A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

This is such an interesting read 👇 “For many, the key intelligence lesson from Ukraine was stark: do not rule things out, just because they might once have seemed impossible.”

Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

“Savour life, be happy, value what truly matters, flee from toxicity and show empathy … lots of empathy”

How about turning it into a museum and building a modern fit for purpose Parliament building elsewhere?

DOGE Blitzkrieg: on Musk's artificial intelligence statecraft Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

📜 New article!

👉 As part of our 'Forum on Tech Oligarchy," @Jonathan Roberge, Nicolas C., and Victor Galaretta analyse the crystallisation of tech oligarchy during the tumultuous months following the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the US

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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

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A hand holdint the book "bigfooters and scientific inquiry" by Jamie Lewis and Andy Bartlett.

Delighted to receive this in the post - 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry' by @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett. This book is in the finest STS tradition of showing how an apparently marginal or obscure scientific practice opens up an entire epistemological world.

‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populists

“For every inch yielded, there’s going to be another inch demanded,” he said. “Where does it stop? For example, the focus right now is on migrants, in large part. But who is it going to be about next time around?”

I am reminded of Douglas Rushkoff’s story at the start of Survival of the Richest of how the wealthy worry about how they will maintain authority over their security guards after “the event”. Is this solution to that particular problem?

Congratulations Alondra. Exciting times.

@hannahnagrom.bsky.social

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Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Silvia Falcetta, @patriciahamilton.bsky.social, @drfuturity.bsky.social , Rodrigo Campos, Jade Gilbourne, @rossolb.bsky.social & Phoebe Murphy have published an article reflecting on trialing problem-based learning in sociology in ‘Sociology’ ( @britsoci.bsky.social )

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Al Gore wonders if ‘bullying’ Trump prompted Bill Gates to backtrack on climate Exclusive interview with ex-US vice-president at Cop30 also reveals his hope around much-maligned climate summit

A good line here: “Some people think we don’t have the political will but as I like to remind people, political will is a renewable resource.”

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

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Wildfires have consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fuelling the flames? In 2024, nearly a million hectares of Ukraine’s land burned. Heat, mines and shelling contributed, but footage of drones targeting firefighters has raised the question of war crimes

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A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...

There are some excellent points made here exposing what is happening in the UK at the moment.

Seen your paper on reactionary futurism - can’t wait to read it and think it may feature in an undergrad class of mine in a couple of weeks.

How Silicon Valley Billionaires Use Sci-Fi to Rule – and How We Can Resist - Untold Tech billionaires use science fiction to justify a dystopian future of AI rule and space colonization – but radical sci-fi still gives us tools to resist and rebuild.

My new piece is up: Silicon Valley billionaires use science fiction to justify dystopia, AI overlords, space colonies, escape plans. I call this “science fiction materialized”. But radical science fiction offers blueprints for resistance + rebuilding and new worlds. untoldmag.org/silicon-vall...

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

“Does this still look like dystopian fiction to you? Perhaps a better way of framing the question is to go back two decades, pretend that the ethnic cleansing of the United Kingdom was your ultimate goal, and ask how satisfied you would be with how things had turned out.”

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The Peripheral. Cancelled on Amazon.

Just watched the final ever ITV highlights episode of the #TourdeFrance. End of an era. Twenty years of watching the best coverage of this amazing event. Julys won’t be the same again.

‘Send them to Mars’: Led By Donkeys Glastonbury exhibit takes aim at Musk Campaign group say piece responds to tech billionaires’ ‘dangerous’ mission to make humans interplanetary

“Send them to Mars”

We saw them in 2023 and they were wonderful. Have a great night.

‘Pay here’: the QR code ‘quishing’ scam targeting drivers How to avoid costly double whammy as rise in app- and phone-based parking payment opens new frontier in fraud

Some sound advice here but no discussion of how the car park companies should surely have some responsibility to remove these fake QR codes and to adapt their business processes to limit opportunities for fraud.

I did think the same!

I do hope so.

Yes, I was somewhat aware that these issues have been discussed for a long time. It’s just today this caught my eye.

This is a helpful read. Thank you.