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good grief describing 1993 as “before most people were born” gave me an emotion
median age is apparently 30.9 years https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/world-demographics/

World Demographics 2025 (Population, Age, Sex, Trends) - Worldometer
Population Pyramid, Age Structure, Sex Ratio (Males to Females), Life Expectancy, Dependency Ratio of the World

Mark Carney Knows the Old World Is Dying. But His New World Isn’t Good Enough. | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/world/mark-carney-davos-speech-aftermath/

Mark Carney Knows the Old World Is Dying. But His New World Isn’t Good Enough.
The Canadian prime minister offered a radical analysis of the collapse of the liberal world order. His response to that collapse is unacceptably conservative.

X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side…

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

"The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci once wrote.
“And the new world struggles to be born.”
In such interregnums, the Italian Marxist philosopher suggested, “every act, even the smallest,
may acquire decisive weight”.
In 2025, western leaders appeared convinced they – and we – were living through one such transitional period, as the world of international relations established after the second world war crashed to a halt.
During such eras, Gramsci more f…

And not one of them in the UK.
The 30 Most Bike-Friendly Cities in the World, the 2025 Copenhagenize Index Arrives | Momentum Mag
https://momentummag.com/the-30-most-bike-friendly-cities-in-the-world-the-2025-copenhagenize-inde…

The 30 Most Bike-Friendly Cities in the World, the 2025 Copenhagenize Index Arrives
The Copenhagenize Index, the most comprehensive ranking of urban cycling friendliness, evaluates 100 cities on how far they’ve gone to make cycling safe, convenient, and appealing.

⚡️ "ENERGY RAMSTEIN": World allocates HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS to save Ukrainian power: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/quotenergy-ramsteinquot-world-allocates-hundreds.html

"Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'"
https://www.lemonde.fr…

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on his work and daily life.

X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side…

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

from my link log —
What the world can learn from Paris’s cycling revolution.
https://momentummag.com/what-the-world-can-learn-from-pariss-cycling-revolution/
saved 2026-01-25

What the world can learn from Paris’s cycling revolution
The Paris cycling change did not happen by accident. It was driven by political will, strategic use of data, and a willingness to rethink street space.

Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bitcoin-mining…