Busy Border

Finished reading: Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama 📚 Struggled to finish this but happy I persisted.

‘We wish more families with children would move here’: Pandemic provides a new lease of life for offshore islands – The Irish Times

What Weighs Ounces Is More Important Than What Weighs Tons

Climate risks dwarf Europe’s energy crisis, space chief warns - Reuters

Today, we are very concerned about the energy crisis, and rightly so. But this crisis is very small compared to the impact of climate change, which is of a much bigger magnitude and really has to be tackled extremely fast,”

Hottest day on record in Ireland. 31.7C.

VW really need to up their software game.

⛴️🚄How to travel from Dublin to London by ferry and rail – Michael Pidgeon

Useful guide.

Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO for Seven Days — Ridgeline issue 146

Signed up.

Anger in Europe – Landgeist

Fascinating. What is Finland doing right? And why the big difference between Portugal and Spain? Is this a good indicator of a stable well run country?

Been fascinated by this tree for a very long time.

Legacy cities and the changing nature of the good life - Ethan Zuckerman

Matsutake’s Journeys - The Breakthrough Institute

The Metaverse Is Not a Place – O’Reilly

It’s a communication medium.

adaged.blogspot.com

Grinder, Minder, Finder.

I notice that today Google is promoting pixel buds on its home page. Have they promoted one of their products like this before? Feels off.

Chartbook #139 The battle for climate legislation in the US: making sense of the Manchin-Schumer compromise

What this suggests is that in the future we may look back on Manchin’s pivot in July 2022 as the moment at which the green capitalist coalition in the US had finally gathered sufficient strength to overcome at least the most dogged defense of the energy status quo.

How a Taiwanese electric two-wheeler startup made its electric battery swapping stations as common as gas stations in Taiwan - Rest of World

Battery swapping as a subscription service.

The Fall of Facebook - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At

Ouch. So good.

Follow it with The problem with Facebook by Om Malik.

Farmers to be asked to reduce emissions by 25%, as Coalition leaders reach deal

Happy that a compromise has been reached, even if on the low end of the scale for the agri sector.

If you find yourself in Co. Leitrim, Fowley’s Falls is worth visiting.

The walk to Trá Mór. Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal.