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Writer on financing conservation and sustainability in Asia Pacific. Journalism: https://www.asianinvestor.net/author/richard-newell/805412 Columns: https://www.stewardshipcommons.com Music blog: https://bangnzdrum.blogspot.com/
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Mathias Risse dissects JD Vance’s Munich speech, exposing how the VP is gaslighting the world on #democracy, #rights, and #misinformation. A must-read for anyone concerned with the erosion of truth in public discourse. @harvardcarrcenter.bsky.social #SurveillanceCapitalism #AI

It had to happen

By Steve Cutts - what if animals treated the environment the way we do. www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-sh...

Fighting the climate pushback www.stewardshipcommons.com/article/rich...

"No city has as flagrant a disregard for its own culture as London." Kate Mossman on the Prince Charles Cinema and the death of the West End:

This is a no debate zone. What we are doing here is forging an impenetrable echo chamber comprised of people who are friendly, cool and (this part is redundant) like alternative rock

Give the drummer some.

Good read. I think any discussion of uncertainty needs to take into account our current lived experience. Technology creates confusion. On the one hand, it has made life seem more predicable, measurable & controlled. However, it also exposes us to so much chaos & unverving content.

The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#nafo #ofan #fellas #ukraine #nafofellas Peter Pomerantsev is a native Ukrainian and expert on propaganda. youtu.be/sgHHRVH0NFo

The most important thread you'll read today. In brief: Europe has the power to save Ukraine and slip into the leadership position America has vacated. It must grasp it. And Europeans must pressure their governments to do so.

Anyone waiting to binge-watch #Severance season 2, you’re missing the fun of the episode discussions on reddit www.reddit.com/r/tvPlus/s/Z...

It’s important to remember who is orchestrating this chaos and has been all along. Steve Bannon knows how to whip up hysteria youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?...

Changing trade dynamics, a rise in strategic competition and growing populism are highlighted as the key risks www.asianinvestor.net/article/futu...

Anyone else adopted Severance music genres for their playlists?

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

What happened on June 4, 1989 at Tiananmen Square? What happened to Hu Jintao in 2022? Why is Xi Jinping compared to Winnie-the-Pooh? What was the Umbrella Revolution? DeepSeek has a blindspot on China's sensitive topics

Here's how Trump's executive order on wind projects threatens jobs and climate progress www.npr.org/2025/01/24/n... #Downshift 🔌💡

Last weekend, news dropped that Chinese start-up DeepSeek developed a new large language model (LLM) competitive with US leaders like OpenAI while using a fraction of the energy, time & cost. If true, it would be a game changer & reset expectations as to how much electricity demand AI needs. A 🧵 🔌💡

I'll reiterate that I don't think the various trolls/bots/chuds here understand how comprehensive the Bluesky block function is here. It's so good that it actually encourages "don't engage, just block": nothing's left over after the block happens so there's no point engaging at all. Just brilliant.

Apparently you get banned on Twitter for posting this work of art… But, I’m not on Twitter, am I. #art

Cool cover of the Severance theme www.reddit.com/r/SeveranceA...

Wow. The Lorax was written in 1971. The illustrations in it look like these actual photos from the US in the 1970s.

The political far-right owns the bulk of traditional mainstream media (and) nearly all of social media as well. Whatever dark historic cycle we are falling into, progressive forces need to reconcile that we will forever lack the keys to the world’s most effective brainwashing machines.

1) follow @nikkimcr.bsky.social and the rest of the crew here at @rollingstone.com 2) feel free to google “Lord Rothermere Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler daily mail” www.dailymail.co.uk/media/articl...

Hopefully @adamsch.bsky.social doesn't mind me sharing this v good comment he left Companies that supply dangerous products love to fabricate their own moral neutrality - 'we're just meeting what society demands of us' kinda thing. Their actions (and internal budgets) say otherwise

if you’re not gonna speak truth to power you might as well quit journalism. enabling fascism cause you’re worried about newsroom job security still makes you complicit.

And again *sighs* DO NOT POST TRUMP OR MUSK IMAGES OF ANY KIND IN MY REPLIES OR IN GENERAL YOU ARE PART OF HIS PROPAGANDA MACHINE IF YOU DO THIS, REGARDLESS OF CONTEXT STOP. IT. NOW.

You know you need it. Take a minute. #OceanDevotion

What are the keys to unlocking more effective climate strategies? They nearly all stem from science. drawdown.org/insights/to-...

The TikTok ban permanently reshapes the ideological tilt of the online creator landscape towards the right. Cheering for it in any way is extremely shortsighted www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...

Incredible scene in Seoul tonight as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s supporters are storming the Seoul courthouse in response to his arrest. They are smashing the windows and vandalising the offices.