bit of cycling, environmental science and some financial market stuff
Northern NSW, Australia
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"The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet.
Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future."
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The average mountain glacier thickness, excluding Antarctica and Greenland, is ~230 m (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…)
A drop of 27 mwe, means more than 10% of the ice in mountain glaciers has already been lost, and the trend is still accelerating.
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We’re 2-3 years away from EV cars getting fully charged faster than gasoline cars get fully filled at the pump.
Truly insane how quick the industry is moving.
lol 🤪
You can’t script this…
Me: Who is the biggest disinformation spreader on X?
Grok: Elon Musk
xitter.cf/i/grok/share/15Y73NhYf…
Surely this is not actually his understanding
🚨FFS someone tell him🤦♂️
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Viral screenshots of such a post are fake. Trump's actual Truth Social account does not have such a post on it and Google hasn't indexed one either.
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202…
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Jim Chanos, legendary short seller, recently dropped a masterclass on today’s market risks.
From the “golden age of fraud” to why there are clear signs of the market reaching a top, his insights are a must-read.
Here are 7 key lessons from his latest Bloomberg interview 🧵👇
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President Trump went to the Justice Department and called judges "corrupt," prosecutors "deranged," and opponents "scum," all while calling the January 6th insurrectionists "political prisoners."
Here’s another adjective: disgraceful.
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For Christ's sake, America, *please* wake up to what this man is
mediaite.com/politics/elon-m…
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Students at Columbia are getting deported and expelled for objecting to this.
Israel killed 6 Palestinian kids every hour since October, on average. This is based on the official death toll of 19,500 children, a definite undercount. 6 kids murdered every single hour. To say nothing of the tens of thousands who have been disabled and orphaned.
ALT IMEU: Israel has killed an average of 6 Palestinian children every hour since October
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MUSK: A sophisticated cyberattack from Ukraine took out Twitter's servers
REALITY: Twitter's servers were not secured properly and were publicly visible
Great explainer here from @lilyhnewman
wired.com/story/x-ddos-attac…
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It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured stupidity that did it.
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President Trump says that he is going to label incidents of violence/vandalism at Tesla dealerships as “domestic terrorism.”
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Personally, I would just not post something so terminally embarrassing.
Reading below.
And now Russia launching air attack on Kyiv, literally only hours after Ukraine agrees to US ceasefire deal.
Trump has laid the trap for them after blackmailing them into it
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump purchases a Tesla from Elon Musk and has it delivered to the White House.
And there’s more
TRUMP: "I will label attacks on Tesla, $TSLA, dealerships as domestic terrorism.... We already know who some of them are, we are going to catch them."