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Shipping Choke Points Raise Business Costs Even After The Iran War
A ship attacked near the Strait of Hormuz March 11 (Photo by Handout / ROYAL THAI NAVY /…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #chokepoints #chokepoint #Drones #Houthi #Iran #iranwar #Shipping
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Flood Vulnerability And Load Capacity Assessment Of Historic Masonry Arch Bridges In Ireland Under Changing Climates
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2026.100153 <-- shared paper
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H/T @Upaka Rathnayake
“HIGHLIGHTS:
• Field surveys and flood modelling were used to evaluate the resilience of eight historic masonry arch bridges in County Offaly, Ireland, under projected fluvial flooding conditions.
• Results indicate that increased flood levels and hydraulic forces can significantly reduce bridge load-carrying capacity, with potential reductions of up to 40% due to buoyancy effects during extreme flood events.
• The study demonstrates a clear relationship between flood exposure and structural deterioration, emphasizing the need for structural health monitoring, maintenance strategies, and climate-resilient infrastructure management…
ABSTRACT: Masonry bridges, predominantly constructed from stone or brick, were a common feature of bridge engineering during the 18th and 19th centuries. However, these historic bridges are still in use today, but they are at risk due to various extreme climate conditions. Thus, these bridges are vulnerable to damage and needy for investigation. This paper offers an in-depth analysis of the projected impacts of fluvial flooding stemming from climate change on a number of masonry arch bridge structures located in county Offaly, Ireland. It evaluates bridge resilience by examining estimated flood levels alongside the overall condition of the structures. These assessments play a crucial role in determining the load-bearing capacity of the bridges and whether adjustment factors should be implemented. Particularly for bridges situated on primary and secondary roads with consistent heavy goods vehicle (HGV) traffic, the potential decrease in load-bearing capabilities warrants significant consideration. This study highlights concerns regarding the resilience of these historic structures and presents a valid argument regarding their suitability for contemporary environmental conditions and present-day activities…”
#bridge #resilience #climatechange #impacts #loadcarrying #capacity #masonry #archbridges #fluvial #flood #flooding #Ireland #casestudies #transportation #bridges #historicbridges #history #survey #model #modeling #floodmodeling #CountyOffaly #ContaeUíbhFhailí #hydraulics #engineering #chokepoint #constraint #constriction #hydraulicforce #bridgeload #carryingcapacity #buoyancyeffects #damage #structuraldeterioration #structuralhealth #monitoring #maintenance #planning #policy #climateresilience #infrastructure #management #water #hydrography -
For #fridayreads today, a return to @pluralistic , this time non-fiction.
While reading this 2022 book, several times I got the impression that "this could have been written 20 years before" (or, more to the point, lament that we did not learn the lesson back then), but at the same time the book is still as relevant (if not more) today than it was when it was published.
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A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less of it
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
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The 2026 energy crisis and our Wile E. Coyote moment
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What to expect from the first Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
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#Sulfuric acid is how we extract copper. It's how we extract cobalt. Without it, you can't make transformers, EV batteries, or the substrates inside every data center on the planet. One chemical, made from one feedstock, shipped through one #chokepoint. The cascade goes further: Qatar ships 30% of Taiwan's liquefied natural gas through Hormuz. Taiwan has 11 days of reserves left. TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. {more}
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Gaulab Chakrabarti, the CEO of a Texas-based sustainable chemistry company, Solugen, said this rather important thing on X a couple days ago: "The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 8 days. Everyone thinks this is about oil. This is about what oil becomes. {more} #oil #IranWar #Iran #chokepoint
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#Cloudflare is a #censorship #chokepoint , a kill-switch in the hands of evil corps.
Do not use Cloudflare!
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hilo sobre puntos q controlan la economía mundial
Un #chokepoint es un estrecho marítimo q concentra tráfico entre dos masas de agua. Piénsalo como una autopista de un solo carril en medio del océano. “Quien controla los choke points, controla el flujo del comercio mundial” ¿Qué hace estratégico a un punto?
✓ Alto volumen de tráfico
✓ Sin alternativas viables
✓ Transporta recursos críticos (petróleo, gas)
✓ Los desvíos cuestan millones y añaden semanas
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> there’s been an impression that going after the crypto industry is something that democratic constituencies would cheer on
> But if you talk to young people, people from communities of color who disproportionately participate in crypto, … they view an attack on crypto as an attack on them
https://thehill.com/business/4766890-biden-admin-opens-line-with-crypto-industry-amid-icy-relations/
#garyGensler #elizabethWarren #chokepoint #sec #biden #crypto #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #btc #democrats #election2024 #politics #uspolitics #democracy #gensler #warren
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question, why did #dnscurve never take off? @bert_hubert or maybe someone else knows? is the reason it kills - a certain kind of - #surveillance #capitalism, while dns over http still enables it in a much more concentrated - #chokepoint #capitalist - way? is this a reason? not? are there other reasons?
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Bitcoin investor sentiment slumps to a new low, even as macro and equities show improvement - Three key Bitcoin price indicators explain why BTC price continue... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-investor-sentiment-slumps-to-a-new-low-even-as-macro-and-equities-show-improvement #chokepoint #dominance #lawsuits #markets #onchain #skew
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CW: Chokepoint Capitalism, reformism, the administrative state, and democratic power
Begun reading #Chokepoint #Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic and it's interesting to see a very identifiable political thread in its blurb people- Adam Conover, Lawrence Lessig, Zephyr Teachout, Jimmy Wales.
These people, who I would, personally, characterize as left-liberals much of the time, provide an interesting anchor point in the political and economic movement for #socialjustice. Some of them have gained an amount of reach and are viewed as experts or at the very least accessible communicators.
In the introduction we see a point of tension in the dialectic between "the minimum demand" (mild, almost performative reform) and "the maximum demand" (#revolution from the root to a different system). #Trotsky is known for the transitional program, but *Reform and Revolution* by #Luxemburg, a bunch of #Kautsky. It's a very long current in the camp of people that want to replace the relations of society and production.
Fascists obviously have used critiques of capitalism in order to gain a political audience, but Germany during the Third Reich reminds one a lot of the kind of incestuous relationship of dominant industry and the political elite.
The question is basically, can what is in many ways a deep overhaul of the #administrative state, something everyone thinks of when they think of Sen. Elizabeth #Warren, really possible? There has to be enough "democracy in the system" to get to the end point, and the US in particular has both issues of #federalism and a federal judiciary that despises the administrative state. Also changes such as relate to monopoly, monopsony, and competition, may in some cases lack what I think is the core way that #reformism can be built upon- stickiness.
I mean essentially that universal benefit programs, well funded, are the most difficult to reverse from the free-market right. They have a very large supportive population that melds the poor, working class, and aspects of the petty bourgeoisie and professionals together in common interests.
Targeting, as is done in neoliberalism, creates inter-class conflict among those not in the elite, and can be stoked additionally by #race, #citizenship, and other factors. Neoliberalism by design when it does #welfare makes programs extremely brittle and easy to defund.
So even though the Tories have had two decade and a half long reigns in power since 1979, and Tony Blair was thoroughly a center-right New Labour PM, the #NHS has stubbornly stuck around even in its crisis state. It has resiliency.
But having enough #democracy in the system is difficult. We can look at Castillo in #Peru and #Boric in Chile, who both rode into power promising a fundamentally new, inclusive, and anti-neoliberal constitution. Actually getting through entrenched power structures, a right-wing #media apparatus, and the eternal riddle of many aspects of a #constitution being popular but at a referendum it adds up to less.
The phrase "#Chile will be the tomb of #neoliberalism imagines an end to neoliberalism- #AMLO talks about this a lot whatever you might think of his time in power. But how do you get over the hump? How do you dispatch it, and make sure it doesn't return? How do you hold sustained power so the capitalists can't just reverse all that can be done? How can genuine democracy and social justice come to fruition?
I don't have a lot of answers, but I appreciate how much was sparked just in the introduction of Chokepoint Capitalism
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#Chokepoint #Capitalism is an important concept for all of us to understand, whether we are creators or consumers https://www.theverge.com/23547877/decoder-chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-spotify-ticketmaster-antitrust
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CW: on Chokepoint Capitalism
The Wire talked with Cory @Doctorow (@[email protected]) about #Copyright Scams, #Surveillance Capitalism, the Lies of Big #Tech; and what #chokepoint capitalism means for creators and consumers, its prevalence in the #cultural industries, and how to #fight against it.
#xp
https://thewire.in/tech/interview-on-copyright-scams-surveillance-capitalism-and-the-lies-of-big-tech