
William Johnsen
5.3K posts

William Johnsen
@Williamjs
Data, politics and the sea. Manager, analytics and strategy @OffshoreNorge. Atlanticist.


Ulltveit-Moe hyler om sløsing av fellesskapets penger på boring i Barentshavet. For Europas fornybarutbygginger gjør jo petroleumen helt overflødig, noe som betyr at pengene våre heller bør gå til "ny industri" og elektrifisering 🤣


David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."


One year into cell phone bans, Dallas schools see 24% increase in library book checkouts. 👏👏👏 "Public school districts in Texas are almost one school year into the first statewide cellphone ban, and a North Texas school district is seeing positive impacts. Dallas ISD officials said that, district-wide, they have seen a significant increase in library book checkouts, which they largely attribute to students no longer having cellphones with them during the school day. "I started hearing, 'Oh, I'm so bored. I can't get on my phone after I do my work or during lunchtime,'" Hillcrest High School librarian Nina Canales said. "Once they lock into these stories, they don't seem to care about their phones at all." From the first day of school to March 31, 2026, the district reported an increase of more than 200,000 additional books checked out compared to the previous year. A look at the library checkouts for the previous year: 2025-2026 Total Circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2026) – 1,084,837 2024-2025 Total circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2025) – 872,430 Total library book checkout increase: 24.35% At Dallas ISD's Hillcrest High, students are following this trend. Canales said there were roughly 500 books checked out in the first nine weeks of the 2024-2025 school year. This school year, that number spiked to about 1,800 books. "That floored me," Canales said. "I had to re-do the report again because I was like, 'What, are you kidding me?'" Students felt the impact too. "Now that I'm busy with a bunch of work and college, I don't find myself missing my phone that much, even at home," said Yamilet Jimenez, 9th grader." By @laceybeasnews. @JonHaidt @safe_screens

Germany plans to build Europe’s strongest military force by 2039.

El F-14D Tomcat tenía un detalle muy particular: fue uno de los pocos cazas navales capaces de seguir y atacar múltiples blancos a la vez gracias al radar AN/APG-71, una evolución muy avanzada para su época. Dato de color: su famoso misil AIM-54 Phoenix podía alcanzar objetivos a más de 150 km, algo pensado en plena Guerra Fría para derribar bombarderos antes de que siquiera pudieran acercarse a un grupo de portaaviones. el3k.short.gy/LbMVxJ-DEF

The United States is holding up virtually all weapons deliveries purchased by EU countries. It is not like we’re completely defenseless here, but it’s obvious that if Russia attacks within the next year or two, we can’t rely not only on U.S. assistance – but even on weapons supplies. For Estonia, this is especially critical. news.err.ee/1610000377/est…




JD Vance: Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.




‼️ZELENSKYY: We will not sell our weapons like we did in the 1990s. Instead, we will share our knowledge and expertise in exchange for long-term, mutually beneficial security partnerships with Ukraine. “We're building new partnerships on weapons differently than in the nineties or two thousands, when Ukrainian weapons and forces were sold off like it's Black Friday. We're not holding a fire sale of our weapons or emptying our warehouses. We're offering a security partnership that's long-term and profitable for Ukraine” - Zelenskyy’s address to the workers of Ukraine’s defense-industrial complex. April 13th, 2026.












