Huh you can just do that???? Financial Times: "China has launched a global hunt for hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes going back decades as Beijing seeks to fill a deepening fiscal hole by targeting the ultra rich." www.ft.com/content/e179...

China launches global tax hunt going back decades

Fiscal pressure sparks retroactive campaign and tougher controls on future offshore capital flows

ft.com

Before reading this, I legit had no idea so many things from Earth, intentional or not were being crashed into the moon. Poor moon. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/05/spacex-rocket-moon-crash-impact-falcon-9

love it. all you have to do is factor in hours worked + inequality (reduced utility of marginal dollars allocated to already rich people), and we suck

Western Europe Is Richer Than the US

Let's put an end to the stupid GDP discourse.

peoplespolicyproject.org

The conversation about AI in health stuff is always about the risks of patients using AI. I'm more worried about possibilities like every appointment gets inspected by an insurance company in detail so that if a patient uses the slightly wrong words about something their care is denied.

Jae Holzman, Tarbell of the 21st century. WE SALUTE YOU, OH DESTROYER OF PETROTECH DATACENTRE RECARBONISATION 👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪✊✊✊

charjaebug@jael.bsky.social · 2d ago

confirmed: renewable energy developer clearway is pivoting away from developing a gas fired data center on federal lands in nevada, days after i exposed their internal plans my latest scoop on @heatmap.news and the impact journalism we provide

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

I’d love to know what people outside the industry think “data centre” actually means, because no one I know expects them to contain any jobs at all. As someone who has built several: any employee is a design flaw.

The U.S. State department has taken "full responsibility" for presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. Every single one. The map had a watermark indicating it was made using AI from OpenAI.

Found via @simonwillison.net, a good piece by Bruce Schneier on how to decide when to use AI for a writing task (yes, usual caveats about environment, ip, monopoly privacy, etc. aside). The “gym vs work“ analogy is really simple, intuitive and helpful. Good find 👍 www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0

that is in fact literally in the bible. it's Matthew 6:5.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · last wk.

Rep. Lauren Boebert insists that public Christian worship events are necessary for America to experience revival: "I don't think that Jesus ever called for any Christian to pray only silently or to keep their faith hidden only in the prayer closet."

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

dropsitenews.com

#TeamBinface

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3y ago

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

There are people who will tell you with a perfectly straight face that climate change impacts are not that bad, nothing to panic and rapidly phase out fossil fuels about. And anyway this destruction is about failure to adapt so it's sort of their fault.

Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The number of people evacuated in France and Spain has now passed 250,000...Both countries are facing unprecedented blazes that are spreading unchecked despite the efforts of many hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Hey, look, Mamdani speaks for Americans while his many critics… do not.

The attention economy is super competitive. If you appreciate the work I'm doing on my new platform at @transitiontimes.bsky.social, please subscribe (even as a free member) right here: www.transitiontimes.net/subscribe/ and share the articles with your friends & colleagues!

@giuliomattioli.bsky.social: "If Germany were leading in electric vehicle exports, would we be pondering with concern about the "devastation" that brings to other countries' industries and economies?" #alwaysbecharging

Robin Brooks@robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

China's car exports have gone vertical in the past 6 months. That's mostly EVs and I hear a lot of people cheering this, but there's nothing good about this. We've seen this movie before. The result has been devastation of Western industry and job losses... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/china-is-w...

I was recently scuba diving in Indonesia and I can 100% confirm that the dick starfish are real and they actually look like this:

This is really nice write up by Alberto Cottica, an economist, with deep experience and expertise with open data, talking about how other veteran open data analysts have had some success using GenAi tools to work more effectively with open data. www.cottica.net/2026/06/02/t... one thing tho /1

The open data centaurs: interacting with data via LLM-assisted structured queries | "Belay that order, comrades"

Navigating the world by trial, error and dead reckoning

cottica.net

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

heatmap.news

Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling

Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

bbc.co.uk

Required reading for Supreme Court watchers, but also for the rest of us. Yes, it's high time to laugh out loud when someone, say, tries to argue that the price of CO₂ pollution is zero, equates pollution and economic growth, or says that the answer to fossilflation is to drill for more oil.

An import point that most people don’t fully grasp. Generating electricity from renewables like solar and wind eliminates this wasted energy. We can deliver more energy services with vastly lower primary energy consumption.

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 3w ago

Two-thirds of global energy is wasted, mostly as combustion heat. Electrification gets rid of most of that waste rather than replacing it. From my keynote at the Eurelectric PowerSummit.

This is obvs me venting more than a well thought-out thing but oh my, sometimes I wish young people would get 16-18 years worth of revenge voting the first time they vote, so they could vote extra hard to punish stuff like this. Maybe ppl'd think twice about this kind of intergenerational violence.

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told." He intends to make a "dynamic" start, apparently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i had no idea this would become so literal

This is demonstrably true in the UK.

Raja Dasgupta@rajadasgupta.bsky.social · 3w ago

In Australia, I do think it is more taboo to accuse a racist of being racist than it is to actually be racist

I find myself using it less and less of late, but there are people I follow on Mastodon who I am really glad they post what they do. This post from Alberto Cottica, a literal rock star turned economist at the UNDP, on post-growth economics is one such post mastodon.green/@alberto_cot...

Alberto Cottica (@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green)

Attached: 1 image I am intrigued by post-growth economics, and its epic struggle to replace neoclassical economics as the main lens through which to view economic structures and activity. Post-growth...

mastodon.green

Want to keep people cool AND generate energy? Solar panel shading systems! This is a new timber-framed office and laboratory in Basel, by Herzog de Meuron

It’s nice to be nice. It’s nice to be nice. It’s nice to be nice. Don’t say anything mean. About him or Ann Widdecombe. It’s nice to be nice. It’s nice to be nice. You can do this. He died too old. DAMMIT. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’

Graham had just returned from Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

nbcnews.com