Peter Leung
@peterleung.bsky.social
Personal BlueSky Account. Motorsport Journalist. Posts about motorsport, automotive media, politics & culture. Views are frequently wrong but never in doubt. Reposts ≠ Endorsement.
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Not for nothing, but the institutions of this economy work because the institutions of this democracy work.
February 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Not for nothing, but the institutions of this economy work because the institutions of this democracy work.
Every year I have a donation theme and I donate to organizations around that theme. 2024 was press freedom. So proud of the work @propublica.org is doing during these turbulent times. #GoodTrouble #Journalism
February 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Every year I have a donation theme and I donate to organizations around that theme. 2024 was press freedom. So proud of the work @propublica.org is doing during these turbulent times. #GoodTrouble #Journalism
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My son got a pic of a snowy rainbow this morning.
February 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My son got a pic of a snowy rainbow this morning.
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How 3M’s scientists discovered—and then helped to conceal—the dangers of “forever chemicals” that their company produced.
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
nyer.cm
February 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
How 3M’s scientists discovered—and then helped to conceal—the dangers of “forever chemicals” that their company produced.
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‘Silver Arrows’ racer Manfred von Brauchitsch died #OnThisDay in 2003, aged 97. He’s mentioned at length in an episode of my & Richard Williams’ podcast, #AndColossallyThatsHistory, on how Adolf Hitler weaponised GP racing before WW2. Click below to listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
How Hitler's Nazi regime weaponised motor racing
Podcast Episode · And Colossally That's History! · 17/04/2024 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
‘Silver Arrows’ racer Manfred von Brauchitsch died #OnThisDay in 2003, aged 97. He’s mentioned at length in an episode of my & Richard Williams’ podcast, #AndColossallyThatsHistory, on how Adolf Hitler weaponised GP racing before WW2. Click below to listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Many of the major winners who picked up trophies on music's biggest night have graced the Tiny Desk. Watch their performances here.
Before they were 2025 Grammy Award winners, they were Tiny Desk performers
Many of the major winners who picked up trophies on music's biggest night have graced the Tiny Desk. Watch their performances here.
www.npr.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Many of the major winners who picked up trophies on music's biggest night have graced the Tiny Desk. Watch their performances here.
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Perfectly captured.
February 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Perfectly captured.
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The Final Exam, a video game in which the player takes on the role of a student caught amid a school shooting, aims to use provocation to advocate for tighter gun controls.
How a School Shooting Became a Video Game
Games are often blamed for gun violence, but the parents of one victim believe the form can raise awareness instead.
nyer.cm
January 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Final Exam, a video game in which the player takes on the role of a student caught amid a school shooting, aims to use provocation to advocate for tighter gun controls.
Thoughts and Prayers 🙏
Deepseek could be an extinction-level event for some venture capital firms," per Axios
January 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Thoughts and Prayers 🙏
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Pentagon Warns China Developing Love, The Greatest Weapon Of All
theonion.com/pentago...
theonion.com/pentago...
January 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Pentagon Warns China Developing Love, The Greatest Weapon Of All
theonion.com/pentago...
theonion.com/pentago...
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It's difficult to overstate just how much professional journalists have been trained to fear defamation lawsuits and how much it has impacted the ability to tell the truth
January 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It's difficult to overstate just how much professional journalists have been trained to fear defamation lawsuits and how much it has impacted the ability to tell the truth
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Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry
Really moved by this interview @audiecornish.bsky.social did with Peter Kalmus about #ClimateChange. I found Kalmus to be deeply compelling and courageous in his vulnerability in sounding the alarm about the climate crisis. Well worth a listen.
www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
Meet the Man Who Saw the LA Fires Coming - The Assignment with Audie Cornish - Podcast on CNN Audio
Peter Kalmus left California two years ago in part because of his concerns about hotter days and increasing wildfires. Today, his former neighborhood of Altadena is one of the many communities left sc...
www.cnn.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Really moved by this interview @audiecornish.bsky.social did with Peter Kalmus about #ClimateChange. I found Kalmus to be deeply compelling and courageous in his vulnerability in sounding the alarm about the climate crisis. Well worth a listen.
www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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Last night's Costco parking lot star - this beautiful Saab 9-5 wagon! I have always liked these, but I haven't seen a wagon in some time, and this particular one was just beautiful.
January 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Last night's Costco parking lot star - this beautiful Saab 9-5 wagon! I have always liked these, but I haven't seen a wagon in some time, and this particular one was just beautiful.
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Thank you Billy for using scientific evidence! Here's a more recent article showing that misinfo was skewed, and response to it was thus likely/appropriately not:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(As added bonus this paper does not have Meta/Facebook co-authors).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(As added bonus this paper does not have Meta/Facebook co-authors).
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Thank you Billy for using scientific evidence! Here's a more recent article showing that misinfo was skewed, and response to it was thus likely/appropriately not:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(As added bonus this paper does not have Meta/Facebook co-authors).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(As added bonus this paper does not have Meta/Facebook co-authors).
With the effects of #ClimateChange becoming an ever more frequent threat, we could see the largest population migration within the US in the years to come.
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…
propub.li
January 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
With the effects of #ClimateChange becoming an ever more frequent threat, we could see the largest population migration within the US in the years to come.
The devastating LA fires reminded me of the Australian Bushfires back in 2020. The smoke from those fires made it all the way to South America & circumnavigated the globe back to Australia.
The fires might be in LA, but the effects are felt around the globe.
weizmann.org.au/research/how...
The fires might be in LA, but the effects are felt around the globe.
weizmann.org.au/research/how...
How Bushfire Smoke Travelled Around the World — Weizmann Australia
A new study has uncovered how some Australian fires produced a spreading stratospheric haze rivalling that of a volcanic eruption. It’s not just how hot the fires burn – it’s...
weizmann.org.au
January 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The devastating LA fires reminded me of the Australian Bushfires back in 2020. The smoke from those fires made it all the way to South America & circumnavigated the globe back to Australia.
The fires might be in LA, but the effects are felt around the globe.
weizmann.org.au/research/how...
The fires might be in LA, but the effects are felt around the globe.
weizmann.org.au/research/how...
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Honda and Nissan confirm plans to merge into the world's third-largest automaker.
🔗: bit.ly/3Pa3KxX
🔗: bit.ly/3Pa3KxX
December 23, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Honda and Nissan confirm plans to merge into the world's third-largest automaker.
🔗: bit.ly/3Pa3KxX
🔗: bit.ly/3Pa3KxX
Well deserved! 💪
I am very happy and honoured to have been chosen as a finalist in the Motorsports Category of the World Sports Photography Awards 2025.
You can see mine and all the breathtaking images of all other finalists on the official website
www.worldsportsphotographyawards.com/finalists-winners
You can see mine and all the breathtaking images of all other finalists on the official website
www.worldsportsphotographyawards.com/finalists-winners
December 21, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Well deserved! 💪
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I can assure you, that instinct never goes away 😂
April 22, 2024 at 1:04 AM
I can assure you, that instinct never goes away 😂
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a local photographer is selling his car on FB Marketplace, and you will never see nicer photos of a 2005 corolla
March 27, 2024 at 8:12 PM
a local photographer is selling his car on FB Marketplace, and you will never see nicer photos of a 2005 corolla
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