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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What really causes inflation? It isn’t money creation youtu.be/Vi-hQDibhK4?.... And for those with very little understanding of economics who claim it does, as I show, the evidence doesn't support their case.
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What really causes inflation? It isn’t money creation
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm not a religious person, but if there were such a thing as the Antichrist, he would do what Trump does every day. Destroying our beautiful planet and the lives of its people for the sake of A. profit and B. a vengeful urge to destroy what other people love. So yes, demonic is the right word.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Keynes transformed economics, making clear how markets fail and that governments have to intervene to deliver wellbeing. We need another Keynes now. I used AI, among other tools, when creating this post. I also used about 50 years of experience writing about economics.
An infographic on Keynesian economics and its benefits.
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A. Dias @arvdias.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Good advice for life
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What we should grasp is that this is what Trump is *for*. It's why fossil fuel companies and the ultra-rich backed him. The kleptocracy, the cruelty, the culture wars, all these, while real & grim enough, distract us from seeing the true purpose of his presidency. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's time we stopped calling them "moderates". They are extremists in service to capital. And many of them appear to hate and fear the left of their own party far more than they hate and fear the Republicans. Like Starmer's Labour "centrists" (extremists) in the UK. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
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Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left
One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
You could say the same about any public service, or anything at all of public interest. The demands of capital owners trounce all other considerations, degrade the service and transform it into something with an entirely different purpose. UEFA's succinct critique of capital should be framed.
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A. Dias @arvdias.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Lol,... Rotfl even
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It was only a matter of time before a politician read out loud the part of LM generated text that is supposed to be deleted first
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In one of his first acts as PM, Andy Burnham signs on to support the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran. Disgusting, cowardly stuff.
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Anyone lobbying against climate policies, and governments/EU bodies giving in to that lobby, do so in the full knowledge that their actions lead to thousands of preventable deaths.
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The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New tinyview exclusive, “bad teeth” tinyview.com/the-other-en...
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A. Dias @arvdias.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The people that even consider this to be a decision to be made (you know, the datacenter lobby) must be, and I'm absolutely serious, be removed from society
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026
The biggest threat to "affordability," today and more so every day to come, is climate change. Responsible political leaders would tell their constituents about it.
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What Climate Change Costs You at the Checkout
The higher temperatures climb, the more inflated household costs like groceries will become, economists predict.
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Imagine there was a monster so extreme and unprecedented and torturous that 40 people died trying to momentarily escape from it. Now imagine the response from world leaders was either to ignore the monster, or... to feed it. Now stop imagining.
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40 drowning deaths reported in France as Europe swelters in heat wave
Millions in France are enduring extreme heat, with temperatures soaring and 40 drowning deaths reported since June 18.
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A. Dias @arvdias.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
These lobbyists are mass-murderers
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 30/05/2026
“Normal” is an illusion born of fear🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 You are exactly who you were meant to be. One day, we won’t need pride flags or categories, for every love and identity will simply be accepted as human. Until then, I’ll keep sending this: Your heart is precious. Your soul is beautiful beyond any label
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A. Dias @arvdias.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I don't share much around here, but this video is _important_ : youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY?...
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"But it happened."
YouTube video by Molly Rocket
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It's currently produced by a deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
173. This distorted view of the human person is reflected today in various forms of servitude directly linked to the digital economy. Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people. A significant part of the digital economy’s functioning relies on the silent work of millions of people engaged in essential yet largely unseen activities, such as data labeling, model training and content moderation, often involving disturbing material. In many cases, these workers are young people, predominantly women, working under demanding conditions for minimal wages. Added to this invisible labor is the even harsher work of extracting the resources required for the production of the devices and microprocessors on which AI depends. In some regions of the world, children and adolescents work in dangerous conditions, crushing the materials from which rare earth elements are extracted. The bodies of these people are scarred, injured and worn down so that computational flow may continue uninterruptedly. Furthermore, criminal networks use online platforms, messaging systems, anonymous payment methods and profiling techniques in order to recruit, control and transport victims of trafficking — very often minors — reducing men and women to “data” to be tracked and “packages” to be moved around within the same digital circuits that support much of the global economy. This reality deeply challenges the moral conscience of our time. It is not enough to invoke efficiency, nor to celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity.178. Even today, colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates only bodies, but appropriates data, transforming personal lives into exploitable information. Entire regions, especially those marked by structural fragility and limited geopolitical relevance, are currently subjected to a new mindset of extraction: that of health data, epidemiological profiles, genetic maps and demographic information. These have become the new “rare earths” of power: vital data which, once aggregated and analyzed, can be used to train predictive models, guide investment strategies, anticipate crises and, above all, determine who and what is deemed to matter. Those who control the health data of entire peoples — often collected under the pretext of aid, research or innovation — possess a structural leverage over the future, for they can shape needs and markets. They can also decide, before others, to whom medicines, investments and protections will be allocated. Here lies one of the most urgent moral challenges of our time: to ensure that shared knowledge becomes a true common good rather than an instrument of dominance. This requires restoring to individuals not only the data that describes them, but also the ability to decide how it is used, by whom and for whose benefit. Otherwise, the digital age will not be post-colonial, but colonial in another form.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/05/2026
on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not
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AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'
Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Voters think they can have it all: an affordable life and a livable planet. They are right. Both is at the core of an anti-fascist economics that centers on making life livable for all rather than letting the far right dystopia of a burning planet rule. Chart via @triofrancos.bsky.social
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...
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ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/05/2026
Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.
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The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace
A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The bond market is being treated by the media as if it has a veto over any Labour move to the left. The media are, then, complicit in the whole conspiracy to make sure democracy cannot deliver what people want and need so that the wealthy might gain. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Why the Bond Market Looms So Large Over British Politics
The cost of long-term UK government borrowing has touched the highest in almost three decades as speculation swirls over the future of Prime Minister Keir Starmer following his party’s heavy losses in...
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/01/2026
"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
What Israel is doing to Lebanon is obscene, carpet bombing civilians, massacring people in their hundreds, total disregard for human life. Truly plumbing the depths of evil. The single greatest source of violence and instability in the region and it's not even close.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
For people in Europe, one of the most important objectives for political mobilisation now is to remove the US military bases. They are a menace to humanity, they are a threat to popular sovereignty, and every one of them must be closed.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Is the global economy tottering on the brink after war with Iran? youtu.be/KQYbNk2BmsI?... I recently sat down with Steve Keen to explore a deeply uncomfortable truth: the global economic system is far more fragile than mainstream economics admits. Watch here.
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Is the global economy tottering on the brink after war with Iran?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 09/04/2026
"The AI Great Leap Forward" leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0... > The mandate today is identical, just swap the nouns. Every company, every function, every individual contributor is expected to close the AI gap. Ship AI features. Build agents. Automate workflows. 👇 > The Famine Comes Later
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The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 09/04/2026
over at the newsletter I wrote about Sam Altman and how the tech press is obsessed with mythologizing unethical assholes
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Whoops, The Tech Press Mythologized Another Unethical Asshole
Lazy access journalism is pathologically obsessed with helping unremarkable, unethical weirdos cultivate elaborate supergenius engineer mythologies while covertly undermining the public interest.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Whenever someone says "there are no civilians in [country]," they are making an argument for genocide.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/04/2026
spacex makes me less excited about space because its goal is the commercialization of space. give me a public space program focused on science and understanding the universe, not sticking humans in places our biology isn’t adapted to survive in
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 31/03/2026
It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed." I wrote about it here.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.
The bill has been approved. Israeli prisons will turn into guillotines for Palestinians. 

Hundreds will be executed in the next few weeks. 9300 hostages now in Israeli custody. 

Dark day for humanity. Unforgettable memory in the Palestinian cause history.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/03/2026
how far does it have to go before western countries sanction this apartheid state?
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The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 25/03/2026
6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public. 7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move. someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.
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Golden State Worrier @cheesegod.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Can’t wait to play Doom Infrento Protecol
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What Israel is doing to Southern Lebanon is *clearly* aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, using the same tactics as in the Gaza genocide. Nearly 1 million people forcibly displaced. We have to reject this evil with all our might, and support those who are resisting it.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
this is killing me lol
DLSS 5 Off: a blocky character with slicked back hair and large sunglasses.

DLSS 5 On: Steven Seagal with slicked back hair and large sunglasses.
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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
That feeling in your chest that threatens to crush your bones to dust? That's the fear and horror of billions of us. And it's why you can't make any of this singular moment of global unravelling make sense. www.planetcritical.com/how-to-make-...
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How to make this senseless world make sense
It's all too much for any of us to handle alone
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 16/03/2026
"The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two... It comes down to whether you think "more of the same" is a good thing or a bad thing for software.
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The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Turns out that appropriating peoples’ identities without consent was a bad idea
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A. Dias @arvdias.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Not only the UK, but all of Europe, and the rest of the world also
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK. Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/01/2026
Premium Post: This is the Hater's Guide To Oracle: an evil company that profits off of strongarming its customers to boost its declining revenues. It needs $150bn more to complete its data centers, and if OpenAI can't pay its bills, Oracle runs out of money. www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
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Premium: The Hater's Guide to Oracle
You can’t avoid Oracle. No, really, you can’t. Oracle is everywhere. It sells ERP software – enterprise resource planning, which is a rat king of different services for giant companies for financial ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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