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China’s rise as the world’s clean energy superpower is reshaping global decarbonisation. The full implications are only starting to sink in.

An important new FT piece highlights that while much of the debate has focused on how Europe and the US should respond, the bigger story might be elsewhere.

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

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In America the revolving door is very clear across several arms of Government

And Peter Theil has a finger in most of these pies.

But this is now spreading to Europe.

Including the U.K.

The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.

Charles has an awful lot of medals for someone who was in the RN for just five years... in peacetime... largely on ships operating off Portsmouth and the Welsh coast...

Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040

E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours

Pricing to compete with low cost flights

Reduce emissions by 80%

Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

They really stuck the landing on this one.

Elon Musk: Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says "I will always love you"

I know people think Musk only bought Twitter to help the rise of fascism.

While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.

With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.

I’m not in the room, so can’t tell who is stiffing who. UK definitely has weaker hand; is entirely to blame for Brexit; still gives mixed signals about EU. But, in today’s geopolitical environment, bad for both sides to let UK-EU relations fracture further. At some stage, finger pointing shd stop.

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

finally the solution after spending years screaming ‘WHERE’S YOUR POPPY?’ at veg or pasta in boiling water

Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...

Michael Burry is betting on the AI bubble bursting and shorting Palantir and Nvidia stocks 👀👀👀
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

When I first brought this up about 7 years ago in the wake of Brexit - an elderly gentleman rang into the local radio station I was appearing on and said that "while he respected my opinion" I should be shot.

That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.

One evening Max, next door's cat, pawed at our patio door to be let in. I opened it and he sauntered in looking annoyed, jumped on 'his' chair and curled up to snooze.

Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.

EU demands UK pay into budget as part of relationship ‘reset’ Growing tension between London and Brussels just six months after summit set out to build stronger ties

Obviously, it's up to the EU to decide who it wants to have access to its market and on what terms. But this suggests to me they're rowing back on commitments made in the Common Understanding agreed at the May summit 1/3 www.ft.com/content/8963...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."

New analysis by @lgilbert.co

ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Strong get-out-the-vote message for Dems.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...

"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them."

✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,

ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Important, timely, analysis by @lgilbert.co debunking the commonly used line that "migrants are a burden". Shows that migrants are overwhelmingly bet fiscal contributors. Basically, you target migration, you crash the country.

Legal action launched against UK Government's climate plans LEGAL action is being taken against the UK Government's climate framework by the Good Law Project (GLP) as the Prime Minister travels to Brazil for…

“Our case is very simple. Starmer needs to stop exporting emissions to other countries. Instead he must listen to the experts so the UK does its fair share to tackle global heating” – @goodlawproject.org
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25601891.legal-action-launched-uk-governments-climate-agenda/

🌎 Share the facts on climate change with a new slide deck from Climate Central, available in English and Spanish. 🌎 www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Exactly this. The ECHR is there to protect Britons from their government, and Britons have less constitutional protections that any other state in Western Europe.

This is the last country that should be contemplating leaving.

(And the right should not be turning its back on rights and democracy)