David Korowicz
@davidkorowicz.bsky.social
Physicist and human systems ecologist working on global systemic and catastrophic risk, integrated risk and preparedness. Cheerier in person.
Website: www.korowiczhumansystems.com
Website: www.korowiczhumansystems.com
I haven't seen such a clear and direct articulation of where the US is going from sitting senator (though she's just in the door). www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUO...
Senator Slotkin Delivers Speech on Trump's Authoritarian Playbook
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I haven't seen such a clear and direct articulation of where the US is going from sitting senator (though she's just in the door). www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUO...
No surprise here, The Line 'undone by the laws of physics and finance", which is pretty similar to what will undo our civilization.
"everyone knows the project won’t work; it is now just a matter of letting MBS down gently"
Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
No surprise here, The Line 'undone by the laws of physics and finance", which is pretty similar to what will undo our civilization.
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Euractiv's @claudiemoreau.bsky.social on our complaint to the European Commission against Ireland's appointing ex-Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner
www.euractiv.com/news/complai...
www.euractiv.com/news/complai...
Complaint targeting Ireland over privacy watchdog's independence sent to Commission | Euractiv
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties takes formal action questioning the process that led to an ex-Meta lobbyist landing a top privacy oversight job
www.euractiv.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Euractiv's @claudiemoreau.bsky.social on our complaint to the European Commission against Ireland's appointing ex-Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner
www.euractiv.com/news/complai...
www.euractiv.com/news/complai...
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Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
www.404media.co
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
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The question of this moment is whether Europe will be a bastion of democratic resilience or a vassal.
My piece in Tech Policy Press.
www.techpolicy.press/europe-isnt-...
My piece in Tech Policy Press.
www.techpolicy.press/europe-isnt-...
Europe Isn’t Weak—It Just Pretends To Be. Here’s How to Fix That. | TechPolicy.Press
Europe must reclaim digital sovereignty through three levers: politics, policing, and procurement, writes Johnny Ryan.
www.techpolicy.press
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The question of this moment is whether Europe will be a bastion of democratic resilience or a vassal.
My piece in Tech Policy Press.
www.techpolicy.press/europe-isnt-...
My piece in Tech Policy Press.
www.techpolicy.press/europe-isnt-...
Looking forward to reading this.
🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Looking forward to reading this.
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This is the third story in the past week detailing how natural carbon sinks are starting to falter. We don’t know nearly enough about how these tipping points could play out, but the potential for genuinely terrifying outcomes should be obvious by now.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds
Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is the third story in the past week detailing how natural carbon sinks are starting to falter. We don’t know nearly enough about how these tipping points could play out, but the potential for genuinely terrifying outcomes should be obvious by now.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
NEW systemic risk tool STEER launches today!
STEER is a guidance framework that helps you ask the right questions about #SystemicRisks and spot gaps in current approaches, especially as tipping points are a plausible near-term reality.
Great work by my @asranetwork colleagues.
steer.asranetwork.org
STEER is a guidance framework that helps you ask the right questions about #SystemicRisks and spot gaps in current approaches, especially as tipping points are a plausible near-term reality.
Great work by my @asranetwork colleagues.
steer.asranetwork.org
STEER - Systemic Tool to Explore and Evaluate Risks
steer.asranetwork.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
NEW systemic risk tool STEER launches today!
STEER is a guidance framework that helps you ask the right questions about #SystemicRisks and spot gaps in current approaches, especially as tipping points are a plausible near-term reality.
Great work by my @asranetwork colleagues.
steer.asranetwork.org
STEER is a guidance framework that helps you ask the right questions about #SystemicRisks and spot gaps in current approaches, especially as tipping points are a plausible near-term reality.
Great work by my @asranetwork colleagues.
steer.asranetwork.org
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
This is a thing we need!
September 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a thing we need!
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"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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l'économie, C'est Moi!
Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man
Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man
LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’
Europe’s richest man, the luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault, has said that a wealth tax that could cost him more than €1bn (£817m) would be deadly for France’s economy.
The French founder of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton said that calls for a 2% wealth tax on all assets “aims to destroy the liberal economy, the only one that works for the good of all”, in a statement to the Sunday Times. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
l'économie, C'est Moi!
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How Dictators Really Control the World I Anne Applebaum
YouTube video by Brad Carr
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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There's plenty of blame to go around, incl. the failing EPA licensing system which failed to prevent the repeated pollution events which would undoubtedly have weakened the resilience of any wildlife in the river,making them more vulnerable to whatever pollutant ultimately caused the huge fish kill.
River Blackwater: "This kill will reverberate out through the system, to the birds, bats, otters & other animals which fed on fish and insects from the river, having a much greater impact than thousands of dead fish"
Dr Elaine McGoff, Head of Advocacy An Taisce
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Dr Elaine McGoff, Head of Advocacy An Taisce
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘We took out 450 fish in an hour’: Blackwater pollution highlights decade of poor environmental compliance
Finger of blame for failures pointed at EPA, which licenses dischargers including North Cork Creameries and Munster Joinery
www.irishtimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
There's plenty of blame to go around, incl. the failing EPA licensing system which failed to prevent the repeated pollution events which would undoubtedly have weakened the resilience of any wildlife in the river,making them more vulnerable to whatever pollutant ultimately caused the huge fish kill.
Cos Finland is a serious country. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Finland is ready for the next crisis, with stockpiled food and 72-hour kits – Europe should be too | Miika Ilomäki
The next pandemic or geopolitical shock could be close at hand. To look after our people, we’re looking after our supply chains, agriculture and fuel reserves, says Miika Ilomäki of Finland’s National...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Cos Finland is a serious country. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
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Precisely the question I keep asking myself:
'It begs the question: what on earth is the point of the EPA licensing regime if companies – in broad daylight, visible to us all – repeatedly breach the rules meant to protect our fragile rivers?'
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
'It begs the question: what on earth is the point of the EPA licensing regime if companies – in broad daylight, visible to us all – repeatedly breach the rules meant to protect our fragile rivers?'
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached
Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
www.irishtimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Precisely the question I keep asking myself:
'It begs the question: what on earth is the point of the EPA licensing regime if companies – in broad daylight, visible to us all – repeatedly breach the rules meant to protect our fragile rivers?'
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
'It begs the question: what on earth is the point of the EPA licensing regime if companies – in broad daylight, visible to us all – repeatedly breach the rules meant to protect our fragile rivers?'
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
I'm sure he's up to no good, but would be very curious to know who he's up to no good with.
Hungary’s Viktor Orban to visit Dublin for match, without meeting Government
Hungary’s Viktor Orban to visit Dublin for match, without meeting Government
Sources say there were no requests from the Hungarian leader for meetings with Taoiseach or Tánaiste
www.irishtimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I'm sure he's up to no good, but would be very curious to know who he's up to no good with.
Well done, John! Have begun the excellent book- got me reflecting on Irish agricultural change over the last 60 years (and summers with my farmer godfather in Kildare in the 70's). Thanks also for the opportunity to re-connect with said crowd.
Most enjoyable launch of THE LIE OF THE LAND in Dublin yesterday evening. Huge turnout and great craic.
With thanks to @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and to our excellent MC, Matt Cooper.
With thanks to @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and to our excellent MC, Matt Cooper.
September 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Well done, John! Have begun the excellent book- got me reflecting on Irish agricultural change over the last 60 years (and summers with my farmer godfather in Kildare in the 70's). Thanks also for the opportunity to re-connect with said crowd.
If they did, Bragg would be paired with an unfunny comedian to help the medicine go down.
In Our Time would never be commissioned today. We need a return of brave commissioners unafraid of intellectual content
September 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If they did, Bragg would be paired with an unfunny comedian to help the medicine go down.