⚡ Power prices have split across Europe since the US-Iran conflict. Prices have surged in gas-reliant markets with interconnectors at capacity. Renewable-rich regions have seen the lowest prices - like sunny Spain and Portugal and hydro-powered Sweden.

"The 'vast machine' of environmental modeling has exponentially increased in resolution and predictive power... our position conflates simulation space and the sky above us, scripting weather and sculpting clouds to rewrite the terms of nature". @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/journal/160/...

Warm War - Journal #160

Charles Stankievech examines how “our current epoch of conflict [is] increasingly shaped by the cascading effects of climate change and its weaponization.”

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The dry and the wet burn together www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma... "The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an international system in crisis... Instead there is a politics of gangster imperialism that has neither international nor domestic consent."

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together

The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

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Do you feel like your screen time is impacting your attention span? The panic around screens and their impact on literacy is everywhere. But the university librarian Carlo Iacono argues the problem isn’t the screen but the environment – which can be designed better

What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays

Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time

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Martes de Radio Ambulante 🇵🇪 Bernardo Haour nació en París, en el período entreguerras. Siendo joven, entró al noviciado de los jesuitas. A sus 51 años decidió ir a trabajar con la orden jesuita en Perú sin saber que terminaría queriendo vivir el resto de su vida como peruano.

If you are around Cambridge, UK, next 20 May, don’t miss this talk. We at @planetarypraxis.bsky.social are hosting @sunqasapa.bsky.social , who will present on the fraught infrastructures of timber supply chains' traceability and the epistemic possibilities and contestations they elicit.

Visto cómo se ejerce el poder desde el Ejecutivo, creo que no habría estado tan mal que hubiera vacío de poder. Nos habríamos podido tomar unos meses...

Idea random: que por ley todos los candidatos lleven un qr, en sus chalecos y material de campaña, con sus sentencias y finanzas.

In light of Bad Bunny's lights out Superbowl halftime show, here are three folks I've interviewed from Puerto Rico about how the island can light up its grid with local power: vist.ly/4rdkb

Bad Bunny Takes On Power | Energy Democracy

Read stories from community leaders about clean energy resilience in Puerto Rico, in the aftermath of Bad Bunny's symbolic Super Bowl performance.

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"El Apagón" is the song Bad Bunny was performing during this part of the halftime show using imagery that was apparently too subtle for some people It's one of his most interesting songs with a ton of political context and meaning plus it’s an absolute banger

Random thought: as per minimum regulation every AI query should be preceded by a pop-up showing how much water and electricity will be required to carry it out.

A pedagogical tax open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...

A pedagogical tax

Why the rich should be Uber-taxed

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NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @creacleanair.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO

El pasado 29 de enero, la Cambridge Peruvian Society organizó un conversatorio sobre la crisis inacabable en la que parece sumergido el Perú. Aquí un resumen comentado desde el Substack caviarismo. caviarism.substack.com/p/hegemonia-...

Hegemonía sin legitimidad

Conversación sobre el Perú y sus múltiples crisis

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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Pep Guardiola used a news conference to speak out on a range of humanitarian issues, including calling the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by U.S. federal agents indefensible and again expressing his support for Palestinians. More from Sam Lee & @lukebosher.bsky.social

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola speaks out on Minnesota killings, Palestine in news conference

“Humanity is better than ever in terms of possibilities, but still right now we kill each other, for what?” Guardiola said.

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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Today’s climate models aren’t sufficiently realistic to predict something as complex as climate change. Some scientists argue that they might never be sufficiently accurate to make multi-decadal, local climate predictions. If so, how can we make good decisions despite the inevitable uncertainty?

Today’s complex climate models aren’t equivalent to reality | Aeon Essays

The immense complexity of the climate makes it impossible to model accurately. Instead we must use uncertainty to our advantage

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"[Perú] se trata de un país en el cual un archipiélago de pigmeos políticos —de plural extracción social, territorial e ideológica— comparte la convicción de saquear lo público... una extendida convergencia abocada a... impunidad y extracción de rentas." forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-...

"We need to give up the idea that there are material things which we’re describing from the outside. The best way of conceptualizing reality in light of modern science is in terms of the relative information that pieces of nature have about one another." www.quantamagazine.org/carlo-rovell...

Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality | Quanta Magazine

The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.

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DeBriefed | Renewables power past coal; Legacy of UK’s Climate Change Act; Fukushima’s solar future ✍️ Written by @jjgoodman.bsky.social 💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/rxBff7B

The End of Understanding: How AI is changing the practice and purpose of science Join @ninedotsprize.org winner @gracehuckins.bsky.social for an online #WIP & discussion seminar on 23 October at 5pm. A draft chapter of their book will be circulated beforehand https://bit.ly/4q621Lu

The End of Understanding: How AI is changing the practice and purpose of science - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

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Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right. Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

The training data for generative AI is far from the sum total of human knowledge. As well as oral cultures, many languages are absent, creating significant blindspots in AI’s understanding of human experience

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

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"Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire... The deepfakes proliferating across far-right social media... are fascistic dream machines." via @lrb.co.uk . www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

“According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot continue indefinitely” said George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

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