📢 1/ New research released today by Oil Change Intl., ‘Broken Promises, Dirty Deals: Germany’s Fossil Fuel Finance Abroad and its Destructive Consequences’, uncovers how Germany is breaking its promise to stop using public money to fund fossil fuel projects overseas. ➡️ oilchange.org/news/uncover...

Uncovered: German finance backs Amazon gas expansion, defying its own policy - Oil Change International

New research, ‘Broken Promises, Dirty Deals: Germany’s Fossil Fuel Finance Abroad and its Destructive Consequences’ (in Englisgh and German), conducted by Oil

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got halfway through this thinking it was about A24 like damn, they're taking this horror thing too far!!! gizmodo.com/a16z-brags-t...

A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History

The average person isn't equipped to fact-check every video in their feed.

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[to the tune of “Duquesne Whistle”] i can smell that spokane fire blowin

also in strange recurrence: from right wing caricatures of postmodernism to "My belief is when some people very, very pompously hold their science above other people’s science, I say to them, there’s actually no way of knowing if yours is the right science"

hayden and things of that nature@hayden-higgins.bsky.social · 2d ago

"climate leviathan" thinking: be ready for the ways rhetoric and tactics, your legitimate concerns, will be swept up, appropriated, and appear to you in new guises, serving new masters, ill intentioned or well heated.world/p/the-influe...

"climate leviathan" thinking: be ready for the ways rhetoric and tactics, your legitimate concerns, will be swept up, appropriated, and appear to you in new guises, serving new masters, ill intentioned or well heated.world/p/the-influe...

The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

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Nickel might be cut out of critical spot in EV supply chain, showing the difficulty in matching rare metals bets with fast-moving tech marketplaces. asiatimes.com/2026/07/byd-...

BYD battery breakthrough crashes Indonesia's nickel cartel dream - Asia Times

A quiet but seismic shift is playing out across China’s globally dominant electric-vehicle supply chain, one with major implications for Indonesia’s

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can you imagine burying or visiting your loved ones in Arlington while tourists gawk at you from the Trump Arch "the immediate proximity to the cemetery means that tourists looking west would often be observing private funerals and grieving families, veterans say." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Park Service Finds Trump’s Arch Could Detract From Dozens of Historic Places

The 250-foot-tall edifice would alter views across Washington and Arlington Cemetery.

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airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

"Everyone living in the United States for long risks becoming stupid without a supreme effort to refuse it." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/benjamin-k...

Style Is Not Secondary

“Everyone living in the United States for long risks becoming stupid without a supreme effort to refuse it.”

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“It treats me like I'm an idiot who has to be tricked into a story, and I really dislike being treated like an idiot.” Death to in medias res. / Aftermath aftermath.site/death-to-beg... via @themorningnews.org themorningnews.org/the-hot-scre...

The hot screensaver of the summer

ICE added new contract terms that “state laws shall not apply” to its detention centers a day after a federal judge ordered a facility be opened to state health inspectors. / WIRED ...

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resisting the urge to walk over and fix the high school kids’ attempt at Y2K fashion. “the pooka shells must be like so”

one of the more depressing things about AI *rollout* is the way it undermines critical thinking. i open a PDF that's like six pages of journalistic writing in big font and Adobe is prompting me like i'm a wittle baby, "this looks like a long document, let me summarize it for you."

i think warriors fans in their ire for the coaches or front office or whoever, forget that the current CBA was more or less designed to kneecap them, and it worked

World's largest crude oil stabilization plant—Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq facility has been severely damaged by drone strikes A massive smoke column is rising from the plant Over 15% of global oil supply now disrupted or offline NASA satellite imagery confirms extensive fire activity at the site (1/4)

in light of @adamtooze.bsky.social chartbook on "lostalgia," the phenomenon of mourning lost futures, i have to point to @emorwee.bsky.social's fantastic recent post: it's not just the future that's being stolen. heated.world/p/another-su...

Another stolen summer day

What are we still waiting to learn?

heated.world

this is unfortunately a very astute post substack.com/home/post/p-...

Weaponizing Wildfire Smoke

Trump's tariff threat over Canadian wildfire smoke is a preview of how states will fight in a warming world.

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i wonder to what extent the bifurcation of American economic sentiment data by party is driven by the fact that Ds and Rs literally experience two different economies (different jobs, locations) as well as different interpretations, data & priorities data.sca.isr.umich.edu/fetchdoc.php...

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

thinking briefly about Great American Novels that do not in fact take place in USA: Moby Dick (at sea), Gravity’s Rainbow (Europe), Blood Meridian (Texas/Mexico), Sun Also Rises (Europe), Last of the Mohicans and Scarlet Letter (pre-US), Infinite Jest (ONAN)

“What the WRI report illuminates is that emerging economies are stepping up as active solution-providers, despite facing massive domestic climate vulnerabilities and severe capital constraints of their own.” Happy to have worked on this! dialogue.earth/en/climate/a...

As new sources of climate finance grow, the poorest are neglected

Developing countries are mobilising more and more climate finance but neglecting their lowest-income peers

dialogue.earth

silo is a show about what if jon ossoff tried to save the world

"In short, we often hear about living in the future during periods in which history is being violently erased...When we 'live in the future' we disavow the obvious fact that we are living in the present." flaminghydra.com/issue-601/

But wait / Be here now

Tom Tomorrow gets a surprise visitor—and when is the future, asks Annalee Newitz

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Great piece on Kalshi's planned ICE betting markets from @pabloreports.bsky.social Disgusting stuff migrantinsider.com/p/kalshi-wan...

Kalshi Wants You to Bet on How Many People ICE Abducts Today

A CFTC filing obtained by Migrant Insider shows the exchange quietly built a market that lets traders wager on ICE's daily arrest count with three confidential appendices the public never saw.

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how private equity ruined American cookware www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.

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tired: "New Slaves," Kanye West (2013) wired: New Slaves, Zs (2010)

yet another example of how Google's AI search fails at basic tasks (the song is "Center of the Universe," as the normal search results quickly showed)

great to read @cushac.bsky.social interview one of my favorite bands, the inimitable HORSE LORDS, about the constraints that produce their fantastic, wide-open new album, in @hearingthingsco.bsky.social www.hearingthings.co/horse-lords-...

Horse Lords' Perpetual Motion Machine

The beloved avant-rock band on polyrhythm, just intonation, and conveying liberatory politics through sound.

hearingthings.co

christopher nolan this, emily wilson that—i respect but one odysseus:

"Most of the time what we’re actually revelling in is ourselves." A statement about the World Cup, and how no amount of cronyism or corruption can take away the joy of football -- but just as well can be said about any number of cultural realms from music to sport. www.equator.org/articles/wor...

Football Belongs to Us • EQUATOR

Trump and Infantino have tried their best to spoil the World Cup, but the joy of the game remains undefeated

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