 1968

Climbing the Great Pyramid of Khufu by Henri Béchard, ca 1875.

Are we willing to invest just five cents per person per year to maintain one of the world’s most important climate monitoring systems? That provides crucial information about a potentially existential risk for Europe?

"Von entscheidender Bedeutung ist Folgendes: Elektrifizierung ist nicht nur ein Kraftstoffwechsel von Molekülen zu Elektronen. Kurz gesagt, Elektrifizierung ist Effizienz. Das liegt daran, dass elektrische Maschinen viel effizienter sind als die Verbrennung, die sie ersetzen."

As the article states, the AI took information that was about something roughly similar to the topic, but unrelated (i.e. other companies from the same field), and inserted it in its answer about the original topic. Thus creating false statements that never appeared in any source. 2/

Der reichste Mann der Welt fordert Regimewechsel in 🇬🇧, hetzt gegen Migranten und pusht Rechtsextreme mit Posts und Algorithmen auf seinen Plattformen. Es folgen Pogrome gegen Einwanderer und Gewalt gegen die Staatsorgane. Wit debattieren seinen Börsengang und eine fehlerhafte Anmoderation des ZDF.

Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself

Nehmen wir mal rein hypothetisch an, der reichste Mensch der Welt wäre Nazi-Sympathisant. Müsste das ein Thema in Medien und Politik sein?

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

Gilded Age on steroids

Rest in peace, David Hockney. 😢

Which American benefited from this pointless cruelty? None. No Conservative, no Liberal. But it does degrade us, collectively.

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Autofetisch und Autofahrerfetisch der deutschen Justiz.

It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.