quiet, quiet, pig

“COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.” “China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

quasi un anno di pannello da balcone 350w, flessibile e installato in verticale, Milano orientato a sud-est prende sole dall'alba fino alle 15-16 circa. Produzione annua 260kwh, non male

"The network is the computer" has morphed into "The cloud is the weapon" www.ft.com/content/e0cc...

What's left of Gaza: Black—urban neighborhoods the IDF has fully demolished with earthmovers etc. White—undemolished urban neighborhoods (with varying levels of major damage from 2 years of bombing, artillery, and ground fighting) Yellow—IDF-controlled (white areas liable to further demolition)

Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/

“I’m working to develop a different research agenda. In Niger, they can arrest you without due process. What is happening in the U.S. now actually resembles what has been occurring in Niger for some time.” - Rahmane Idrissa for @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/mili...

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

Accès libre 🟢 | Mediapart diffuse gratuitement et en intégralité son enquête vidéo sur la manifestation de Sainte-Soline vue par les gendarmes. Ces images montrent des consignes prohibées et dangereuses données par la hiérarchie. Enquête de @camillepolloni.bsky.social et @laurawoj1.bsky.social

a silver lining of the AI and data centers boom might be that the grid gets the same flexibility that oil pipelines enjoy in the world, so when the ai bubble bursts we are left with something useful for electrification and decarbonization

Leaving my German spa hotel to buy a sausage. I’m going from Bad to Wurst.🥸

NOTHING can destroy a Cyber Truck….😎😏 #WorldBollardAssociation

i numeri di Musk di oggi, bonus di mille miliardi da Tesla, ha ucciso a oggi 600.000 persone cancellando USAid www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

non importa quanti miliardi hai, una lite di condominio aspetta anche te, però kudos per aver aperto una scuola Montessori nelle tue undici ville (di cui 5 comunicanti) a Palo Alto, il "compound"

oggi a NY si vota per Cuomo contro Mamdami, tra due giorni gli shareholders Tesla voteranno se dare mille miliardi a Musk, sempre più sbarellato e adesso ossessionato da invasori che, vabbè evitiamo, anche se non fa più il saluto nazista forse mille miliardi che si potrebbero impiegare meglio

The pace of U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific last month matched the pace of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas at the peak of the Obama admin’s campaign there in 2010 (although those strikes each used more missiles and killed more people, on average)

After a modest decline over the first half of the year (and after record 2024 warmth), global temperatures are ticking back up. The past two days have been the warmest on record for this time of year in ERA5 and the highest temperature anomalies since January.

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

River face

Pray for Jamaica. This looks bad.

'I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8"

CCS, carbon capture & storage, we go exponential, next year "have we considered not emitting in first place"

Patrick Collison on Musk Minitel asks an mportant question (and it contains the answer too)

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

I particular like the colours of Vesuvius looking as though someone has fashioned it out of a lump of smooshed-together-different-coloured Play-Doh.

Metaphors collapsing to their literal meaning

in Senato viene presentata la miracolosa macchina di Majorana, il fisico scomparso, ma è "fantomatica" e "pseudoscientifico marchingegno" www.ilpost.it/2025/10/22/m...

a 3d of skulls, the nazi skull at the bottom

The philosopher's primal urge to intellectually humiliate those in positions of authority, be put on trial for it, and make such an ass of yourself during the trial to be sentenced to death

Mad Max vibes in post-apocalyptic occupied Gaza

la stalinizzazione degli USA procede bene, una commissione di burocrati che combatte i nemici della rivoluzione, Trump ha sbloccato il livello Čeka

Young Republicans group chat.

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

AKA war supplies

#Palestine / #Israel 🇵🇸🇮🇱: Al-Qassam Brigades ( #HAMAS ) released first batch of prisoners in #Gaza after the ceasefire. Some members are notably carrying 5.56x45mm #NATO "IWI Tavor X95" bullpup assault rifles —trophy weapons captured from #IDF.

Given crypto bros have gotten their wish on being a regulations free zone, no federal agency is ever going to investigate this massive level of insider trading which impacted over 1.6 million crypto traders.

the reign of the Black Pharoaoh has officially begun, the air hums with old mathematics and unclean geometry @cstross.bsky.social

We live in an age where metaphors are taken literally, as if we were all little kids. Demonization of one’s adversaries √ Peter Thiel “Greta and Eliezer, they are the Antichrist" mashable.com/article/pete...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

Hannah Arendt’s imperial boomerang at work: as the U.S. retreats from global hegemony, it turns its military power inward, building a domestic occupation force, ICE, Border Patrol, their violence gamified to recruit the next generation of oppressors

"The philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943) crisply explained why what we have come to call a “free market of ideas” must fail: facts cost labor, fictions do not" Timothy Snyder www.nybooks.com/online/2019/...

Greta Thunberg al llegar al aeropuerto de Atenas. Enorme.

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

Happy FlashForward Day!

administration’s spin on this is deliberately deceptive. And I mean that. We’re not talking about just a difference of opinion about medical or scientific issues. The document issued by the Trump White House literally double-counts studies to make it look as if there is more evidence in their favor

New post. The whole acetaminophen/autism story is a disgusting little scale model of how the entire Trump administration works: