A lot of people are very confused about what Trump is doing with tariffs.This is partly because he has not given a full explanation of what he is doing (for tactical reasons) and partly because people don't know history.Especially for younger people, used to a globalised world with minimal tariffs, it seems like the world has been turned upside down. Tariffs on Canada & Mexico!!

After many years of having the honor of being a Hive witness, I've decided that running a witness server is not for me, as I have too much going on to be instantly on-call to fix things when they (to often) go wrong.My lifestyle, religion and commitments mean I have periods when I am unavailable for multiple days at a time and this is invariably when something goes wrong with my witness server.

This post by @seaexplorer got me thinking about the benefits of vertically mounted bi-facial solar panels on Mars. [Created by Grok on my prompts]As shown above they would be hung from a simple rail in an East-West orientation.

Watch on 3SpeakLate last summer we took the kids to Jerusalem to see their cousins. We all went to this fantasy themed “Kids Show” at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens. Wow! It was much better than expected, really an adult modern dance performance repackaged with a kid friendly compere.

War poetry and song is a well established and important genre.War Songs of my YouthFrom Wilfred Owen's WWI poetry, compulsory reading during my 1980s Australian education, to the Vietnam War songs like Cold Chisel's Khe San and Redgum's I was only 19 that were familiar refrains during my own military service in the 1990s, war songs are powerful reflections on a society's experience of war.

This is a MUST WATCH speech for every European, as well as Australian, Canadian and other US democratic allies.1) Free Speech is a new US Foreign Policy RequirementThe US is setting out a clear new policy that it expects its democratic allies to have free speech, because it is the bedrock of the US & its allies shared democratic values.