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Business Unusual: Forget Forecasts: Plan for Plausible Futures - Malaya Business Insight By CHAD BRIGGS THE Philippines was hit in consecutive weeks—almost days—by two storms that illustrate the challenges of understanding and anticipating how to react in our new climate reality. Typhoon ...

The first of my new Malaya Business Insight newspaper column here in the Philippines, in reaction to our last two storms
malaya.com.ph/weekender/th...

A Tale of Two American Cemeteries Bound Together by the Long History of American Racism Arlington, Virginia

You know we have hit an all-time low when a foreign country cares more about protecting our history than we do. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Unwell Women Summary of Key Ideas and Review | Elinor Cleghorn - Blinkist Gain a complete understanding of “Unwell Women” by Elinor Cleghorn from Blinkist. The “Unwell Women” book summary will give you access to a synopsis of key ideas, a short story, and an audio summary.

And who can forget the wandering womb theory, which persisted as Hippocrates’ idea into the early 20th century? 🙄

Elinor Cleghorn's book Unwell Women is a rundown of men who decided they know the human body more than anyone else, predominantly female healers.

www.blinkist.com/en/books/unw...

Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

They had the chance to folklore troll him like the South Koreans, but, with Swiss precision, chose to bribe him.

I'm looking forward to prosecuting a Swiss federal councilor for bribery.

Recipe: the key to creamy cream free soup is hiding in your pantry Person: OK i'm hiding in my pantry, what next?

Más különben már rég bedarálták volna. (15 éve nem nézek magyar TV-t; nem is hiányzik, hogy a "hírekkel" vitatkozzak mert hazudnak.)

Rónai Egon a megtűrt kicsit-provokatív alákérdező szerepét lavírozta, ezért csodálom hogy hagytak más értelmes embereket dolgozni, amíg voltak (pl. Krug Emília).

Solid choice. I travelled around Iceland in a Jimny (in June 2009, when their currency was at its lowest). It was a low-cost 4-wheel option with heating (the first week of June was still a bit chilly), and it overcame all kinds of roads, including snowy overpasses.

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

The paranoid politics of Nigel Farage Reform’s vision of a Britain wracked by migrant criminals is an expedient mirage.

Yes, that means they are lying for political gain.

So do many more, e.g. Farage and Reform in the UK.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Empirical research of Austria, Germany, Hungary & USA politicians’ illiberal policy frames:

“Narratives show no relation to markers of the underlying policy crises, which points to a political strategy based on continued fear-mongering [e.g on immigration] rather than crisis exploitation.”

Crisis-exploitation or fear-mongering? A research agenda for the comparative study of policy crises and illiberal policy frames The pervasive and growing illiberal movement is, perhaps, the greatest global challenge to liberal democracy today. Scholars argue that domestic and international crises have played an important ro...

🤔 Illiberal policy frames? Turns out it’s fear-mongering, not crisis-driven

👥 @miklossebok.bsky.social, @buzogany.bsky.social, @juliafleischer.bsky.social, @gessler.bsky.social, Anna Takács, @seanmtheriault.bsky.social & Ákos Holányi

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

More evidence that “crisis” is performed and that “populists” are particularly apt at performing “crisis”, as @benmoffitt.bsky.social has argued forcefully.

bsky.app/profile/anml...

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Post by SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational companies) of Amsterdam: 1 out of 25 participants in COP30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist. (a total of 1600 present) EU governments alone brought 84 including representatives of national energy companies like Engie and TotalEnergies. Climate policies can't be effective if they are shaped by the industry that is most responsible for climate change

Carbon action tracker global update 2025: ten years after the Paris Agreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive years. the 2035 NDCs (the national decarbonization plans) have made no difference to our warming outlook. note about NDCs, many countries omitted drafting decarbonization plans in fear of economic slowdown and competition to others not decarbonizing. that is a race to the bottom

These two are not unrelated. 🤬

People showing up for these events are complicit, plain and simple, in the ongoing damage.
Including many of my former corporate employers.

Fossil fuel policies are advanced on the largest international climate talk. cop-out continues.

#COP30 #climatepolicies #NDCs

European Commission breaches own AI guidelines by using ChatGPT in public documents ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative AI in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under...

The European Commission uses ChatGPT outputs in public documents.

@iccl.bsky.social has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman as this use likely violates Commission's own guidelines and its obligation under EU treaties

www.iccl.ie/news/europea...

Yup, integrated by segregation, red lines and economic inequalities.
Values underlying the project were rotten from the beginning; slaveholders against the British crown could not build a healthy outcome. Slave patrols lived on, liberty sacrificed for security, slight change to the underbelly.

People showing up for someone they know/care about is how a by-design disintegrated society begins to heal.

Solidarity is dead on arrival in an individualistic society. Europeans have guardrails that Americans cry wolf about, including re: violence of banana republic style. However, some work to codify a path.

Communities were wiped out for shareholder value creation. The fight is different, but exists.

Orban tested a scalable playbook over 15 years (with a very harsh first 5). ICE is incomparable.

PiS of Poland rushed its implementation under 3 and got booted.

US does it under 1. I expect nothing but fight from US, although my GOP-voting family members twisted into pretzels says all is okay. 🫠

this is from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social for @wired.com:

these texts (and the context around them) are some of the wildest ones I've read from the House Oversight Committee drop.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

“Hungary, it seems, has mastered the art of discouragement. From the moment a young woman graduates, the system is ready: no support, no respect, and no clear pathways. Just a long, lonely job hunt, followed by underpaid, undervalued work – if she’s lucky enough to get hired at all.”

Hungary Births Drop to Record in Blow to Orban’s Family Policies (Bloomberg) -- The number of births in Hungary dropped to a record last year, raising questions about the demographic impact of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s lavish family subsidy program.Most Read fr...

"The number of births in Hungary dropped to a record last year, raising questions about the demographic impact of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s lavish family subsidy program."
Ofc, JC Vance is a fan of all this idiocy, want the same & more. Not for more 👶

Also: these programs bankrupt the country.

In Orbán’s Fight for Families, Women’s Rights are Collateral Damage Independent organisations warn of the erosion of women’s rights and the worsening of their treatment as a consequence of the government's narrative about families.

The orbanification of America.

By 2024, despite intense "Hungary is family-friendly" billboard campaigns...they wallpapered the 1 airport with this shit..more kids were born to Hungarian parents on abroad.

Ofc, "the main purpose in a woman's life is kids", according to govt.
Now with tax breaks.🙄

"why don't women want to have more kids?!"

Because you made a country they want to flee.

“Hungary, it seems, has mastered the art of discouragement. From the moment a young woman graduates, the system is ready: no support, no respect, and no clear pathways. Just a long, lonely job hunt, followed by underpaid, undervalued work – if she’s lucky enough to get hired at all.”

Hungary Births Drop to Record in Blow to Orban’s Family Policies (Bloomberg) -- The number of births in Hungary dropped to a record last year, raising questions about the demographic impact of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s lavish family subsidy program.Most Read fr...

"The number of births in Hungary dropped to a record last year, raising questions about the demographic impact of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s lavish family subsidy program."

Also: these programs bankrupt the country.

www.yahoo.com/news/hungary...