Damiano Tessaro

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[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NEWS 🚨: The UN has voted 164 to 1 to adopt a new world map that shows countries at their true relative sizes, with the United States the only country voting against it

Before (left) and New map (right)

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

The Draghi report's recommendations have not stalled for lack of evidence. The issue, rather, is that they are fundamentally political in nature. They cannot be carried out through technocratic fixes, @alemannoEU explains. https://t.co/1ORkMeVg8U

[AC Milan @acmilan]

Our number 6, forever. ♾️
Ciao, Capitano ❤️🖤

[agricultura.it @AgriculturaIT]

Bf Spa, presentati i risultati della BFuture Farm in Repubblica del Congo https://t.co/q1R9mvTZ5h via @AgriculturaIT

[AGRICOLAE @Agricolae1]

Africa, Vecchioni (BF): oggi presentiamo prima BFuture Farm con Repubblica del Congo. Grandi opportunità di crescita per comunità locali. VIDEOINTERVISTA

https://t.co/T0agEe3rPL

[Hon. Jonathan Mueke, CBS @jmueke]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔!

We have concluded two days of productive engagement with stakeholders across the meat value chain, united by one goal: building a globally competitive meat sector that creates greater opportunities for our pastoralists and livestock farmers.

Together, we have agreed on practical interventions, including accelerated rollout of ANITRAC, stronger vaccination and breeding programmes, improved animal nutrition, value addition, expanded market access, export reforms, greater adoption of technology and increased participation of young people across the meat value chain.

My appreciation to all our partners and stakeholders for their commitment. The work now begins to turn these resolutions into action, creating jobs, growing exports, and putting more money into the pockets of our farmers.

#KenyaMeatConference2026 #FutureOfMeatKE

[Hon. Jonathan Mueke, CBS @jmueke]

Today, the conversation shifts from potential to possibility.

Kenya has the livestock. The world has the market. Our task is to bridge the gap.

As we open the Kenya Meat Conference 2026, we reaffirm our commitment to building a globally competitive, export-ready meat sector.
#FutureOfMeatKE #TransformingKenyaMeat
#KEMCO2026

[Shingo Nakamura @_shingonakamura]

🎧https://t.co/kwpJy7nTxf

[PS Betsy Njagi,CBS - Blue Economy @PS_Betsy_Njagi]

Welcome to the 11th edition of Our Ocean Conference.
@OurOceanOOC
@MiBeMa_2022
@HassanAliJoho
@StateHouseKenya
@Blue_Economy_F

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

Thank you to the guests and everyone who followed this year's Kultaranta Talks.

Finland, Europe, and the world are still not ready. Foreign policy is in constant flux. That is why we need discussions like these and moments to pause and reflect. They help us see the bigger picture beyond the noise.

Thank you.

[Kerio Valley Development Authority @KVDA_ke]

The 1,500acre Wei Wei Project, a Vision 2030 flagship project, has been handed over by the Italian Cooperation to Weiwei farmers Association.

Hosted @CSBeatriceMoe to grace this milestone for food security, climate resilience & boosted incomes for over 1500 households

[Above & Beyond @aboveandbeyond]

We can now reveal our @Anjunabeats Volume 17 tracklist, featuring 35 tracks from familiar favourites and future stars of the label - as well as a few from us.

The full compilation will be released this Friday, alongside the video recording of our pop-up in London last week.

In the meantime, you can pre-order Anjunabeats Volume 17 on CD or vinyl and pre-save on streaming services: https://t.co/M5qMsUmOff

[Somoina Kapeen @SomoinaKapeen]

China kept its civilization.
India kept its spirituality.
The Arabs kept their identity.

Africa was told to destroy itself to become “civilized.”

Africans fear pouring libation for ancestors…
but see no problem symbolically drinking the blood and eating the body within imported religious rituals.

[Cathy Wabomba @Cathiewabomba]

Hoima (location of Uganda Refinery) sits within 180 km of the DRC, 280 km of Tanzania, 350 km of South Sudan, and 450 km of Rwanda.

It is not at the edge of anything. It is at the centre of EVERYTHING. One piece, yes, but a load-bearing one in East Africa’s energy security puzzle.

So, again, if I was Al Haji Aliko Dangote…
(in Uganda we say, “I dono nakudono”)

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

Nairobi, final reflections.

Despite Nairobi being a haven of NGO work, impact funds, climate workshops and every species of grant funded virtue, one hears far less of the heavy socialist sermonising that so often drifts through Southern Africa. Why is that? I didn’t find a Karl Marx road as we did in Maputo….

Perhaps Kenya’s commercial bloodstream is simply too strong. Nairobi may host the NGO cathedral, but outside its stained glass windows the city is hustling: traders, founders, developers, agents, boda boda, financiers, exporters, coders and small businessmen all trying to make a shilling before the next traffic jam. The traffic jams here in the middle of high traffic and rain are extortion writ large. But the uber driver earning thrice the fee wasn’t complaining. Nor should we, but the wait time at a restaurant can stretch up to two hours, with the usual retort of “I’m almost there” serving as a signal to order the next dawa.

The intellectual mood in Nairobi is softened by enterprise. Even the social impact crowd seems more likely to speak the language of scale, platforms, mobile money and market access than nationalisation, redistribution and state led salvation.

Southern Africa, by contrast, still carries a heavier liberation era grammar. Politics there often begins with the state, the party, the struggle and the promise that history owes someone something. Nairobi feels more impatient with that theatre. It has its own dysfunctions, certainly, but its instinct is more transactional, more entrepreneurial, more “where is the opportunity?” than “where is the manifesto?” That may be why, even in a city full of NGOs, capitalism still manages to keep the microphone.

I like it here….

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Jensen wasn't even supposed to be on this trip. Trump saw the media coverage of his absence and personally called him to board Air Force One during a refueling stop in Alaska.

72 hours later he's the only CEO from the delegation trending on Weibo and X. For eating a $3 bowl of zhajiangmian at a hutong noodle shop and wincing at fermented soybean drink on camera.

The math behind this noodle run: Nvidia lost $2.5 billion in China sales last quarter from the H20 export ban. Took a $4.5 billion inventory write-down on top of that. China was 13% of revenue before restrictions, roughly $17 billion annually. The US just approved export licenses for H200 chips to 10 Chinese companies including Alibaba, https://t.co/WiD22tG3J1, and ByteDance. Analysts estimate the reopened market could unlock $26 billion in annual revenue.

Jensen going viral eating street food in a Beijing hutong while every other CEO on the trip sat in meetings at the Great Hall of the People is a $26 billion soft power play. Chinese social media users aren't sharing clips of trade agreements. They're sharing the richest man at the summit eating their neighborhood noodles and saying "it's so good."

Nvidia's China opportunity is "hundreds of billions by the end of the decade" according to Jensen himself. That bowl of zhajiangmian might be the highest-ROI meal in corporate history.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).

Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.

Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.

Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.

Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.

Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.

Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.

C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.

Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.

Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.

Alors pardon. Et au travail.

[ᴅʀ. ʜ.ᴀ. ʜᴇʟʟʏᴇʀ 🖖🏾 ⚜️ @hahellyer]

“The Arab Gulf and Israel Have Different Visions for a New Middle East” my latest for @ForeignAffairs Magazine
https://t.co/8lV2ivqZR8

The article argues that assumptions of a U.S.-backed regional order centred on Israeli dominance (what I call paramountcy) have broken down, particularly in the aftermath of the 2026 Iran war. It outlines how Gulf states are shifting toward a more diversified, “polycentric” strategy—balancing U.S. ties with new partnerships, but still requiring stronger intra-Gulf coordination.

[RUSI @RUSI_org]

The abundance of oil deposits in Somalia has lured interest from Turkey, deepening the Mogadishu-Ankara relationship.

Read the latest #RUSICommentary by Matthew Chandler de Waal.
https://t.co/Z3xxLFXxqT

[Andrea Gilli @aa_gilli]

Italy would need massive reforms enabling highly-skilled individuals to move in and contribute to its economic growth. However, this is politically impossible: as population shrinks and the economy contracts, the different political-economic groups (trade unions, established companies, professionals, state-owned corporations and public employees) beg for protection to keep a constant share of the pie. This includes shunning outsiders.

The paradox is that demographic decline is partially a product of these very political dynamics, whereby the costs of the status quo has been fully transferred on youngsters: poor education, taxes, job insecurity, barriers to entry. As a result, younger cohorts emigrated or postponed children to secure a better professional life.