In 2024 91% of renewable energy was cheaper than a fossil fuel alternative. 'Drill baby drill' makes sense on one metric alone: vested interests. rmi.org/affordabilit...
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In 2024 91% of renewable energy was cheaper than a fossil fuel alternative. 'Drill baby drill' makes sense on one metric alone: vested interests. rmi.org/affordabilit...
Pains me to say "I agree with Nick", but "If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" is a pretty good line. However. He speaks like someone emerging from stockholm syndrome in this interview. But he was no prisoner. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"The war in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US civil war, World Wars I and II, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined." watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
This is the era of unlearning, isn’t it?
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How many times can Laurence Fox post adverts that violate Google's policies before Google realise that taking them down *after* they've had hundreds of thousands of views isn't really working as a deterrent? adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
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From the dictionary of politics: INTOLERABLE (adj): tolerable
This trip's getting weird www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
"Conspiracy beliefs are mostly associated with reduced public health ... weakened social cohesion ... deteriorated basic human rights ... lower support for reducing carbon emissions, clean energy & preserving delicate ecosystems; & with reduced trust & cooperation..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
The news: * Me: when a species evolves to the extent that it becomes an existential threat to the overall biosphere, does an evolutionary inflexion point occur, after which the species is mysteriously compelled to behave in ways that ensure its own demise? Gaia: vote Trump
"Bomb 'em till they like us" hasn't got a great track record
Wish I had thought of nominating the kumquat-in-chief for a Nobel Peace Prize first. He's such a pushover for ass-kissers; I'd be minted.
This is a decent read on the 3.5% thing if, like me, you're new to it www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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The Guardian app’s own data flows make leaks indistinguishable from regular traffic — cutting off one of the easiest ways for a repressive government or a corporate boss to identify a leaker. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-...
The Guardian's Secure Messaging tool is an implementation of the CoverDrop protocol, which was invented by researchers at www.cst.cam.ac.uk We have published our code under an Apache 2.0 licence at github.com/guardian/cov... There's a technical paper on how it works at www.coverdrop.org
Introducing a new tool that allows sources to contact journalists under the cover of the normal activity of a news app. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
It has been a pleasure to work with Cambridge researchers on this project. Thanks especially to @lambda.bsky.social and @arberesford.bsky.social
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
Formatting Issues are the new Alternative Facts
“The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t read.” So to make him attend his "daily" briefings (he's only done 14 in 132 days) they're contemplating adding animations with explosions like a video game. Or faking a Fox & Friends show. Because he likes watching those. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
The Telegraph has now taken down this bizarre and seemingly fake bit of trolling. Was it meant to be a joke? (You can still see it at archive.is/s1GPF )
This is just ... beautiful www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
It's the stupid economy
They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.
staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
Just look at these wallies
Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data micahflee.com/despite-misl...
This man is an inspiration and a treasure. Happy birthday David Attenborough www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
There is an alternative to pandering
We're looking to hire a director of product for publishing and journalism at the Guardian. Interested? Link here: fa-euxy-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
I wonder how many US-Americans are quietly thinking how nice it'd be right now to become the 11th province of Canada
I've got an idea: we put nice people in charge
Coming soon: "facts are terrorism" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
This is the same company that is infiltrating - and whose leaders are openly hostile to the principles of - the UK national health service. A company so ghoulish that they had 70% of their contract with NHS England redacted (www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...)
This could have grave consequences for everyone. www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/h...
To describe D'OGE as organised crime is wrong. It *is* criminal, both in intent and in execution. But organised? The clown prince can't organise shit. The sensitive data the Elmo Youth are stealing will end up in the hands of more competent criminals & state actors. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
The new US counterterrorism chief is well qualified to locate extremists. Just click on your Contacts app, Joe. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Self image Public image
"Foment ferment!"? Reform intent.
"100% OPSEC" www.wired.com/story/michae...
"100% OPSEC" www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Could not run a piss-up in a brewery
Chilling numbers www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
If you’re not a feminist, you’re an idiot.
Sabotage indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us-sus...
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite. “This isn’t an audit, it’s a heist,” one told @telliotter.bsky.social.
“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
If you don't have time to read this heartbreaking article, at least scroll through it.
It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
Nixon: if the president does it, it's not illegal. Trump: also, if the president doesn't like it, it is.
Rubbish. It's the implant in my head that's keeping me awake theconversation.com/how-poor-sle...
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Musk: I'm not responsible for cuts. Also Musk:
Pete Hegseth's quest to deny the existence of women and minorities in the US military reaches absurdist heights as pictures of the Enola Gay are purged. apnews.com/article/dei-...
These actions are so staggeringly stupid that it's hard to believe the face-value motivation. "Woke" is a straw man for a project to undermine the effectiveness of American public institutions themselves. www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
If Trump was President in 1940
Looks like there may have been some insider trading today to coincide with Trump's crypto reserve announcement. Someone made millions in a few hours. I wonder who.
Now that we've been informed that war is peace, let us not forget also that ignorance is strength. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cdc-wh...
"Zelenskyy reminded them that he had thanked the American people multiple times ... But it appears that gratitude to the American *people* isn’t what Trump and Vance were looking for — they wanted him to grovel and prostrate himself in front of Trump." kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...
It would appear that the Oval Office is routinely occupied by Russian state operatives at present.
If in any previous US administration a Russian state operative had slipped into the Oval Office while two heads of state were present, the scandal might have brought that administration down. Now it's just a passing detail. They did manage to keep out AP & Reuters. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/m...
I'm quietly indulging a fantasy where Chazza says "you must see my dunge- er, wine cellar"; then ushers Donny downstairs, never to be seen again
Being a human right now is becoming increasingly embarrassing. When the aliens invade (not a moment to soon) I'm going to dress up as a dolphin and deny all responsibility. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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My favourite commentary on international politics is @susiedent.com 's Word of the Day column 'quockerwodger' is a recent favourite
Trump believes so deeply in eliminating governmental profligacy that he's spending $200 million of taxpayers' money on ads thanking himself.
When Johnson said this I didn't grasp that he was talking about a club he wanted the US to join
Calling the US executive branch an Organised Crime Group stretches the definition of the word "organised". But "Mobsters" works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEta...
Governmental acts of self harm are all the rage right now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thoughts and prayers to @theonion.com www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
"This is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organisations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal US data and install backdoors to allow for future access." – Bruce Schneier & David Ottenheimer. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...
What an infantile dereliction of responsibility as a person of influence to assert that our greatest existential threat isn't war, pandemic, economic meltdown, tyranny or the climate catastrophe. Oh no. It's PRONOUNS. Grow up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Re: the 'peace talks' in Saudi, it's hardly a negotiation when one side is representing Putin's interests and the other side is representing Putin's interests.
No one could tell if they work for Musk or were just regular thieves www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
This DOGE episode ... which will be more damaging: the criminality or the incompetence?
Flags in support of human rights will be banned. But Nazi and Confederate flags are OK... www.yahoo.com/news/utah-bi...
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"Every federal agency I’ve worked for was made up of good people trying to do the right thing for the American taxpayer. Did we get it right all the time? Absolutely not, but that didn’t stop us from getting up the next day and trying to do better again." federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2...
"I don’t know of a case where an organisation has been more transparent." No content, no links, no access from outside the US. Just a big golden dollar.
“Users with access to GenAI tools produce a less diverse set of outcomes ... This tendency for convergence reflects a lack of personal, contextualised, critical and reflective judgment of AI output and thus can be interpreted as a deterioration of critical thinking.” www.404media.co/email/1e37ba...
"In a pattern unparalleled in the industrialised world, Americans with less than a college degree experienced a real (inflation-adjusted) decline in their wages between 1980 and 2013." Good old trickle-down Reaganomics! Meanwhile Trump hands senior government positions to 16 billionnaires
'Big Balls' and Musk's other incel commandos exemplify why end-to-end encryption is necessary Former GCHQ boardmember Ciaran Martin today reiterated that backdoors such as those being demanded of Apple by the UK govt are unworkable & risk serious consequences. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...
This tells you who their constituents are. Not American voters. Not Americans at all. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
@wired.com is doing great work atm
DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack while agency transitions to a records system not subject to FOIA 🔗 www.404media.co/doge-employe...
I won the Soccerball World Cup all on my own, so bigly, like no one has ever won it before. It's mine now. They told me I could keep it. That's what people are saying.
A recently introduced AI testing benchmark, designed "to test the limits of AI knowledge at the frontiers of human expertise", is called "Humanity’s Last Exam". And if that isn't ominous enough for you, it turns out that that moniker is a soft-pedalling of its original name: "Humanity's Last Stand".
I thought that whole 'deep state' malarky was an attack line. I didn't realise it was a recipe. Interesting thread:
I read a Groundhog Day article on USA Today. Then I read a Groundhog Day article on USA Today. Then I read a Groundhog Day article on USA Today. Then I read a Groundhog Day article on USA Today...
Soldiers, civil servants, firemen, doctors, police. What Trump and his sycophants really cannot countenance is people who devote their lives to the service of others.
Trump: accuses government agencies of not hiring the most qualified people Also Trump: hires a rabble whose only qualification for government is a history of bombastic speech on Fox News and Friday Night Smackdown
Meanwhile the proportion who still think the UK was right to vote to leave the EU has sunk to a historic low of 30%. A majority think we should just rejoin. yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Thousands of public data sets are disappearing. Stalin would be proud of this new regime www.404media.co/archivists-w...
The Federal Aviation Administration doesn't have a chief. Musk told the last one to resign because the FAA tried to fine SpaceX for its failure to comply with safety requirements. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
Looking forward to seeing Toby Jones as @arusbridger.bsky.social deadline.com/2025/01/the-...