"... when the dominant form of energy changes, there is often a shift in the global pecking order. We are now in the midst of one such transition as the epoch of petrol, predominantly produced in the United States, Russia and Gulf states, starts to give way to an era of renewables"

Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. https://to.pbs.org/4c0Eh6n

Toistan aiemmin sanoneeni: milloin meluun ruvetaan suhtautumaan kuin tupakansavuun? www.hs.fi/lifestyle/ar...

Name 10 Bands you've obsessed over at some point: (in no order) #musicchallenge Angra Queen Dire Straits Roxette Bathory Nanowar of Steel Gamma Ray Ningen Isu Depeche Mode Jinjer

This is very good. I mean, it’s bad but the post about it is good

"Kielimalli päättää, minkä tiedon äärelle käyttäjät päästetään. Meillä ei kuitenkaan ole näkyvyyttä tai vaikutusvaltaa siihen, mitä tietoa teknologiayhtiöt eivät näytä." yle.fi/a/74-20224113

BOLTON: Trump's analysis of Ukraine isn't what’s in America’s security interest, it’s about personal grievance. Putin plays on that in belittling Zelenskyy. He passes Russian propaganda to Witkoff, who passes it to Trump, who says it publicly. Putin exploits Trump’s weaknesses.

I had been on Twitter since 2010. My account had fewer than 30k followers, but regularly went viral after I started writing about tech fascism. I'll find other ways to get the word out. But it's a good reminder not to put too much work into oligarch-owned platforms. They delete you at will.

Europe is a net importer of oil and gas, and will remain so if prices stay low. In the longer term it's not entirely bad if the prices stay at a level that drives innovations and investment in non-fossil alternatives.

From June onward, expect shortages and prices increases: "... as inventories get closer to critical levels, analysts, traders and executives warn that prices will need to spike to a level that chokes off significantly more demand in order to balance the market." finance.yahoo.com/sectors/ener...

Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians following an internal investigation. "The center of the controversy is the use of Azure Cloud storage by Israeli intelligence units in their surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank."

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An important point. There is a huge amount of material accumulated over the centuries that has never been digitized. It's slow, labour intensive a generally not considered worth the cost. We just know something about that content because someone read the materials and wrote a paper or a book.

Interesting point of view, have to keep an eye on that.

"If you stop in the middle, it’s worse than if you never started."

Some people are using AI to make sectors such as education, health care, and government work better, Josh Tyrangiel writes. He spoke with individuals who think they’ve found the effective response to the transformative technology:

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Researchers have disclosed "Dirty Frag," a Linux kernel vulnerability involving page-cache corruption in the decryption fast path that could allow local privilege escalation to root. It's similar to past flaws like Dirty Pipe, affecting multi-user and containerized environments.

"... presidents who learned to act when Congress would not, lawmakers who learned to avoid responsibility, and voters who grew used to expecting the White House to solve problems the legislative branch refused to touch."

Voimme jo rakentaa kokonaisia luetteloita elinkelpoisista planeetoista, koska tunneme niin monia hyviä kandidaatteja sellaisiksi. Uudet tutkimustulokset kuitenkin pakottavat rajaamaan luettelot noin kolmeen planeettaan, joilla elämä voisi viihtyä. tuomim.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/l...

"Ignore your Econ 101 class for now: Supply and demand can only explain so much. The math doesn’t math. Something else is happening." edition.cnn.com/2026/05/01/b...

As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking

Another area where the market economy will drive prices up; "there is a risk of a global auction on fertiliser that means it becomes unaffordable for those most vulnerable".

This has been on my mind for *weeks*. I've been saying it's possible to have an AI that only uses consensually-gathered content, is open source + open weights, runs on your own machine, and is designed to empower creators instead of exploit them. Well, we've got one. www.anildash.com/2026/04/28/o...

Krugman predicts that in a matter of some weeks the price of oil will go through the roof. Demand is being met from storage at the moment, but when those run out, the world will need to find balance in a situation where 11% of demanded oil just is not there. Let the bidding war begin.

Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’

Poliitikoilla on onneksi terveys paremmalla tolalla. Kuten eräskin totesi: "iso osa asiakasmaksuista on sellaisia, että ne eivät monta kertaa elämässä omalle kohdalle osu". yle.fi/a/74-20222917

8/ Data privacy is antifascist. Not by accident. By design. Data privacy legislation all over Europe was built around the information the Nazis used to target people. Look over the lists of information deemed «sensitive», then look at the groups of people explicitly targeted by the Nazis.

“.. Several U.S. officials told Axios they're concerned about America getting drawn into a frozen conflict of no war and no deal. In this scenario, the U.S. would have to keep its forces in the region for many more months. ..” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/04/28/i...

Jos tällä kertaa? "Viimeisen vuoden aikana yksityisyyden suoja on alkanut kiinnostamaan kuluttajiakin."

the world gets saved in the stupidest way possible

The thing that keeps coming into my mind about the WHCD incident is that scene in THE HUNGER GAMES where Katniss scandalizes the Capital by throwing a spear into the press box during the scouting session. Look, we're all here to have a good time at The Murder Games but she could've hurt someone!

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

About a month ago Trump was already "growing bored" with the war against Iran. Now, a month later, it appears that he has already moved on. No strikes, no meaningful negotiations, just an impasse that he hopes will somehow sort itself out while he focuses on other things. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Huonomminkin voisi olla. Jenkit kiukkuavat, kun eurooppalaiset eivät halua ostaa heidän bensanjanoisia pikkukuormureitaan ja heidän hallintonsa vetää tukia pois kaikenlaisilta "patteriautoilta", kun ei ole heteromiehen touhua ajaa sellaisella. Eurooppa voi vielä toimia fiksusti. yle.fi/a/74-20222577

Viime aikoina on puhuttu aika paljon ydinpelotteesta mutta aika vähän ydinaseiden käytöstä. On hyvä muistaa, miksi ydinaseet eivät ole mitä tahansa aseita. Siksi pieni ketju ydinsodasta. 1/17

"... after 1. not listening to anything he says (only to what he does), and 2. doing what you think right and in your interest in spite of him, comes 3. working to put yourself as fast as possible in a position where you can ignore the most powerful man in the world"

Kun pohditaan, miten valtion velkaantumisen saisi taitettua, veropohjan laajentamisen ajattelisi olevan keinolistan kärkipäässä. Tässä olisi samalla sellainen tapa verottaa rikkaita, josta kertyisi merkittäviä summia. www.nordnet.fi/blogi/tasta-...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.

Taps the sign www.csis.org/analysis/eur...

Quotes from 1990s to 2012. This is part of what the world was like in "the good old days", in case anyone has forgotten. www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

En tiedä teistä, mutta minusta @laurijosnellman.bsky.social kirjoittaa tässä pelkkää asiaa. Ei tässä mistään "vanhan liberalismin" naiviudesta ole kyse, vaan sen kaatamiseksi muodostuneesta poliittis-yhtriskunnallisesta liikkeestä. Sillä se lähtee, millä tulikin: kamppailemalla. #yhteiskunta

Tämän päivän kuva: "tavallisilla työssäkäyvillä ei ole enää pakollisten kulujen jälkeen ylimääräistä, jota kuluttaa".

⚠️ During the Iran War, the US military has used: • At least 45% of its Precision Strike Missiles • At least half of its THAAD missiles • Almost 50% of its Patriot air defense interceptor missiles This has created “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in future conflict.

Mistähän tämä kiire nyt yht'äkkiä tuli? Järjestäytynyttä rikollisuutta on ollut Suomessa jo vuosikymmeniä, joten ei kai se yksin voi olla syynä sille, ettei tässä ehdittäisi katsoa vuoden kuluttua vaalit ennen lain mahdollista voimaantuloa? Onkohan jokin täsmällinen uhkakuva? yle.fi/a/74-20221807