When you’re in a bubble, keep blowing…

The race to become the next #UN secretary-general shaping up to be one of the most unusual in recent memory 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The nuclear industry will continue generating about 10% of global power in 2050 and declare mission accomplished

IAEA officials convening at Wednesday’s board meeting in Vienna are expected to welcome the Iran agreement without immediately pausing the move to snap back penalties, according to the diplomats. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nice overview by @james_acton32 on straight-forward magnesio-thermic-reduction process. Tiresome to hear Western officials perpetually underestimate #Iran #nuclear #engineering talent via @ArmsControlWonk armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1220... Here's how a so-called "bomb-reactor" kit looks:

With heavily-fortified #uranium #enrichment halls intact, wrecking the front end of #Iran's #nuclear fuel cycle may be the best #Israel can hope for absent significant escalation #OOTT www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Diplomats tell me the only thing more surprising than #Iran getting its hands on highly-classified #IAEA data is that @rafaelmgrossi admitted his #nuclear safeguards systems proved fallible by being penetrated. via @BloombergNRG & @bpolitics #OOTT www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Our scoop, in which the global food chain meets Russia’s military industrial complex www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Visited with legendary #AI pioneer @hochreitersepp.bsky.social at #JKULinz. We discussed the efficiency of #xLSTM against #GPT and why AI's future may be located on the edge of networks, rather than in centralised data centres via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The erosion of non-proliferation norms, with more countries talking openly about breaking the #nuclear taboo has the #IAEA's attention. DG Rafael Mariano Grossi told @bloomberg.com that Donald Trump has a chance to turn the trend around www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Despite HEU inventory surging >50% in the last three months, IAEA inspectors have high confidence they can detect any potential Iranian diversion within days www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Can players go from barbarism to decadence without building a civilization in between?

"Vienna’s reaction has been to accelerate an audacious, long-term plan to sustainably secure winter warmth for its two million inhabitants, by growing what is already one of Europe’s biggest district-heating networks." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... by @virtualnomad.bsky.social 🔌💡

Austria’s Far Right targets climate in €6.4 billion savings plan bloomberg.com/news/article... via @virtualnomad.bsky.social

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party eyes €6.3 billion budget cut to avoid EU probe www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @virtualnomad.bsky.social

Air bubbles trapped in ice cores from Antarctica show that greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere today are 50% above the highest levels seen over the last 800,000 years. apnews.com/article/anta... So here comes drill-baby-drill Trump to weaken pollution regulations.

Whenever I hear #Austria’s Herbert Kickl appeal to a return to “normal,” I think about the “pathology of normalcy” that Erich Fromm described in his 1991 book by the same name. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of #Austrian politics most divisive figures is getting a historic chance to rule. More via @Bloomberg 🎁🔗: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...