Kuogenic climate change www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

uh, yep "US oil companies want “serious guarantees” from Washington before they make splashy investments in Venezuela ... “No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change the entire foreign policy of the country,” said one private equity investor who specialises in energy"

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

One year ago.

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

Another angle.

Extremely disturbing. If this is the incident, it is inconsistent with DHS's statement.

Guesnerie is no more www.linkedin.com/posts/paris-...

Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

Protesters in Iran have seized two cities. Residents of Abdanan and Malekshahi have pushed out security forces and are celebrating their victory.

If only @lisanandymp.bsky.social

Journalists! They keep you waiting for ages and then three come along at once.

Merry Christmas (Julian) to all who celebrate (except Putin and his hench(wo)men).

Tribute to the emperor.

Pravda by Paramount update

What about Aristotle's view on women?

Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.

FT doing excellent work here! 👏

Some say that Christopher was too protective of his father's legacy. I say Simon should do more to guard his grandfather's.

How did the editor miss this? Or did (s)he?

Just because you *can* install a solar panel under a goat doesn't mean you *should* install a solar panel under a goat.

Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery. www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...

The joys of meta-analysis. Manan (2025) used the social cost of carbon from a blog by EDF (2017), which cites a blog by Shelanski & Obstfeld, who use a later discarded estimate from an early draft of the Interagency Working Group.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Canada, if you're listening...

Mitigating the impact of extreme temperatures: the role of public health interventions in Germany, 1888-1913

Kadyrov appointed his 20-year-old son Adam as acting deputy head of Chechnya government. Kadyrov-junior is already Chechnya's minister for physical culture and sports, Ramzan Kadyrov's advisor and several other positions. He also has been awarded a lot of awards.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.

A ranking is ridiculous if it puts me above @krisebi.bsky.social scholargps.com/highly-ranke...

yeah scholargps.com/scholars/659...

I get the impression that @bmj.com, like many journals, assign far greater weight to possible risks of retraction than they do to the risks of NOT retracting a flawed paper, and leaving it to influence others. Not a good balance when patient care is involved.

Trump is making it way too easy for Maduro's defense lawyers.

Jeez. Greenland is in the NATO alliance. How hard can this be?

Congratulations to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social for the very well deserved John Bates Clark medal! #ASSA2026

arXiv📈🤖 Geometric modelling of spatial extremes By Kakampakou, Wadsworth

"Using the quasi-random timing of Navratri—a major Hindu festival worshipping goddesses—I find that girls born shortly after the festival receive ~6% more birth vaccinations than girls born just before." josuedjossou.github.io/navratri-paper.pdf (stumbled across this, intrigued, haven't read it)

Insanity: Sources close to the White House told the Washington Post Trump lost interest in backing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado to lead the country because she accepted her Nobel Peace Prize rather than demanding it be given to Trump, which was viewed as an “ultimate sin.”

Putin has been famously reticient about targeting Zelensky or breaking international law till now of course.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Cosmetic regime change?

If you’re familiar with French politics, open these two pictures posted by @chrisnelder.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣

Katie Miller, political advisor/spouse of White House deputy chief of staff for policy and advisor in homeland security Stephen Miller, quotes someone saying "Canada just lost all leverage with the USA" and adds "Free trade is over" #venezuela #cdnpolitics

Recent overconfidence in the standardized social cost of carbon

Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"