@ckarion.bsky.social
Works in Environmental and energy systems. Interested in tech and economics. Reads SciFi, CliFi and space opera.
Wow!
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Wow!
Twas ever thus.
Skräckpropaganda säljer.
Skräckpropaganda säljer.
Kort film om fyra nyare studier på sötningsmedel.
Två dåliga studier som gett stora skräckrubriker och två mycket bättre studier som i stort sett har blivit ignorerade.
youtu.be/jOgeMcnDgIg?...
Två dåliga studier som gett stora skräckrubriker och två mycket bättre studier som i stort sett har blivit ignorerade.
youtu.be/jOgeMcnDgIg?...
Fyra nya studier på sötningsmedel
YouTube video by Jacob Gudiol
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Twas ever thus.
Skräckpropaganda säljer.
Skräckpropaganda säljer.
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Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
Jättebra text! 🙌 Vi behöver inte optimism utan realism.
För övrigt tror jag att de allra flesta inte fattat detta: ”1,5-gradersmålet är inte en random gräns som någon satt på måfå. Det är en nivå som möjliggör för oss att leva ett tryggt och säkert liv på vår enda planet.”
För övrigt tror jag att de allra flesta inte fattat detta: ”1,5-gradersmålet är inte en random gräns som någon satt på måfå. Det är en nivå som möjliggör för oss att leva ett tryggt och säkert liv på vår enda planet.”
7 procent per år är vad vi behöver – 0,2 promille på fyra år är vad vi klarar. Så ser glappet mellan nödvändiga utsläppsminskningar och faktiska utsläppsminskningar ut.
Lösningen är inte att tänka lite mer positivt, och det är heller inte så optimism ser ut.
Läs gärna:
Lösningen är inte att tänka lite mer positivt, och det är heller inte så optimism ser ut.
Läs gärna:
Jag tror inte på optimism byggd på självbedrägeri
Utsläppen behöver minska med sju procent per år – med Tidöpartierna blir minskningen 0,2 promille (!) under en hel mandatperiod.
www.etc.se
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Jättebra text! 🙌 Vi behöver inte optimism utan realism.
För övrigt tror jag att de allra flesta inte fattat detta: ”1,5-gradersmålet är inte en random gräns som någon satt på måfå. Det är en nivå som möjliggör för oss att leva ett tryggt och säkert liv på vår enda planet.”
För övrigt tror jag att de allra flesta inte fattat detta: ”1,5-gradersmålet är inte en random gräns som någon satt på måfå. Det är en nivå som möjliggör för oss att leva ett tryggt och säkert liv på vår enda planet.”
Fascinating thread 👇
#Finlandization means a powerful country bending a smaller neighbor to its will, especially in foreign policy, while allowing it to be nominally independent... as long as it toes the line.
In short, what happened to #Finland after the Second World War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland...
In short, what happened to #Finland after the Second World War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland...
Finlandization - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Fascinating thread 👇
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Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc.
gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The secretive dog experimentation industry is crumbling
The US experiments on tens of thousands of beagles. After a shocking case, will it come to an end?
www.vox.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc.
gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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As global warming intensifies storms, droughts and wildfires, scientists warn that “the window to prevent the worst outcomes is rapidly closing.”
Read about the new report on the state of the climate in @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Read the full report: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Read about the new report on the state of the climate in @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Read the full report: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Humanity is on path toward 'climate chaos,' scientists warn
Global use of fossil fuels rose to a new record last year, releasing even more greenhouse gases. Humanity is 'hurtling toward climate chaos,' scientists warn.
www.latimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
As global warming intensifies storms, droughts and wildfires, scientists warn that “the window to prevent the worst outcomes is rapidly closing.”
Read about the new report on the state of the climate in @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Read the full report: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Read about the new report on the state of the climate in @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Read the full report: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
😂 Translation in alt text!
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
😂 Translation in alt text!
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There's increasing awareness of the role the animal ag industry plays in climate obstruction, but this new book brings all the peer-reviewed research on the subject together in one place and it's 🤯.
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
October 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
There's increasing awareness of the role the animal ag industry plays in climate obstruction, but this new book brings all the peer-reviewed research on the subject together in one place and it's 🤯.
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Those lentil-loving eco-warriors at the *checks notes* the CBI are at it again, reminding everyone that the demolition of the political consensus on climate action is very bad for investment, security, and competitiveness. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520714...
CBI chief Rain Newton-Smith: 'Clean energy should be a goal that stands above politics'
Director-general of Britain's largest business group warns calls to scrap the Climate Change Act and row back on clean energy risk 'undermining investment and undermining opportunity' in the UK
www.businessgreen.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Those lentil-loving eco-warriors at the *checks notes* the CBI are at it again, reminding everyone that the demolition of the political consensus on climate action is very bad for investment, security, and competitiveness. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520714...
Why are swedes and norwegians whining so pitifully about a few wolves?
Estonia seems to the most wolfed country in Europe which is sometimes problematic to be fair but also cool.
More cool than problematic.
More cool than problematic.
October 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Why are swedes and norwegians whining so pitifully about a few wolves?
🙌
🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🙌
One unrealistic study showed a hyped product work, another better one showed it doesn’t. Media went with massive headlines promoting the first one…
Det snabba och tydliga svaret är nej. Det lär inte ha någon betydelsefull effekt alls.
Men det här är en väldigt bra video som förklarar varför.
Can Blue Light Glasses Fix Your Sleep? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR6V...
Men det här är en väldigt bra video som förklarar varför.
Can Blue Light Glasses Fix Your Sleep? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR6V...
Can Blue Light Glasses Fix Your Sleep?
YouTube video by Intero
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
One unrealistic study showed a hyped product work, another better one showed it doesn’t. Media went with massive headlines promoting the first one…
We can use the money better ways!!!
I have a long running case of 'the big number'. Basically, in every lobbying doc they try to come up with 'the big number' of what it will cost, or save, to do what they want the reader to do, or not do. Most of the times these numbers are silly extrapolations not worth anyone's time. 1/
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
We can use the money better ways!!!
😂
Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
October 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
😂
WUT?!
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
WUT?!
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Ukraine war briefing: Attack cutting power to Chornobyl nuclear plant a ‘global threat’, says Zelenskyy
Ukraine war briefing: Attack cutting power to Chornobyl nuclear plant a ‘global threat’, says Zelenskyy
Emergency diesel generators brought online after Russia accused of shelling substation supplying power to scene of 1986 disaster. What we know on day 1,317
*
See all our Ukraine war overage
Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Ukraine war briefing: Attack cutting power to Chornobyl nuclear plant a ‘global threat’, says Zelenskyy
Can we please get a serious discussion on society about why nuclear power is by far too risky?
❗️❗️Chornobyl NPP blacked out due to Russian shelling, critical situation has arisen, — Ministry of Energy
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Can we please get a serious discussion on society about why nuclear power is by far too risky?
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Fight misinformation with misinformation.
Coal causes autism and also makes straight white men sterile. Spread the word. 👌
Coal causes autism and also makes straight white men sterile. Spread the word. 👌
September 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Fight misinformation with misinformation.
Coal causes autism and also makes straight white men sterile. Spread the word. 👌
Coal causes autism and also makes straight white men sterile. Spread the word. 👌
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Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved ALL our lives when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.
September 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved ALL our lives when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.
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The quote below is from Naomi Oreskes, co-author of "Merchants of Doubt". She calls the beef industry "the moo-chants of doubt".
“There's a long, well-documented history of industry attempts to downplay, discredit & even outright deny science that demonstrates the harms of its activities & products. This strategy was honed to a fine art by the tobacco industry; the beef industry now appears to be following the tobacco model”
2025. The Beef Industry Knew Its Climate Impact as Early as 1989 — and Worked to Obfuscate the Science - sentientmedia.org/beef-industr...
September 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The quote below is from Naomi Oreskes, co-author of "Merchants of Doubt". She calls the beef industry "the moo-chants of doubt".
As I’ve been saying. Set aside 30% of the forest for nature and biodiversity, and use the rest as tree plantations - for building materials, paper and packaging, etc. This should not be more controversial than our use of farmland.
These results mirror the sparing-sharing debate in conservation, and with similar results. It's better to intensify forest production in some areas while leaving others alone than to have low-intensity systems. 🌏🧪🌳🌲
Just out in PNAS!
We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.
Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.
Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
As I’ve been saying. Set aside 30% of the forest for nature and biodiversity, and use the rest as tree plantations - for building materials, paper and packaging, etc. This should not be more controversial than our use of farmland.
Jag begriper inte varför Svenskt näringsliv tror att de vinner på att svenskarna blir färre och mindre utbildade. Vi har byggt upp nationen som en plats för högteknologiska företag. Terminsavgifter för högre utbildning, slopad folkbildning och mindre invandring är det sista vi behöver.
I rapporten får vi en inblick i det Sverige vi kan få om SD får ännu mer inflytande över regeringspolitiken. Man undrar vad andra partier än just Jimmie Åkessons har att vinna på att driva SD:s frågor så hårt.
www.etc.se/ledare/med-t...
www.etc.se/ledare/med-t...
Med Tidö 2.0 vinner nationalismen och eliten
”Liberalkonservativa” förslagen: ta makten över kulturen och svält ut civilsamhället.
www.etc.se
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Jag begriper inte varför Svenskt näringsliv tror att de vinner på att svenskarna blir färre och mindre utbildade. Vi har byggt upp nationen som en plats för högteknologiska företag. Terminsavgifter för högre utbildning, slopad folkbildning och mindre invandring är det sista vi behöver.
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The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.
The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution
I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar con...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.
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🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.