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Israeli turnout now at 66.7% as of 6pm — up 9% on 2022 and the highest ever recorded in Israeli history. There are still four hours left of voting from 6pm.

In Brazil voting is mandatory, so the State must provide free transportation to all on election day. In at least 7 states, public transportation was sabotaged by a number of right wing prefectures resulting in potentially irreversible damages to Brazilian democracy.

Report below includes some good #datavis charts

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Me too. Many commentators say that the Trump-Putin diesel deal is about the midterms, but it doesn't fit as a campaign strategy. It makes much more sense as a helping hand to Putin at the verge of Russia's winter campaign — with the aim of making winter more miserable for Ukrainians.

Brexiteers have died of old age. Reminds us of that the future belongs to the young, and that older people are reactionary fundamentalists.

“The reason it’s hard to think of a precedent of America switching sides in a conflict like this is that there really isn’t one,” said Richard Haass. (…) “What’s unprecedented here is the decision to reverse course and penalize the victim of the invasion — Ukraine — while rewarding the aggressor.”

Beware of the framing though. No-one (not even the US ambassador) suggests that the EU plans to “block” starlink. The EU is not even suggesting to “restrict” starlink as the ambassador suggests. It just intends to reserve some spectrum to EU companies. #dramaqueen.

Very relevant for all digital media, even historical ones as exemplified in the end of the video. Note that the usual goal of these "AI enhanced" images is just to make things pretty and not even malicious.

I have also reposted the graph earlier. However, "bot" refers to search engine and not social media bots in the context of cloudflare, so the post was misleading.

1/ Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory. ⬇️

Ever wondered why China builds both the dirtiest and cleanest energy generation at record levels at the same time? Energy security is why, excellently explained in detail here: youtu.be/qde4r4_uMU0?...

The biggest warning will be if Chinese airlines stop flights from Irkutsk to Beijing, Reuters reports.

The war has started in Ethiopia. This could easily become the worst human catastrophe of the century. I wrote this in February. The situation has become more complex, and more dangerous. shurkin.substack.com/p/the-loomin...

Another fossil-fuel industry, anti-renewables talking point bites the dust as wind turbine blades - in fact the whole wind farm - sends v little to landfill For years anti-wind farm campaigners have said landfill of turbines blades means wind power is unsustainable www.thetimes.com/business/ene...

EU feels diesel pain “We run road transport on internal combustion engines, we’re reliant on a commodity we have no control over" say @transportenvironment.org “As long as we are dependent on imported fossil fuels, our energy prices [will] be volatile ” @ec.europa.eu www.ft.com/content/76b5...

🇨🇦🇪🇺 Canadians, where there is will, there is a way.

Global investment in clean technology manufacturing and industrial facilities fell 14% in Q1 and another 7% in Q2 2026, continuing a downward trend underway since late 2023. Solar manufacturing accounted for a large share of the decline.

Now THIS is incredible. 26 decommissioned wind turbines from Scotland's first commercial wind farm were - wait for it - 99.9% recycled? Less than 0.1% of their materials into landfill: www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/uk-fi... Blimey.

Building with timber, hemp, straw etc. is a DOUBLE climate WIN. It is not just about storing carbon in the walls. It is about actively DISPLACING highly polluting, fossil-intensive materials like concrete, steel, and petroleum-based insulation. The substitution effect is HUGE.

🚨 New video out now! We've got a double-premiere. @anderspucknielsen.dk joins the podcast for the first time, and we have a dedicated segment for listener questions at the end. Join us as we discuss Ukraine, Hybrid Warfare and the potential for war between Russia & NATO: youtu.be/-bgbuH50PFk

Cool new maritime air defense asset.

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

In yet more 'why isn't the rest of the world trying to decarbonise' news: www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

I hope Ukraine and the EU can make the whole line from the border to Kyiv dual gauge. You obv can’t convert everything but enabling direct services abroad would be great

First views of Ariane 6 liftoff, flight VA270 🫰 @esa.int @esaearth.esa.int @eumetsat.int @cnes.fr credits: ESA - S. Corvaja

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

New article- visual guide to the naval drones (USVs) on display at Kyiv’s Independence Day parade. The second one hasn’t been shown in public before. There were a couple of others, a RHIB based one and a Magura V5 with mast, but they were hiding from the camera www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

I think I maybe undersold how gross the “prank” played on this employee was. Imagine you come into work, try to help customers, and later realize they've racked up 500,000+ views on social media by harassing you and your coworkers.

Long thread, well worth the read. Being unable to compete is bad, not realizing it is probably worse.

“There’s a squeeze on Europe from various fronts to extract more wealth out of it,” said Davide Oneglia, a London-based macroeconomist at research firm TS Lombard. “Europe is seen as still rich enough to pay for stuff, while not strong enough to defend itself industrially, technologically or

Rather unhelpfully, categorisation of "endangered", "threatened" etc, depends on relative population change. For "endangered" it's ~"population size reduction of ≥70% over the last 10 years or 3 generations". So if 2015 & 2025 counts show the same tiny number, it magically becomes "least concern".

This is a really significant development, especially given that it’s the UK that wants to get rid of US components - one of the hitherto closest US allies, with a deeply US-intertwined defence industry. ”We don’t want to depend on how some negotiations are going”, a UK govt official said

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Manufacturing facilities for key energy technologies can be found around the globe, but overall capacity is highly regionally concentrated. This is underscoring the importance of strengthening industrial competitiveness and diversification → iea.li/4sBzPRs

amazing article

A job ad. A ticket to Russia. A contract. Then the Russian frontline. An EEAS investigation has uncovered the digital pipeline behind Russia’s recruitment of foreign nationals for its war against Ukraine.

👇 Back in the day I even drafted a research paper about a type of myopia often suffered by enthusiasts for specific technologies: aiming where the competition was. I would've explained it by availability bias: when you are into tech X, you won't follow that closely what happens in tech Y.

Quick, I need to know if it’s named after [x] Tolkien [ ] something else Uh oh no

🌘☀️ Il fallait au moins un phénomène astronomique de cette rareté pour éclipser le #Rafale et l'#A400M !

See, eyeo is a business. Ad Blocking, which feels very anti-commercial, is actually a business. eyeo is but one participant in the Ad Blocking Business... which is actually ALSO the ad tech business. Why? Well Eyeo also owns BlockThrough. blockthrough.com/blog/blockth...

“The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics … publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back.” — www.propublica.org/article/gene...

South Korea hitting 42.5°C while potatoes literally boil underground in Gangwon isn't just an outlier—it’s proof our agricultural infrastructure is completely unprepared for catastrophic soil baking. We must treat food security as vital national defence. How long can supply chains survive? 🥔

But then US backtracked on Patriot license and deliveries, and today there was a massive Ukrainian strike on Novorossiysk. Influence on targeting requires something in return.

Die heutige Sonnenfinsternis beginnt in Deutschland um 19:15 Uhr und endet mit dem Sonnenuntergang gegen 21 Uhr. Dadurch vermindert sich die Netzeinspeisung von Solarstrom am Abend um maximal 2 GW bzw. 3,5 % der maximalen Tagesleistung von 57 GW. www.energy-charts.info/charts/power...