‘Renewables offer humanity an unlikely exit ramp off our current highway to #climate hell – if only our politicians & business leaders had the wit & mettle to grasp this slenderest of lifelines’ My take in Irish Examiner today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Renewables are a lifeline our politicians are too cowardly to grasp

Every month that passes brings us another step closer to tragedy

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China has more to lose from a breakdown in trade relations with the EU than its rhetoric suggests (via Bloomberg Opinion)

China’s Trade Defiance Will Come at a Cost

Any hope that China and the European Union might amicably resolve their widening trade imbalance is rapidly fading. A policy document published last week reveals Beijing is leaving little scope for compromise, giving Brussels few options but to pursue protectionist measures.

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President Donald Trump said the US joined a currency-market intervention that lifted the yen last week as a sign of friendship with Japan and to help the global economy.

Trump Says Yen Intervention Is Signal of Japan Friendship

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the US stepped in to help fight “disorderly” movements in the yen and is ready to keep helping Japan, while President Donald Trump said the currency-market intervention was a sign of friendship with Tokyo.

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🎙️ LIVE NOW: South Korea’s stock market has whipsawed from an AI-driven rally to a historic slump. Join Bloomberg reporters to ask your questions about what’s next.

Live Q&A: What’s Next For South Korea’s Volatile Stock Market?

Bloomberg reporters take your questions on the KOSPI’s wild swings, as AI-driven rallies and slumps hit investors. Join our Live Q&A on August 3 at 11 a.m. HKT/12 p.m.

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The world has reached the 3-terawatt threshold of solar power, with the first terawatt taking 10 years to deploy and the next two taking five. Forecasters expect 9 terawatts of solar by 2036. Growth of solar power is limited by lack of funds and the need for energy storage.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 3d ago

That solar panels are now an everyday sighting almost everywhere in the world is what makes it a remarkable story. The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

honey, this Sunday's imminent deal just dropped

Fund should be renamed Situational Oblivion...

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d ago

In a blink, Leopold Aschenbrenner's wildly successful hedge fund was forced to sell billions of dollars of technology investments as nervous banks began to demand more and more collateral for his trades. Then came billionaire Ken Griffin. bloom.bg/3REEXqK 📷: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg

Kospi closed up 18%... leveraged fund shakeout over?

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d ago

South Korean stocks jump 15% as SK Hynix and Samsung rally on revived confidence in the AI trade

China’s factory activity unexpectedly contracted for the first time in five months, adding to signs of slowing economic momentum

China’s Factories, Construction Slump in Sign of Deeper Slowdown

China’s factory activity unexpectedly contracted for the first time in five months and construction slumped to the lowest since the start of the pandemic, pointing to a further loss of momentum in the economy after a slowdown last quarter.

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The Congo Basin is vast and critical to the planet's climate, but it gets only a fraction of the research that the Amazon attracts. Scientists want to change that.

Africa’s Congo Basin, Vital to Earth’s Climate, Is Critically Understudied

To fill the knowledge gap, scientists hope to fund 1,000 African researchers to pursue PhDs on the basin, which is as important for the planet as the Amazon.

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Europe’s insurers are bracing for a new era of catastrophe risk fanned by rising temperatures in the world’s fastest-warming continent.

Insurers Are ‘Actively Evaluating’ New Catastrophe Risks as Europe Burns

Insurers are bracing for a new era of catastrophe risk in Europe fanned by rising temperatures in the world’s fastest-warming continent.

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Will people tire of getting their emotional buttons pushed and just turn social media off? (He writes on social media!)

Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · 5d ago

The politics of emotion risk being supercharged by new forms of AI

Putin flew Syrians and Afghanis to Belarus to "invade" Poland so this has precedent. Is he behind it?

Due process is important, especially when Infantino (recinds red cards etc.) and Kushners (Albania etc.) are involved.

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸@resistrebelrevolt.net · 6d ago

Following UEFA, Concacaf — (N American, Central American, & Caribbean Football Federation) — rejects Infantino's proposal to sell stakes in the World Cup. ⚽️🏟 2 down. 4 to go. 👀

France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼

The same is true for the Gulf arab nations and the Iran war. It must be clear by now that Trump couldn't care less about his allies.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d ago

No one can ever believe anything Trump pledges, says or puts in writing. With Trump, a deal is never a deal and nobody can count on the US for anything while he’s president. His word is garbage, agreements mean nothing, and he lies about everything.

Someone in marketing forgot to bot sit :-)

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 6d ago

I can't be sure, but...I think this is advertising a chance for a five-way with elderly quadruplets?

US anti-science behavior suggests return to Medieval period. History isn't a linear progression. Greco-Roman civilization fell to cultures that worshipped violence like the current US regime. It took hundreds of years for the Renaissance to revive science. China went backwards under Qings/Mao.

Middle Age Riot@middleageriot.bsky.social · last wk.

Dr. Fauci: "Get vaccinated." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Wear masks." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Socially distance." Republicans: "No." (A million-plus Americans die from COVID.) Republicans: "Prosecute Fauci!"

Bit of a 180 for a voter base that elected Trump on the promise of no more unneeded wars.

Allister Heath literally just edited a front page about Brits fleeing their homes in Spain! But wants the same for the UK.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 7d ago

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

Allister Heath in 1940: “We’ve lost the war against Germany. Time to scrap the RAF.”

Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

What a waste of time.

TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · last wk.

I checked the stats in this. They're true. 1/2

What do you do when murderers remain violent in prison? This guy killed his cell mate for snoring... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sticker trial: Murder defendant killed cellmate, court told

Jurors told James Desborough was convicted in a separate trial held in March.

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Eastsplaining@eastsplaining.bsky.social · last wk.

A lonely manosphere influencer went to support Andrew Tate in jail only to discover he is the only such idiot in entire New York City

BBC on how tech's centibillionaires broke the Internet with algorithmic radicalisation, variable rewards, enshittification and other human engineering just to make themselves a few billion more. Guess we are to blame for letting them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Ss...

What happened to the internet?

YouTube video by BBC Ideas

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Loomer "truth bomb" tour? “Interesting you feel this way about an air raid, yet are thrilled when 70,000 Iranian civilians are killed, and you keep begging the administration to annihilate every one of them.” “In Gaza they just drop bombs without warning.” www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/...

Laura Loomer faces fierce backlash after Kyiv air raid post: 'In Gaza they just drop bombs'

Laura Loomer said experiencing an overnight air raid in Kyiv changed her perspective on the war. 

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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update from Ukraine.

Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So the US Navy is solely to blame for surging fuel costs?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "Only ships that we want to get through get through. Iran doesn't control the strait. We control the strait. Now, they can drop a couple of mines in there and screw things up. But we control the strait."

Only on BlueSky would you find people rushing to make excuses for a man who rammed a van into a Gay Pride parade in comments section. One says it is a conspiracy theory. One worries Police killed him when rushing them with a knife. It's ok to have far-left ideology but we live in the real world.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

Abdul Ballout sought for 'Islamist terror attack' after a van was driven into crowds at LGBTQ event in German capital.