Richard Knocker
@richardonsafari.bsky.social
Guide. Tanzania. “Blessed are the Cheesemakers” : Life of Brine.
Doomer… but oddly cheerful!
Doomer… but oddly cheerful!
Tourism at any cost? East african countries face difficult decisions as they pursue tourism growth to promote jobs and revenue generation. But the growth brings with it environmental and social costs...
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Is a New $3,500-a-Night Safari Camp Blocking a Wildlife Corridor?
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November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Tourism at any cost? East african countries face difficult decisions as they pursue tourism growth to promote jobs and revenue generation. But the growth brings with it environmental and social costs...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
He always has such good insights!
NEW VIDEO from Anders Puck Nielsen 🇩🇰 👏
Title: European security depends on Ukraine 🇺🇦
Latest events in 🇵🇱 Poland kinda underlines this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxap...
@anderspucknielsen.dk
Title: European security depends on Ukraine 🇺🇦
Latest events in 🇵🇱 Poland kinda underlines this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxap...
@anderspucknielsen.dk
European security depends on Ukraine
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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September 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
He always has such good insights!
We must really hate our kids, to saddle them with this massive issue to deal with.
Yep.
"…clear that fossil-fuel companies, and their adjacent organizations, are the primary lobbyists for CCUS subsidies and that these subsidies benefit fossil-fuel companies at the expense of both taxpayers and the future health of our planet"
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"…clear that fossil-fuel companies, and their adjacent organizations, are the primary lobbyists for CCUS subsidies and that these subsidies benefit fossil-fuel companies at the expense of both taxpayers and the future health of our planet"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tracing sources of funds used to lobby the US government about carbon capture, use, and storage
Analysis of U.S. federal lobbying disclosures from 2005 through 2024 identifies the fossil fuel sector as the primary force behind a multipronged $954…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
We must really hate our kids, to saddle them with this massive issue to deal with.
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When retailers and resto owners (a sm handful exert outsized influence on the market BIA) refuse to accept pedestrianization of a #BetterByWard, they hold all #OttCity hostage to outmoded thinking on making better #PlacesForPeople; we need to act in the public interest and make change 1/
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
August 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
When retailers and resto owners (a sm handful exert outsized influence on the market BIA) refuse to accept pedestrianization of a #BetterByWard, they hold all #OttCity hostage to outmoded thinking on making better #PlacesForPeople; we need to act in the public interest and make change 1/
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Wishing a happy 90th birthday to Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist who broke gender barriers with the Tektite program, and has since become the planet's most prominent spokesperson for sustainable marine policy. We love you, Dr. Earle!
tinyurl.com/mr29uuru
#WomenInSTEM #BioSky #MarineBiology 🧪
tinyurl.com/mr29uuru
#WomenInSTEM #BioSky #MarineBiology 🧪
The Enemy is Ignorance: Marine Biologist Sylvia Earle Speaks for the Oceans.
One of the most consistently frustrating things about humanity is our blithe willingness to allow all manner of industrially organized brutality so long as the end result is something chemically inter...
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August 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Wishing a happy 90th birthday to Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist who broke gender barriers with the Tektite program, and has since become the planet's most prominent spokesperson for sustainable marine policy. We love you, Dr. Earle!
tinyurl.com/mr29uuru
#WomenInSTEM #BioSky #MarineBiology 🧪
tinyurl.com/mr29uuru
#WomenInSTEM #BioSky #MarineBiology 🧪
Happy Whale Shark Day!
Potwe in swahili; also Papa Shilingi - the white spots look like coins
Potwe in swahili; also Papa Shilingi - the white spots look like coins
Happy International Whale Shark Day from the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group!
Whale Sharks are the world’s largest fish, yet they feed on some of the smallest creatures in the sea, filtering plankton as they glide through tropical waters.
Whale Sharks are the world’s largest fish, yet they feed on some of the smallest creatures in the sea, filtering plankton as they glide through tropical waters.
August 31, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Happy Whale Shark Day!
Potwe in swahili; also Papa Shilingi - the white spots look like coins
Potwe in swahili; also Papa Shilingi - the white spots look like coins
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What looks like containment today may become a crisis tomorrow.
The Islamic State Prison Camps in Syria are a Powder Keg - War on the Rocks
There are approximately 50,000 veteran Islamic State members and their families currently being held at 27 prisons and detention centers across northeast
warontherocks.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
What looks like containment today may become a crisis tomorrow.
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How one group is working to STEM the tide of Trumpism
Democratic Doctors Are Pouring Into Politics. Thank Trump and RFK Jr.
Plus: How one group is working to STEM the tide of Trumpism.
www.thebulwark.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
How one group is working to STEM the tide of Trumpism
"LLMs’ value, which is real, involves summarizing and organizing human intelligence, rather than substituting for it"
Fascinating insight...
Fascinating insight...
Altman & Zuckerberg "positing unlimited future value (i.e., profits) in the context of declining present profits, and in the context of burning billions of dollars per month training LLMs"
Useful reminder about artificial so-called intelligence #AI hype
moneypower.substack.com/p/the-politi...
Useful reminder about artificial so-called intelligence #AI hype
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The Political Economy of "AI"
Before straying to the theory dark side, I spent some time in college as an Economics major; I’ve always been strangely charmed by a silly joke I first heard back then.
moneypower.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"LLMs’ value, which is real, involves summarizing and organizing human intelligence, rather than substituting for it"
Fascinating insight...
Fascinating insight...
Putin is trapped by Trump's misunderstandings
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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August 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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#AnimalSentience #AnimalIntelligence
The more we look, the more we find. Why do we keep acting surprised?
phys.org/news/2025-08...
The more we look, the more we find. Why do we keep acting surprised?
phys.org/news/2025-08...
For apes, out of sight isn't out of mind: Bonobos can mentally track multiple members of their social circle
A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight.
phys.org
August 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#AnimalSentience #AnimalIntelligence
The more we look, the more we find. Why do we keep acting surprised?
phys.org/news/2025-08...
The more we look, the more we find. Why do we keep acting surprised?
phys.org/news/2025-08...
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Any post that uses the word "fetid" required amplification
Hey, sometimes I DO make the rules
Hey, sometimes I DO make the rules
New in PN: Gavin Newsom's moment
"Newsom and other Dems joining this battle are right to fight. And by fighting, they are demonstrating just how weak Trump is. When you bend the knee, MAGA looks invincible. As soon as you stand up, though, the orange god starts to look like a fetid bag of wind."
"Newsom and other Dems joining this battle are right to fight. And by fighting, they are demonstrating just how weak Trump is. When you bend the knee, MAGA looks invincible. As soon as you stand up, though, the orange god starts to look like a fetid bag of wind."
Gavin Newsom's moment
Democrats have found their fight. Newsom is leading the charge.
www.publicnotice.co
August 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Any post that uses the word "fetid" required amplification
Hey, sometimes I DO make the rules
Hey, sometimes I DO make the rules
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"We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting this week. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Good lord! You mean... Putin LIES???
"We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting this week. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Good lord! You mean... Putin LIES???
Trump expected to deliver weapons to Ukraine through Nato allies
President hints at ‘major announcement’ on Monday after halting arms shipments due to dwindling stockpiles
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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"We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting this week. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Good lord! You mean... Putin LIES???
"We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting this week. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Good lord! You mean... Putin LIES???
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Kamala was incredibly predictive.
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“Putin would eat you for lunch.”
Today, exactly that happened.
Today, exactly that happened.
August 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Kamala was incredibly predictive.
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Breakfast with the burrowing owlets this morning. 🪶
August 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Breakfast with the burrowing owlets this morning. 🪶
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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador.
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador.
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"...even if you don’t have the job, pretend that you do...”
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“Eventually, when all of the qualified people are driven out and only the people acceptable to Laura Loomer remain, there could be an extremely bad result for the United States in some international crisis”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
‘Loyalty Enforcer’ Laura Loomer Targets Additional Officials
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July 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"...even if you don’t have the job, pretend that you do...”
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@therestpolitics.bsky.social I enjoyed the AI episode.
Both intriguing and scary as sh*t.
Rory, do you have a book recommendation, an AI primer? I'm an occasional user, mainly of ChatGPT, but I'm aware that I'm not getting anywhere near its full potential.
Both intriguing and scary as sh*t.
Rory, do you have a book recommendation, an AI primer? I'm an occasional user, mainly of ChatGPT, but I'm aware that I'm not getting anywhere near its full potential.
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
@therestpolitics.bsky.social I enjoyed the AI episode.
Both intriguing and scary as sh*t.
Rory, do you have a book recommendation, an AI primer? I'm an occasional user, mainly of ChatGPT, but I'm aware that I'm not getting anywhere near its full potential.
Both intriguing and scary as sh*t.
Rory, do you have a book recommendation, an AI primer? I'm an occasional user, mainly of ChatGPT, but I'm aware that I'm not getting anywhere near its full potential.
And has a human being: again, no.
Why would you want this? There is more to living than 'productivity'.
Why would you want this? There is more to living than 'productivity'.
And as a former privacy and surveillance reporter ... also: no.
As a product safety reporter I feel compelled to say....no. Just no
July 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
And has a human being: again, no.
Why would you want this? There is more to living than 'productivity'.
Why would you want this? There is more to living than 'productivity'.
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Senate Republicans insisted on restoring about $400 million in funding cuts the president had proposed for PEPFAR. It was a rare show of mettle. But it was not enough. ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-fum...
We Are Fumbling the Fight Against AIDS
Senate Republicans saved some PEPFAR funding at the last moment—but Trump has already heavily damaged the program.
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July 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Senate Republicans insisted on restoring about $400 million in funding cuts the president had proposed for PEPFAR. It was a rare show of mettle. But it was not enough. ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-fum...
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"We – among others – are now to spend more on defence, and to finance that by cutting aid to the world’s most wretched and helpless."
"We – among others – are now to spend more on defence, and to finance that by cutting aid to the world’s most wretched and helpless."
Sir John Major’s Speech at the Sir Edward Heath Annual Lecture – 26 June 2025 – The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major KG CH
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July 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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"We – among others – are now to spend more on defence, and to finance that by cutting aid to the world’s most wretched and helpless."
"We – among others – are now to spend more on defence, and to finance that by cutting aid to the world’s most wretched and helpless."
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Whooo boy. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...
Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein
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July 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Whooo boy. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...