It’s time to ditch American companies.
They are either openly right-wing fascism-enablers like X, Meta, Amazon…, or collaborators who will go along with anything for the sake of money, such as Apple and Microsoft.
Like the U.S. government, they can no longer be trusted.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

I didn’t read the interview, on purpose. It looks like a waste of time, an impression which your reply only confirms.

Attacks on expertise from left, right, and centre, but mostly left; including critical theory, postmodernism, sociology of knowledge, social epistemology, feminism, post-colonial theory.

Trump is just so *vulgar* ... a deeply unpleasant type with the demeanor of a mobster. It makes me sick to think that 45% of Americans weren't in the least bothered by this. It was more important to them that his opponent had brown skin.

Not what the fossil fuel oligarchs had in mind, exactly. But very, very nice.

Another welcome consequence of the Iran war: not only will the energy transition accelerate, with it will come decreased influence of oil-producing countries.

It will be a good thing when Saudi-Arabia, in particular, returns to its well-deserved insignificance in world affairs.

a little late, ne?

Generally, there should be an app that tracks all the nonsense people in the public eye say… and later pretend to never have said.

That app used to be called “press”, but we are in the process of killing our press by refusing to pay for it.

And South Africa … just finished building two large coal power plants.
As with everything else, about 30-50 years behind everyone

Really don't like the dogmatic tone, but hey, it's the church. Other than that, just common sense consequentialism

There’s a worldwide insanity gripping people, fuelled by the tech industry, that talking to an AI will make you feel more“connected”.
To what, exactly? A piece of code?

Here's my warm take on the analytic--continental divide. I think both side's criticisms are fair.

Continental philosophers can write in needless opaque ways that obscure their point and cover up for genuine errors in reasoning. The style can involve needless allusions and opaque terminology

Exactly 💯

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

Just a little tired of Americans *still* discovering, as it were, the true nature of their government.
There has been a heartbreaking, and frankly astonishing, lack of civil disobedience in the U.S., which we had all considered the bedrock of democracy.
(switching to Switzerland now)

Yep. At this point we should be shocked if we *don’t* find hypocrisy

People still get worked up over inconsistencies from the MAGA crowd, not fully appreciating the nature of ideology: it‘s dogmatic like religion. Believers think they’re defenders of the truth, virtue, and the good. So, if one of theirs does X it‘s good, even if it‘s evil when the other side does it.

The Artemis II Mission was also a hopeful event because everyone was competent, everything was based in taking science forward and it wasn’t funded by a cartoon villain billionaire and we aren’t used to seeing that kind of national event from America anymore.

When you elect megalomaniacal idiots
#nopeacedeal

Before impeachment and removal of the Trump junta, lawmakers, promise to

- Reaffirm NATO alliances
- Prosecute all junta members to fullest extent of the law
- End Iran war
- Expand SCOTUS
- Cancel plans for the draft
- Restore all DOGE cuts
- Erase Trump name everywhere
- Apologize to planet Earth

I’m having a genuinely hard to time to understand how & why so many hundreds of millions of people - all full adults out of their diapers - are seriously using AI for anything

Übrigens ein ganz einfacher Tipp im Umgang mit KI: Statt KI nach Zahlen oder Daten zu fragen, die außerhalb der Trainingsdaten oft falsch sind, sollte man KI besser nach Quellen fragen, wo man die Daten selbst findet

KI ist als Wegweiser zu Quellen gut, als Datenlieferant eher mies.

A chart from Our World In Data, showing the shift away from coal power in the UK - nearly 70% of electricity production in the late 1980s, to less than 0.1% in 2025.

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so.

But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging.

It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening.

(Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

I’m here. I exist
Like graffiti tags

Cover of Michael Shermer’s book CONSPIRACY, in which the word is spelled out as jumbled letters connected by thin red lines against a white background, evoking notes and clippings strung together on a board

i always take a moment to appreciate good book cover design

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

The global suicide rate has fallen Our World in Data since the 1990s Estimated annual number of suicides per 100,000 people. This data is based on modeling of global suicide patterns, and includes adjustments that aim to account for missing data and underreporting. In 1995, there were 15 suicide deaths per 100,000 people in the world Rates have fallen by 40% to 9 deaths per 100,000 That still means a total of 770,000 suicide deaths every year Note: To allow for comparisons over time, this metric is age-standardized. Data source: |HME, Global Burden of Disease (2025)

One of those slow news stories in a fast news world. Suicide rates around the world have been dropping since the mid 1990s
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org