Peter Leung

The awesome might of a raging supercell with a wedge tornado at night in the Nebraska Sandhills, April 27, 2025. #newx

Not for nothing, but the institutions of this economy work because the institutions of this democracy work.

Every year I have a donation theme and I donate to organizations around that theme. 2024 was press freedom. So proud of the work @propublica.org is doing during these turbulent times. #GoodTrouble #Journalism

My son got a pic of a snowy rainbow this morning.

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

How 3M’s scientists discovered—and then helped to conceal—the dangers of “forever chemicals” that their company produced.

How Hitler's Nazi regime weaponised motor racing Podcast Episode · And Colossally That's History! · 17/04/2024 · 1h 8m

‘Silver Arrows’ racer Manfred von Brauchitsch died #OnThisDay in 2003, aged 97. He’s mentioned at length in an episode of my & Richard Williams’ podcast, #AndColossallyThatsHistory, on how Adolf Hitler weaponised GP racing before WW2. Click below to listen.
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Before they were 2025 Grammy Award winners, they were Tiny Desk performers Many of the major winners who picked up trophies on music's biggest night have graced the Tiny Desk. Watch their performances here.

Many of the major winners who picked up trophies on music's biggest night have graced the Tiny Desk. Watch their performances here.

Perfectly captured.

How a School Shooting Became a Video Game Games are often blamed for gun violence, but the parents of one victim believe the form can raise awareness instead.

The Final Exam, a video game in which the player takes on the role of a student caught amid a school shooting, aims to use provocation to advocate for tighter gun controls.

Thoughts and Prayers 🙏

Pentagon Warns China Developing Love, The Greatest Weapon Of All

Pentagon Warns China Developing Love, The Greatest Weapon Of All
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I miss when takedowns were cutting yet poetic

It's difficult to overstate just how much professional journalists have been trained to fear defamation lawsuits and how much it has impacted the ability to tell the truth

Everyone go and follow @climatehuman.bsky.social on here

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Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry

Meet the Man Who Saw the LA Fires Coming - The Assignment with Audie Cornish - Podcast on CNN Audio Peter Kalmus left California two years ago in part because of his concerns about hotter days and increasing wildfires. Today, his former neighborhood of Altadena is one of the many communities left sc...

Really moved by this interview @audiecornish.bsky.social did with Peter Kalmus about #ClimateChange. I found Kalmus to be deeply compelling and courageous in his vulnerability in sounding the alarm about the climate crisis. Well worth a listen.

www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Last night's Costco parking lot star - this beautiful Saab 9-5 wagon! I have always liked these, but I haven't seen a wagon in some time, and this particular one was just beautiful.

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

Thank you Billy for using scientific evidence! Here's a more recent article showing that misinfo was skewed, and response to it was thus likely/appropriately not:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(As added bonus this paper does not have Meta/Facebook co-authors).

I imagine the dislike is mutual because unlike the rest of the EU, UK opted to not impose tariffs on Chinese made vehicles, so Tesla faces more competition there.

With the effects of #ClimateChange becoming an ever more frequent threat, we could see the largest population migration within the US in the years to come.

How Bushfire Smoke Travelled Around the World — Weizmann Australia A new study has uncovered how some Australian fires produced a spreading stratospheric haze rivalling that of a volcanic eruption. It’s not just how hot the fires burn – it’s...

The devastating LA fires reminded me of the Australian Bushfires back in 2020. The smoke from those fires made it all the way to South America & circumnavigated the globe back to Australia.

The fires might be in LA, but the effects are felt around the globe.

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What time is it? "IT'S AVANTIME"

Honda and Nissan confirm plans to merge into the world's third-largest automaker.
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Well deserved! 💪

I saw an old GTI and a Hyundai Kona side by side. They are basically the same size! Automakers were making hatchbacks dressed up as crossovers all this time 😄

I can assure you, that instinct never goes away 😂

The goodest

a local photographer is selling his car on FB Marketplace, and you will never see nicer photos of a 2005 corolla