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New: The escalating cost of California's climate-driven wildfires now adds $41 to the average monthly power bill for residential customers of PG&E, the state's largest utility - nearly 20% of the bill. Such "climateflation" undermines electrification of the state economy. Free link bloom.bg/4dGjG8M

🎶 The future's so bright My horse has gotta wear shades 🎶

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...

This is so well done. 👌

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... absolutely bone-chilling reporting on yesterday's horrific attack on Lebanon. "There is no such thing as safety anymore"

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war. This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does. It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world. In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear. Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error. Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

France's Ambassador to Estonia

My friend’s cat cannot be doing with your nonsense

And breathe

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The United States of America is the ONLY Nation on earth who's citizens are permitted to have guns SPECIFICALLY in order to rise up against an Authoritarian government and yet they choose to do FUCK All 🤔 This is the feeling we have in Europe.

Palantir's UK head Louis Mosley wants us to believe that tech like theirs is neutral until their clients decide how to use it. People who study science, technology and society have long exposed such arguments as fallacious. My latest column for TNW. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!) This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

"Unless th 2-week window is quickly lengthened I doubt there will be a large influx of ships into the Persian Gulf. Partly because many ships have already sailed to other regions and partly because they do not want to risk being trapped after the 2-week window closes" - analyst at shipping org BIMCO

We have to teach about nuclear fission and fusion and nuclear power as part of the curriculum but *not* about nuclear bombs. I make sure I explain to my students why nuclear bombs are worse than conventional bombs and often use this essay by Arundhati Roy to do so:

The art of the deal

Wow, astronauts discover that the moon is actually much bigger than the earth!

WHAT IS THE DEAL?? WHAT WOULD THE DEAL BE?? I feel like I'm going insane every time I read one of these. WHY WOULD IRAN MAKE A DEAL WITH THE GUYS WHO MURDERED THE LAST PEOPLE WHO NEGOTIATED WITH THEM???

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

one undercooked big mac is all we need

The vibes RN

The space mission is crewed; the trump administration is crude

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

☢️ The General Staffs of Russia, China, North Korea, Israel, Pakistan and India, France and the UK will be quietly recommending to their prime ministers, supreme leader and presidents that they raise their military alert (DEFCON equivalent) level at least a notch. Just in case.

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While we can’t levy sanctions as individuals, we can try to make US tech companies feel the pain a bit

This is a point which could become a lot more pertinent for Downing Street in the next day or so.

I see the home office is capable of (one) sensible move after all

The UK has already said the US can't use it's bases for the threatened strikes on civilian infrastructure. From yesterday: inews.co.uk/news/politic... There have also been updated stories published in the last hour or so.

Will we get some international condemnation and maybe warnings for the US at this point? Or is eg the UK fine with letting them use UK bases for this?

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

The barbarian speaks

This is a shame!

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

We need a better term than “rightwing populism” to describe this movement. It’s an international movement to dismantle democracy, entrench massive wealth inequality and put corruption beyond the reach of the law. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's former best friend and Spectator journalist, James Delingpole, is speculating on Artemis 2 being fake. Quite how he still has a career is something of a mystery.

You could have had free universal healthcare this entire time. The money was always there.

One of the very best from Clickhole

From Catherine Belton, on why Vance is going to Budapest www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Ten years ago, the #PanamaPapers changed journalism. But how do you verify 11.5M leaked documents with a small team? Join Gerard Ryle and Delphine Reuter along with @opencorporates.bsky.social on April 9 for a deep dive into the data that shook the world. Register here: buff.ly/JXRhvFH

Peace talks latest From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Supposed to be working but it’s hard to get much done when you’re sat in the sun with your eyes closed

World impotent in See You Next Tuesday latest

Our success as a species is owed to our unrivalled ability to cooperate and collaborate. We see evidence not just in our extensive cultural evolution but also in our genes #Transcendence

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

Ships near Italy rescue 32 migrants, 71 lost at sea, charities say reut.rs/4tuMPZ9

Toys thrown out of pram, so what’s left, remove the dirty nappy/diaper and throw his shit?

When I am in charge these will be banned (along with leafblowers, dog shit, city SUVs…), so it’s great to know there are also rational reasons for hating them