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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/10/2026
it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"
The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.
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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The way most students (future policy makers) learn about L&E is through its textbooks, and these textbooks continue to present Kaldor-Hicks efficiency as the goal of public policy. This presentation is not defensible on economic theory grounds because it is contradicted by modern welfare economics"
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Raquel Azevedo @irrideo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Que pedrada. Morreu Anwar Shaikh, um dos maiores economistas marxistas que atuava nos EUA. Tínhamos um grupo de estudos do Competition, Conflict, Crises. Especialmente das seções sobre concorrência real. É um trabalho impressionante.
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brian11kim @brian11kim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
also good youtu.be/_MEwIPYdSJs?...
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Placebo - The Ballad of Melody Nelson (Official Audio)
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Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Under Sarkozy, Hollande, and Macron, France became a tax haven, multiplying fiscal schemes for large firms and wealthy households. Public budgets now lack billions. Now financial markets put more pressure. Meanwhile, high school students protest because they don't have enough teachers - or desks.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I loathe AI and will personally never use it, in my work or otherwise. Even if it wasn't hideous in almost every way, why would I cede ground to something with precisely zero creative spirit? rick-morton.ghost.io/the-boast-in...
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The Boast in the Machine
While browsing the Australian Government's contract notices portal AusTender a few days ago – regular readers of this august publication will know that this is one of my principal meditative outlets –...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Brazilians' living standards have improved considerably under Lula's 3rd term, with strong job growth, rising real wages,& substantial declines in poverty and food insecurity. But high interest rates set by the country's Central Bank have limited the reach of those gains" cepr.net/publications...
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The Social and Economic Record of Lula da Silva’s Third Term
Brazil saw strong growth, rising wages, lower unemployment, and less poverty under Lula, while high interest rates constrained households and public finances.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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brian11kim @brian11kim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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담오정 나방공격
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 30/09/2026
Britain's financial regulator has dropped plans to require listed companies to inform investors about their climate risks after firms raised concerns about implementation costs and competitiveness.
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UK regulator abandons mandatory climate disclosures for listed companies
Britain's financial regulator has dropped plans to require listed companies to inform investors about ​their climate risks after firms raised concerns about implementation ‌costs and competitiveness.
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have been through transitions before- we should learn from them! psyched to be on this with @jlappen1.bsky.social and @gruberte.bsky.social
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How to Save the Energy Transition: What Coal Scholars Can See Coming, and What to Do About It
The energy transition requires rapid, coordinated retirement of essentially all fossil fuel infrastructure with careful attention to impacts on workers and affected communities. Experience with the...
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brian11kim @brian11kim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the only macroeconomic policy
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/09/2026
US court rules against Kalshi, says states can regulate prediction markets aje.news/tifu17
US court rules against Kalshi, says states can regulate prediction markets
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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Justine Calma @justcalma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Talking about AI and fossil fuels, Huang says ‘in order to save you, they’ve got to hurt you first.' Huang’s extreme level of privilege is glaring (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/1000140...
theverge.com
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
It’s giving Thanos energy.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 22/09/2026
California, one of the largest US legal markets, has joined Colorado and Illinois in enacting legislation to limit investor influence in law ​firms amid surging interest in deals that allow outside capital to fuel lawyers' business @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4xxNvyn
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Newsom signs bill limiting investor influence in California law firms
California, one of the largest US legal markets, has joined Colorado and Illinois in enacting legislation to limit investor influence in law ​firms amid surging interest in deals that allow outside ca...
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are back at rate hikes to fight a supply shock. Will this stop the war against Iran? Will it reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Will higher financing costs help build out renewables? No. But it risks pushing livelihoods & democracies over the edge.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/09/2026
Chelsea confirmed on Wednesday that Clearlake Capital Group will be buying out the minority interests of co-owners Todd Boehly and Mark Walter and taking full control of the English Premier League club.
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Former Chelsea owners Boehly and Walter sell holdings to Clearlake
Chelsea confirmed on Wednesday that Clearlake Capital Group will be buying out the minority interests of co-owners Todd Boehly ​and Mark Walter and taking full control of the English ‌Premier League club.
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Mark @ferl67.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump administration repeals Biden era greenhouse gas requirements for power plants www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/trump-epa-c… #USA #Trump #ClimateChange
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Trump administration repeals Biden era greenhouse gas requirements for power plants
President Donald Trump has systemically dismantled regulations implemented by the Obama and Biden administrations that sought to fight climate change.
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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 14/09/2026
CLARITY’s final text is out ahead of Tuesday’s Senate vote. As written, the bill will still allow crypto corruption and the so-called ethics provision amounts to little more than a loose agreement of honor among thieves. buff.ly/Wsc4uOg
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Brand new window dressing doesn’t cover crypto bills glaring flaws
By Mark Hays, Associate Director of Crypto and Fintech Policy
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
JUST IN: A Trump-appointed judge blocked sweeping new USPS mail-ballot rules, warning they could cause delays, errors and disenfranchisement weeks before the midterms.
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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks His Mail-Ballot Rules Weeks Before Midterms
A Trump-appointed judge blocked sweeping new USPS mail-ballot rules, warning they could cause delays, errors and disenfranchisement weeks before the midterms.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/09/2026
MIT wants to remake education around what AI can't do. They propose oral exams and to center social interactions. I cannot help but notice this is the *opposite* of the K-12 “school reform” edtech movement—which wants to put kids in front of computerized tests & collect data. Short 🧵
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Okay so if you remove billions and billions of dollars of costs Anthropic had a profitable quarter? Who cares send the blog to the hogs
Anthropic's gross margins are above 80 per cent before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including
Amazon, and the cost of training its models, according to two of the people.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
a lot of things stood out to me about Nepal when writing this piece with @70sbachchan.bsky.social @advaitarun.bsky.social
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/09/2026
AI was used to develop missile guidance software in Yemen and to power cyber operations, a report alleges.
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Anthropic claims Claude AI used for missile projects, global espionage
AI was used to develop missile guidance software in Yemen and to power cyber operations, a report alleges.
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brian11kim @brian11kim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
they don’t ?
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Casey Ivanovich @ccivanovich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Feel like heatwaves started early this year? Or like they're dragging on later than ever? Our new @aguadvances.bsky.social paper shows that extreme heat is no longer limited to summer and is now creeping into the shoulder seasons -- but unevenly so. (1/6) doi.org/10.1029/2026...
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Extreme Dry and Humid Heat Seasons Are Changing Asymmetrically
Extreme dry and humid heat events show distinct seasonality often not aligned with meteorological summer, even in the tropics Extreme heat seasons have expanded since the 1980s over about half of...
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No coincidence that Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s leading liberal constitutional lawyers, is the dean of Berkeley Law. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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Trump Administration Accuses Berkeley Law School of Racial Discrimination
The Justice and Education Departments said the school had penalized white and Asian applicants, the latest in a series of investigations into admissions at elite universities.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/09/2026
Trump gave aide Natalie Harp a $45,000 holiday cash gift, disclosure shows aje.news/f8g7bt
Trump gave aide Natalie Harp a $45,000 holiday cash gift, disclosure shows
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 08/09/2026
I know this sounds crazy but I think we have too many products
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just the latest in a long list of ways data centers are horrible for the environment: heatmap.news/climate/data...
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Forever Chemicals Want a Piece of the Data Center Boom
Environmental groups are lining up against an influx of new PFAS designed to cool AI infrastructure.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Screenshot of a headline and quote from the Financial Times following the 2024 election. The quote reads:

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled… it’s a new dawn.”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One key dimension of Musk’s far right propaganda push is his effort to reframe far right extremism as “centrism.” It’s patently absurd to those who follow politics, but it’s effective messaging when aimed at low info voters.
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Replying to literal Nazi sympathizers about how the AfD is centrist
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The AfD isn't far right. They are just the first nominally right wing party in Germany to have enough support to beat the anti-White, anti-German coalition that has been running Germany forever.
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The holocaust happened specifically because mass deportations weren't allowed to occur. There are speeches from Hitler where he is pleading with the United States and other nations to take in the jews.
The US and the other nations refused.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Collectively, through malevolence, through self-interest, through indifference, the rich world killed the 1.5°C target
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The car industry didn’t see this coming. In 2015, 330k fully electric cars were sold globally, about 1% of the market. In 2025 it was 14m, close to 1/5 of all new cars. The fleet on the road tells you about the past. Sales figures tell you about the future. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...
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The car industry didn’t see this coming
From Norway to Nepal, current sales reveal a transition far further along than the stock on the road suggests.
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brian11kim @brian11kim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the entire AI thing is conspicuously derailing & co-opting decarbonization but am I the only one who haven’t been able to see any serious opposition to this
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Google Maps has now capitulated to Donald Trump and changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Apple Maps still uses the correct name.
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brian11kim @brian11kim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
since then it’s been a downhill, arguably
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brian11kim @brian11kim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
for me this was when America peaked youtu.be/glMsrAOctdU?...
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Ending scene of Transformers 1
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 26/08/2026
"major lenders are looking to shift their riskiest exposures elsewhere, including to corners of the financial system that could be more vulnerable to stress" #riskmanagement www.ft.com/content/9cb6...
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The multiplying risks of financing data centres
Wall Street players extending themselves to underwrite this colossal new asset class are looking to limit exposure
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