On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.
Happy holidays, fediverse!
I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
In a world where a woman’s work is never done, perhaps the biggest form of rebellion is taking time for ourselves.
Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. https://www.thepersistent.com/women-leisure-time-hobbies-taking-back-me-time/
Scientists could not be clearer that human-caused climate change is driving the UK's warming trend.
'This is our future,' #climate adviser warns as 2025 to break heat records
Rising temperatures in the UK will become "the new normal", a leading government climate adviser has warned, as she called for more to be done to prepare for the impacts of #ClimateChange.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgjzpglw4yo #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating
Why focusing on Farage’s past misses how racism is incentivised, normalised and repeatedly rewarded in the present
The Bear, right on the button on racism, Nigel Farage & ReformUK:
'The question isn’t whether [Farage] was a rancid little racist at sixteen, it’s how he came to build a political brand that so successfully normalises suspicion, resentment and exclusion - and how he is still able to act so terribly wounded (and get away with it) when the people that are attracted to that brand express it too honestly'!
Reform is an infrastructure for racism!
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/reform-uk-doesnt-just-have-a-racism
While much of the world sings the iconic ‘Carol of the Bells’ melody this holiday season, the tune’s birthplace is slowly being erased by Russia. Oleksandr, a priest, witnessed this destruction firsth
As the year draws to an end now is a good time to review where we are with Europe’s cloud situation, and what has been achieved. One thing is certain, a lot has happened, and also quite a lot has become clearer. tl;dr: Great strides have been made in 2025, especially in convincing people that s...
So how about Europe's cloud woes? A lot happened in 2025, and things became much clearer. We truly can't continue to wed our governments to 🇺🇸 clouds. While there are encouraging developments, it is incredibly odd that neither cloud buyers nor the European 🇪🇺 software/hosting industry are seeing the urgency to act. But, governments & regulators could forge a useful path towards a solution in 2026:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-cloud-2025/
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account
Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives - Dorian Lynskey in The Guardian.
The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account.
#Books #Capitalism https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/23/capitalism-by-sven-beckert-review-an-extraordinary-history-of-the-economic-system-that-controls-our-lives
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