"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

This thread hits so, so hard - and should hit especially hard for anyone who's been a journalist.

They certainly had his number.

Here is Elon Mush bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts.

Kudos to whoever made this.

I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/

Through twilight-hour shifts, President Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp supplies the president with stacks of printed-out drafts and awaits his approval before hitting post. Her work has included posts of the Obamas as apes and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ. trib.al/bdJZ8g5

Trumpese is a bit like Kremlinese. Translation example: "We don't need China" = "We need China" "We don't need Ukraine's help" = "We need Ukraine's help" And so on.

Questi sono gli LLM, che rischiano di estinguere il genere umano. Per ottusità, di sicuro. Pareva impossibile, e invece... (Questo è Claude, in modalità "risposta esplicativa", non ridete)

“.. U.S. President Donald Trump attends a maternal health event in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 11, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein” @reuters.com

1/ One indication of the increasing sense of a fin de régime in Russia is that Russian warbloggers are becoming steadily bolder in being critical of, or even abusive towards, Putin himself – previously a bright red line. One commentator lambasts him as a "bunker granny". ⬇️

Ice-cold, sparkling Schadenfreude "we will all get to watch Mr. Zuckerberg drive the company into the ground." "the company that profited from trafficking in lies, that tuned its algorithms to boost hatred and division, that stole our data and used it against us," Free read

Core argument

A strange use of history from below: Madonna channeling early 19c London beggar Joseph Johnson with a ship on her head at the Met Gala yesterday.

La Cina smette di esportare deflazione (come ho scritto giorni addietro). Dopo i tagli di capacità produttiva e l'aumento di costi, ora i prezzi salgono anche sui pannelli solari, di cui la Cina ha 80% del mercato 1/2 www.ft.com/content/2c4d...

Timeline cleanser: nuns on the dodgems

More than highly plausible.

The Israeli government, like the Trump admin, is determined to turn every long-time ally into an adversary - something that will haunt both counties for decades.

“Once countries that produce fossil fuels start discussing how to leave them behind, the market hears… transition risk becoming transition policy. That is how phaseouts tend to happen in practice. First the taboo breaks. Then the process forms. Then capital starts to move.”

A chiunque sia capace di farsi eleggere Presidente non dovrebbe essere permesso di assumere l'incarico Douglas Adams - guida galattica per gli autostoppisti

I told you this was MAGA influencers' plan re: a response to last night. There's no evidence Trump was targeted—DOJ says the target was likely administration officials. But the fascists are THIRSTY for the Insurrection Act, martial law, Christofascism, the end of democracy and concentration camps.

Tigers take priority 🤣 #CalvinandHobbes

Still of the view that the biggest risk in this whole mess is widespread hunger in poorer countries leading to political instability.

"We are mostly concerned about the consequences of the disruption on fertilizers," says Jorge Moreira da Silva. "If we miss the planting season, the farmers, particularly in Africa, won't have productivity. The prices will go up and hunger and starvation will be spread." https://to.pbs.org/4tKU0wq

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 14,1853

as promised! a horrible quality video from the techno rave outside Parliament earlier, from like 20 minutes after Orban conceded:

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

we cannot live this way.

The newly leaked audio of Péter Szijjártó taking direct orders from Sergey Lavrov is completely indefensible. This is a clear case of treason against his own country and Europe. He needs to stand trial and be judged for selling out to Moscow

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Sharing again for visibility: those shoeless hippies at the, uh, European Central Bank have urged states to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, highlighting their volatility.

So Israel warned Iranian CIVILIANS not to take CIVILIAN trains despite it being a war crime to destroy CIVILIAN infrastructure, got it

textbook sanewashing

Mancano 8 milioni di barili al giorno, quindi occorre una corrispondente distruzione di domanda. A mezzo prezzi o misure di risparmio. Oppure con una recessione, aggiungo io The Oil Market Is Moving Into Demand Destruction Mode www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In doing an online image search I stumbled across this X-ray that conservators took of Rauschenberg's "Monogram" in 2016, and only now am I realizing how much I needed this image

Why are all the fiscally conservative geniuses who voted for Trump so silent about this?

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 23,1950

it takes two (three if you count israel) to taco, strait still likely to remain disrupted...

As I said in a video on March 1st (youtu.be/StQqGSZ6Se8?... ), much of this war is about stock market manipulation.

Chris Murphy: "We're gonna give Iran $14b to fund this war with the US? We're gonna give Russia billions to fund their war with Ukraine? We're literally putting money into the pockets of the nations we're fighting. We've never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country's history"

Dall’inizio della nuova guerra in Medio Oriente, i social sono stati inondati di contenuti artificiali pro-regime per mostrare un Paese forte con risorse militari importanti

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

At least Carlin isn’t alive to see this.

There's also this: Netanyahu badly played Trump and now he's ignoring Trump's demands:

Iran’s Foreign Minister on Trump temporarily loosening sanctions against Russia

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.