"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Tusen takk @carlomasala1.bsky.social for the thrilling and instructive presentation of „When Russia Wins“ in Oslo and your call to defend democracies against hybrid warfare

aschehoug.no/hvis-russlan...

The US, Japan, Australia and Canada have begun a rapid evacuation of their embassies in Mali following a fuel blockade and attacks by the Salafi Jihadist group JNIM.

Diplomats are warning that the country’s crisis could trigger a wider Sahel collapse.

Picard management tip: The truth is that sometimes you just won't know the right thing to do. You still have to try.

Weils dazupasst: Ich habe drüben anlässlich eines "ach wie schön waren die 1980er"-KI-Nostalgievideos gerade die Zahlen zur Kindersterblichkeit recherchiert.

Regulierung ist grundsätzlich eine Erfolgsgeschichte.

If cemeteries create a community of both the living and the dead, what happens when the living get displaced?
Case in point: German cemeteries in the PL "Recovered Lands."
All Saints' Day is a good day to reflect on what happens to memory in the absence of those who remember.

🧵(not an easy read)

"The world is collectively engaged in a live experiment, with few controls and almost no regulation; the best-case and the worst-case scenarios all seem to end with our planet being forever transformed." www.wired.com/ai-issue/ #AI #KI #Maschinenraum via @wired.com

"Sweden and Ukraine on Oct. 22 signed a letter of intent for a future contract on the purchase of up to 150 modern Gripen E fighter jets to bolster the Ukrainian Air Force. The announcement was made during Zelensky's visit to Sweden"
@kyivindependent.com
kyivindependent.com/zelensky-arr...

A sign of the times.

nächstes Jahr wieder.

Katapult Magazine is using a simple cartographic trick to make is easier for other nations to understand what the loss of land Ukraine had to suffer so far would mean for them. Lesson: Always benchmark your data, people!

Is @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu the last man in the EU fighting for the Green Deal? @davidcarretta.bsky.social takes a deep dive into his desperate struggle to save Europe's climate policy for today's episode of Morning Post Europe.

You can sign up here⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/europemo...

"Germany is no longer among the ten most innovative countries in the world. China has displaced it."
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

🤦‍♂️😈 "Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power & hastening Armageddon,saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...

The share of Norway's passenger car fleet that is full-electric has now passed 30%.
www.tilnull.no/energi/kjore...

Tim Berners-Lee: Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

den Sammelband fand ich zu meiner Brüsseler Zeit sehr instruktiv zur Stadtentwicklung: researchportal.vub.be/en/publicati...

Umgekehrt finde ich die Entwicklung im Gebiet zwischen der Börse und dem Kanal positiv, meine ersten Aufenthalte im Brüsseler „Zentrum“ in den 90ern und frühen 2000ern waren schauderhaft.

Ich finde es am Kanal interessant aber generell ist es ein Fall städteplanerischer Vernachlässigung. Die Stadtpolitik hatte jahrzehntelang nichts getan, weil die Stadteile jenseits des Kanals seit dem Industrieniedergang sehr stark migrantisch geprägt und mangels Wahlrecht keine Wähler „da waren“.

Quite a nugget from the most recent Eurostat press release: young Swedes, Danes, Finns leave home almost a decade (!) earlier than young Croats, Slovaks, Italians, Greeks, Spanish. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/...

The $100,000 fee for H-1B visas will be a headache for tech firms. It could also accelerate the shift to expand operations overseas

Nepal is the third South Asian country in the past four years to stage a violent overthrow of its government. What will life after revolution look like?

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...