Sharp piece from @doctorow.pluralistic.net arguing that Trump’s chaos is accelerating two big global shifts, away from fossil fuels and away from US tech dependence. Not what the Tangerine Toddler intended, but great news for the world.
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Die Überspezifität enthält bereits das Problem an der Aussage, jedes nichtgebaute Auto ist eine gute Sache, insoweit ein VW aber durch ein xyz-Auto ersetzt wird, ergibt sich kein Gewinn & dann wären wir bei der Sache mit Angebot & Nachfrage...
Festsetzen hört sich einfach an, aber wo bringt man die dann unter?
Für das französische Vorgehen fehlt die Infrastruktur an der Ostseeküste.
www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...
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Ofc it is political but the antonym of normal is exceptional & @doctorow.pluralistic.net has elaborated on the trap of the critics psychosis
pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/n...
Someone had fun with this headline.
Food security is back at the heart of geopolitics. After years of treating shortages as unlikely, Europe is once again thinking about stockpiles, resilience, and how to prepare for disruption. Finland never stopped and now its model is drawing attention across the continent.
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#Kollapsakzeptanz:
"Accept this:
Stop trying to go back in time. Stop trying to rewind to a prior age.
Stop trying to fast-forward to a happy ending."
@jessicawildfire.bsky.social
Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening
Wasn't expecting the "Day After Tomorrow " so soon 😪
www.newscientist.com/article/2522...
Angesichts der tagesaktuellen Ereignisse eine kurze Erinnerung für Geschichtsvergessene...
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Orban losing matters beyond Hungary. He was the blueprint. The proof of concept that a democracy could be hollowed out legally, slowly, and without a coup. Today that blueprint lost. Not forever. Not everywhere. But today. Take the win.
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
Reminder that the President of the United States shares important government announcements primarily via a commercial social media network that he owns, and there's so much going on that this has never even been treated as a scandal.
A woman washing dishes by hand in a rural, early 20th century shack. In the foreground is a jumble of tortured golgthan skeletons ganked from a Dore Old Testament engraving. Through the window in the back of the shack, we see a detail from another Dore Old Testament engraving: bodies escaping The Flood.
"Intellectual property" was once an obscure legal backwater. Today, it is *the* dominant area of political economy, the organizing regime for almost all of our tech regulation, and the most valuable - and most controversial - aspect of global trade policy:
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It's not a "ceasefire" like they aren't "trade deals." Neither exist in the legal, institutionalized sense of these actual things. Media coverage needs to reflect that. Calling it the thing is lazy, it actively misinforms the public, & it is basically spreading propaganda.
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A vintage idyllic picture-postcard view of Lucerne, Switzerland; it features an impressive lakeside building and two elegant span bridges, with snow-capped Alps in the background. The image has been altered: a 'code waterfall' effect (as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies) cascades down over the mountains and streaks across the water of the lake. Three massive fiber optic bundles rear up out of the harbor, their cut tips glowing white. The Swiss flag atop the lakeside building is haloed with radiant glowing streaks.
If you live in Switzerland you can get 25Gbit fiber. That's 25Gbit *symmetrical* - up *and* down. On a dedicated connection that's yours alone. From multiple providers. And you can switch with the click of a mouse. It's *ne plus ultra*, *magnifico*, *wunderschön*:
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Image from the music video 'land of confusion' with 2 red buttons on a wall, one for nuke, the other for nurse and a hand reaching for them
The difference - Trump is utterly stupid while Putin actually is knowledgeable but has to cope with autocratic blindness. Therefore Putin can sell his agenda much better than Trump who doesn't care, at least as long as MSM is sanewashing his outputs. The banality of evil.
Rheinmetall LUNA drone
He couldn't care less as long as he can sell his 3m € drone
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Yes it was a bribe & that's why he will take care of it, if they complain.
that the president is making unhinged threats of war crimes on easter sunday should be an immediate presidency-ending scandal and that the media is rewriting this as just a normal negotiating tactic should be a career-ending scandal for everyone involved
"Wenn man in einem quasi faschistischen Regime lebt, versteht man oft nicht, was das mit einem macht. Man ist sehr, sehr wachsam."
#infoskeet
It's surprising that Bezos didn't rig the rating, I guess it will change as soon as any Trump starts to complain...
