NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️ We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get. The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵

“When we use [military] force, it’s for beneficent reasons—generous reasons, even.” Barry Eisler on the ideology that pervades the CIA.

Everyone bloviating about war being part of the rational, clinical tool kit of sensible policy-makers should watch this and face how it is an incomprehensible evil, the destruction of normal, happy, everyday human life with grotesque violence.

Conservative estimates suggest over $60 billion in annual savings by tackling wasteful Pentagon spending and inefficiency stimson.org/2025/developin… interesting article on wasteful defense spending in the US particularly on the F35 that the Swiss army bought at „fixed“ price.

Literaturfestival Zürich – Francis Fukuyama literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltunge… GROSSES Dankeschön, dass Sie Francis Fukuyama fürs Literaturfestival Zürich gewinnen konnten. Seine Beiträge wären sicher noch interessanter und tiefer gewesen, hätte der Moderator Philipp Tingler etwas mehr auf

An wonderful example what the EU has enabled: We had two warmshowers guests from Sweden. Leila from Slovenia studies in Umea Sweden initially on an Erasmus fellowship. In Umea she met Joseph, a Syrian Refugee who got asylum in Sweden within 27 days, learnt German and English

We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse. The US led China in 60 of 64 frontier technologies, such as A.I. and cryptography, between 2003 & 2007, while China led the United States in just 3. In the most recent report, covering 2019 through 2023, the

Neil Shubin, an evolutionary biologist best known for discovering an important fish fossil, has been nominated to head the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He will take over next year with the academy already in turbulent, unchartered waters. scim.ag/44xiEXC

That Israel is launching these attacks to protect the Druze strains credulity. This is Israel's "mowing the lawn" strategy at play, designed to keep its neighbors weak and in a state of chaos. This is a recipe for endless violence, subsidized by US taxpayers

A nice example of EU success: x.com/ehafen/status/…

Wow, when you say it like that. 😲

Höhepunkte der Schweizer Geschichte: Als Jean Ziegler und Ueli Maurer in London ein Hotelzimmer teilen mussten. SRF Raubgoldkonferenz | Comedy | Viktors Spätprogramm | SRF youtu.be/qIqjbPmG4FE?si… via YouTube

Hallo Staatsanwaltschaft, euer Kampf gegen die Störung des Religionsfriedens durch Schüsse auf ein Madonna-Bildchen ist vorbildlich - aber wie verhält es sich beim Niederbrennen einer Madonna-Kerze? (Erhältlich im KKL-Shop Luzern) 🕯️✝️

Anatomy of a Man-Made Famine | Alex de Waal of the World Peace Foundation explains to Connor Echols how the famine in Gaza has become the world's "most intense" hunger crisis in decades. The Fletcher School youtu.be/tLd35xvgBrQ?fe…

Welcome to the Future: Tesla Supercharger Station in Magnant, Fr - 54 SCs (für alle EVs) mit PV Dach, Lounge und Pizza Maschine! ⁦N. Schmid ⚡️☀️💨💧🔋⁩

Richard Powers Makes Your Brain His Playground commonreader.wustl.edu/richard-powers… This great review helped me to understand the ending of Richard Power’s novel Playground Spoiler Alert!

✍️ From Digital Feudalism to Digital Sovereignty Catch up on our recent UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose #RethinkingTheState Forum panel chaired by Prof Rainer Kattel & featuring Mariana Mazzucato, Francesca Bria (@francescabria.bsky.social), Cecilia Rikap & Mike Bracken 🔗Read our recap & watch the recording: buff.ly/aQlecaa

Kalifornien's Batterien können bereits mehr Leistung liefern als die über 120 Schweizer Speicherkraftwerke wenn sie allesamt bei Volllast laufen. x.com/nicolasfulghum…

Datensouveränität als Antwort auf Trumps Zollpolitik – Eine parallele bürgerkontrollierte Datenökonomie Daten sind kopierbar und ihr Wert steigt mit dem Aggregationsgrad. Die Lösung liegt in unserer Hand: Jeder EU- und Schweizer Bürger hat bereits heute das Recht auf