END/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security
"rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots"
Be like Spain.
bsky.app/profile/jere...
Bay of Figs
Two globe-shaped world maps titled "Trump’s strikes* in 2025-26" use red dots and text callouts to illustrate various illegal US military actions across the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East. On the Western globe, markings indicate a "war against drug trafficking from South America" with clusters of dots in the Caribbean and a specific note stating US forces captured Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of Venezuela. On the Eastern globe, the map highlights several conflict zones: strikes against Isis in Nigeria, Syria, and Somalia; continued targeting of Houthi rebels in Yemen; and a "major strike against Iran" launched by the US and Israel, indicated by a dense concentration of red dots across the Iranian plateau.
I blame the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Trump bombing Iran and everyone else.
www.ft.com/content/e990...
back to the roving bandit era
Some of Benfica's best away jerseys are black
a new challenge (inspired by today's big event): no haircut until five crumble-only meals in a row
How AI Impacts Skill Formation Judy Hanwen Shen∗ Alex Tamkin† February 3, 2026 Abstract AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of AI. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation – particularly in safety-critical domains.
Interesting paper, especially interesting it's coming from researchers at Anthropic arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
Same here but in my mind Darko Milicic and Dario Saric are the same player so it makes sense
Today in @theguardian.com, I argue that Donald Trump’s foreign-policy playbook is increasingly about attention capture, or what I call geopolitical clickbait.
Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
DNA
Fantastic second issue of DeCode magazine on the Black Sea www.flipsnack.com/A6E67D99E8C/...
Big Bad Wolf attacking Finland from the east.
"They suspect that Russian wolf numbers have exploded after hunters were sent to the frontline in Ukraine, driving the predators to search for new territory in Finland".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
OPEN ACCESS -The visual conquering of the Portuguese sea, by Pedro Figueiredo Neto www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
NEW | Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU power sector 🇪🇺⚡️
Our @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review is out today, showing wind and solar reaching 30% of EU power, compared to 29% for fossil fuels.
Here's what happened in EU electricity generation in 2025 🧵
"people are so conditioned by the now dominant projection that the idea that maps can use a projection other than a Mercator has been lost on the public at large"
www.ft.com/content/ab27...
21.01.2026: LNG tanker Vladimir Rusanov is currently delivering 172,000 m³ of LNG from Sabetta (Yamal LNG), shitnya, to Zeebrugge, Belgium 🇧🇪.
The cargo's value is approximately €35 million.
#BloodGas
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Klaus Dodds' article on ice as geopolitical matter: "ice as metaphor is often complicitous with the settler colonial framing of empty, unstable and ungoverned spaces".
doi.org/10.1080/1465...
A recent book on the topic
bsky.app/profile/caro...
Beyond lies, fantasies and insults that make up 95% of every Trump speech, what stood out for me in today's speech, on Greenland, was Trump's repetitive description of the territory as ice ('a very big piece of ice') and emphasis on its location in the Western hemisphere (he did so at least twice).
"if the EU sidesteps the ACI, Trump will be even more disrespectful toward Europe than he already is; the EU will lose all credibility; and European citizens will be even more disillusioned with European institutions unwilling to protect them and their dignity."
www.politico.eu/article/this...
"Power that rests on the performed compliance of others is more fragile than it looks. The strong do what they can, until the moment they discover that “what they can” was always bounded by what others were willing to tolerate. Athens found out in Sicily; the question is where America finds out."
"Some are aghast that the United States is seemingly contemplating military action against its allies. But Donald Trump does not believe in allies. For Trump, there are no allies, only enemies and marks—and of those, only enemies can deserve respect."
musgrave.substack.com/p/the-old-wo...
This was a very informative interview on EU, China, trade and competitiveness with @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social
youtu.be/75leMrth9Ns?...
"If Ukraine’s military might were to be included, when added to that of France, Germany, Poland and the U.K., among others, the potential armed power of the coalition of the willing would be vast, and would include both nuclear and non-nuclear states."
"Countering this trend demands interventions and the creation of alternatives. These include a reassessment of evaluation metrics, a reduced reliance on commercial publishers, and greater global equity in research."
theconversation.com/the-5-stages...
Lamine 'Achilles' Yamal
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Just the White House referencing “which way, western man” by William gayley Simpson (published by the National Alliance, the Neo Nazi group led by white nationalist William Luther Pierce of Turner Diaries fame) AND threatening Greenland in the same tweet.
