Peter Thiel is trending, so of course we're going to re-up this excerpt from Jonas Staal's brilliant book "Climate Propagandas" "For Thiel, the impending flooded world of climate collapse is not a catastrophe, but raw material for new geo-markets to emerge."

Oh good, US law enforcement has discovered the Luddites

Breaking: the Pope is Catholic www.ft.com/content/5c44...

I've been there. Its *so* exclusive your nose will bleed. www.ft.com/content/361e... Decolonization vs history and heritage, although the former would ask the latter, "Whose?"

@kattullus.bsky.social I wish I had remembered to remind you that you were just starting to talk about the Thucydides trap when I suggested we move into the sunlight

very interesting headline www.ft.com/content/1f08... this theme has become popular lately

I come here not to entertain you but to entertain me during my meal breaks from dissertation revision. mute me ;p

"Our thinking is damage-focused and deficit-laden due to a historical legacy of an epistemological blindspot (Konadu-Osei et al. 2023) embedded in the underpinning foundation of our epistemological and methodological infrastructure" [thesis] www.dw.com/en/african-n...

"Nearly half of the funding raised by companies on this year’s list came from African investors." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Months after the first tariff-free shipments have left the African continent for China, the tightly-controlled American press wakes up to make it "all about me me me" www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Banning second-hand clothes without any understanding of the 'system of interest' (Ison 2008) which underpins its prominence in the supply&demand ecosystem within the informal sector is a system intervention (Absom et al. 2017) which will consistently fail. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Morocco has ranked first in Africa’s industrialisation index for the first time, overtaking South Africa, which had held the top position since 2010 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

"Are we next?" is the question on the top of everyone's mind these days... www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

In other news www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

WWIII will one day be analyzed through the lenses of product development, manufacturing costs, disruptive innovation, and high volume vs profit margin strategies, to be framed as an existential struggle best described as "Temu vs Military Industrial Complex"

I wonder if anyone has interrogated the notion of 'absolute power' in the aphorism about absolute corruption; what if it were only a delusion of absolute power but one is nonetheless corrupted absolutely?

It is indeed difficult to identify systemic causes for inter-related phenomena when you must struggle within the constraints of banning the entire notion of climate change as a systemic shock multiplier ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/28/t... Such struggles will only get more complicated

I am increasingly of hte opinion that "the AI" is breaking "the Internet" and not at the content level either... Now that all development is done by AI, am I ignorantly wrong in suspecting that weird code errors and conflicts seen in how a browser deals with a website could be due to AI?

I'm in the midst of two hot messes which I instigated - the first is a major revision of my dissertation after the first round of external examination (no regrets, this second version is more me). The second hot mess is my oldfashioned response to imminent summer - ye olde Changing of the Wardrobe

Since I'm caught out while lurking, I confess. I logged back in today for the first time since April 2025. Poking around to see if I wanna stay...

*lurks*

Ironically and interestingly, it is Bluesky I have to withdraw from and not the other site for my wellbeing.

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

This is a good one to share with folks you might know who say we’re merely being asked to give up our addiction to “cheap goods from China.” It isn’t true. We’re being asked to accept a lower standard of living.

This is AMAZING

Really interesting story about "freakosystems" — inadvertent new ecosystems made up of plants from all over the world. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Are you solar-curious? With the #climate heating & Republicans driving us right off the cliff, you won't regret starting *now* to get more energy resilient. How to get started: susankayequinn.com/2025/04/sola... #greensky #solar #climatesky #sustainability #ClimateChange #energysky #heatpump #EV

YOU GUYS.

"The more the US administration weaponises trade and the dollar, the greater the risk that it prompts active capital repatriation." www.ft.com/content/c564...

Download the software at the destination english.elpais.com/economy-and-...

Unlike other food delivery platforms, dabbawalas don’t use any technology. They operate using a system of codes with symbols and colors, devised over a century ago, that specifies the origin, destination, and the delivery people involved in the process. english.elpais.com/eps/2025-03-...

Bye, Starlink. * EXCLUSIVE -- GERMANY FUNDS UKRAINE ACCESS TO SATELLITE INTERNET SERVICE EUTELSAT - CEO SAYS * EXCLUSIVE -- EUTELSAT COULD ADD 5,000 TO 10,000 MORE TERMINALS TO UKRAINE WITHIN WEEKS @reuters.com

Also, they need a Finnish or European version of a facebook so that the American company doesn't shut them down for promoting DEI

Many people in Europe consider the Trump administration's policies as attacks on cultural institutions and members of minority groups.

What I'd really like to see is a sustainability impact assessment of the tariffs.... gas guzzling cars beef I can already see massive impact on emissions right there

Look up hot flows www.reuters.com/markets/curr...

> @lincolnproject.us

Archduke global tariff just got shot.

Its name is Tariff

Oh no, now he says the tariffs will stay on until someone digs up his father and makes him say “I love you”

Yes, I've just punched you in the face. But if you retaliate, it will only escalate things.

Absolutely fascinating long read. Didn't realize how much I picked from following mom around wet markets all these years. Had no idea that a) wet market shopping is found to be intimidating by the youngs and b) choosing fresh produce is an art www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...

For UK folks, Trump has just Trussed the global economy

"The dollar fell 1% against the euro and slipped against other major currencies as Trump was speaking." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati... //is he still talking?

"Its not fair"

Grok is not a trade expert