Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Credit where it's due, "If you're going to opine on matters of theology" is an extremely funny thing to say to the Actual Pope.

This, otoh, is genuinely useful research into AI capabilities

source: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4...

British Medical Journal 2026: CHATBOT HEALTH ADVICE HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC

Also BMJ:
> selected ... ChatGPT 3.5, Gemini 2.0 ... unpaid versions

I mean you can do that, if you want your research to be immediately irrelevant

Just for once, there's lots of stuff in here that was really good to wake up to this morning 🙂

This looks amazing! I would 100% apply if I weren't too senior. Apply to work with the fine folks at @projectdrawdown.bsky.social! 🧪🌊

At least Ahab had a clear and well defined goal

Wait — are you saying the Strait of Hormuz is currently closed? Let me verify this, because that would be an enormous event. OK, so this is very real and very much happening. Apologies for the initial skepticism

It's kinda cute how Claude freaks out when i tell it

Circle as big as how much your account gets interacted with on X, and Elon Musk is a huge dot in the middle dwarfing everything else like the sun

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

Price Day Crude Oil 90.564 1.786 -1.93% Brent 101.754 2.736 -2.62%

The oil market seems determined NOT to price in realistic estimations of supply risk.

At some point—IF things continue along the current trajectory—the unwarranted optimism will shift in the face of hard material facts.

That shift could be sudden and have catastrophic economic consequences.

For every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. Just sayin’.

EU impotence extends to decarbonisation

If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

*weint leise auf österreichisch*

Deluge fore­cast to raise food prices in Europe Winter ‘pantry’ depleted as rains dev­ast­ate crops across Medi­ter­ranean coun­tries

#Fossilflation European food price edition

12% lmao

Would it be alright if I worry more about what global warming will do to today‘s kids than about the effects of TikTok? Thank you.
(Yes, ‚it‘s all connected!‘, I know. Magically, though, climate always gets the least attention while we are quickly running out of time to avoid major tipping points.)

Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.

We just published our full analysis of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti on Bellingcat
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

In this new world, populist, conspiratorial, and authoritarian moral-epistemic systems are highly adapted to an information environment that rewards certainty (however illusionary), speed, and group identity.

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

I visited Khavda recently, where India is building the world's largest renewable energy park, using an arid land 5 times the size of Paris for a combination of solar and wind energy. Once operational the park would produce 30GW of energy. But that wasn't the biggest takeaway for me.

Nachwuchs bei von der Ausrottung bedrohten Amurleoparden – Tiergarten Schönbrunn Der älteste Zoo der Welt liegt mitten in der kaiserlichen Sommerresidenz Schönbrunn in Wien. In einer einzigartigen Verbindung von Kultur und Natur entdeckt man den vielleicht schönsten Zoo der Welt. ...

More adorable big cat fluffiness
www.zoovienna.at/de/news/nach...

Adorable fluffy Amur Leopard cub, recently born at Zoo Vienna

zoo vienna for reasons of national security i need to acquire this adorable fluff ball urgently call me for details of handover otherwise china or russia might take him

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Federal Agents Are Violating the Rights of Americans ICE and the National Guard are acting with impunity.

The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us.

Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Obsidian over Joplin, Anytype, Notion etc. because data in a simple open format is even more valuable in the age of LLMs

Goodbye Evernote, hello Obsidian