tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Not exactly news, but this bears repeating: Europeans' attitudes towards #migration are more positive & nuanced than many politicians & journalists would make you believe. Also, salience (not really discussed in this article) is really important.

https://theconversation.com/what-britons-and-europeans-really-think-about-immigration-new-analysis-252268

Holy $#!+ this is huge https://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit

Climate change costing Africa $15bn annually — AfDB president

President of African Development Bank Dr Akinwumi Adesina has disclosed that the African continent loses between $7-15 billion a year due to climate change, adding that if the current trend continues, it will rise to $50 billion by 2050

https://dailytrust.com/climate-change-costing-africa-15bn-annually-afdb-president/

#Africa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Innan ni går på påskledighet vill jag påminna om att Joakim Medin fortfarande sitter i en turkisk fängelsecell.
#FreeMedin #FreeJoakim
#pressfrihet
#journalismisnotacrime #Turkiye

Late #Spring in #Pakistan, & the government is already considering shutting schools for an early summer break due to the #heatwave.

Astonishing: the Gov is admitting temperature surges of 4-7C (7-13F) above the current heatwave are to occur in the coming few days.

This is what I kept warning! An avg rise of 1.5C means swings of 5-10C making that happen, and in heatwaves or cold snaps thats deadly!

https://www.dawn.com/news/1903252/schools-in-punjab-mull-early-summer-vacation-if-heat-persists

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #GlobalSouth #SouthAsia

Financial deflation incoming: via the margin calls mechanism, the US tariffs have started a classic self-sustaining deflationary dynamics. (Italian)
https://lavoce.info/archives/107580/dai-dazi-alla-crisi-finanziaria/

Ooh boy: China Orders Halts to Boeing Jet Deliveries as Trade War Expands.

China Orders Halts to Boeing J...

In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/15/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/

RIP Mario Vargas Llosa.

"Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams and placed the universe of literature within reach of the boy I once was."

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2010/vargas_llosa/lecture/

#literature

Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West

Warming temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are helping expand the range of heartworm-carrying mosquitoes and other vectors for diseases that afflict dogs and cats

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14042025/climate-change-spreads-heartworm-through-mosquitoes-to-mountain-west-pets/

#dogs #cats #canada #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

I began building a nuclear fall-out shelter in my garden around 15 years ago. In recent years it's just become the wanking shed.

We just need to turn the negative productivity of research scientists at NASA and forner auditors at the IRS that DOGE fired to gainfully making shoes in Nike factories reshored from Vietnam.

This is the groundbreaking economic thinking of communist purges from Mao to Pol Pot with a sprinkle of American Exceptionalism.

I eduroam. Best idea ever.