It has been an extraordinary 24 hours in global markets
Oil prices have tumbled back from the four-year highs they hit on Monday
after Donald Trump suggested the US-Israel war on Iran could end “very soon”.
This time yesterday, Brent crude, the international benchmark, surged beyond $100 per barrel for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
– triggering stark sell-offs across leading Asian and European stock indices.
Wall Street also started t…
Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz
Ik heb in 2022 een backup gemaakt van twitter. Ik kwam het weer tegen, maar alle links die daarin gebruikt zijn liepen via t.co en zijn nu vrijwel onbruikbaar :-(
(2022) Lukusuositus: "Tunteva tuote — Kuinka eläimistä tuli osa teollista tuotantoa?" - Taija Kaarlenkaski & Otto Latva
#eläinoikeudet #eläintuotanto #eläintehtaat
A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025 vs. 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (Michael Dempsey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5263ed8c-79dd-460a-b131-56a6fcefeb1e…
Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 24. März 2022 gab #Nordkorea bekannt die Hwasong-17, eine zweistufige #Interkontinentalrakete die möglicherweise mehrere Sprengköpfe tragen kann und über eine Reichweite von 15.000 km verfügt, erfolgreich gestartet zu haben.
After the Republican midterm disappointments of 2022,
Peter Thiel called for a party that could unite “the priest, the general, and the millionaire”
— a formula that reads, with hindsight, as a precise blueprint for Trump’s second administration:
Christian nationalism, military force deployed at home and abroad, and a financial oligarchy powerful enough to steer the state.
By the election of 2024, the gospel of nostalgia and the gospel of progress had concluded a shor…
Reverse drafting club!
"Reverse drafting is the process of unraveling fabric swatches and diagramming their construction using weave draft notation. It’s really fun! So fun that we started a Reverse Drafting Club to work remotely on this practice with friends near and far. In 2022, we had nearly 400 members in this exclusive club, scattered across the globe.* You don’t have to be a weaver to get in on this. If you like puzzles of any kind, we think you’ll enjoy it."
Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats
There’s a trend here. Social media networks, which, until recently, claimed that legacy media were a thing of the past, are gradually becoming legacy media themselves.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ʞooqǝɔɐℲ
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/social-traffic…
I remember watching the 2022 documentary
"Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm"
(Love, Deutschmarks and Death) by Cem Kaya
with awe and shame at how much I had not known.
The film looks at the difficult lives of Turkish workers in Germany through the music they produced.
One widely popular song, sung by Yüksel Özkasap, included the lines:
“Germany, everything about you is a lie. You have stolen my life and taken my love.”
The language textbook
"Türk…
@cdarwin@c.im
