This is what happens when you stop eating processed food. Thank you, RFK Jr., for saving MTG! 🙌

Each new digital technology seems to increase polarization. Here: #AI accelerating “Tech Giant’s Dominance of the Ad Market” #media #advertising www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

“Development needs energy, but energy doesn’t need carbon” — Professor Nicholas Stern at the launch of his new book tonight at the London School of Economics. Download your free copy here: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

FIFA awarding a "peace prize" to Trump would be so absolutely on-brand, a truly genius innovation.

“Some deliveries might be delayed.” First concern in a plane crash. 🫥

In case anyone was getting euphoric about the Dutch election results, here's a useful corrective from my colleagues @armida.bsky.social & @sandertordoir.bsky.social . In sum - the likely coalition will be better than last time, but the far right vote is still rising, though more fragmented.

A federal judge scolded prosecutors pursuing charges against former FBI director James B. Comey for what he described as an “indict first and investigate second” approach to the case that has put an unfair burden on Comey’s defense.

Shameful: German government offers Afghan refugees money if they don’t come to Germany. These are people who helped German troops and have been waiting in Pakistan for a travel permit for 2 years. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

“Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreated five miles in two months, 10 times faster than the previous record…” #ClimateCrisis www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Partisan #chatbots: like your crazy friends on #SocialMedia – only worse… #society #politics #AI www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...

“For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead” #COP30 www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

#EU “agrees weakened #climate target” Also: #EU agrees to weaken its own #economy. #Climate tech means economic #growth. China will be happy. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

#Tesla debates Musk’s $1 trillion paycheck, while Musk is busy with…? Oh, #xAI and Grok: “He personally oversaw the design of a racy chatbot called Ani, an animated character with blonde pigtails and revealing outfits.” Sorry, Tesla. You’re left in the dust. www.wsj.com/tech/musk-te...

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform. Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

“President Threatens to Withhold Food Stamps Until Shutdown Ends” Such a compassionate billionaire. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Somehow this feels like the AOL Time Warner moment of AI. No specific reason, just a gut feeling. #TechBubble www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/t...

All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change. 'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.' thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Next stop: DOGE. www.wsj.com/business/pal...

Suddenly Germany, France, UK are Europe’s “sick men”. No surprise, really: The financial crisis of 2008/2009 forced Spain and Greece to clean up their financials, reinvent their economies. Classic “leapfrogging”. www.wsj.com/economy/euro...

#Airbnb “wants to offer more than just a bed to sleep on…” @economist.com in 2025. I remember being at an Airbnb event in, roughly, 2012 where they made exactly the same pitch. (Back then with “local guides” etc.) www.economist.com/business/202...

“Why Wall Street won’t see the next crash coming Even the best traders struggle to predict sudden jumps in volatility” But… surely #AI can help? www.economist.com/finance-and-...

ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it. Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found". So sad.

“AI in the public sector must not become a Trojan horse for ideological capture or commercial favoritism,” argues Public Citizen’s J.B. Branch. He calls on OMB to halt the federal rollout of Grok AI, citing risks to fairness and neutrality that violate the Trump administration’s own AI guidance.

Extended hurricane category scale, following Wehner&Kossin, Proceedings of the National Academy 2024: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... If that scale didn't stop at Category 5 for historic reasons, we would have had several Category 6 tropical cyclones since year 2000.

Meet Sam Altman’s version of a #CircularEconomy. #OpenAI #economy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“AI stocks now account for roughly 44% of the S&P 500 market capitalisation… This is a fast-evolving topic, and the future is highly uncertain…” #AI #analysis by @bankofengland.bsky.social www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overgro...

Recent studies show that transformers and LLMs fail catastrophically once reasoning problems exceed modest complexity: arxiv.org/abs/2510.22371

Guess who’s ultimately going to pay for the billions & billions that Big Tech is pouring into #AI? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-...

AXA and Ipsos have published the 12th edition of the Future Risks Report, a report based on a global survey of 23,000 citizens and 3,595 risk experts. What do both experts and citizens rank as greates risk? *** Climate change *** So do I, after over 35 years experience in climate science.

The new White House east wing needs this, right? www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

AI browsers are a cybersecurity time bomb

“Nuclear tests don’t make much sense for U.S. national security, but they’re a *great* way to raise international tensions.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

#AI researchers “gave several leading AI agents a range of simulated freelance work and found that even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work…” #AgenticAI #work #study www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

Traveler alert: #Boeing is once again doing safety checks itself, e.g. on the 737 MAX. “The FAA last month started loosening its grip on the production process… giving company workers authority to approve some safety checks.” #aviation #travel www.wsj.com/business/air...

Dutch result evinces wider European trend: consolidation of nationalist right's rise accompanied by reconfiguration (or: outright power struggle) within its ranks. FvD & JA21 rising at cost of PVV, FdI eclipsing Lega, factional contests within RN, Konfederacja challenge to PiS...

Trump’s expected pardon of #Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao “marks the most distinct instance yet of Trump using the powers of his office to benefit someone at the center of deals that have enriched his family”, @wsj.com writes. #crypto Gift link. 🎁 www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Trump did something in return for personal gain? Can you believe it? www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

China says Trump has agreed to delay by a year the 50% rule placing Nexperia on the US entity list. If confirmed, this will be hugely frustrating for Dutch government, whose Nexperia intervention was triggered in part (but not exclusively) by the initial US move www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The significance of a D66 win in 🇳🇱 (if it transpires) will need some explaining outside the country. The Netherlands, like Denmark, has two liberal parties: one rooted in the classical liberal tradition, the other in the radical liberal one. D66 is the latter, ie the left-of-centre liberal party.

USAID was the lead American agency in disaster response. Now that it's been dismantled, questions are arising about how effective U.S. relief efforts will be in Jamaica after the hurricane. n.pr/47ePf5R

Yet another way #society is falling apart: ever more people ordering food for delivery instead of going out. Probably not cheaper – but you get stay in your bubble of #convenience and #solitude. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

Toddler concedes he doesn’t want ice cream after all, right now. Would you believe him?

Surprising that the Israeli government went with US cloud services at all. Usually Israel is a tech *exporter*, not importer.

Worried about shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC? The collapse of the subpolar gyre is a likely step on the way to that and could happen a lot sooner. Not quite as bad as full AMOC shutdown, but could bring major impacts already in 10-20 years. Important study on the mechanism ⬇️!

Some 3,000 billionaires own “$13.4 trillion in collective wealth, up 10.3% from a year earlier”, @wsj.com reports. Comforting that in these troubled times some people are still doing well. (Sarcasm alert.) www.wsj.com/business/bil...

At this rate of job losses, half the U.S. will shout “Bernie for President!” next year.

“It’s easier than ever to kill someone in America and get away with it.” First sentence of this @wsj.com article: www.wsj.com/us-news/homi...

#AI is becoming a serious threat to #society at breakneck speed. White-collar job cuts are leaving “fewer opportunities for experienced and new workers who had counted on well-paying office work to support families and fund retirements…” @wsj.com reports. 🎁 Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Et tu, William?