Patrick Brennan
@patricktb.bsky.social
Curious mind in a confusing world
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Of course
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Exclusive | Exxon Held Secret Talks With Rosneft About Going Back to Russia
Resuming business in Russia would mark a dramatic rapprochement after Exxon’s messy breakup with Moscow when Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022
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August 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Of course
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Seems like the new MAGA brain implant chip is to say the whole red carpet soldiers in their knees thing is because it was a military base. This is completely false. It’s a choice.
Also Zelensky will be landing at Andrews. A military base. Let’s see if they do this for him.
Also Zelensky will be landing at Andrews. A military base. Let’s see if they do this for him.
August 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Seems like the new MAGA brain implant chip is to say the whole red carpet soldiers in their knees thing is because it was a military base. This is completely false. It’s a choice.
Also Zelensky will be landing at Andrews. A military base. Let’s see if they do this for him.
Also Zelensky will be landing at Andrews. A military base. Let’s see if they do this for him.
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One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating.
Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies https://on.ft.com/3H9L154
Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies https://on.ft.com/3H9L154
July 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating.
Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies https://on.ft.com/3H9L154
Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies https://on.ft.com/3H9L154
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We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population”
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.
#Gaza
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.
#Gaza
July 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
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NEW:
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment.
I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:
Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
www.ft.com/content/a9ea...
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment.
I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:
Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
www.ft.com/content/a9ea...
July 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
NEW:
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment.
I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:
Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
www.ft.com/content/a9ea...
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment.
I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:
Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
www.ft.com/content/a9ea...
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Hard to phrase it better.
Simon has been a superb software engineer before LLMs (he created Django and many others.) He’s been using and experimenting with these tools, uses them better than most of us devs and remains a superb software engineer.
Some things don’t change
Simon has been a superb software engineer before LLMs (he created Django and many others.) He’s been using and experimenting with these tools, uses them better than most of us devs and remains a superb software engineer.
Some things don’t change
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
July 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Hard to phrase it better.
Simon has been a superb software engineer before LLMs (he created Django and many others.) He’s been using and experimenting with these tools, uses them better than most of us devs and remains a superb software engineer.
Some things don’t change
Simon has been a superb software engineer before LLMs (he created Django and many others.) He’s been using and experimenting with these tools, uses them better than most of us devs and remains a superb software engineer.
Some things don’t change
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Hundreds of Palestinians have been shot dead while trying to access aid in the past month, in what one Israeli soldier described as a ‘killing field’. Ben Reiff reports.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
What’s happening at Gaza’s aid hubs
Hundreds of Palestinians have been shot dead while trying to access aid in the past month, in what one Israeli soldier described as a ‘killing field’
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Hundreds of Palestinians have been shot dead while trying to access aid in the past month, in what one Israeli soldier described as a ‘killing field’. Ben Reiff reports.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
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It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.
June 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.
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Example of a place that does #2: Shopify
OH MAN they are really going all-in in experimenting, getting access to latest tools/models, learning from the labs directly, and celebrating when devs find interesting use cases
Also a lot of "churn" (throwaway) work... but they are having a blast
OH MAN they are really going all-in in experimenting, getting access to latest tools/models, learning from the labs directly, and celebrating when devs find interesting use cases
Also a lot of "churn" (throwaway) work... but they are having a blast
June 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Example of a place that does #2: Shopify
OH MAN they are really going all-in in experimenting, getting access to latest tools/models, learning from the labs directly, and celebrating when devs find interesting use cases
Also a lot of "churn" (throwaway) work... but they are having a blast
OH MAN they are really going all-in in experimenting, getting access to latest tools/models, learning from the labs directly, and celebrating when devs find interesting use cases
Also a lot of "churn" (throwaway) work... but they are having a blast
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Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials
Soldiers shot Gazans who were expecting aid trucks, according to the local health ministry
on.ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB
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Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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In Gaza, meat, chicken and eggs have basically run out, due to Israel's blockade.
What a horrific form of collective punishment. www.ft.com/content/89cc...
What a horrific form of collective punishment. www.ft.com/content/89cc...
May 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
In Gaza, meat, chicken and eggs have basically run out, due to Israel's blockade.
What a horrific form of collective punishment. www.ft.com/content/89cc...
What a horrific form of collective punishment. www.ft.com/content/89cc...
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This is hard to believe, but is happening:
the CVE program to end later today?
CVE has been the de facto way to track software vulnerabilities - from disclosure to fixing - globally.
Feels like everyone will be worse off - and I wonder what will replace this, if anything will
the CVE program to end later today?
CVE has been the de facto way to track software vulnerabilities - from disclosure to fixing - globally.
Feels like everyone will be worse off - and I wonder what will replace this, if anything will
April 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is hard to believe, but is happening:
the CVE program to end later today?
CVE has been the de facto way to track software vulnerabilities - from disclosure to fixing - globally.
Feels like everyone will be worse off - and I wonder what will replace this, if anything will
the CVE program to end later today?
CVE has been the de facto way to track software vulnerabilities - from disclosure to fixing - globally.
Feels like everyone will be worse off - and I wonder what will replace this, if anything will
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“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.
April 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.
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"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...
Ten weeks that shook the world
On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power
www.ft.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...
Reading the unfiltered views on Europe as expressed by these incompetents certainly hits differently than when they expressed these thoughts publicly. Then we thought it might be trolling or a way to seek leverage. Now it’s clear, they really do despise us Europeans.
“A mack-truck-sized breach”: @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social discusses being accidentally added to a Trump administration group chat planning military strikes.
Read more in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/0VASTR78
Read more in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/0VASTR78
A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop
How The Atlantic’s editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen
theatln.tc
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Reading the unfiltered views on Europe as expressed by these incompetents certainly hits differently than when they expressed these thoughts publicly. Then we thought it might be trolling or a way to seek leverage. Now it’s clear, they really do despise us Europeans.
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A friend who works in music told me the way to build anticipation for a launch is by dropping little teasers. So... call me Lady Gaga.
GD Politics podcast coming tomorrow.
For now, subscribe at GDPolitics.com
(Thanks AI)
GD Politics podcast coming tomorrow.
For now, subscribe at GDPolitics.com
(Thanks AI)
March 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A friend who works in music told me the way to build anticipation for a launch is by dropping little teasers. So... call me Lady Gaga.
GD Politics podcast coming tomorrow.
For now, subscribe at GDPolitics.com
(Thanks AI)
GD Politics podcast coming tomorrow.
For now, subscribe at GDPolitics.com
(Thanks AI)
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
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Climate change is creating the perfect storm, with conflict and displacement issues increasingly intersecting with natural disasters. In this guide, Cornelia Scholz explains how to transform raw data into visualisations, revealing the impact of climate hazards. www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
The Story of a Storm - Part 1: Visualising Climate Data with NASA’s Giovanni Tool - bellingcat
In this guide on visualising climate, conflict, and displacement data, we’ll show you how to turn raw climate data into visualisations using NASA’s Giovanni tool.
www.bellingcat.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Climate change is creating the perfect storm, with conflict and displacement issues increasingly intersecting with natural disasters. In this guide, Cornelia Scholz explains how to transform raw data into visualisations, revealing the impact of climate hazards. www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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“The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that.”
Donald Tusk, Polish PM
Donald Tusk, Polish PM
February 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that.”
Donald Tusk, Polish PM
Donald Tusk, Polish PM
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"Europe must now start the painful process of “de-risking” its relationship with the US, looking for areas of dangerous dependence on America and stripping them out of the system.” from @gideonrachman.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/11f1...
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Vance’s real warning to Europe
Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America
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February 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Europe must now start the painful process of “de-risking” its relationship with the US, looking for areas of dangerous dependence on America and stripping them out of the system.” from @gideonrachman.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/11f1...
www.ft.com/content/11f1...