Joppe Koning

The culture of the global north needs a complete makeover. It is not only Capitalism that is plaguing us. Meritocracy is so corrupted it is destroying society.

[Joppe Koning @ParticularTrue]

@NPORadio1 @TimSJongers De meritocratie is een leuk idee maar helaas verschrikkelijke uitkomsten

[Joppe Koning @ParticularTrue]

@ReedTimmerUSA At least the smoke is taken away, there is always that to be happy about

[Joppe Koning @ParticularTrue]

@ML_Philosophy You don’t, time will

[Joppe Koning @ParticularTrue]

Dit is echt een onderbelicht kernprobleem. Hetzelfde mechanisme wat Hannah Arendt ook probeerde te beschrijven. Dit is een botsing tussen twee werelden van belangen en deze zijn niet gezond met elkaar verweven. Het risico en de belangen van de ondernemer hebben bijna geen reflectie aan de andere kant waardoor er een pervers verschil ontstaat.

[Jim @yangyubin1998]

A tornado struck Haining, Zhejiang Province on July 19, and a passing car was blown away by the tornado.

[Oliver Kim @oliverwkim]

https://t.co/X58aVUZtqU

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Scientists are decoding the secrets of how water freezes. https://t.co/QJ9ZlHQKKE

[UYI @miz_uyik]

I agreed to be a stranger's emergency contact because it sounded like the easiest fifty dollars I'd ever make. A man in his sixties stopped me outside a courthouse, apologized for bothering me, and explained that he had no family left. He was undergoing a routine operation the next morning and needed someone's phone number for the hospital paperwork. He offered me fifty dollars for the inconvenience, wrote my name down, thanked me, and left before I could even ask why he trusted a complete stranger. I forgot about him by the time I got home.

Three days later, my phone rang while I was at work.

[Pedro Santa Clara @psantacl]

https://t.co/RdeinzIZGy

[Pedro Santa Clara @psantacl]

https://t.co/YeUlKhF7zF

[Jeo Albant @jeoalbant]

🌪️ Çin’den yeni görüntüler
Hollywood filmi değil, gerçek.
-Dünyamız bize 🆘 veriyor.
6 milyonluk bir metropolün ortasında bu büyüklükte bir tornado oluşması gerçekten çok nadir. Yüzlerce tornado görmüş olabiliriz ama bu başka seviyede…

Şu ana kadar en az 5-8 kişi hayatını kaybetti, yüzlerce yaralı var. Hasar da oldukça büyük.
Küresel denge bozuluyor gibi görünüyor.
İleride Paris’te, Madrid’de, Ankara’da ya da Berlin’de benzer sahneler görecek miyiz?
bu tür olaylar artacak mı?🤔

#hortum #tornado #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #龙卷风

[Daniel Ahmad @ZhugeEX]

Surprising (not really) stat from the new UBS Global Wealth Report 2026.

The US ranks #2 when you look at average (mean) wealth per adult, but drops to #28 when you look at the median.

https://t.co/W0SNWwTQi4

[Joppe Koning @ParticularTrue]

Misschien wel een van de diepste inzichten. We willen het spel, spelen is wie wij zijn.

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

The true man wants two things: danger and play.

For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

The true man wants two things: danger and play.

For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

[Joppe Koning @ParticularTrue]

Europes main problem has always been keeping warm in winter opposed to the US where large parts deal with excessive heat in summer. Mix that with an upcoming American middle class when put to market and the fact that AC nicely shows the neighbors your status and there you have it.

Nothing to worry about.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts.:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because you stopped paying for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of your cuts in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after you interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when you cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to him.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge you: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

Most Western economist simply don't understand this one thing about China.🇨🇳

And, this is why random cities in China outcompete entire countries.

This.
👇

[michael mezz @michaelmezz]

there is a popular bit of climate misinformation that says a warmer planet is a good thing.

world-renowned earth system scientist @JRockstrom eviscerates that claim:

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Wir haben das stabile Klima des Holozäns (der letzten 10.000 Jahre) längst hinter uns gelassen. Ich forsche seit den 1990er Jahren zum Paläoklima.
Ich kann nur dringend empfehlen, jetzt eine Notbremsung bei der fossilen Energienutzung zu machen!
Für unsere Kinder. Bitte.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

Children are using AI to learn, create and explore ideas. But AI should support their thinking, not replace it.

We asked adolescents from Australia, Brazil, India and Italy how AI is shaping their lives and what they make of it.

Here’s what they said.

[Joppe Koning @ParticularTrue]

Precies. In Amerika heb je nogal veel gebieden waar je zonder actieve koeling in die houten huisjes anders niet kan wonen. Daar had Europa niet zo veel last van, hier was een warm huis in de winter veel belangrijker. Verder kwam AC precies toen de Amerikaanse middenklasse opkwam en zo een doos aan je huis laat lekker zien hoe goed je het hebt