Scientists had warned us. Climate change doesn't just hurt nature, it also hurts capital. You can continue to deny it or ignore acting on it, only if you can afford to pay for the growing damages. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Heat Pushes Rhine Toward 36-Year Low in Risk to Energy Supplies

The Rhine River’s water levels risk dropping to an unprecedented low as heat waves grip Europe, creating a bottleneck for the delivery of coal and fuels inland while raising shipping costs.

bloomberg.com

Perfect score on Pointed!

President Donald Trump and his team had several red lines that they used to justify the US war against Iran. At a press conference on Wednesday, Trump largely brushed them aside. Read more: bloom.bg/4vVPr3d 📷️: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg

A perfect score on the Bloomberg news quiz

My first perfect score

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe

The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

scientificamerican.com

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

On the 18th anniversary of the start of the Great Financial Crisis, I just read this line in an FT story

I made good use of my leverage today. It might be my highest score yet

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

nytimes.com

Got lots of answers wrong, but I leveraged up on the right questions

My best result yet

Also, the iPhone might be a threat to Nokia, and the talkies could create problems for silent film

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Piers Morgan warns rise of YouTube is a ‘wake-up moment’ for traditional media

I think this from today’s @WSJ editorial is key to understanding what is happening in America. It has been central to my analysis of Trump 2.0. The new isolationism is as much, if not more, about economic policy than foreign policy. Plenty more on Wealth of Nations (link below)

With Melania dressed like this I’m half expecting Indiana Jones to swing into the rotunda on his bullwhip and stop the inauguration

The most likely motivation for this - he plans to rename it Trumpland

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2y ago

Donald Trump promised to 'make Greenland great again'. on.ft.com/3W7MNbw

NEW: Apple prepares three year push to replace Qualcomm modems across its devices. Inside the company’s modem roadmap, features, and timelines. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Apple Prepares Three-Year Modem Rollout in Bid to Outdo Qualcomm

Apple Inc. is preparing to finally bring one of its most ambitious projects to market: a series of cellular modem chips that will replace components from longtime partner — and adversary — Qualcomm In...

bloomberg.com

Is Kemi Badenoch planning to demand Keir Starmer's resignation on a weekly basis? news.sky.com/story/amp/st...

Starmer's McDonald's joke would be called racist if made by a Tory, Kemi Badenoch claims

Sir Keir Starmer joked about the Tory leader saying she "became working class" through her job at McDonald's. Kemi Badenoch says a Conservative PM making the same joke would have been asked to resign.

news.sky.com

Our benefits system is absolutely certainly one of the drivers of higher rates of long term inactivity - terrible decisions in the 2010s created a binary system that asks people to prove they are too ill to work

Adam Corlett@adamcorlett.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is excellent from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social. www.ft.com/content/1409... Inactivity due to long-term sickness is up, but that could be a more subjective trend than you might think. Health-related benefit take-up may be affecting long-term sickness numbers as well as the reverse.

I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.

One one level this is appalling, but the act itself is also clearly some form of art https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/crypto-entrepreneur-justin-sun-eats-banana-art-he-bought-for-6m-dollars?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Crypto entrepreneur eats banana art he bought for $6.2m

Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last week

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Stuff I painted in the past 7 days. It's quite nice not to have one big project on the go and to be able to pick and choose different types of model.

would like to see a venn diagram of those who 1] signed the petition calling for a second 2024 election, and also 2] raged against the very idea of a Brexit second referendum

This WSJ story on how a Russian man is worth more dead in Ukraine than alive at home is a real eye-opener www.wsj.com/world/russia...

The ‘Deathonomics’ Powering Russia’s War Machine

Facing heavy losses in Ukraine, Russia is offering high salaries and bonuses to entice new recruits. In some poor regions, a military wage is as much as five times the average.

wsj.com

Efficiency: a fairy story. One day a very rich man got cross because he believed that more people should be applauding his public statements in the town square. The people in the town square tried to explain: "plenty of people are applauding you, but we can't force everyone here to do that." 1