OCEAN CHOKE POINTS [428]
It's not just oil that flows through the choke points and keeps the global economy humming. The Strait of Hormuz accounts for about 20% of oil, 30% of fertilizer.
who would buy the new “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN" cap?
First time to see anticrepuscular rays
First time to see anticrepuscular rays
Democracy does not get anymore chill than that.
But not for long….
live stream of late stage DEMOCRACY:
vimeo.com/event/542320...
It’s been 79 years since it became legal for a woman in Japan to be elected to parliament.
This globe tracks that right since Finland set the precedent in 1907.
world-processor.com/wp201-300#/279/
Sumiya Hiroaki about the impact of contemporary art on people and businesses.
Interesting observation about the artist as alter ego… (not -ingo though despite my work serving as an illustration for his points)
patras-platinum.jp/products/jp-...
It’s been 79 years since it became legal for a woman in Japan to be elected to parliament.
This globe tracks that right since Finland set the precedent in 1907.
world-processor.com/wp201-300#/279/
Sumiya Hiroaki about the impact of contemporary art on people and businesses.
Interesting observation about the artist as alter ego… (not -ingo though despite my work serving as an illustration for his points)
patras-platinum.jp/products/jp-...
Asking AI leaders what all that power is going to bring, most of them offer recursive thoughts: "let's ask the super smart AI what we should do with it." (as voiced by Altman a few weeks ago) If that's not an abdication of vision and responsibility–I don't know what is
youtu.be/qhnJDDX2hhU?...
It’s this time of the year again.
#9/11
(Usually a bunch of birds seem to get high on the strong light beams and surf the uplift until the drop. Looking like little angles being ruptured. This year no such spectacle. I wonder why …)
Asking AI leaders what all that power is going to bring, most of them offer recursive thoughts: "let's ask the super smart AI what we should do with it." (as voiced by Altman a few weeks ago) If that's not an abdication of vision and responsibility–I don't know what is
youtu.be/qhnJDDX2hhU?...
Very soon this will be used by military, law enforcement, terror groups, outlaws, in-laws…
t.co/z7p98HMKyK
Map showing that Africa's median age, 19, is younger than the median age in any other region.
Half of the people living in Africa haven't yet had a 20th birthday. In Europe, more than half of the population has already turned 40.
Very soon this will be used by military, law enforcement, terror groups, outlaws, in-laws…
t.co/z7p98HMKyK
a lot easier for iranian govt to tell their people that us strikes didn’t do much damage to fordow than to claim the americans didn’t really assassinate soleimani.
this is helping the iranians restrain their response / avoid precipitating further escalation.
The US Justice Department today announced plans to revoke critical protections for journalists, releasing a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi that directs the agency to rescind the current version of the “news media guidelines” and publish a new policy.
[56-5] Percentage of World Energy Consumption
Red bars represent regional energy consumption; arrows indicate falling, steady or rising consumption relative to worldwide annual increase of 2.5%.
(2016 data)
world-processor.com/wp1-200#/56-5/
What about farm/agriculture sector ?
The enemy is blonde…., hmmm.
Interesting.
[155-17] Company Vs. Country
Some companies have yearly gross incomes larger than the entire GNPs of some countries. In 2005 50 of the top 100 economic entities were corporations; in 2016 they made up more than 70 of 100.
world-processor.com/155/
[56-5] Percentage of World Energy Consumption
Red bars represent regional energy consumption; arrows indicate falling, steady or rising consumption relative to worldwide annual increase of 2.5%.
(2016 data)
world-processor.com/wp1-200#/56-5/
Take your pick:
world-processor.com#/396/
Krautsourcing at its best.
[155-17] Company Vs. Country
Some companies have yearly gross incomes larger than the entire GNPs of some countries. In 2005 50 of the top 100 economic entities were corporations; in 2016 they made up more than 70 of 100.
world-processor.com/155/
The coalition negotiations are taking long and the leading CDU is now doing what it prevented the former gov to do and claimed it would not do: raise spending, dramatically.
Politics, and not at its best.
Would be interesting to correlate that with the extent of digitalization and perhaps a measure of what kind of services are being provided. Singapore is by World Bank measure the most efficient and "Australia's big government workforce is among the most effective"
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
[150-5] Airplane Disasters
Most of the major global airplane disasters have occurred in the Northern Hemisphere. Depicted are crashes with 250 or more victims. Flight paths are shown with solid lines from departure to crash site, dotted line to the expected destination.
world-processor.com/150-5/
Did he say ‘trumpulence’?
Incredible concept. This is akin to @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social’s counter mapping concept in Free The Map
