Trump pleading for carbon border taxes 🤪

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

The Forester in Chief has found out that Canadians don't properly clean their 3.7 million km² of forest floor (about 24 hectares per household). Their massive outbreak of fires has NOTHING to do with climate change, of course

Eat this, Ruben VG

The absorption of carbon by permafrost will peak in the next years. "In a low emission scenario, permafrost carbon emissions increase the risk of northern high latitudes becoming a net carbon source by more than 50 % at 2 °C of warming. [Fire] can further weaken the sink by reducing its resilience."

Maybe the White House should recruit an ethical advisor 😇

Climate change does not cause wildfires, but hot and dry conditions make them much more likely to spread. In Canada, 9 of the 10 worst wildfire years were both dryer and hotter than normal. And these fires are burning in areas that were historically not managed or suppressed.

In the replies, some interesting papers on the economics of stated preferences (= inferring the value of something by asking people how much they value it rather than looking at the values implied by market transactions)

Cleaning up my Google photos to save up memory, and just stumbled into this picture I took 2 years ago in the museum of York. Bathers at the English coast, July 1914, literally a few weeks before hell broke lose.

Stel je voor dat ze Trainspotting zou gezien hebben.

Young Pandora

Binnenkort invasie van Nederlanders die daar twee maanden verblijven zonder Kempisch te eten

(2/2) Het temperatuurverloop van de voorbije twee maand aangevuld met de oversterfte in België. Het verband tussen beide is sterk niet-lineair: vooral het effect van de langere periode met ongewoon hoge nacht- en gemiddelde temperaturen, waarin afkoeling moeilijk is, is duidelijk zichtbaar.

Pascal once wrote that all misery in the world is caused by people who cannot stay quietly in a room, but, honestly, a large part is caused by coders who don't stick to the principle that each function in a program should do one and just one thing - and should be properly documented.

Has this aged well in on year?

It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...

Woke forest fires propagating the climate hoax 🙃

She clearly was better in wrestling than in counting horses

Before death metal and gangsta rap, there was ragtime

China’s new generation of supersized electric vehicles — some more than 5 meters long and weighing three tons — is straining the nation’s roads while starving the government of fuel taxes to maintain them: bloom.bg/3TGeppq 📷️: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Who needs people to come to study for a PhD when you can have a high testosterone army?

In an incoherent speech last night, Trump prepared the US public for him stealing the midterm elections in November, which his Republican party would normally lose.

Sigh, every summer I post this: Rising temperatures have increased evaporation rates. That makes the air less humid, and soils dry out faster. And forests become tinder boxes. Not hard to understand leahy.substack.com/p/yes-climat...

I don't know how long you need to study to become a teleprompter operator, but this is an excellent return on education

A Canadian helicopter pilot was killed fighting a wildfire in Colorado last weekend.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

It’s too darn hot. Blame global dimming www.economist.com/leaders/2026... From The Economist

Absolutely unprecedented in history, of course 🙃🙃🙃

Littéralement en train de bâtir des ponts entre lui et le ciel

Dung beetles cut methane from cattle dung by 85% over 90 days, while beetle-colonized pats maintained near-zero methane fluxes. The effect lasted after most beetles had left. doi.org/hcbwc6

Heartwarming

Le paradoxe de Fermi expliqué

Il y a une ville à la Costa del Sol Où il y a plus de belges que d'espagnols Où il y a plus de Leonidas et de Bata que de gambas (Et maintenant avec des Hollandais, de la Heineken et des boulettes frites)

"On" nous a tout enlevé

Clémenceau famously said that war was too serious a business to leave it to the military, but that's of course because he never met Pete Hegseth.

And that was before they had attorneys specialized in school litigation

You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes, well, you might find You get what you need

As I said before, drones are an important new development, but they are not the last word. Innovative military organizations develop countermeasures. Here come the High Testosterone Troops.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Auditieve panopticon

Gregarious

Gisteren toverde de 21yo weer iets prachtigs uit haar potloden voor mijn verjaardag

BREAKING. FIFA beslist om tijdens de rust van de WK-finale ‘Melania’ integraal te vertonen in het stadion.

Don’t change lanes – the maths of holiday traffic jams theconversation.com/dont-change-...

This one hurts