Edwin Janssen - EN

As an Elon Musk biographer, I would peg his IQ as between 100 and 110. There’s zero evidence in his biography of anything higher. And I want to repeat that now, lest you think it a typo. There’s zero evidence, from his life history, of Musk having anything higher than a 110 IQ.

@minchoi So Mistral Le Chat is not best used for anything?

Best AI depending on use General Chat - o3-mini-high Coding - Claude Sonnet 3.5 Writing - o1 pro General search - Perplexity Large documents & videos - Gemini 2.0 w/ Safety off Voice - ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode Math - o3-mini Deep Research - ChatGPT Deep Research w/ o3

Relevant reading for all who are invested in the future...

@PeterDiamandis How do you reconcile this with the functions of living biomass and their ecosystem and biodiversity ecosystem services for both humans and other organisms? Just getting rid of biomass to prevent wildfires seems a bit un-nuanced, no?

If we can get the woody biomass below 59%, we can put the fires out. Currently we're at about 60% across the American Northwest, which means, this is likely just the beginning of more fires until we solve this (which we WILL).

@elonmusk If that strategy is pointless, how do you suggest managing plastics?

Recycling is pointless

Kunnen we Mirjam Stolk nog sturen? #eurovision2024

@CalltoActivism Well captured!

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White

@GeekVibesNews @screenmedia Where can this movie still be viewed, downloaded, streamed or whatever?

Planned obsolescence remains a material topic insufficiently addressed at @Apple @IKEA @Nike and alike. Soon it will become a material reporting topic for them to comply with EU #CSRD reporting requirements. Thanks @Fairphone for raising the topic in this original way!

I appreciated Apple’s Mother Nature commercial advertising it’s products and centered around its #ESG disclosure, although it had a dash of greenwashing. I ❤️ Fairphone’s response!

@think_or_swim @jrockstrom Not. Good.

This is absolutely bananas. There is NOTHING like this on the instrumental record. Its likely impact is probably immeasurable. But is it leading our news bulletins & on newspaper front pages? Nope.

@GreenSolitaire What made Greta’s comment cool, was that she referred to the related energy, not about the actual bodypart measurements. #bodyshaming is not cool, nor building trust. Liked the rest of the thread you sent

Powerful Planetiers message. Great to have been able to contribute.

Unbelievable! Current Head of the World Bank denies climate science. The question asked was extremely clear and confirms why Al Gore accused him of being a climate denialist.

@MagninAlex That is bad news. Any context for non-Canadians would help Alex, why would you be one, what are the statements you refer to?

I’m a 49 year old Canadian, husband & father. I am a civil engineer and artist who spent the past 15 years helping businesses and communities work in better partnership with the Earth. According to Justin Trudeau, I’m an extremist. #TrudeauMustGo

Solidarity with Sanna

Thanks for the ranking and shoutout! #25 Globally sounds great! ;-) #CSR #Sustainability @SustainGA

Together with @RuedigerRoehrig at @greentech_fest representing our certified #BCorp @SustainGA SGA and @TNS_Deutschland @TheNaturalStep in Berlin today. Curious for leaders wanting to leverage #Sustainability for systemic value growth. #innovation #purposeful

This is for the ones who stood their ground... Odessa, Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Signs of climate disruption are increasingly clear, with regions in Antarctica being 40°C too warm, and the Arctic 30°C too warm...Extremes that can trigger amplified warming. Not sure what more warning the world needs... theguardian.com/environment/20…