If you want to understand how the solar boom is playing out across the Global South, a good place to start is Agbon, Benin, where I lived for 2 yrs.
It's exceedingly unexceptional: the reason solar is taking off there is bc it's taking off everywhere🧵
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/solar-is-e...
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe ft.trib.al/rg4IDIC
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State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
So, about that Kuwaiti jet that mistakenly shot down three F-15s... Do they get to paint kill marks on the plane?
What will be the next shoe to drop? A couple of stray thoughts:
* US funded academics will be forbidden from doing peer review on Chinese (or all foreign) papers?
* The AAAS (an AMERICAN Association after all) forbidden from publishing papers by Chinese (or all foreign) researchers?
Can't have people knowing who CCP leaders even were, or what they did!
Deepseek's censorship still remains by far the most incompetently done thing about it. Here it is censoring Mao Zedong thought. Can't have Maoism polluting impressionable minds!
