Bram
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🇯🇵ophile > 🌍 geek > sustainable energy 🤓 | old millennial | 🇧🇪 born | input junkie: news+data | occasional doom scroller | will one day create a moss garden
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Ed Conway breaks down 'historic' budget as UK is taken into uncharted territory
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.
www.polygon.com/strange-days...
www.polygon.com/strange-days...
30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better
Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech
www.polygon.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.
www.polygon.com/strange-days...
www.polygon.com/strange-days...
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What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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A revival of HBO’s Silicon Valley would go hard right about now.
September 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A revival of HBO’s Silicon Valley would go hard right about now.
👀🤑💰🏊♂️🌊👋
1. Monday was a landmark day in one of the most brazen political and economic grifts in history.
It netted Trump, at least on paper, $3.4 BILLION.
Follow this thread for details.
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It netted Trump, at least on paper, $3.4 BILLION.
Follow this thread for details.
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Trump's Labor Day payday
Yesterday, millions of Americans took the day off to celebrate Labor Day, a holiday that honors the achievements of organized labor.
popular.info
September 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Please, we’re so close.
September 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Please, we’re so close.
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Nothing to see here, just a totally normally shaped electoral district.
August 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Nothing to see here, just a totally normally shaped electoral district.
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August 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Drag force on peloton compared to a lone cyclist - from www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau... with data from www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Drag force on peloton compared to a lone cyclist - from www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau... with data from www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
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Holy shit, somehow I have remained unaware of what is apparently a raging, long-running debate about toilet paper orientation. Had a friend send this to me and, incredibly, *endorse the "under" position*. You think you know someone.
Toilet paper orientation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Holy shit, somehow I have remained unaware of what is apparently a raging, long-running debate about toilet paper orientation. Had a friend send this to me and, incredibly, *endorse the "under" position*. You think you know someone.
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brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back
May 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back
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Trump placed a 145% import tax on Chinese imports and China responded by saying you can’t buy these from us anymore at any price.
Trump thought they were playing chess but Xi was actually playing Uno. Reverse.
Trump thought they were playing chess but Xi was actually playing Uno. Reverse.
China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies
Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Trump placed a 145% import tax on Chinese imports and China responded by saying you can’t buy these from us anymore at any price.
Trump thought they were playing chess but Xi was actually playing Uno. Reverse.
Trump thought they were playing chess but Xi was actually playing Uno. Reverse.
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🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
www.forbes.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
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Here's the chart by @economist.com with the GDP misreporting estimates from the study.
March 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here's the chart by @economist.com with the GDP misreporting estimates from the study.
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"Have you even said thank you?"
March 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Have you even said thank you?"
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Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:
February 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:
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Today, the 🇪🇺 @ec.europa.eu released the Affordable Energy Action Plan – a list of initiatives for the coming months and years to ensure a clean and competitive energy supply for the EU hashtag#CleanIndustrialDeal
Here are Ember’s key takeaways 👇🧵 1/11
Here are Ember’s key takeaways 👇🧵 1/11
February 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today, the 🇪🇺 @ec.europa.eu released the Affordable Energy Action Plan – a list of initiatives for the coming months and years to ensure a clean and competitive energy supply for the EU hashtag#CleanIndustrialDeal
Here are Ember’s key takeaways 👇🧵 1/11
Here are Ember’s key takeaways 👇🧵 1/11
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January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
February 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
Fascinating article from my favorite journalist: how the tariffs on Canadian oil might actually push the US in the arms of...yeah, you guessed it.
✍️Despite being the world's biggest oil producer, America is v reliant on Canadian oil. And getting MORE reliant, not less.
So what happens when tariffs get imposed on Canada?
The answers are quite unsettling, for the American people... and for everyone else edconway.substack.com/p/america-st...
So what happens when tariffs get imposed on Canada?
The answers are quite unsettling, for the American people... and for everyone else edconway.substack.com/p/america-st...
America still needs Canadian oil. Here's why
And why the tariffs on Canada could plausibly lead to America doing deals with considerably more shady countries. A dive into the weird and wonderful world of heavy oil
edconway.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Fascinating article from my favorite journalist: how the tariffs on Canadian oil might actually push the US in the arms of...yeah, you guessed it.
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.