NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I write about the 2026 Trump Iran Oil Crisis as an entry way for thinking more systematically about bottlenecks as the quintessential 21st century economic problem, particularly in the face of climate change. www.crisesnotes.com/trumps-2026-...

"...supply chain disruptions will be the norm, not the exception, in the 21st century. The most overriding reason is climate change. Even absent the intensifying geopolitical crises (like the current one) that climate change will exacerbate and worsen."

One problem with trying to disabuse people of silly conspiracy theories is that there really is a cabal of wealthy and powerful people trying to secretly rule the world. www.wired.com/story/leak-e...

Report highlights the growing threats posed by climate change and calls for the green transition to be accelerated.

"When political leaders say they are committed to climate action while dismantling the very policies needed to achieve it, young people notice," said Sophia Mathur. "We are the ones who will be facing and living with the consequences." www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CDNpoli #Carney #ClimateAction

Ezra Klein is doing secret societies the right way

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Democracy cannot survive trillionaires. We need to start taxing billionaires properly.

Have updated my daily goal. It used to be: - overthrow the billionaire class. It is now: - overthrow the billionaire and trillionaire class. To be fair work is progressing slowly.

Weird how these guys never say we need new social norms to deal with the planet becoming uninhabitable or people becoming trillionaires.

This 'one policy at a time' thing is going to backfire. The right understand that flooding the zone hides many sins. This one item is receiving more scrutiny than most of the horrendous things the CoC are doing #nzpol

Remember back when you were proud to be a New Zealander?

We're now on day 3 of front-page stories about literally nothing. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

Hey RNZ when you have finished chasing every conceivable edge case for this very cheap proposal, could spare some time to look at the massive $50+billion vast hole that is the govt’s transport policy?

💯👇 The thing about fetishizing rules and decorum and institutions is that it depends on a tacit conspiracy - a social contract, if you will - that everyone plays the game by the same rules, and there's consequences if you don't. When players start saying "LOL, fuck you, make me" it fails.

All of us sitting here seeing Bari Weiss and RFK parallels of purges and unqualified people being put in positions and like the Americans are pretending that decorum and rules will save us. It will not. If you create a system where merits are a sham it eventually comes back to bite you.

Yet we still persist with the Britain's Farm mentality. On population our urban centres make up around 90% of population. GDP wise the rural sector is about 6% of GDP with the service sector making a fair decent whack. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/16-...

When I see a post with good alt text -- I'm not kidding about this -- I automatically think: "This is a person who is kind." And being kind is probably the most important thing anybody can be.

An idea I've been playing with for a while is that one of the core elements of the political economy of Trumpism is that a critical mass of the US capitalist class decided that decarbonization was not worth the costs to them.

RNZ canvassing economists to pick over public transport subsidies literally (like actually literally) ONE THOUSAND TIMES SMALLER than a single RON.

"Starmer and Labour are cracking down on the freedoms of young people, and not the far right, nor white supremacist billionaires, precisely because no oligarchical interests will be harmed in doing so."

Today we learned Aotearoa has the highest youth unemployment numbers IN THIRTY YEARS! Close to ONE IN FIVE YOUNG PEOPLE have no work or training. Let's be clear. This is only happening because the Government LITERALLY DOESN'T CARE. What a world we live in.

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

A society where someone is adult enough to join the army at 16 yet too much of a child at 16 to use social media is one with a governing class that has lost touch with reality

Over.my.dead.body

they're making out it's this crazy little controversy that will be exciting and drive clicks, when the appointment AND the way it's being covered are evidence that the entire NZ mainstream media ecosystem is almost completely bought and paid for by rightwing and far-right interests

Luckily these are the only sites on the internet and so this problem is solved forever. Children are notoriously unable to look for routes round parental imposition and create their own spaces.

What the (& I can't emphasises this enough) living fuck I don't have the words to begin expressing my disbelief he still has a job ( & you know me, I has words). www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"Hipkins told RNZ it "absolutely stinks". "When key lobbying material is hidden from the OIA process and only emerges through legal proceedings, people are right to ask what Luxon's office was trying to hide."" #nzpol

This Government continues to embarrass us on the world stage. 406 countries voted for the employment standards convention for gig workers and only 8 against, including the United States and New Zealand - NZ continues to fall behind when it comes to workers' rights. www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/598...

Hooten’s appointment as editor of The Post is all kinds of wrong but what it really shows is how gutted media here has become that appointing a non-journalist lobbyist to what should be one of the most prestigious jobs in journalism is obviously considered by the owners as a smart financial move.

Great obituary headline. I expect Big Oil executives to be remembered in the future as slave traders are today. Which is one subterranean reason why the Fossil Power is politically aligned with domestic historical revisionism that is trying to rehabilitate the Confederacy. bsky.app/profile/evan...

NZ, like the US and others, is entering it's 'thiel' era - where the far right KNOW their policies & ideology are not at all palatable to voters, so they simply lie & cheat with captured institutions to assist them electoral strategy is completely changed now - Labour et al need to catch up quick

It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight

The thing about the right's takeover is that it won't be forever. There's too much destruction and stupidity built in for this to endure. The problem of course is that with climate change, inequality and a fragile, highly connected world, they can do a fuck-ton of damage on the way down.

the trsditional mainstream news media is almost completely captured, the Govt are putting a lot of Trump mobster style pressure on the two state broadcasters and trashing/rigging all the watchdogs. We're in a very fucked place for an election.

Unfortunately this doesn't appear to be a joke. Sinead Boucher doing her best David Ellison impression here, and I'm really sorry for the actual journalists at The Post. I'm sure results will be similar to Bari Weiss at CBS.

keep in mind this is in an environment where one of the other top 4 is owned by a far right billionaire, with an ex National cabinet minister AND an ex National advisor on the board, + TVNZ leadership that is happy to remove their chief political editor in capitulation to a rightwing smear campaign

what are you going to do about it? It's a closed media system. you have to subscribe to one of us! 'maybe ill subscribe to @1of200.bsky.social' go ahead, throw your subscription away!

How much money has the new editor of The Post taken from the Chinese govt in PR contracts pls, maybe a journalist from The Post like @whljustin.bsky.social can investigate about this oh wait

#NZpol So let me get it straight Sinead B, Hooton, RW PR gun-for-hire, advisor to multiple RW govts, is Editor of the Post? And this after one of the *most* hysterical, hypocritical RW trolls-for-hire Shaun Plunket gets the BSA wiped out in effect? And you want us to trust you here?! Righto 🤡🙄

this isn't even failing upwards, it's just pure corruption to promote partisan insiders who do your dirty work

My apologies to the Reductress, I wasn’t familiar with your game.

JUST DROPPED: COP31 hosts want 35% of final energy from electricity by 2035, up from 21% today. But we're way off. Historical pace: 0.3 points/year. "35 by 35" needs 1.3 points/year. Right now, only China is moving fast enough. More here: janrosenow.substack.com/p/is-electri...

It’s all connected: public joy, public transport, public confidence, civic networks and resilience and optimism (plus the, y’know, economy, etc). The Mamdani effect is its own kinda of magic – but also, freely available to anyone/ any city/ any country that cares to join the dots on this stuff! 🌇❤️🎁

This is calamitously stupid and short-sighted. And note the coverage: ‘a blow to Ed Miliband’. No: it’s a blow to our children and grandchildren, and in the medium term, the death-knell for a competitive UK car industry.

a few years back there was a tweet that got real numbers that went like "if one person says it's raining and and another says it's not, it isn't your job to quote them both, your job is to look out the window and tell us who's lying" political journalists got quite pissy about it

On this ongoing, relentless nonsense about AI resistance being classist, excellence is one of the few, fragile weapons working class people can deploy against privilege. Destroy excellence, or cheapen it to the point of routine, and you reward access and wealth.