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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

China just does everything big. Dig baby dig AND go green! cdn.jpmorganfunds.com/content/dam/...

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Monsoonal moisture streams into New Mexico, bringing a threat of flash flooding to the region.

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are many demographic differences between MAGA and afd, but there are also commonalities.

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Iowa ('a place to grow' or 'a place that blows'?) gets more electricity from renewables (💨) than any other state. Another new tool from @hannahritchie.bsky.social @ usenergydata.org

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"one must carry reality without being weighed down by it." imperfectnotes.substack.com/p/unconstrai...

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Unconstrained and unencumbered

The criminal and the hostage

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

h/t @adamtooze.bsky.social "At least according to the report “Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants” by Carl Davis, Marco Guzman, Emma Sifre, this would seem to be a considerable understatement!" Check out these numbers below 👇

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Voters are more irate, too. From 2013 to 2025 the share of policy-related sentences expressing anger in voters’ tweets rose by 35%.” From The Economist via @adamtooze.bsky.social

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Giuliano da Empoli’s The Hour of the Predator. "All the guardrails of the old world—the respect for the independence of certain institutions, human and minority rights, a concern for international repercussions—have no value now that the hour of the predator is upon us."

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

British East India Company expansion. Similar to earlier chartered-company settlement of North America. Companies like the Massachusetts Bay Company, and Hudson’s Bay Company, with royal help, claimed land, bullied trade and settlement, and claimed governmental authority as imperial took over.

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

AI hyperscaler capex rose to roughly 4x its trough in about 3 years. A durable AI-driven productivity reset or a bubble-like overshoot? Will future demand meet the productivity gains that justify this investment? So far, the productivity gains aren't evident in financials...but it's early.

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

These words from Hannah Arendt’s final public address in 1975 are just so accurate it hurts. imperfectnotes.substack.com/p/fragments-...

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Fragments

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And this is coming from Fox News!

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hyperscaling the hope that token sales justify the capex.

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“Wang quickly figured out that you should plant the trees in the shape of an equilateral triangle, with a tree at each corner, a tree at the midpoint of each side, and the seventh tree in the center…She got the answer faster than her father, a math teacher. She was 6.”

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And this is where all the consumer spending is coming from. h/t @adamtooze.bsky.social

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hard to imagine...and to Michelob? 🤭

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Because we just can’t fill our streets fast enough with cars…🙄 China’s new 10,800‑car carriers just set a Shanghai export record. 7,738 Teslas in one ship (≈36 km of cars, 9.5 football fields). Europe, here they come. 🚢⚡🚗 H/T @adamtooze.bsky.social via www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A mature spruce stores carbon — but also decades of growth, fungal partnerships, and a history of fire and recovery. When fire returns too soon, the forest loses not just biomass, but time. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The dialog around the fires in France and Spain (everywhere) certainly pull from a ‘crisis epistemology’.

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Much of the attention put towards the fires in Europe tend toward ‘catastrophic gaze’

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bickerstaff warns of 'cruel optimism' — leaning on grand promises like geoengineering so we never have to change our politics or hold powerful actors to account. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A 'catastrophic gaze' can paralyze us — waiting for collapse or a tech rescue. The alternative is situated action: real work in your watershed, neighborhood, coalition. Preserve the intervals that let living systems adapt. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A spruce recovers when it has time to seed. A cell copes when it can anticipate. A community adapts by remembering, taking responsibility, and keeping relationships. Resilience isn't innate — it's built. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A forest isn't a Bayesian agent. Indigenous knowledge isn't simple conditioning. But spruce, single cells, and human communities share one principle: adaptation relies on patterns linking past experience to future conditions. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Flexibility has a cost. When the environment turned unpredictable, learning stopped paying off — and simpler, fixed strategies won. Anticipation only helps when the future still rhymes with the past. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

In the cell study's model, a 'blind' agent could only adapt through mutation across generations. A learning agent could revise its strategy within a single lifetime — trying new responses when old ones failed. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Fire isn't just heat moving through trees. It depends on tree age, soil moisture, seeds, past fires, weather, and human law. What a forest becomes after a fire depends on which relationships are still around. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Memory may run deeper into life than we think. Single cells given a reliable cue before heat stress died at 12% — vs 27% for cells with random cues. They didn't just endure the heat; they learned to anticipate it. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Memory isn't just a record of what happened. It's infrastructure for adaptation — carrying knowledge of past disturbances, failed fixes, and obligations that reach beyond the present generation. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Kyle Whyte offers an alternative to crisis thinking: an 'epistemology of coordination.' It starts not with novelty but with constant change — and asks whether the relationships we need to respond are still intact. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Potawatomi scholar Kyle Whyte warns of a 'crisis epistemology' that treats every disruption as unprecedented and urgent — erasing Indigenous histories of survival, and justifying top-down action that bypasses consent. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What institutions call 'unprecedented' may look different from within Indigenous histories: another imposed transformation, after generations of forced displacement and altered fire and water regimes. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Earth has always changed. That doesn't make today's disruption ordinary — but it also isn't the first time people have faced the collapse of an expected order. Many didn't survive the Little Ice Age. Many did. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Black spruce didn't just tolerate fire — it evolved with it. Its cones are little seed bombs that open in the heat. But that only works if fires are far enough apart. Too soon, and the forest becomes something else entirely. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

After a too-soon fire, the land may stay green and productive — but it isn't the same forest. It stores carbon differently, holds moisture differently, and carries the next fire differently. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’m totally on board with the notion literacy is not purely passive or superficial — it is deeply embodied in cognition. 💯 AND I get haunted by Plato who might reply… a brain rewired by reading might become dependent on external symbols. Can they reason through them and defend them in real time?!

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When fires come too close together, black spruce often can't come back. Plots with short intervals were far more likely to stay open and treeless rather than regenerate as forest. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Don’t forget! 🐝’s aren’t the only pollinators!

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Europe’s car industry is facing China shock 2.0 — but @adamtooze.bsky.social (via @somoamsterdam.bsky.social) points out that this is not just a story about China. It is also a story about Europe’s own industrial choices, especially greedflation, financialization, and a high-price strategy.

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We usually hear climate change as rising averages. But in a forest it's also felt as time — too little of it between one fire and the next. Alaska's boreal fires once returned every 70–130 yrs. Now some burn again in under 30. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Across 555 plots and 31 fires, researchers found recently burned land starts with a smaller carbon pool — so each new fire takes a bigger bite of what's left. The loss compounds. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fire doesn't just release carbon today. In Alaska's boreal forests, repeated burning eats into 'legacy carbon' — the carbon banked in old vegetation and soils over centuries — and weakens the land's ability to store carbon in the future. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wildfire smoke is drifting across North American borders again. But fire isn't new to these lands. The real danger is a world changing so fast it erases the memory and relationships that make adaptation possible. interplace.io/p/burning-bo...

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

As the rockets' red glare fades, know this: the flag will still be there. But to endure, America must repair an institution to be once again knowledgeable and fair. Read the full essay: interplace.io/p/burning-through-250-years

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Past emissions have already committed the planet to changes that will outlast any living government, generation, or institution. What was built now must be lived within. What was extracted now lives in the atmosphere. What burns today will burn more later. interplace.io/p/burning-through-250-years

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The next 250 years will belong to societies that build institutional intelligence for a less stable climate — not those seeking escape. America built freedom through expansion. Now it must build it through endurance. interplace.io/p/burning-through-250-years

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We need not just infrastructure, but intelligence. Embodied intelligence — engaged with physical and social environments, not just LLM computation. A renewed ability to gather, preserve, and act on knowledge across long horizons. The climate demands it. interplace.io/p/burning-through-250-years

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The old republic assumed land could be mastered, seasons predicted, and institutions would absorb shock. None of those assumptions hold anymore. Climate change is a reordering of the relationship between how we think and the geography we inhabit. interplace.io/p/burning-through-250-years

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