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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

I mostly avoid The Atlantic's stories but there are three writers there that I always trust & read, and Charlie Warzel is one of them. This is a great piece.
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Excellent answer from a Polish politicien to a far-right girl... hope she understood !

Wilders wijst erop dat de oprichter van Hackdefense, het bedrijf dat de veiligheid van de software van de verkiezingen test, vroeger D66-lid was.

Dat onderzoek is alleen uitgevoerd in 2020, drie jaar voordat de PVV 37 zetels behaalde - met diezelfde door Hackdefense onderzochte software :')

The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester, being jacked up on stilts to the new street level during redevelopment. It definitely looks like it's about to waddle out of the picture.

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

Russian war plans

NATO's reaction or underreaction to the Russian attack on Poland will determine the timeline for the Russian invasion of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland. Make no mistake, the attack was a deliberate strategy to practice for the looming invasion of the Baltics.

To be fair, greentech deployment and climate action was never a race, it was a fitness program. Nobody has to win, everyone should want to improve.

Perfectly valid to say "well done China! Can I get a quote for some solar panels and batteries?"

4. Climate activists seeking an alternative to capitalism will keep failing. They should focus on addressing domestic inequality instead.

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post.

Start:

1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

Polish PM Donald Tusk thanked Dutch F-35 pilots and all NATO personnel involved in intercepting Russian drones over Poland, calling the mission “difficult, risky, and very effective.” He called it a success for NATO forces, and openly labeled Russia a “hostile state.”

My boss has fully bought into the AI hype, presented a Board paper detailing hundreds of employees we can get rid of. There's no AI that can do what he has told them so as the head of IT charged with delivering it, I'm fucking off to a better paid job before it goes tits up here.

Over 20 Russian drones—likely 23—violated Polish airspace last night. Dutch F-35s led the response, shooting down multiple Shaheds. Searches and location of the possible crash sites of these objects are ongoing," the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces announced.

Impotent statements like these are why Russia feels free to attack us.
This wasn’t an “incursion of drones.” Russia attacked Poland.
We shouldn’t “condemn it.” We should hit Russia with serious, damaging consequences.
We shouldn’t “call on Russia” to stop. We should stop them.

At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Spot on by @anildash.com: “The son of an immigrant, a child of the counterculture, a man offering an unmistakable fuck-you to Big Brother, and a person who, above all, would never kiss the ass of someone who had absolutely awful taste. This was Steve Jobs." www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...

Idea for an amicus brief: We list the powers in a chart let's say Louis XIV claimed for himself, and maybe the courts can just indicate with a checkmark which ones of those Trump doesn't have. Seems more efficient.

Qatar gifted Trump a luxury plane.

Trump returned the favor by ok’ing an Israeli attack on their capital.

I imagine Qatar has briber’s remorse.

Europe is still pushing for the scanning of all your outgoing messages for potential child sexual abuse material (the so called 'chat control' proposal). This is bad for privacy, cripples end-to-end encryption, and makes apps like WhatsApp and Signal no longer secure for business and government use.

it's real support from actual racists

Russia attacked Ukraine every day that Donald was president the 1st time
Russia has attacked Ukraine every day Donald has been president the 2nd time

He somehow thinks we wouldn't have attacked Ukraine if he was president.

JD Vance combines arrogance, ignorance, malice, bad faith, ambition, and shitty instincts in ways that just amaze.

His assholery is breathtaking.

How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy Plus, scientists are fighting back against the administration’s climate misinformation.

Trump's climate strategy amounts to the innovator’s dilemma playing out at a national scale—a country clinging to its declining industries rather than investing in the ones that will define the future.

a graph of high temperatures, daily severity rating and radiative power, showing how heat and DSR built up before fires broke out

Heat & very dry air that used to be rare, now very common in Spain & Portugal, putting huge strain on EU firefighting resources - at 1.3C global warming. Every additional ton of fossil fuels burnt will make European summers even more deadly & dangerous www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...

Europe: Watch it Russia! Once you agree to a ceasefire we’ll arm Ukraine to the teeth & send air support & troops to keep the peace

Russia: Cool thanks for the heads up. We’ll escalate the killing now then & ensure no ceasefire ever happens so we can keep destroying Ukraine undisturbed 👌

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

"A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresenting climate science." From @juliaradio.bsky.social @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...

The National Guardners

Opinion | Why the Texas Democrats’ Walkout Worked

"They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements." - www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

Stikstofplannen Wiersma kosten 21 miljard euro en leveren bijna niks op De plannen waarmee demissionair landbouwminister Femke Wiersma de stikstofcrisis te lijf wil gaan kosten tientallen miljarden, maar laten de ammoniakuitstoot amper dalen. Dat concluderen de kennisinst...

Deze minister moet zo snel mogelijk stoppen met haar rampzalige plannen.
Stilstand betalen met heel veel geld van u en mij.

Het wordt een wederom een verhitte volgende week.
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