Beautiful drone photos

Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation reut.rs/3KpybRU

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Smells like car bloat: "More than 3,800 people were killed almost immediately when they were struck in 2023, an indication that high speeds and larger vehicles are making impacts more violent. The rate at which pedestrians are declared dead at the scene of the crash has more than doubled."

In tien jaar tijd transformeerde China zijn industrie van goedkope massaproductie naar technische hoogstandjes – waardoor het land inmiddels vooroploopt in de groene wereldeconomie. De les voor Europa en Nederland? De waarde van een duidelijke langetermijnvisie. @kevinschoenmakers.bsky.social

They are planning to do to us what they did to L.A. and Chicago. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...

Drought is quietly pushing American cities toward a fiscal cliff. Drought is set to pose a greater risk to the $4 trillion municipal bond market than floods, hurricanes, and wildfires combined. grist.org/cities/droug...

An abbreviated history of car bloat, courtesy of @xkcd.com xkcd.com/3167/

Analysis: China is not only powering the shift to clean energy, but becoming a driving force in climate diplomacy, filling a vacuum left by the U.S. and E.U. As U.N. climate negotiations get underway, China is staking its claim to the leadership role.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Really happy I got to speak with Hu Anyan about the English translation of his best-selling book, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing. It’s a deeply captivating read that immerses readers in the repetitive, grueling days of a worker in a Chinese metropolis. restofworld.org/2025/hu-anya...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

The new admiration for China highlights both how little Americans understand about the country and how disillusioned many have become with their own. My latest www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...

Lmao, Chinese online sellers are already making replicas of the stolen treasures from Louvre. No one moves faster than them.

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

Kevin Schoenmakers on panda hunters in the China Books Review... chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/02/p...

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

I wrote about the first panda's brought to the US, almost 100 years ago.

It’s always interesting when politicians say hate and violence have no place in this country. It was founded on those principles.

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...