Joe Wein
@joewein
German software engineer and cyclist in Japan. Politics, environment, cyber security.
WTF: On Truth Social, the grifter in chief is pushing a website of some stock market guy talking about a coming "midterm meltdown" and this site will tell you which stocks to bet on in the recovery that will follow the crisis. I could never guess who already owns these stocks...
@govandybeshear.bsky.social can only call a special election if there is a vacancy. Even if McConnell were incapacitated, his seat is not vacant as long as he's *alive* lastcampaign.substack.com/p/faq-about-...
"I said SpaceX will be worth more than Earth if we achieve our goals" How did he mean that?
Wetterextreme wie damals der "Jahrhundersommer" 1976 sind seit Jahren die neue Normalität - aber auch nur so lange, bis es noch extremer wird, weil wir weiter fossile Brennstoffe verbrennen. www.ufz.de/index.php?de...
He might find such "investors" in Moscow and St Petersburg. Ben Cohen has been repeating Putin propaganda for years, including blaming NATO for Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Softbank's Masayoshi Son is touting both AI and nuclear fusion as a power source for it. I have to ask: How far removed from reality can you be? 3000 GW of power just for AI data centers is over 80% of average global power usage, or 30 times the average power use for all of Japan. For what? 1/8
Ocean surface temperatures are at record levels "Global surface temperatures in June 2026 were 1.09°C above the 20th-century average—the second-warmest June on record (...). Notably, all 10 of the warmest Junes in the 1850–2026 record have occurred since 2015." www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-...
Never forget that Donold's mentor was Roy Cohn, chief counsel for Senator McCarthey in the 1954 hearings.
"I heard somebody say ''that's because bots can't attend a festival'' and I thought that was kind of fascinating because you can tell us day to day how popular you are (...) but you can not bring people out to celebrate something if they are not there to celebrate." Leigh McGowan (PoliticsGirl)
The badly hit city of La Guaira is located some 150 km from the epicentre of the two quakes that hit, which would be consistent with a 30 second interval and shock waves traveling at 5 km/s. Here is a BBC graphic showing the locations and distance.
Elon: "Could [have] gone to some great parties." We know he likes to go to parties...
That's why I couldn't find anything about it when I googled it at Beijing airport 15 years ago...
"In fact, the rumored order comprises around 500 or more aircraft, heavily weighted towards the MAX." fortune.com/2026/05/14/t...
Electricity wholesale prices in Europe vary a great deal, which creates opportunities for arbitrage. Nowadays HVDC connectors can carry power over great distances, over land and sea with moderate losses. One example: Ireland and France 1/5
Hier ist meine Tankstelle zum Vergleich😁 "Das Sonnenlicht muss 93 Millionen Meilen zurücklegen, um die Erde zu erreichen, aber keine dieser Meilen führt durch die Straße von Hormuz." (Bill McKibben)
What's a few shots into the engine room of a container ship between friends? Next stop: A "friendly blockade" of Taiwan, source of 90% of the world's advanced logic chips, by China...
The Jamaican reggae artist Lester Bullock, on the advice of his producer Lee Perry, took the stage name Dillinger after the American outlaw, to distinguish him self from fellow artist Dennis Alcapone.
Eine Grafik zum BEV-Schlusslicht Japan Quelle: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Wasserstoff-Tankstelle des Ölkonzerns ENEOS in Hachioji/Tokyo. Ich kenne diese Tankstelle seit ca. einem Jahrzehnt, aber habe dort noch nie einen Tankvorgang beobachtet, oder bei irgendeiner der H2-Tankstellen in Japan die ich bisher gefunden habe. Man beachte auch die Absperrkette.
Dieser japanische H2-Transport-LKW zur Versorgung von H2-Tankstellen kann ganze 220 kg Wasserstoff transportieren, also entsprechend dem Energiegehalt von 1100 Litern Diesel. 220 kg entspricht dem Tankinhalt von 39 Toyota Mirai.