Feels like reality is setting in that there's been no oil getting through the strait of Hormuz for 2 months and countries are literally going to run out. Europe is on the verge of being out of jet fuel. Meanwhile, the stock market is st all time highs. None of it makes any sense.

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

Instead of banning legitimate protest, it be might worth considering whether it’s just possible that a society which increasingly tolerates open racism and bigotry based on religion, ethnicity and immigration status, is one where antisemitism is more likely to thrive.

US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

It's your Sons Mumford, something's gotta be done about your Sons!

I wonder what happens in a country with more guns than people if no one can work to feed themselves and every small town has an enormous computer no one wanted? who's to say

Newcastle Green Party candidate Tina Ion says "Israel must be eradicated. Even if it means killing every single Zionist.". Is Ion one of the "99%" of candidates whom party leader Zack Polanski stands behind?

One of the most remarkable achievements in modern political history has been the emergence of "anti-establishment, anti-elite, people's army" parties - committed to "bringing back the nation-state" - that are led, directed & financed by the richest, most privileged & most mobile people on the planet

This is terrifying, both in its own terms, and as part of the pattern of accelerating anti-Semitic attacks

This is why I never buy how AI is going to take over every job. Places like the NHS won’t pay for the full license to use Abode reader - do you really think they’re going to sign up for thousands of these at anything even approaching cost price? If so I have a bridge to sell you through procurement

mind boggling response from a Labour MP. She either: does not have a clue how important universities are to the local economy; knows but doesn’t care because of some sort of ‘anti-elitist’ brainworm; or knows but is too worried to admit it lest it upset Reform voters. none reflect very well on her!

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

we are told that it’s Europe that has a problem with free speech

A friend of mine runs the Nick Drake estate and he regularly gets invitations for Nick to play festivals, appear on podcasts and also offers to help "boost his profile" on "the socials". His replies are masterful.

Really curious as to how the politics of “what if we had a global economic shock and it was really clear that it was caused by one person, really clearly and obviously” plays out in democracies, but I could have lived with finding out at say, the age of 90 not today.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

From Austria 🇦🇹 10-20 parliamentary assistants are currently investigated by the intelligence service for extreme right connections. All work for the far-right FPÖ, which is far and away the biggest party in the polls (37%).

Climate Central has documented 5 U.S. billion-dollar disasters so far in 2026, with 2 more under investigation. I expect the current severe weather outbreak will add to the list.

🚨 BREAKING: British oil and gas giant BP has more than doubled profits due to the Iran war - from $1.38bn to $3.2bn

When I worked for a DC green group, an energy policy guy told me, “When clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuels, Republicans will HAVE to support it!” I said, “No, they’ll just try to ban clean energy.” He gaped at me - it was a possibility he’d never considered 15 years later, we’re there

TY @jlrodriguez.eurosky.social @janrosenow.bsky.social @ember-energy.org for speaking to me for this 1 year post-Spain-blackout update Not only did the disinfo storm fail to block solar, transition has taken on new life as the Strait of Hormuz's closure causes a gas supply blackout and rising $$

Really enjoyed this wide-ranging chat covering AI's broader societal impacts, and how it is (and will) intersect with extremism, terrorism and security

the unfortunate thing is that people find it hard to realize that basically subsidizing demand in the West basically means less oil for the East, primarily because it's a commodity shortage.

BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates said it quit OPEC and OPEC+, dealing a heavy blow to the oil exporting groups and their de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, at a time when the Iran war has caused a historic energy shock and unsettled the global economy reut.rs/4vXsBJy

I had @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social and @davidwellsct.bsky.social on the CIDP podcast to talk AI, extremism, safety. Listen here (and wherever you get your podcasts): www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCq...

Really enjoyed this wide-ranging chat covering AI's broader societal impacts, and how it is (and will) intersect with extremism, terrorism and security

"Once immigration is fixed" is a very revealing phrase. It shows what a lot of Labour MPs (and the government) think of us. We are a problem to be solved, not members of the community like everyone else. And our lives must be made harder to satisfy some mythical Red Wall voters.

This is a neat summary of the effects of gen-AI related Enshittification that I hadn’t seen before

internet for bots by bots www.404media.co/study-finds-...

I'm shocked that it turns out X usage leads to more extreme views. Maybe the govt should do something here. Any sign of that Ofcom investigation?

Absolutely incredible

I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠

NEW: Israel has banned Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from working with Palestinians in Gaza & the occupied West Bank. Despite this ban, MSF says it “remains committed to providing services in Palestine” & has resumed medical activities at Nasser Hospital. UR visited MSF's Gaza HQ in January. 🎥

I do think this a genuinely worrying aspect of this incident we know the kind of guy who commits political violence and up until now he has not looked like this, and there are a lot more guys like the latter than the former it’s a very bad sign for a society when someone like this picks up a gun

Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here: t.co/In5lBaF2ox

The usual proof that you can't have a democracy if you let the richest man in the world poison the well with lies. Western govts asleep at the wheel in the face of one of their biggest national security challenges.

Congratulations to the Harper's Letter signatories and the Heterodox Academy!

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

It’s genuinely wild that this guy thought he could bum rush Secret Service. That was the whole plan, beginning middle end.

There is so much nonsense talked about votes for 16. Once you consider registration, turnout, that not everyone votes one way, it is perhaps likely to make a net 200-300 vote difference in seats where there is an age voting gap www.dailymail.com/news/article...

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

“Campaigning by the gender-critical movement for women to be narrowly defined, with the intention of excluding trans women, always ends up leaving out some cis women as well. Stereotypes about gender presentation hurt everyone.” We need to resist gender policing in sports (and other areas of life).

Even saying that Musk is posting "about race" is softening what is happening here, which is that the world's wealthiest person is committing himself to spreading overt Nazi propaganda.

This appears to be real, and I want to know the chain of events he envisages that would enable this.

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this comic illustration of a cat herding geese! 😻 They used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

I have no idea how many times we have to dance this dance. It really isn’t high risk, high opportunity at all. Trump will probably be on his best behaviour. Everyone will gush. Praise as a triumph. Then a few days later Trump will forget about it. And go back to normal.

A few weeks ago, I was listening to a longtime oil analyst on a podcast & he was detailing the enormous impacts of the brief strait closure. He was asked, "what if it stays closed? what if it's closed for months?" And his response was simply... "it *can't* be. The world economy would fly apart."

wild how easily this shit takes off. a NYT interviewer mentions that he has seen people on social media framing their shoplifting as a form of protest, his interviewees say they aren't aware of this, and then chatterton writes up a whole pearl-clutching piece about it without any further research.

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age