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Autodidactic generalist. OSINT, cryptology, strategy, STEM, society, climate change. Endlessly curious. Disabled. Complex PTSD. Pro-NATO. Haters gonna hate.
Billionaire Bill Gates says everything’s going to be fine. Here’s what scientists say.
The head of Europe’s central bank just said financial markets don’t understand what they’re in for. This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done. Most people have absolutely no idea. Here is what she actually said. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. That chokepoint carries 20% of the world’s oil and gas. Markets shrugged. Investors assumed it would blow over. Lagarde told The Economist that technical experts are not talking about months for recovery. They are talking about years. Helium travels through the Strait of Hormuz. Helium is not a balloon gas. It is the invisible ingredient inside every advanced microchip on earth. Qatar supplies 35% of the world’s commercial helium. Qatar’s facilities have gone dark. Spot prices have surged past $450 per thousand cubic feet. Most chip fabricators carry less than three months of inventory. The world is building AI data centers at record speed. The raw material that makes the chips possible is now scarce. Meanwhile Brent crude has hit $99. Earlier spikes passed $120. US gasoline is up 30%. Iraq cut 1.5 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia paused its largest refinery. Europe is heading into this with gas storage at 30% capacity. And the ECB is not cutting rates to soften the blow. It is considering hiking them to fight inflation. Slow economy. Rising prices. Tighter money. All at once. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Started reading “Already Free” by Bruce Tift and feel there is a nice synergy between “The Courage to be Disliked,” “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” and Tift’s work on how the personas / masks you put on as a coping mechanism consume you.
“Extreme global climate outcomes may occur even under moderate 2C warming for several sectors. For droughts in global key breadbasket regions … global climatic impact-drivers at 2C…may turn out to be much more extreme than model-averaged projections at 3C or 4C warming.”
As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.
Continuing to pollute our minds & the planet. The world needs to stop this manipulation & denial, & invest in a global counter movement for truth. The truth of existential risks on our watch. Truth of sustainability as the only route to prosperity & equity theguardian.com/environment/20…
On March 20, Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy said: “The damage sustained by the LNG facilities will take between three to five years to repair. The impact is on China, South Korea, Italy and Belgium.
Potash and phosphate-based fertilizers remain mostly unaffected, but nitrogen-based fertilizers that rely on natural gas are the problem. Global urea and ammonia supplies are already being hit hard. #fertilizer #foodsupply #geopolitics
And for the love of God, we need to find some way to divorce insurance from the equation of how inpatient trauma care is paid for (& how outpatient care is paid for, for that matter). I spent easily half my time as an inpatient trauma psychologist haggling with insurance companies to authorize days of treatment at a time for survivors who were literally deciding whether to stay alive or not.
