"The US-Israel war on Iran is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

this was Thiel making it very explicit in 2010

Update: I'm working on legislation to ban corrupt and destabilizing prediction markets, where insiders who know the outcome (especially in government) can rig the game to favor certain bets.

"Zo ongeveer de hele energie-intensieve industrie van Europa wil dat de afbouw van CO₂-emissierechten in het emissiehandelssysteem stopt. Dat zou de bodem onder het Europese klimaatbeleid wegslaan, en de pas aangescherpte doelen van de Green Deal onhaalbaar maken.." fd.nl/politiek/158...

Amnesty International verurteilt die Angriffe der Aussenminister*innen von Österreich, Deutschland, Frankreich, Tschechien und Italien auf die UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese. Wir fordern die Aussenminister*innen dazu auf, ihre Kommentare zu löschen. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Once you look at the climate problem over more than a decade, the root cause is revealed in the 'high-level' socio-economics of rich countries. The far-right push adds to the problem, but centrists will not fully solve it in the current paradigm, either. theconversation.com/idea-of-gree...

read this Brilliant & brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social on the three different americas kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-healthcare-and-labubu-became

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My fellow Europeans, #ICE sucks but why are we not considering our actions and the sinking boards at our borders with the same outrage against obvious barbarism and disregard of basic human rights?

We cannot aim at Digital Sovereignty or even some degree of digital autonomy if both students and workers are trained to serve the interests of Big Tech. And they are influencing every curricula and capacity building program in private, public and social sector!

Chemical pollution remains one of the world’s most under-recognised crises. Dr Marcos A. Orellana, UN special rapporteur on toxics and human rights since 2020, talks to EUobserver about the wide gap between the science and the political will, the hidden risks of hazardous chemicals.

3/4s of Europeans want to ban Grok

We are totally not going through an insane financial bubble masquerading as “tech”.

this is what I come back to as well we wouldn't need all this EFFORT and HYPE and fucking DRAMA if this technology was even 25% as disruptive and innovative as claimed by its pitchman

Ferragni cleared of criminal charges arising from #pandorogate does not change much about the underlying story of misleading influencer marketing. Meanwhile, Guardian correspondent berates Pandoro as "an alternative to the more famous Panettone", implicitly weighing in a long-standing culture war.

Dutch district court upholds Dutch consumer authority's fine against Epic Games for direct exhortation to purchase vs children and manipulative design of in-game "Item Shop" - discussing in passing #children definition, #professionaldiligence, #burdenofproof and more. Short comment linked!

Why Greenland? "Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam #Climate

Don't forget: The US is by far the world's leading carbon polluter. That pollution, specifically CO2, will remain in the atmosphere for a long time: About half will be gone in a few centuries; the rest will remain for thousands of years, affecting climate and sea levels long after emissions stop.

Thousands of people on X are using Grok to create sexualized images of adults + minors wearing minimal clothing. This not only violates X's own content policy, it may violate the guidelines of Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store: www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

The article also discusses our report, written by former Amazon delivery driver Adrienne Williams, @alexhanna.bsky.social and Sandra L. Barcenas Fuerte, detailing the extent of Amazon's worker surveillance & wage theft through that surveillance. www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri....

In case someone (v much thinking of certain Competition Law colleagues and a certain Linkedin spat) wants to again explain how EU enforcement against X was totally biased and a form of protectionism.

Just excellent and all they deserve. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

In other #Berlin news: ich war gestern 1,5 Stunden mit dem Rad in der Stadt unterwegs, und habe kaum einen gestreuten/geräumten Radweg gefunden, musste in fast allen Fällen auf der Straße radeln. Nicht mal Fahrradstraßen waren geräumt. In Berlin gilt: Verkehr ist Auto, Straßen sind für Autos da.

i feel like i see a lot of "mysterious new account makes big bet on insider information" news stories and not enough people-being-arrested-for-that news stories

I wish it was more widely known that Google fought like absolute mongrels against media outlets to avoid disclosing water consumption data - the only reason they disclose that data now is because they were pressured by activists and journalists cloud.sustainability.watch/explore-issu...

Everything Trump is saying suggests he spoke with oil companies and reached an agreement before they did this. I’m not sure how else he could say this so confidently.

A great day overall for fossil capital. Trump is less worried about who exactly will lead the Venezuelan government, even saying Machado won’t have the respect to govern Venezuela. What matters is that US oil companies get to drill and sell oil to other countries too.

On the "boots on the ground" question and Trump saying that it will mainly be about protecting oil operations. Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.

Donald Trump and Marco Rubio making it absolutely clear Cuba is next in their crosshairs. It’s incredible to hear Rubio say Venezuela was “colonized” by Cubans — as the United States decapitates its government and claims it’s becoming an occupying power to steal the country’s oil wealth.

It isn't about combating "narcoterrorism", but about the US securing access to Venezuelan oil, lithium, and other natural resources. It isn't about promoting democracy, but about the US imposing its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere. Brute force and extractivism—nothing else. #Venezuela

Art 21(2) TEU: "The Union shall define and pursue common policies and actions … in order to … preserve peace, prevent conflicts and strengthen international security, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter …"

‘A gift that cannot be sold’: the Palestinian family fighting to save their West Bank farm

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

Marine heat waves, intensified by climate change and pollution, are driving the spread of Vibrio bacteria worldwide — pathogens that can cause severe illness, including cholera and “flesh-eating” infections.

I've posted about a billion examples of this here this year but Meta, Amazon etc *set up an entire lobby group* to help falsely erase the emissions impacts of their fossil fuel investments!!!!! LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE OF REALISM HERE FOLKS bsky.app/profile/keta...

My latest article addresses this point comprehensively.

So now it seems that objection to Israeli colonisation of Palestinian territory to create an apartheid state can be called anti-semitism.....

Das Bundesinnenministerium will künftig nicht mehr allein den „gewaltbereiten Islamismus“, sondern auch den sogenannten „legalistischen Islamismus“ bekämpfen. NAHED SAMOUR hält den Begriff für rechtsstaatlich gefährlich. verfassungsblog.de/legalistisch...

This is truly brazen and also a reminder for the current commission that appeasement won’t cut it against these thugs.

Israël bouwt negentien nieuwe illegale nederzettingen op Westelijke Jordaanoever

One of the answers to those questions would be “generic environmental claim” (at least at two different levels) for EU consumer protection rules = soon outright banned unless the commission gets lobbied to draw this back as well.

Travelled north-south Switzerland this morning and there is almost no snow, even high up. Seriously, how is it immigration that is making European history culture etc disappear where the whole image of our lived environment is literally melting away before our eyes?

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis #Climate