Daniel Yeo

orbiting a nuclear fusion reactor at the goldilocks distance

@volts.wtf A friend who's a librarian specializing in kid-lit said that they broadly classify books into "mirror" books or "window" books. Mirror books reflect you and what you know, while window books are a peek inside a world unlike yours. Ideally kids get a mix of both.

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Map reveals America’s most vulnerable drinking water utilities New index shows 67 million Americans rely on high‑risk water systems as climate threats outpace utilities’ disclosures.

Our new paper led by Dr. @zialyle.bsky.social assessed the climate risk to US drinking water utilities, & many of their revenue bonds don't reflect their climate risk. Here's the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43.... Melissa Fleur Afshar wrote about it in Newsweek: www.newsweek.com/new-study-sh...

“What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you exercise it?
To whom are you accountable?
And how can we get rid of you?

If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system."

Tony Benn

Musk buys Twitter. Kills it.
Bezos buys WaPo. Kills it.

I wonder if there's an AI that can predict what's next?

This 100%. It annoys me all the time. The useful, valuable tools are being tarred by the same brush.

...And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."

Aldous Huxley

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery...

This gives me hope. The Kids are Alright. 💪✊
If we don't stand together we'll fall for anything.

Why aren't they being hauled in front of a committee and asked why they lied? It astounds me how broken government and accountability are. How far the rules of the game have shifted...

a man in a military uniform with the words and that 's how you scatter the roaches below him ALT: a man in a military uniform with the words and that 's how you scatter the roaches below him

He even looks like the bad guy in Avatar...

How's the Great Migration going?

Leader of the Liberal Democrats.

Labour's timidity is astounding and frankly frightening. They should all go watch Love Actually. 🤣

He's not mine either. But I wish he was

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.

I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:

The most direct route to delivering InfoOps.

I think this is what it'll come down to, not a shooting war. Calling in that debt is gonna get some attention. Wider de-dollarisation is gonna bite too.

Yeah. Lock in is real!! I wish Libre Office had a nicer UI :)

This is fine. *Gulp*

In the same vein as the Revolutions Podcast did a season about the (future) Martian Revolution, I wish @fallofcivilizations.com would do a fictitious episode on the fall of our own civilization, based on the patterns and lessons of the past.

For files, I now have a mish mash of legacy Dropbox, GDrive and Box. I use InSync (paid) to sync them to my desktop (Linux) so it is seamless on a day to day level. Works fine for me, but wouldn't recommend such a messy approach 🤣

@proton.me mail is fine, the app is a bit clunky but good enough. Calendar is ok too but a few niggles. Improving all the time and no regrets from me!
Haven't tried proton drive yet. The thought of migrating my work over is terrifying. I've heard of a few sync issues so want to stress test

The board from the game Risk

Hasn't he ever played Risk?
Although it did strike me that he's probably using this as a reference for which country to take over next...

Yes! I still have a faint glimmer of hope that the judiciary will restrain the executive as it's supposed to and that rule of law still applies. Other rulings have just been ignored though.

This resonates more and more each day. Except they're not even trying to hide it now 😞

African leaders: We are worried at Cycle of political violence in America: police siege in LA, handcuffing a senator at press conference, Marines detaining a civilian, a military parade for the president’s birthday, and now political asssasinations in a northern province
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Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

France at the UN Security Council:

"The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."