BREAKING: A large swarm of Ukrainian long-range drones struck the strategic oil depot of Russia’s Federal Agency for State Reserves in the Yaroslavl Region this morning It serves as a key logistics hub supplying Russian military units & has over 60 storage tanks. Massive fires

JUST IN: Andrej Karpathy, a top AI scientist at Anthropic, is reportedly barred from accessing the company’s most advanced AI model because he is not a U.S. citizen.

Finde ich gut: Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein wollen sich zusammen mit Süd -Dänemark vom deutschen Strompreis Markt abkoppeln. #Erneuerbare #Windkraft taz.de/Norddeutsch-daenische…

Macron; Canada is becoming the first country outside geographic Europe to take part in Europe’s strategic architecture. This is exactly the direction the EU should follow. Europe’s foreign policy should be based on enlargement, integration and structured partnerships. For more than 70% of EU countries, their largest export partner is another EU member state. Intra-EU goods trade alone reached around €4 trillion in 2025, showing the extraordinary power of Europe’s internal market. Expanding this model — through full enlargement, deeper association agreements, or strategic partnerships with countries like the UK and Canada increases Europe’s competitiveness, economic scale and geopolitical influence.

Money matters more than blood.

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.” — Hubert Reeves

Another major environmental catastrophe that impacts on climate and world trade, but it is not on the radar. The following link is a good video of the Sargassum problem, a pelagic seaweed floating on the surface of the ocean. When we sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, we got stuck three times in giant mats of Sargassum. The video gives a good explanation of what happens in the Caribbean when it washes ashore, but it misses the major environmental and economic implications that have a profound impact on world trade and marine life in an entire ocean. The Sargassum starts off from the coast of Brazil; it picks up nutrients from the Amazon and grows at an accelerated rate. It can double in biomass every 10 days. The weed crosses the South Atlantic to Africa and flows up the west coast, picking up more nutrients from the Congo and Gambia as well as agricultural run-off. By the time it reaches North Africa, Cape Verde, it takes a left turn and starts heading back across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. There should only be 1 million tonnes of the weed in the Atlantic, but there are now 40 million, and it is expanding year on year. Sargassum is a plant, and like all plants, it requires nutrients such as phosphate. However, the massive amount of weed uses up all the phosphate and then biochemically defaults to absorbing arsenic, which sits below phosphate in the periodic table. The Equatorial Atlantic is now devoid of phosphate, which means there is almost no phytoplankton, zooplankton or fish. When we conducted our citizen science project, 5000 samples were collected by 25 yachts at around 15 deg. North, and the results all confirmed that the Equatorial Atlantic was effectively dead. The results were not ignored by the academics; instead, they attacked the Citizen Science project, this has become the subject of a reports by seethroughnews.org. Given the phytoplankton, such as coccolithophores and diatoms, have exhibited a regime shift, it also means the SML oil surfactant layer is gone, which means evaporation across the air-water interface has increased and aerosol/cloud formation has decreased. Satellite. Imagery confirms a 10% increase in humidity and a 10% decrease in cloud formation and rain. This is climate change TICC, the consequences. Impact on Central America, the survival of the tropical rainforests, mangroves, coral reefs, 25% of all marine life in the Atlantic and water supply for the Panama Canal. 6% of world trade and 40% of USA trade pass through the canal, and it has been totally missed as a major economic and environmental catastrophe. GOES centre for marine research: Seahorsepoint.org The video below was taken in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from our sailing vessel Copepod. Via Howard Dryden

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge in the 1400s. Here’s how it works:

"I’ve heard so many comments that Europe is close to collapse. It’s not true.. It’s still the best place in the world." - Donald Tusk Prime Minister of Poland

Very good news

RT @ChrisStoecker: Kolumne: Man könnte die Energiepolitik von Merz und Reiche so zusammenfassen: »Fossile Retrotechnik erhalten, Veränderun…

Es sollte sich niemand, der noch ernst genommen werden will, mit Ihnen öffentlich zeigen. Wer es tut, heftet sich diese Propagandalügen an.

handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/… In dieser konkreten Entwicklung wirken viele Faktoren. Einer ist das Ende der liberalen Globalisierung, die Ausbildung einer resilienten Form. Das wird in der 🇩🇪 Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik noch immer nicht verstanden. Sie hängt in ihren Fantasien fest.

✨🇨🇳China launches the world’s largest fully electric 10,000-ton container ship, marking a major step toward greener maritime transport and coastal shipping.

I love that a Black woman is responsible for this. 😂 Shout out to @RepBeatty for filing the lawsuit to get Trump‘s name removed from the Kennedy Center

Old but good 💪🇺🇦

Absolute chaos in Crimea as fuel has totally run out. Drivers line up for days with no hope of enough to leave the penninsula.

Snyder: The U.S. is not just unreliable, it is behaving strangely. Allies like Romania, Poland, Taiwan and South Korea expect America to save resources for serious moments, not waste munitions, reputation and focus on wars it cannot explain. 1/

Die Geschwindigkeit beim Zubau der #Batteriespeicher steigert sich. Hatten wir im gesamten bisherigen Jahr 2026 im Marktstammdatenregister einen durchschnittlichen Wochenzuwachs von 162 MWh pro Woche, waren es in den letzten beiden Wochen jeweils rund 350 MWh. Im MaStR.. 1/6

Russian Z-bloggers post footage of Ukrainian drones freely flying over Russian-occupied Crimea, attacking fuel trucks and military targets. They predict that soon this will lead to "panic and total collapse of all main roads."