Benjamin Jullien

maybe, but it would greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the risk that Reform UK gets a majority...

Democracies should not be afraid of having a Parliament that actually represents the people. (including thise elites don't like), and PR is the best way to achieve this

Also, seen from outside, fun, messy haircuts are very much associated with the UK - and this was the case even before BoJo

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.

We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

anything that is rude has to be French, I guess ;)

«La justice ne leur fait pas peur» : des pelleteuses repérées sur une parcelle illégale du chantier de l’A69, malgré la décision du tribunal Rien affaire. Mercredi, sur le chantier de l’autoroute A69, des engins de travaux ont été aperçus sur une parcelle censée avoir été évacuée par Atosca après une décision judiciaire de janvier. Les opp...

Mercredi, sur le chantier de l’autoroute A69, des engins de travaux ont été aperçus sur une parcelle censée avoir été évacuée par Atosca après une décision judiciaire de janvier. Les opposant·es dénoncent un passage en force du concessionnaire.

vert.eco/articles/la-...

Trump's’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats

This does not include general corporate tax cuts that are likely to bolster those firms as well

thehill.com/policy/energ...

Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."

Anthropic Says AI Has a Catastrophic "Collective Action" Problem Anthropic has rewritten its flagship safety framework to acknowledge that no single AI developer can unilaterally prevent catastrophe — and to explain what it will and won't commit to doing alone.

Anthropic rewrote its AI safety framework and the core message is blunt: no single developer can unilaterally prevent catastrophic AI risk.

Full breakdown at Risk Market News ⬇️
www.riskmarketnews.com/anthropic-sa...

"A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible.

"When Gallup asked Americans during the 2008 recession how many wanted to leave the U.S., the answer was one in 10. Last year: One in five."

Google Is Proving You Don't Need On-Site Gas to Build Large Data Centers Quickly We found documents showing how Google is achieving "speed-to-power" without sacrificing its clean energy goals

To bypass clogged interconnection queues, the tech industry is undertaking a rapid buildout of onsite gas power. But why not build onsite renewables? @michael-thomas.bsky.social explains how Google is doing just that in Texas in a new partnership with AES Clean Energy.

30 years.

This video should be on every network.

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

sorry: www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

US’s economic exceptionalism was based on massive cost of capital advantages from 250 year commitment to the idea of the rule of law and the civil liberties underlying that commitment, which Trump is destroying. Investors are re-pricing.

www.ft.com/content/cfdc...

This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.

Down to Earth: Environment and Human Needs by Erik P. Elkhom, 1982, published by Pluto Press

"The urgent need for research cannot be used as an excuse for irresponsibly ignoring the consequences of today's decisions. Waiting another decade or 2 to begin factoring the CO2 implications into energy policy quite likely amounts to imposing great hardship on a future generation"-E.P. Eckholm 1982

Global warming must peak below 2°C to limit tipping point risks Global warming must peak below 2°C then return under 1.5°C as quickly as possible to limit the risk of dangerous “tipping points”, experts say.   The new paper, by an international team of researchers...

"...the higher the peak temperature, the more difficult it is to reverse temperature below critical levels and the longer it’s likely that we’ll remain in ‘overshoot’.” - @njsteinert.bsky.social, @cicero.oslo.no

#ClimateEmergency

This is the choice in front of us. Not whether to accept AI or reject it in its entirety. Not whether or not to stand outside a corporate building yelling END AI. Not whether to be techno-optimists or Luddites. But whether we let the biggest speculative bubble of our lifetimes explode in all our faces, or whether we take the small, practical, local steps that let the air out before the blast.

"We have more power than we realise. We are not just protesting a technology we dislike. We are standing across multiple political divides, against a financial scam that threatens all our livelihoods"

@mrewanmorrison.bsky.social

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/22/t...

Deluge revives concerns about European food price rises Winter ‘pantry’ depleted as rains devastate crops in Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco

"There’s no way around it: we’ll see the pressure on vegetable and fruit prices":

A wave of extreme rain across Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco has battered the winter growing regions that feed Europe, disrupting supplies of fruit and vegetables

www.ft.com/content/8504...

@theverge.com has 3.3 million (!!!!) followers on X, and 0.2 million here on bsky. X2 RTs on bsky for this

They post on each platform with identical text so I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to do a proper systemic analysis of every identical post on both platforms in terms of RTs, likes etc.

The biggest story that is regularly bumped by sexier, more entertaining and more immediate stories, just because we now have the attention span of a gnat and the dysregulated dopamine cycle of a social media addict

There's no money for anything else, but: 'UKRI committed a record £1.6 billion of funding directly targeted at the AI sector over the next four years. This is UKRI’s biggest single investment area for 2026 to 2030.' Growth, growth, growth, nothing about flourishing or a liveable society. Pathetic.

I somehow thought I would never read that question in any newspaper. Thank you, @financialtimes.com.

See: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “America is becoming a petrostate”

"what happens to a consumer-credit economy when consumers are being replaced with machines?"

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

What if our AI bullishness continues to be right...and what if that’s actually bearish?

citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dix idées : Planifier l’adaptation maintenant (5/10) Comment résister face aux vents mauvais ? Quelles idées peuvent nous aider à renverser la vapeur ? Cet épisode a été enregistré au 2e Festival des idées ...

Avec @magalireghezza.bsky.social : Planifier démocratiquement l'adaptation. On met tout le monde autour de la table et one ne sort pas de la pièce tant qu'on n'a pas vraiment décidé d'un plan pour l'école, pour l'hôpital, pour le monde du travail, dans un monde qui se réchauffe :

MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’

Trump’s executive order aimed at spurring production of glyphosate has infuriated MAHA leaders

“They voted for Trump, and they own this. Of course they were betrayed. And they betrayed the rest of us. There were plenty of warning signs” - @ewgofficial.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

... et en matière d'atténuation !

Inondations : quand l’inédit devient la norme, qui paie la facture climatique ? Avec encore trois départements en vigilance rouge et une quinzaine en orange, la France traverse une crise hydrologique majeure. Si les inondations actuelles sont exceptionnelles par leur ampleur, ell...

Après chaque événement climatique exceptionnel, le gouvernement feint la surprise, alors que ces phénomènes sont largement annoncés par les scientifiques.

Une posture qui dissimule mal l’abandon des collectivités locales, l’impréparation de l’État et le non-respect de sa trajectoire climatique.

Tariffs ruling just dropped: The court holds that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose the tariffs.