In this article I briefly talk about the importance of having a dedicated team or analyst to design and advise companies through political uncertainties.
With a war at your door, you got your strategist?
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European football officials are considering Qatari sports executive Nasser al-Khelaifi as a potential challenger to Gianni Infantino in next year’s election for FIFA president. 🇶🇦
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No wonder Putin invaded Europe. He sees a bunch of bickering states that can't protect their own democracy or deal with extremists within their own borders. People who are afraid to be proud of their own history and identity, always apologetic toward authoritarian nations that feel no shame for their own wrongdoing. Corruptible businessmen and politicians, entire media that can be bought off, and research institutions that can be infiltrated. Like a shark smelling blood in the water. This apparent weakness is what drives him to continue the war, confident that, at some point, the system will snap and give him free rein.
As China positions itself as a leader of global ocean governance, the findings from the 2016 South China Sea tribunal ruling take on a renewed significance,argues Monica Sato.
Is China fit to lead global ocean governance given its record in the South China Sea? Read more from @AsiaMTI: https://t.co/7hq0FJ0zHV
I wrote that Net Zero is the only ‘Industrial Revolution’ the consumer never asked for and must be forced to subsidise because it isn’t commercially viable!
And here we are…. A privately owned critical minerals company, supplying the “green revolution” is threatening to leave Britain unless taxpayers subsidise it!
We already subsidise wind, solar, cars, chargers, batteries, and now the raw materials!
That isn’t an Industrial Revolution, it’s an economically unviable global project, that absolutely cannot fail ‼️
AI race is getting bigger..
China's Kimi K3 just beat Fable 5 on a major coding benchmark, at a fraction of the price.
It also smashes Opus outright, while being priced the same as Sonnet, $3/$15 per million tokens.
we're entering an era where frontier AI becomes a commodity, while products and scientific breakthroughs become the real differentiator.
And the gap between open-weight models and the world's best proprietary AI is closing faster than most people expected.
China is unstoppable! Competition is unstoppable..
They're doing everything to stay in the race and even get ahead! The world is moving faster than ever 👀
This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...
His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.
In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.
This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.
The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...
The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.
Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.
It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...
It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Who said energy geopolitics was confined to Earth?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is officially entering the natural gas infrastructure business to fuel its interplanetary ambitions.
Here is the breakdown of the newly revealed "Starpipe" project. 👇🚀📡🇺🇸🛸🧵