Above a certain level of income, people are less happy in everyday life. psyarxiv.com/4jvh5/

It *rained* on the Summit of Greenland. nsidc.org/greenland-toda… At the peak of the Greenland Ice Sheet, 3,216 m (10,551 ft) above sea level, Summit Station is basically the coldest location in the Northern Hemisphere. Rain has never been observed there before.

Today, Denmark lifted all restrictions & COVID-19 is no longer deemed a "societal threat". I led the country's largest behavioral covid-project (HOPE - How Democracies Cope with COVID19) & advised the Danish gov. Here are my thoughts on how DK got here, what can be learned & what lies ahead. 🧵 (1/14)

!!! news. mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs Facebook in Delaware. I'll explain why it avoided notice until now in a bit but Zuckerberg, Sandberg, CFO, board inc Peter Thiel and Palantir are defendants - it's a result of sealed docs between FB execs and board. /1

"Stern"-Co-Chefredakteur Florian Gless hat Axel Springer-CEO Mathias Döpfner zum Rücktritt von all seinen Posten und Ämtern aufgefordert. Döpfner habe als "einer der obersten Lobbyisten der Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit" seinen Kolleginnen und Kollegen,… dlvr.it/SB0xsR

NEW: The former head of MI6’s Russia desk, Chris Steele breaks his silence on Boris Johnson’s relationship with Lebedevs & Russia’s influence in UK. ‘I think it’s very curious that he ennobled the son of a KGB officer. Indeed I do. I think it’s worrying’

THREAD: Follow-on comments about inflation & political strategy, & a note on MMT. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Molly Jong-Fast Just out of curiosity for research sake I called 4 of the top political parties here in Japan, (we have a multiparty system), 2 Conservative and 2 on the Left and asked them their position on vaccines and masking and they couldn’t even relate to the question… Totally on-board.

We can’t separate what Russia is threatening to do in Ukraine with what is going on here. This article kicked off a whole world of trouble for me. And it put Johnson & ministers & advisors at heart of Russian influence op theguardian.com/politics/2017/…

This, out of #Ukraine, is 100% one of the most incredible videos I have ever seen. This Russian POW has the heart of a lion 🦁

Thread: Given [Putin’s campaign of espionage and infiltration, designed to cause destruction to Britain’s prestige and international effectiveness, why did the security services or the UK Government fail to counter it? And what was the role of Brexit? bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/whi…

Talking to a soldier in Kramatorsk, just back from the Izyum front. "Our main problem is logistics. In the US army, for every 10 tanks, they have 15 supply trucks. Here, with our shitty post-Soviet doctrine, for every 10 tanks we have 3."

I'm going to do a translation of the main points of an interview done about tanks by a Ukrainian military officer. link to the interview (in Ukrainian) : youtube.com/watch?v=ktJNrw…

My jaw hit the floor when I discovered Boris Johnson left an emergency NATO meeting after the Kremlin’s chemical warfare attack on Britain & flew to an off-the-books meeting with an ex-KGB spy. Yours should too. This is how it happened. 1/ theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

Kompetentes Feedback. Konsequenzen? Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann Henning Otte Kerstin Vieregge🇩🇪🇺🇦 Verteidigungsministerium General Carsten Breuer

Hier wird, mit Verlaub, eine tendenziöse Scheiße abgeliefert, die Selenskyi von der Wortwahl her hart an den Rand des bezahlten US-Söldners bringt, und von deutscher Seite wohlfeil die Unterstützung der USA anzuzweifeln, muss man angesichts der Zahlen auch erst mal schaffen.

I’ll wrap up the thread here before it becomes unreadably long. But a quick closing thought: is it really a surprise that 21% of new recruits left the Bundeswehr within their first six months last year? (37/x)

Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world. But what does it mean for you? I spent the evening analyzing it. Here’s what you need to know:

Compiled by Vatan Hüzeir, the latest cache of internal documents describing Big Oil's concealed knowledge of global warming is a gold mine. One bombshell is a confidential Shell scenario report from 1989 which imagined two futures: SUSTAINABLE WORLD and GLOBAL MERCANTILISM 🧵

📺🎧 AUFZEICHNUNG ONLINE 🎧📺 Video 📺: youtu.be/gyA0R2teDn8 Podcast 🎧: europecalling.podigee.io/156-neubauer-g… Vielen Dank an Luisa Neubauer (Fridays for Future Germany), Sven Giegold (@BMWK) und den über 4.600 Interessierten für diese spannende Diskussion!