Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenDaniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 16hWhy Carbon Taxes Failed is on the road! See book talk dates below (more to come). Next week is Central European University and Copenhagen Business School! Can't wait to see some dear friends at both places <3 1189
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it. 518338
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenDoug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Touching display of solidarity 519746
Reposted by Oskar Wood Hansenℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums 031921183
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Hannah Arendt: "An antisemite claimed that the Jews had caused the war; the reply was: Yes the Jews and the bicyclists. Why the bicyclists? asks the one. Why the Jews? asks the other.’ " Trump administration has decided that the bicyclists should be dealt with after all, just in case.nytimes.comDo D.E.I. Bike Paths Exist? The Trump Administration Says Yes.The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.” 053
Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Smh. Reminds me of how UK Health Services is locking itself into an inferior Palantir product, as covered in the LRB recently. 000
Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"Drill baby, drill" takes on a new meaning 000
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026How can an individual be “polarized”? An individual can be “radicalized”. Anyway, most “polarization” literature is about right-wing radicalization. Stop using the term “polarization” for radicalization on one pole! 625546
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content. 25733111054
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Emit today & fix it tomorrow. Proposal by Loo/Allen/etc for new N.Sea oil & gas developments to be conditional on fossil-fuel execs promising to neutralise emissions thro' future CCS & “engineered removals”. static1.squarespace.com/static/6356a... My response: climateuncensored.com/response-to-...climateuncensored.comResponse to Open Letter to DESNZ about Rosebank & Jackdaw - Climate UncensoredResponse to a letter from Stephanie Loo, Myles Allen & colleagues to the DESNZ Secretary of State about offsetting continued fossil fuel production with 1310548
Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Fantastic FT comment. Completely ideology-free 010
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenNvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/07/2026in order to not be hypocritical in your politics you must rank every thing happening anywhere by how axiologically bad it is and then express disapproval in direct proportion to that badness 1122
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Lucy Powell: "What [Andy Burnhams] saying is that the political & economic model that has governed this country for the last 40 years.. he wants to radically rewrite that political & economic model" 30 seconds later later: "He is going to stick to our manifesto" 1911735
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalismx.comBBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on XAndy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m... 31134301166
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car. 482903579
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenWolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Most governments find the loss of entire world regions to uninhabitable climate scenarios and the untold suffering of humans - and animals - easier to imagine, than the transition away from oil and gas. As Amitav Gosh said, the climate crisis is a crisis of our imagination. 720677
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenPhil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I could go on. Anyway the Democratic Party’s greatest hits album is mostly cover songs. Reading David Brooks will rot your brain. 29515
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenMichael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Scientists have built electronically controlled, oxygen-suit wearing Madagascar hissing cockroach cyborgs that can stay hours underwater. Apparently they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should 🧪🪳 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 5589
Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Shouldn't the publisher/peer-reviewers have caught the mistakes here? About technology readiness levels etc 001
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Riad Salameh, Lebanon's central banker for 30 years, embezzeled $300 million from Banque de Liban to a shell company whose beneficial owner was Raja Salameh, who then laundered that money through HSBC and back to the Salameh brothers' personal accounts in Lebanon. www.ft.com/content/cb64...ft.comHow HSBC ended up at the centre of a $330mn embezzlement scandalThe lender’s Swiss unit is under formal investigation over whether it helped Lebanese central bank boss’s alleged scheme 03014
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 23/06/2026... implies a differentiated monetary policy response to fossil fuel price shocks. Consider this: Every single ECB tightening cycle has been in reaction to energy prices (orange) rising much faster than the overall consumer price index (green). 2/ 1207
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Every day I'm grateful that I was born with a personality of my very own. 1537626
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/06/2026It is always a nice day to revisit this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social essay frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/rebecca-soln...frompoverty.oxfam.org.ukRebecca Solnit: Why climate despair is a luxury | From Poverty to Power 28426
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenDan Hon @danhon.com · 17/06/2026stopped playing scrabble to look outside, accidentally saw a rothko 81138137
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 16/06/2026Regular reminder that re-armament in Germany means enriching the already very rich, sprawling clans who are the quiet shareholders of century-old tank manufacturers whose websites have nothing to say about their Hitler-decorated grandfather's use of forced labor during WWII, or anything else.giftarticle.ft.comThe reclusive heirs in line for billions when Europe’s top tankmaker listsUnlikely cast of characters who own half of KNDS set for a windfall as Berlin prepares to buy in at an up to €20bn valuation 1258
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Nerds: [Invent a stupid robot that does dumb stuff and ruins everything] All Businessmen: The stupid robot is our future. He is the smartest guy I've ever heard of. 03314
Reposted by Oskar Wood Hansen+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 08/06/2026The Israeli army shot and killed seven-month-old Sam Abou Haikal and injured his parents while they were driving between Bethlehem and Hebron. Sam’s father, Fahd Abou Haikal, spoke with +972 Magazine and Local Call about the attack. @mekomit.bsky.social 17251
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026A Roadmap for U.S. Housing Policy publiccomment.blog/p/a-roadmap-...publiccomment.blogA Roadmap for U.S. Housing PolicyMy new report with Becky Chao and Mike Konczal for the Economic Security Project 117739
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing 371705317
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenKarl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Markets enjoying the 103rd day of "imminent" US-Iran peace deals: 0214
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenTimmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If local anti-offshore wind groups wonder who they have gotten into bed with, here he is. In our research, he's at the center of anti-wind network Plus, "SPN’s approach to energy policy contradicts its claim to promote policies based on free market principles" energyandpolicy.org/man-who-kill...energyandpolicy.org‘Man who killed offshore wind’ now pushing fossil fuels and nuclear for Koch-funded Mackinac Center in MichiganDavid Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and ... 41710
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/06/2026This is outrageous. When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot. 171054293
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026"If you want to get your hands around urban inequality, and deep housing cost burdens and homelessness in particular, you need to do more than build housing. You also need to stabilize the incomes of the people the market alone can’t reach..." Really important! 17913
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*. 8258173
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 10/06/2026BYD to spend €2bn to develop 5-minute flash chargers in Europe ft.trib.al/CEjg0j2ft.trib.alBYD to spend €2bn to develop 5-minute flash chargers in EuropeChinese EV maker banks on ultrarapid battery technology to take market share from legacy rivals 03513
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenHanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2026While scholars around the world debated Israel's destruction of Gaza, Germany's political science establishment largely refused to engage. Latest on my Substack, by @anavelasco.bsky.social & @roykaradag.bsky.social hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/why-german...hannohauenstein.substack.comGaza Changed the World. German Academia Stayed Silent.While scholars around the world debated Israel's destruction of Gaza, Germany's political science establishment largely refused to engage. Ana Velasco and Roy Karadag examine why 56023
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenDanny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 08/06/2026I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08... 23609275
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenRobert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I know it’s clickbait, but why do centrists hate their kids so much? 2375
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenGrace 🏳️⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 04/06/2026are you just going to do this for every generation 16112132566
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/06/2026That the KIDS THESE DAYS are SOCIALISTS & that is the worst threat to DEMOCRACY & CAPITALISM like THE SOVIET UNION & COMMUNIST CHINA is the most boring, predictable center-right business/finance/media/CEO/rich/age 50+ position in politics. It is a Narrative™️ that cannot fail. It can only be failed. 2528
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/06/2026‘The “populist wave” has become the go-to image or metaphor when one tries to understand what’s been going on. And I think it’s empirically profoundly misleading, and it’s also politically pernicious.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on myths of populism, on the podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comOn Politics: Myths of PopulismPodcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 3 June · 1hr 12min 32012
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenICCT Europe 🇪🇺 @iccteu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026🚨NEW REPORT: Plug-in hybrids in Europe emit 5x more CO2 than officially reported. The gap between real-world and official CO2 emissions of cars is widening. And for plug-in hybrids, the gap is remarkably high: - 2021 plug-in hybrid vehicles: 265% - 2023 plug-in hybrid vehicles: 400%. 15129
Reposted by Oskar Wood Hansen𝙰𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙰𝚋𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚑 @abizadeh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026In a brazen attack on academic freedom, The New School has fired multiple tenured faculty, including the prominent economist Sanjay Reddy in what smells like retribution for his criticisms of the admin’s financial mismanagement. 45532
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenMark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Well, well, well fortune.com/2026/06/01/i...fortune.comThe Iran conflict has disrupted oil supply. Gulf states are now looking to multi-billion-dollar investments in renewables | FortuneThe U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has triggered the largest oil supply disruption in history, accelerating Gulf diversification efforts and promoting major new investments. 285
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026this is going to go on all summer, isn't it 2138497
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Looking like Netanyahu got what he wanted if this collapses negotiations. 620131
Reposted by Oskar Wood HansenJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The first ever trillionaire will become a trillionaire by using political power to bend the rules of financial markets to force everybody’s retirement accounts to invest in his company 381618491