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Test builds of OmniOutliner 6.1 are now available, with a bunch of new Shortcuts actions provided by App Intents. Feedback welcome!
https://www.omnigroup.com/test/

I wouldn't normally post a link to LinkedIn, but this is an important republished piece on AMOC collapse from Johan Rockström.
Climate risk becomes a matter of security
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-becomes-matter-sec…

Climate risk becomes a matter of security
The destabilisation of the #AMOC is no longer a distant scenario - it’s a national and global security risk. Iceland’s Climate Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson and I outline actions to tackle this threat in this article first published in Dagens Nyheter and Vísir.

NFL coaching, GM shakeups are coming: What I'm hearing as the firing cycle begins

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-coaches-gms-who-could-be-fired-kevin-stef…

The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the world
rather than the “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”, according to a leading UN figure.
Olivier De Schutter,
the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights,
says politicians must stop prioritising
“socially and ecologically destructive growth” that only increases the profits
– and serves the consumption demands
– of the world’s ri…

@… I am perturbed Fiona! 🙁 - Compare these two reports about the meeting between Canada's Carney and India's Modi. The BBC makes it 100% about nuclear, whereas the Canadian Press outlines all the sustainable energy technologies in the agreement and only once mentions uranium.

Green energy orgs applaud Canada-India agreements on renewables
OTTAWA — Some of Canada’s renewable energy organizations are applauding commitments Ottawa signed with India this week to advance development of solar, wind and hydrogen power. Prime Minister Mark Carney spent four days in Mumbai and New Delhi, a trip which concluded with a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and signing a series of […]

Vitalik Buterin outlines a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum's execution layer with a binary state tree and eventually move beyond the Ethereum virtual machine (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/391681/vitali

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Leonard Cohen:
🎵 Everybody Knows
#LeonardCohen
https://outlineskates.bandcamp.com/track/everybody-knows-leonard-cohen
https://open.spotify.com/track/60s0QWaOZ2UTzqdIHBCt3x

Tidy Modeling with R: #rstats #machinelearning

Tidy Modeling with R
The tidymodels framework is a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning using tidyverse principles. This book provides a thorough introduction to how to use tidymodels, and an outline of good methodology and statistical practice for phases of the modeling process.

Critique of George Monbiot's recent, and rather puzzling, pieces on food systems
The challenge of food ecomodernism: a puzzle outlined - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-12-22/the-challenge-of-food-ecomodernism-a…

The challenge of food ecomodernism: a puzzle outlined
Ah well, the urgency of staving off as best I can the disaster capitalism that Philip Loring mentions keeps me going, even if it feels like a dispiriting and unequal battle sometimes. Cheers!

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/asia/indonesia-lift-grok-ban.h…

Indonesia Lifts Ban on Grok After New Assurances From X Corp
Indonesia joined Malaysia and the Philippines in reversing its restrictions, weeks after it blocked the chatbot because it was used to generate sexually explicit images of real people.