Steve Bergin 🌎

The great dismantling

Nations will try again on plan to confront world's 'spiraling' plastic pollution mess Nations gather in Geneva Tuesday for what many hope will be the final meeting to craft a landmark treaty to end the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.

Nations gather in Geneva for what many hope will be the final meeting to craft a landmark treaty to end the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.

So you're saying my dream of no country ever asking me for an onward ticket is not ever going to happen?

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Ha! If he'd gotten half the parts given to De Niro in the last 40 years, how many Oscars does he win? One of the all time great squandered talents.

Errol Morris needs to shoot the PSA.

VIDEO: Young Poles spend holidays at summer army boot camp.

Instead of relaxing over the summer holidays, nearly 10,000 men and women signed up for a month-long, paid "Vacation with the Army" camp, launched by Poland's defence ministry to promote military service as the country beefs up security

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Democrats can't live by the old rules... We've got to put everything on the table... Governors across the country who have the ability (maybe it's the ones where we've got trifectas) we've got to do everything we can to stand up to what Trump and Abbott are trying to do."

Absolutely electric. Unfortunately, it was also the reason we got a bunch of bad Mickey Rourke movies for several decades.

YouTube added a bunch of Hitchcock films free w/ ads — including 5 of the 7 Netflix just removed(*):

ROPE (1948)
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)*
VERTIGO (1958)*
PSYCHO (1960)*
THE BIRDS (1963)*
TORN CURTAIN (1966)
TOPAZ (1969)
FAMILY PLOT (1976)* #FilmSky

Hyperscalers are spending that money on what they can sell to other businesses over the near future, and investors are ok because revenue already coming in. They may talk and think about some super intelligence, partly as hype, but it's not what's going on. At least not yet.

So why did he change his mind?

"I was really excited about the "burn it to the ground" stuff, then you start to realize what "burn it to the ground" means."

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders house arrest for ex-President Jair Bolsonaro | CNN The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

His Batman movies were exactly what he should be doing.

Please run a separate account for NYT Games. This should be for News.

How was this allowed to happen? No one at the Pentagon noticed over the last decade or so?

Who's job was to have seen this while it was happening all these years? The USSR would not have been allowed to do this, was it lack of intelligence? No one thought it could matter?

Destroying the credibility of official government statistics.

Indian and Philippine Navy warships begin joint patrols of the disputed South China Sea for the first time

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Only 29% would back Brexit now

Someone really needs to set up ranked list of worst things Trump has ever done, to be updated and upvoted by the hivemind. It's too hard to keep track. Who can do this? Somebody? Anybody know somebody?

IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ - Carbon Brief Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.

"Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity 'by 2026 at the latest', according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA)."

@gtconway.bsky.social They didn't send the National Guard to California to enforce order, they were sent there as trial run. They are planning to do multiple other things. Who's planning to be ready is the question.

Who are the big social media accounts you're shocked are still not on @bsky.app ? cause there's a bunch...

A sad moment for the Senate and the country.

Republicans just confirmed Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Yes, the same Judge Jeanine that even Fox News said was “crazy” and had to take off the air.

How can they vote to confirm these people?

A chicken for The New York Times, a star for Bloomberg: A new “Media Capitulation Index” ranks large media and tech companies What’s the best scale for measuring independence — or lack thereof — in 2025? The media advocacy group Free Press (not to be confused with the Bari Weiss publication by the same name) decided the…

A chicken for The New York Times, a star for Bloomberg: A new “Media Capitulation Index” ranks large media and tech companies www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-ch...

Cornell Expected to Reach Settlement with Trump Administration to Restore Federal Funding Cornell University is expected to reach a settlement with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that has been revoked over the last several

“The ransom that [Columbia] ended up paying strikes me as a pretty good value if you decide you’re going to pay ransom,” he added. “But the problem with paying ransom is that it incentivizes the taking of more hostages.”

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Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

Econ 101: bad news for solar & wind, no 2 ways about it.

Political Econ 101: Shows how solar & wind are winning, to make these sorts of roadblocks necessary to protect fossil fuel profits.

Clear signs of a the death thrall of the fossil fuel age

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