A matter of concern

‘Dark Ships’ Emerge From the Shadows of the Nord Stream Mystery

No, not the pipeline story — which is concerning in its own right, of course. But this:

"A NATO official, who did not have permission to speak publicly, confirmed to WIRED that…"

Why is it that when a person without permission to speak speaks people assume he's worth listening to?

 Seems to me, when a person without permission to speak speaks he is a priori untrustworthy. I know, I know, whistleblower and all that. But this article — like many others — does not cast said official in the role of whistleblower, but as somebody who reinforces the story's thesis, pretty well laid out in advance.

Anonymous sources are only marginally useful at best, and at worse, downright dangerous.

Some people are concerned with gun laws, but…

Protester who threw eggs at King Charles III barred from carrying eggs in public as part of bail: report

The culprit reported "the crowd shouted that he should be 'murdered' and his head should be on a 'spike' but that he wasn’t phased because he knows what 'fascism is, what it looks like.'"

And also “I did what I did because I don’t believe in kings."

A photo of the offending egg, courtesy of the New York Post, is here.

How it began

Whereas the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals…

Now the question is, how does it end?

Now that we're all no longer obsessed with electioneering…

What Is the True Cost of Climate Change?

Faced with two types of predictions, physics versus economics, policymakers have unsurprisingly chosen the one that justifies an easier, urgency-denying path. The challenge for us all—citizens, leaders, and academics alike—is to call out the mathematical, logical, and moral errors built into the economic forecasts before it’s too late.

Business as usual. 

Dispatches from the art wars

How Museums Aim to Stop Food-Throwing, Climate-Change Protesters

Museums are enacting “zero bag” policies, putting prized paintings behind glass and hiring ex-British and Israeli military pros to teach their guards surveillance tactics after a series of climate-change protests have left the world’s most famous art slathered in mashed potatoes and tomato or pea soup.