I wish I could keep my cool more often.

Winona Ryder (UK, 1994) Albert Watson #art #photo

Random Alley in San Francisco #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #sanfrancisco

@dianebenscoter.bsky.social, Founder & Executive Director of Antidote, & former cult member & deprogrammer, describes techniques for how to best support people who are trapped in psychologically manipulative communities. Cambridge Disinformation Summit webinar series. youtu.be/S-j3NDQ6wW0?...

Beware of hijacked words!

To sketch what you observe is to change the tempo of your observation. It necessarily slows your sense-making down, sharpening what you see.

Returning to the old fashioned patronage Medici model.

Beware of engineered conflicts!

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

I'm pretty sure that the issue will be solved by more fossil fuel-powered crypto mining and data centers. 🙄

My worst self is grumpy and cynical.

“The plain-English prompt that makes prototypes effortless turns out to be a poor way to specify how a system should behave...It is that natural language was never meant to be a specification language for engineering, and treating it as one quietly caps what you can build.”

I don't have anything important to say today. It's too hot. 🥵

Hungary experienced an all-time high temperature of 42 degrees today, beating the previous 2007 record of 41.9 degrees. The heat was focused on northern Hungary, near its border with Slovakia. (The Journal)

Does this mean that Fordism is dead? 🤔

What if people actually like getting upset?

eirik harstad #architecture #monumentalism #pettiness #monochrome

Say something controversial and watch people turn on each other.

Othering has never solved anything.

I started to line up all of my best arguments for why the panopticon is bad, actually, but then I remembered that none of these guys are arguing in good faith. These are the people who profit off of the panopticon and they have no intention to engage in "radical transparency" themselves.

Imagine if hundreds of people died in an extreme hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many people. They are an extraordinary silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear.

It's 10:30 p.m. and the temperature is still 30°C / 86°F.

arno rafael minkkinen #cityphoto #hands #show #b&wphoto

It's 35°C (95°F).

With my tinfoil hat on: Unintended consequences?

My 80-something-year-old neighbor: "You don't have to believe everything that AI tells you." That's not what it's for."

I appreciate brevity.

How much longer can the Reflecting Pool keep making news?

Purple Clematis, 2004 By Robert Buelteman

Can the ECB stop chasing oil price spikes, please? This is the message of this important study in a nutshell. Inflation is all about fossilflation. So, we need a way to stabilize our economies that does not undermine the green transition we need, which is exactly what rate hikes end up doing.

I wrote this 7 years ago In it I called for cities to better embrace greenery, reflective coatings, water and shading to tackle urban heat. More relevant than ever…. www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...

I am pretty sure that data centres and cryptocurrencies powered by fossil fuels will help...

The exit from the "oil price shock -> hiking cycle" cycle is clear: renewables, batteries, electrification. The problem: High rates have a disproportionately negative effect on investment in these highly capital-intensive sectors. Hence the need for differentiation. 5/

The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/

Dangerous and potentially historic extreme heat is forecast to impact parts of western Europe this week. We already know that these temperatures are made at least 5x more likely due to human-caused climate change. Stay safe! Explore the attribution data at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Good morning! It looks like we're in for another hot day. The good news is that I'm not in Bordeaux! 45°C (113°F), insane!

The absence of myth is also a myth: the coldest, the purest, the only true myth. — Georges Bataille

🧵“What she did…was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral” - Alan Greenspan, speaking about his guru Ayn Rand in 1974. It's worth understanding the role that this partnership played in unleashing the savageries of the modern market.

R.I.P. Alan Greenspan: You were charming, thoughtful, powerful, and wrong. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/rip-alan-greenspan

When I have my tin foil hat on, I start to think that all this hype about building data centres is just a ploy to boost demand for fossil fuels.

This was really interesting. I found the difference between progressives and conservatives particularly interesting. That explains a lot!

Thought-provoking billboard Ad I've seen from AXA on the way home

The art of creating news stories that dominate the news cycle. Yes, I am referring to the reflecting pool.

🤦‍♀️ Levi's response is clever, though. www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Stole this from someone on the career place.

Our mayor has been arrested on suspicion of corruption. He was re-elected in the last election with 70% of the votes. People liked him and were satisfied with his work. The news came as a shock to most people. It’s ironic how people have no mental frame for someone being both competent and corrupt.

Another record breaking #heatwave bakes #Europe. Temps will reach 45C / 113F in #France under the #heatdome. 1000s of records expected. Here’s a look at the day by day #heatwave forecast in degrees C and F. Europe is the fastest warming continent, warming twice as fast as the global average!