New York Times Op-Ed one year ago

Donald Trump waxes poetic about his redecoration of the Oval Office. Actually the ornaments are made by a company in Taiwan of polyurethane and have been spray painted gold. He's deluding himself about this, just like everything else.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

The adoption of EVs is surging in emerging markets, as affordable Chinese models help drive down prices

With rising Chinese EV imports, battery electric cars have reached price parity in Thailand & seen major price drops in Brazil & other markets ➡️ iea.li/4khAEd6

On the State Department reports that portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

That's quite a statistic www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Kinda wow: the mystery model "summit" (rumored to be OpenAI) with the prompt "create something I can paste into p5js that will startle me with its cleverness in creating something that invokes the control panel of a starship in the distant future" & "make it better"

2,351 lines of code. First time

Between 1980 and 2024 the basket of 50 basic commodities become cheaper and more abundant. To be precise 70 per cent cheaper and 238 per cent more abundant. If we hadn’t messed up housing costs we’d be collectively very well off. Source: buff.ly/U8lZZkc

I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social

Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...

Worth a read.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

David Pope in Canberra Times

You can add sync comps to grids for periods when you don’t have enough synchronous gas running

Been running stability pathfinders on that in GB - if you’d like to check it out, there’s a summary here:

youtu.be/2m11uCU9IUU?...

Bin ja nun bekanntermaßen niemand, der Stromimporte verdammt. Diese Statistik von @agoraew.bsky.social finde ich aber nicht so gelungen. Wesentlicher Grund: Wir können nicht so einfach sagen, woher wir Strom importieren. Der Grund liegt in der Organisation des europäischen Strommarkts.

I would like to demonstrate the equipment you helped deliver to Ukraine in action. It might inspire others to contribute and help the fundraiser reach its goal. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and perhaps you could make a meaningful gift to these engineers by donating:

www.paypal.com/donate?campa...

An incredible piece of investigative journalism by NYT and Bellingcat from 2018 on the Douma chemical attack for anyone who hasn't seen it before.

Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world.

Here is London.

Nice work @jimmcquaid.bsky.social & @kirstypringle.bsky.social.

airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con...

h/t @edhawkins.org

Today marks 1,000 days of Ukraine's resistance against Russia. @LibertyUkraineF Kharkiv workshop has delivered critical equipment, but more is needed as attacks escalate. Help us reach $120K to fund 2 excavators & 2 crane trucks. We're halfway there. Donate: www.paypal.com/donate?campa...