Oof. From M Gessen, writing about the nervousness they feel drawing parallels between our time and the Nazi era. "The comparison seems straightforward ... And yet something in the transformed landscape of this country tells me I’m not supposed to say so." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

The story of 2025 is China's solar growth🤯

Forgot one: “Demand that your local leaders build complete networks of sidewalks and protected bike lanes.”

If BuzzFeed News still existed we would’ve pubbed this in a heartbeat Quiz: Who Said It? Trump Comedy Crackdown Chief Brendan Carr or CCP Head Censor Zhang Rongwen? (and then all the quotes would be Carr)

Tests on biological samples secured by Alexey Navalny’s team after his death in a Russian prison confirm he was poisoned, his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, said today. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

The recent jobs report from the B.L.S. reveals that employment in the U.S. has stalled—and that critics of MAGAnomics were right all along.

Not long after DeepSeek R1 launched, I discovered that my mother had started using the chatbot as her virtual doctor. I worried about her reliance on AI. But over time, I realized Dr. DeepSeek was offering something no human in her life could. restofworld.org/2025/ai-chat...

excited for America to get its first 'dissident rumor mill claims the leader has died' experience

Trump hasn’t been on the front page of The People’s Daily for at least a week now

Every year the Natural History Museum in London honors the best wildlife photography from around the world. See a selection of this year's finalists.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

What does Americans read about China? Conspiracy theories. All are really about America. But China, its agents and its sympathizers, is presented as the cause of the myriad social ills — addiction, violence, poverty and disease — that plague American society. chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/19/n...

NEW from me: Clean energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024. Power sector CO2 fell 3% as growth in solar power alone matched the rise in electricity demand.

it finally happened www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

China is building 95 gigawatts of new coal power plants. That doesn't mean coal power use will definitely rise. Qi Qin and @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social explain why in their new piece for @carbonbrief.org Read more: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...

Loved this piece from Cal Newport in the New Yorker about what if AI doesn't get much better than it is today, and not just because he quotes me www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

I was interviewed about protected intersections on the Outspoken Cyclist podcast: outspokencyclist.com/2025/08/show...

'Dutch-style' intersections keep pedestrians and cyclists protected from motor vehicles as they cross or turn. Design features include corner islands, physically separated lanes that carry through the junction, and dedicated signal timings for non-motorised users. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The increasing intermittency of….nuclear power stations: Source: Financial Times | “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” on.ft.com/4fsSclS

This sounds familiar. This must mean the economy of the US is going to grow by 5% next year, and the year after, and also the year after that.

I’ve felt for a while that there is surprisingly little discussion about the economic threat posed by climate change related inflation www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Climate change in action Water stressed areas around the world form a band around the northern lower-to mid-latitudes As if atmospheric circulation which carries heat from the equator to the poles has been disrupted www.ft.com/content/e67a...

One of the highlights of my career has been reporting on China & working closely with @zeyiyang.bsky.social. So I’m really excited to share that we’re launching a new newsletter together for @wired.com. It's called "Made in China." You can sign up for it here: www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

New from me: How China's clean energy manufacturing boom is helping reduce CO2 emissions overseas. In 2024, China’s exports of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are shaved 1% off global emissions outside of China.

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I wrote about solar energy's surge in the Global South, how it is bringing us closer to peak emissions, and how this undermines yet another argument popular among climate skeptics (but China and India...!). With comment from @euangraham.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social and others.

NEW – Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/2wjOqqM

For those who are in the Netherlands and like Wong Kar Wai, they are screening In The Mood For Love (25th anniversary) www.lab111.nl/movie/in-the...

In the age of English-language dominance and machine translation, demand for other languages in the workplace is collapsing. Very few job ads request French, hardly anyone learns Mandarin, etc. Me on how languages work at work, and when minor ones matter on.ft.com/44zDTIj

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

This article highlights Fremont's record-setting protected intersection construction (18 built, 15 more on the way), & how they're critical to encouraging participants from @bikeeastbay.bsky.social's free adult learn to ride classes & other new city cyclists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I wrote for @bloomberg.com CityLab about how American cities looking to become safer and less car-dependent are adopting intersection designs inspired by the Netherlands www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

autocorrect really jumped the shark when it started replacing perfectly good words with more common words that it assumes you meant to use

A Chinese university said it would expel a female student for "improper contact with a foreigner" and said her behavior had "damaged national dignity" after videos circulated online that suggested she had been intimate with a Ukrainian video gamer.

Hanif Abdurraqib is one of my favorite essayists, and essays like this are why. It’s beautiful.

Marc Andreesseenn (sorry I can’t remember how it’s spelled) would disintegrate from experiencing what a non-white person goes through

Pickleball diplomacy on the top of People’s Daily English-language site right now

Our cover this week is of course Zohran. I wrote about the Democratic Party’s utter inability to reckon with the fact that their voters oppose the war in Gaza nymag.com/intelligence...

I'm where Bill is on the college applicant story. Read his mini-thread.

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

A Japanese manga’s premonition of an impending natural disaster in Japan has gotten some tourists so wigged out that they are avoiding the country this summer, prompting government officials to try to dispel rampant rumors about the prophecy. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

NEW – Staple crops yields face ‘substantial losses’ in warming world – even with adaptation ✍ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social‬ Read here: buff.ly/uWouRkM

Being a woman on the internet.

New data from NASA confirms what scientists have long warned about: climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like heatwaves, floods and droughts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Chinese government has announced netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away