“The world is made up of herbivores and carnivores. If we decide to remain herbivores, the carnivores win.”

— French President Emmanuel Macron after the US reelection of Donald Trump, November 7, 2024.

Nothing scares me more than the fact, that European politicians have sleepwalked into the largest security problem in European history.

The entire European security architecture is based on the premise, that the US is lead by someone trustworthy.

The internet monitoring is run by the NSA. All operating systems are American. Most military equipment, the F-35's — even the EU nukes are made in the USA.

And now this entire security foundation is ultimately controlled by the gangster president.

I believe that the events of the last few days have finally clarified the reasons why Elon Musk bought Twitter.

The return on investment, of course, is not and never has been in the platform itself.

#SocialNetworks #Twitter #X

So weird to see the news continue to refer to both Helene and Milton as "once-in-a-century" hurricanes.

If you have back-to-back "once-in-a-century" events, maybe it's time to abandon the pretense that they're once-in-a-century.

I lived in #Paris in the 90s. A city totally dominated by cars.

Hard to walk in, a nightmare to ride a bike in.

Look at it now: a city where cars, rather than people, have trouble moving.

Which, in the overheated, hurricane-plagued 2020s, is how a city *should* look.