Kevin Hanrahan

And this, class, is why aiming at agricultural self-sufficiency rather than spreading risk across different countries through international trade is a *really stupid idea*.

Food prices have risen a lot more than other stuff since Covid...

My newsletter asks whether they are now a leading indicator of inflation

www.ft.com/content/de31...

bsky.app/profile/alan...

Fintan O’Toole: Catherine Connolly should keep her inner Basil Fawlty under wraps Accusing our EU allies of being proto-fascist warmongers is not a winning strategy

Catherine Connolly should keep her inner Basil Fawlty under wraps

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Darth Vader fathering Luke Skywalker, from The Empire Strikes Back

"Luke...on balance it's in my financial interest to reinstate being your father"

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps
Step 2: Stop measuring hunger
Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Vance in Charlie Kirk free speech update

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Giving a talk on energy modeling in Hollywood. “All models are wrong, but some are useful” hits different with locals.

Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance A picture of her grandmother posted on social media sent the author to the archives of Albania’s former security services — and raised difficult questions about who watches us today

“Perhaps the point of learning from the past is not so much to uncover a lost truth as to understand historical patterns that help us see through the lies of the present.”

If you haven’t read Lea Ypi’s @leaypi.bsky.social exceptional essay in @finantimes.com today, please do.

on.ft.com/480JlGc

In English.

My question. How secure is that security partnership really? Especially in the light of new pressures on European digital regulation?

Praises the authoritarian North Korean leader, criticizes the democratic South Korea. bsky.app/profile/atru...

1/4 Putin wants you to forget this anniversary. You shouldn’t.

In 1939, the Soviet Union signed a pact with nazi Germany. Yes—it sided with Hitler.

They didn’t just agree to peace. They agreed to carve up Europe

I Badly Want a Map to the Likely Consequences of the AI-Infrastructure Construction Boom & I do not have one. I do have scattered observations on how it might work out for the tech industry. How it is affecting the overall business cycle—that is another equally complicated topic that...

I Badly Want a Map to the Likely Consequences of the AI-Infrastructure Construction Boom
& I do not have one. I do have scattered observations on how it might work out for the tech industry. How it is affecting the overall business cycle—that is another…
braddelong.substack.com/p/i-badly-wa...

I Badly Want a Map to the Likely Consequences of the AI-Infrastructure Construction Boom & I do not have one. I do have scattered observations on how it might work out for the tech industry. How it is affecting the overall business cycle—that is another equally complicated topic that...

Brad de Long: "the AI boom is the main prop of the current expansion. Remove data‑center spending, the GPU scramble, armies of prompt engineers, and the venture surge for anything labeled “AI,” and the economy is perilously close to stall speed”.
braddelong.substack.com/p/i-badly-wa...

Like everyone just speculation but having a bunch of people around you may deter a bully

Posted sans comment …

A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.

He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.

Speechless.

President Trump said that a deal between #Ukraine and Russia can involve
"Swapping of territories to the betterment of both"

What does that mean?

"We will work towards [ending the war] in the days and weeks to come" doesn't sound as if sanctions on Russia are coming in 48 hours. This is obviously a huge shock and was in no way predictable.

REPORTER: Why did you fire the head of the bureau of labor statistics?

TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong

Motherfucking wind farms…

the onion 2 months ago

Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

"Too many kids doing computer jobs, we need to get them back in factories."

There is really no way to exaggerate how deranged this shit is.

if you’ve ever wondered why “escaping small scale subsistence farming” has been humanity’s primary group project for the majority of our known existence, it’s because small scale subsistence farming sucks real bad

Report raises questions about viability of Irish farming The State agency responsible for agriculture and food development has been teasing out the findings of its 2024 National Farm Survey, which raised the question: Who will be farming our land in the com...

The research offered a comprehensive window into the statistics and financials behind the running of nearly 90,000 farms

In the early 1990s, Ireland was getting more than 40% of its electricity from coal.

Last week it closed its last coal plant: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...