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tsingtao is giving my friends brainworms god bless

Finally had the chance to explore a piece of aviation history—Hong Kong's famous Checkerboard Hill.

Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis

Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries. They say conventional predictions ignore “tipping points, sea temperature rises, migration and conflict as a result of global heating”. [theguardian.com]

Completely out of touch. Imagine how much public housing could be built for $70-$100 billion 👀

Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”

The legendary Chinese rock and roll and jazz saxophonist Liu Yuan 刘元 passed away at 64. He was Cui Jian 崔健 saxophonist, he opened the CD Café, a safe haven for rockers and punks in the 1990s, and the East Shore Live Jazz Cafe in Beijing: tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%85%9F-%E...

This is a great illustration of a change in infrastructure design that will save lives. The main costs being paint, street signs and traffic lights.

Are you allowed to have a favourite column?

Because I think this is my new favourite column

Koldinghus, by Inger & Johannes Exner, 1972-92

Restoring pollinator habitat to solar farms in the midwest USA, tripled insect abundance and increased bees abundance twentyfold. 🔌💡 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

How winter makes recycling harder with 40% jump in contamination New data reveals an extra 5,000 tonnes of waste is sent to landfill or incineration from November to March

How winter makes #recycling harder with 40% jump in contamination - www.theguardian.com/environment/... "New data reveals an extra 5,000 tonnes of waste is sent to landfill or incineration from November to March"

UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked disease

UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds - www.theguardian.com/politics/202... huge savings possible if this is tackled #health #food

Four Trails Movie - Broadway Circuit At the time, they said it couldn't be done. In 2012, Andre Blumberg set off by himself, to run all four of Hong Kong's iconic ultra distance trails in just four days. 298km and over 14,500m of climbin...

"Four Trails", a documentary about the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge, in which athletes must hike all 4 of Hong Kong's major trails within 72 hours, will be shown at select theatres starting December 6

www.cinema.com.hk/en/movie/det...

politics is not flying a plane and technocracy is not an antidote to authoritarian populism

Oh YAY! Oil Change International, on whose board I've served since 2017, is here on Blue Sky and there at COP29 doing their brilliant work.

It’s so refreshing to spend time in a feed that’s isn’t being artificially pumped full of right wing propaganda all the time

It should be obvious, Hong Kong cooling towers are prematurely ending the lives of the elderly, 10-20% of Legionnaires' Disease suffers don't survive. For the lucky few that do survive, they suffer ill health for years afterwards #hongkong #airconditioning #legionella #legionnairesdisease

Great to see thoughtful and sustainable designs proposed for NSW’s Pattern Book housing

I’d love to see more housing like this emerge in Sydney, and everywhere

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More Iranian apartments with wonderful material craft and use of ceramics

This one by architect Kourosh Abdi

Cop29 live: call for summits only to be held in countries that support climate action The negotiations continue with plenty of disagreement about the way forward, as we approach the halfway mark in Baku, Azerbaijan

#China has powered up the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm - www.theguardian.com/environment/... "one gigawatt (GW) offshore solar farm – the world’s first and largest of its kind" #renewables

Highly recommended #podcast speaking to #AUKUS and the reality of Australia handing over half a trillion of taxpayer's money, handing over real estate for military bases... and now watching who Trump is putting in charge of the US military

A beautiful chart from @gavinjackson.bsky.social's excellent Briefing on why the energy transition will be cheaper than you think
www.economist.com/briefing/

That China's carbon emissions are on course to fall this year is one of the most important and under covered stories of 2024 carbonmonitor.org/variation

The move from Twitter to Bluesky is an exercise in social change that political campaigners should pay attention to and let into your thought orbits. It appeared to happen suddenly, but it was filling people's disapproval buckets over a longer time that caused it. 1/3

Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, int...

The Onion has purchased InfoWars.

what makes this so beautiful is also that the character for "sorrow" (愁) is composed of "autumn" (秋) and "heart" (心)

I doubt I was known for anything but I did create this meme which went mildly viral and I remain very proud of it to this day.

It’ll get there 🫡

Rich countries drain ‘shocking’ amount of labor from the Global South Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap

The global North net-imports 826 billion hours of labour from the global South every year—more than what is provided by the entire workforce of the United States and Europe combined. www.science.org/content/arti...

I love being asked "what do you do" and never having anything approaching a cogent answer