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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun
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Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
Practical question: why did they mount this attack under a full moon? The assassination of Obama bin Laden was almost at the new moon, and I had assumed that was so that visibility wd be low.
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Also: whose blood?
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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"2026" is a pretty futuristic-sounding year. 2027 is not. I can't explain this. The next big one is 2031. 2049 is gonna be huge.
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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The financial superiority of renewables over fossil fuels, and in particular their superior capital efficiency, was a major theme of the first installment of The Sun Has Won (2022).
www.planetarytech.earth/the-sun-has-...
🔌💡
January 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Triptych Window from the Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, by Frank Lloyd Wright
American, 1867-1959
1912 (removed 1967)

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/105203
January 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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A very fun read!
A piece on the research trying to fill the very, very large gap between life-support systems and terraforming www.economist.com/science-and-...
January 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
@naomialderman.bsky.social Thanks for being such an excellent online presence. Happy New Year
January 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I saw someone post that, as part of an online less/reading more 2026, they intended to read every Booker and Hugo winner from this century. I get the ambition, but I can't help thinking that a better approach is to read a book from each year's shortlist for both prizes that you haven't already read.
January 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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A piece on the research trying to fill the very, very large gap between life-support systems and terraforming www.economist.com/science-and-...
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Thanks to @newhampshirebulletin.com for republishing my story about David Stevenson, the conservationist who came to lead America’s anti-offshore wind movement.
January 1, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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What the KENNEDY Center used to be…

Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
A piece on the research trying to fill the very, very large gap between life-support systems and terraforming www.economist.com/science-and-...
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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I want to congratulate Planet Earth on successfully completing 4.54 billion revolutions around the sun thus far.

Way to go, chap.
December 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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that’s one long mermaid
December 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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First superb conspiracy theory of 2026 overheard in the street! I love this. I feel it sets the tone for a superb year:

“Wales is fake.”
January 1, 2026 at 12:07 PM
You know, Get Shorty really is a lot of fun
December 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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The eternal GWOT
So okay. The US, military or otherwise, carried out attacks in Somalia, Nigeria and Venezeula between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Going wider to last week there were at least six different operations between Dec. 22-25.
December 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Last day to submit is tomorrow.
December 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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If we learned that the Obama or Biden DOJ was casually monitoring the comings and goings of a reporter for any reason, much less b/c she was the lead reporter on all things Epstein, it would be a Watergate-level scandal but of course since it's Trump, one day (at best) and we move right along 🙃
December 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM