Like an old information technology blog that collided with a European Union politics column, a geographic information systems consultancy and a defense think tank. French alt: https://bsky.app/profile/liotier-fr.bsky.social Matrix: @liotier:tedomum.fr
this is a hell of a story to drop while the bubble is popping in asia
Timnit Gebru"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
‘In a Monday report, researchers from the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank estimated that fewer than 827 Patriot interceptors remain in US stockpiles, and fewer than 278 THAAD ballistic missile interceptors are left.’ edition.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...
The exception is: romance. Romance sales numbers are not permitted to measure importance. When multiauthor romance box sets started to dominate the NYT bestseller list in the early ebook era, they *changed the rules of the list* to exclude them. Sales are what romance gets *instead* of importance.
On July 27, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the recall of its ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary from Russia for urgent consultations. Romanian authorities then declared a member of staff at the Russian Embassy in Bucharest persona non grata…”
I must once again remind Americans that they use more coal per capita than Germans because, despite coal representing a smaller percentage of the energy mix, American total energy usage is just so obscene lol
Samsometimes I think about how Germany could have one of the cleanest electricity mixes in the world if they simply didn’t shut down all their nuclear plants
AIPAC is fundamentally more like the NRA than anything else.
KevinI think people also often focus on an incomplete picture of AIPAC's campaign finance operation. they have the dark money that everyone focuses on, but they also have a mass donor base that mostly donates direct to campaigns, either via out-in-the-open bundling or more clandestine fundraising efforts
A scalable methanol-based process converted kraft lignin into benzylamines. Methanol was the most efficient solvent, while catalysts mainly changed product mix rather than yield. doi.org/hcc3jr
One of industry's toughest lignin byproducts could become feedstock for valuable chemicalsThe pulp and paper industry, which manufactures everything from tissue paper to cardboard, also generates a significant yet often overlooked byproduct—a complex polymer called lignin. phys.org
Trick question, because the boundaries we draw around *all* neurodevelopmental disorders are in fact social constructs.
Michel Foucault: Vigiar e PunirALT: Michel Foucault: Vigiar e Punirstatic.klipy.comScott BryanChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
