The sublime Horatio Clare (the person who inspired me to take my own contrainer ship trips more than a decade ago) writes about the plight of seafarers in the Gulf: www.ft.com/content/2181...

Lamine Yamal waved a Palestinian flag during Barcelona's open-top victory parade to celebrate winning LaLiga.

Probably the first time a mainstream (perhaps unsurprisingly, Spanish) newspaper uses this term to refer to the ships turning off their AIS transponders to transport oil from Azerbaijan to Israel despite Turkey's trade embargo

4-year post-doc in human geography, at @uio.no. Highly recommended!! * Deadline 15th May 2026. * Applicants must have native or near-native competence in a Scandinavian language.

Finally caught up with this brilliant piece This should be required reading for anyone writing on China! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the...

Panama Canal auction slots more than double in price Middle East conflict raises auction slot prices as containers and LPG lift Panama Canal transits and cargo volumes. www.seatrade-maritime.com/maritime-tra...

As a big Farocki fangirl, I'm ecstatic over the new issue of e-flux: Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation edited by Vogman and Pasquinelli 😍 especially Tom Holert's "Beneath the Information, the Operation: Harun Farocki and the Work of Images" SO GOOD www.e-flux.com/journal/162

"Liberian" ship i.e. ship registered with 'The Liberian Ship & Corporate Registry' LLC, a US-incorporated entity headquartered in the greater DC area. Liberia's first ship registry was founded by Edward Stettinius, a former US State Secretary who also oversaw the creation of Liberia's Maritime Code

"While the US military says it has turned around over 20 vessels and ‘completely halted’ Iranian trade, Lloyd’s List Intelligence shows a steady flow of shadow fleet traffic in and out of the Middle East Gulf."

I recently learned from a friend that finance bros refer to him as the 'quantatollah'

a while back me and @miriammthsn.bsky.social wrote a piece about how 90% of the world's goods do not, in fact, move by sea. now its the source for google's claim that they do. like come on man read just two words on

Check this out! There's a book launch of my essay "The Netherlands is a bad idea" in Moezeum (010), April 23. With responses from: Zakia Essanhaji ❤️, @quinsyg.bsky.social ❤️, and Nawal Mustafa ❤️. The book was made in collaboration with Multi Tool Press ❤️ and will be available in limited supply.

"terms like ‘dark’ and ‘shadow’ are never invoked to describe the vessels that have...supplied Israel with military...carrying out its genocidal war, which highlights the geopolitical faultlines that circumscribe the use of this term" @miriammthsn.bsky.social liquidtime.substack.com/p/four-quest...

"dark fleet" "Shadow fleet" "Ghost fleet" are mystifications often used by hawks Read @miriammthsn.bsky.social : "In an April 2023 report titled “Shifty Shades of Grey”, Lloyd’s List provides a ‘methodology’ which defines a tanker as part of the dark fleet if" liquidtime.substack.com/p/four-quest...

"One of the challenges in defining ‘shadow’ fleet is that even if you resort to...terms like “opaque ownership structures”; “post-box addresses”; “obscure locations”;“shell companies”; “flags of convenience”“flag hopping” you just end up sounding like you’re describing the entire shipping industry"🤌

this is remarkable

"Terms like ‘dark’ and ‘shadow’ are never invoked to describe the vessels that have continuously supplied Israel with military and other equipment for carrying out its genocidal war, which highlights the geopolitical faultlines that circumscribe the use of this term."

This! Also, Greek ships delivering arms, coal etc to Israel have been basically turning off their AIS and faking their destinations on their manifests...

In recent months there’s been a lot of talk about the ‘dark’ fleet, the ‘shadow’ or the ‘ghost’ fleet. For a while now I have felt that people use these terms without really examining their origins nor the assumptions that come with invoking them, so I wrote about why I think this is a problem:

What does calling a ship part of the 'ghost fleet' mean, and who gets to decide? New writing from @miriammthsn.bsky.social over at liquidtime dot substack dot com liquidtime.substack.com/p/four-quest...

Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza City - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-kills-al-jazeera-journalist-gaza-city

In recent months there’s been a lot of talk about the ‘dark’ fleet, the ‘shadow’ or the ‘ghost’ fleet. For a while now I have felt that people use these terms without really examining their origins nor the assumptions that come with invoking them, so I wrote about why I think this is a problem:

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

This war has been extremely revealing about the limits of the lived experience/local voices industrial complex:

Hello nerds has anyone written anything good on Irving Fisher’s hydraulic apparatus or more generally the use of hydraulics to simulate the economy/market equilibrium?

third time attending Courtisane, the best (and most principled!!) experimental film festival in this corner of the world ❤️‍🔥

The wonderful Jairus Banaji

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

"Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hitachi and Hitachi Systems to study the conversion of second hand vessels into floating data centres, with operations targeted from 2027."

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-closes-airspace-us-planes-involved-iran-war-defence-minister-says

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

TIL Diego Garcia is the same distance from Iran as London www.ft.com/content/5c38...

Iran's maritime blockade has left a fleet of stranded tankers and forty thousand sailors facing a crossfire of drones and electronic jamming. Read more: bloom.bg/4bQv3t7 📷: Divyakant Solanki/EPA/Shutterstock

a hill I will die on is that when we talk about what tech does to our psychic and interior lives, the need to permanently soundtrack every moment of the day and the resulting discomfort with silence should be on par with questions around screen time

*breathing into a paper bag*

Fred Moten to speak at Conway Hall in London for the Stuart Hall Foundation Keynote, 23 May 2026. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/a...

oh hell yes, had kalshi getting charged before april on polymarket at +2500

87/ interview of Former White House energy adviser Bob McNally on CBS 60 minutes: "There are no policy solutions to a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Government tools like escorts, oil reserve releases, or gas tax cuts are marginal… symbolic… sideshows." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

may i suggest the chant: 'whose strait? our strait!' for both pro- and anti-war protesters

Personally, my favorite allied-country expression of naval non-commitment is “intensively looking”. What’s yours?

The oil cargo is worth like $130m tho, and I’m not sure that’s even taking into account current price hikes

The convo between myself and Melinda Cooper is now online 👇

seated for @quinnslobodian.com 👑

this means it is not open for transit

The Israelis bombed a bridge over the Litani river. They are actively cutting off South Lebanon from the rest of the country.