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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 8h

"America is no longer occupying Iraq" etc.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

Brilliant @amyremeikis.bsky.social piece here - absolutely gut-wrenching that Nepal PM's speech got buried under the nonsense of AI doom-hype. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

“We have built a world with flawless logistics for war, and broken logistics for food, and this is not Nepal’s private misfortune. Ask Bangladesh, ask Bhutan, ask India, ask the Maldives, ask Pakistan, ask Sri Lanka, ask any other country in our region, and you’ll hear the same account.

“Hit by the climate, we did not warm, and again hit by the wars, we did not start.”

Shah is right. Nepal contributes less than 0.1 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. It does not have the institutional or global power to force change, even as its people are swamped by the consequences of inaction.

“Our glaciers are retreating, our mountain slopes are becoming unstable, our rivers are becoming less predictable and every major disaster threatens to erase years of development,” he told the UN.

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

not sure what happens when hyperscalers saturate the global bond markets on a bet & lose; "too big to fail" in 2008 wasn't literal, but what if it is here? can Google crowd out global investment on bad bet, yet still be able to pay it off even if AI investments flop? horrifying implications if so!

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It also brings new risks. Chipmakers, data centre operators and their power providers are all borrowing from public and private credit markets as well as financing each other, making it hard for the pension funds and insurers who buy their debt to assess their true level of exposure to the sector.

The interconnections between borrowers, in a new sector whose long-term trajectory is still unclear, have sparked concerns that if one falters, others could be dragged down with it.

“Inevitably, this is a one-way bet,” says Scott Schulte, global co-head of investment-grade debt syndicate at Barclays. “As long as everything goes right, it’s good. But the minute there’s a problem anywhere . . . the ecosystem is so intertwined.”

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Alphabet sold £5.5bn worth of sterling bonds in February, part of a $31.5bn package that included a rare 100-year £1bn bond that some say rekindled interest in long-maturity sterling debt. Amazon also raised £4.25bn earlier this month, its first-ever sterling issue.

The unknowns of gobbling up new debt at such a long maturity are huge, some investors warn. “If you just take it at its face value, investors are buying up to 100 years of unsecured debt in a transformational technology,” says Peters of PGIM. “Not to overly simplify it, but 100 years is a long time. I don’t think it’s good risk reward . . . it’s unknowable.”

“The credit story in hyperscalers rests on a single consensus assumption, that operating cash flow triples from $600bn to $2tn,” Apollo’s chief economist, Torsten Sløk, wrote this month.

“If this doesn’t happen, then the risk is that the AI trade weakens, with credit spreads widening, capex plans getting cut and ultimately US GDP growth slowing,” Sløk warned.

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“New bonds . . . are increasingly a claim on the same AI investment cycle that has been driving equity return,” says Lucas Baynes, a senior investment strategist at Vanguard. In other words, the places investors can hide from the financial consequences of AI are getting fewer and further between.

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I went to go see if the new Musk documentary would be playing in theaters in Japan anywhere, and as a result found this NHK documentary on Musk (and DOGE and Yarvin etc) from 2025 that someone subtitled in English and only has 50 views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xz0...

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Elon Musk and America’s Reform NHK Documentary / Investigative Report / Full English Subtitles

YouTube video by Blue Phoenix Uprising

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Over and over again these AI guys have proven themselves to have utterly childish worldviews, brains stunted by mindbending amounts of privilege. You'd almost feel sorry for them if they weren't actively destroying the lives of, in a literal sense, everyone. theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effect...

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Also important:

>(quote block) "They would call us hysterical, or dramatic, and then they would go right back to defending their friends. They get to live in a world where their actions have absolutely no gravity, while we are crushed under the sheer weight of it. They get to sleep peacefully tonight. We get to stay awake, replaying what happened, while carrying a debt they don't even know they owe."

I have been called quite a few things including hysterical and dramatic. I’d like to focus on gravity, though. In Trauma Junkie, the gravity of sexual violence is outweighed by the act of making events and communities ‘funner’ (Brodski’s words, not mine, in this house we respect the English language).

Funner is a word that children use.

My thesis is that in too many places in the TESCREAL diaspora, children are the ones running the show. Over and over again, when the safety and security of others are on the line, their responsibilities seem to be too adult of a puzzle for them.

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why don't people trust data centers?"

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very grateful to this Ivy Astrix for writing this up, & hope to see justice eventually. Starting* to think Epstein shit is the natural outcome of allowing intense wealth and power disparities to form, i.e. the purpose & function of capitalism. The modern world is built on & ruled by rape ideology.

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

❶ It's encouraging that a movement whose representative says this stuff has gotten into the halls of power. ❷ Obsessions with "whataboutism" I think fall under this same issue; when your opponent points out a real problem*, you can't just wave it away simply because solving it would be too hard.

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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

which do you think is more true: that the median voter mostly agrees with dems but hates trans people, or that the median voter thinks dems are spineless and stand for nothing

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

People will say "we have to sacrifice you to win" and then not win. This is somehow the sacrifice's fault.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19/09/2026

Am I the only nerd who keeps reading the “pacing the frontier” stuff and can’t think about anything except Frederick Jackson Turner

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藤見よいこ🍣🥘『半分姉弟』1巻出たよ！ @fujimiyoico.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

❤️‍🔥大変お待たせ❤️‍🔥 トーチwebのサーバーが息を吹き返したところで、『半分姉弟』も連載再開しようと思います…！！本当〜にゆるいペースですみません、待ってくれてる読者さんたちにはいつも大感謝😭🫰♡ 明日お昼12時、最新話7話が更新です！よろしくお願いします💫 to-ti.in/story/hanbun06 ☝️こちらの6話の続きで、アレキサンドラちゃんのシリーズの完結となります。明日、それに合わせて1巻収録の5話も公開してもらう予定ですので、5〜7話、中学1年世で来日した移民キッズの日本語奮闘編、まとめて読んでもらえたら嬉しいです🙌

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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The French translation besides being sexist also completely altered her character and made all the semiotics associated with her inherently malign, especially her tattoos. It seems a minor point, but it shows the power of translation and introducing terms that are supposedly equivalent.

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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Kahina myth, a story of a North African Jewish Amazigh warrior queen who repelled the Umayyad because her prophetic visions gave her advantage in battle. According to Iben Khaldun, in the myth she lived to be 129. Besides, the French in their translation introduced her as a Witch.

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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The notion of witchcraft is a colonial invention. In Arabic, especially in North Africa, the notion of magic as done by a woman would be called a seer or sorceress. These terms do have a lot more neutral connotations and don't imply the same negative view as Witch does.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 17/09/2026

so you want to be a center-right social media site at the cost of your marginalised audiences, do a little dogwhistling and reap all those monetary benefits? okay. okay. well then you cant be weepy about it on the forum. rule number one write that down

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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The consistent insistence by the Saudis and Americans that the "Houthis" are "just rebels" is really misleading. If you want to oppose them more effectively, at least start by acknowledging this is a highly effective movement in charge of a state.

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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the ultimate Liberal American exceptionalist moments I've witnessed was when someone complained about how because of this war Trump has started with Iran, Saudi Arabia has withdrawn 200 million dollars it would invest in the New York theatre. Calling it a tragedy.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.

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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

btw this is why I love working with @krisknigge.bsky.social because he knows all that shit and so he matches me BEAUTIFULLY; like, in Adios, nobody can really tell where I stop writing the Edie line and Kris starts it. Any time I talk to him about story, he immediately GETS what I'm doing.

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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm also designing a lot of scenes to play out in specific ways. Like, even with Adios, the writing isn't just "the dialogue," it's the way the farm is designed to be a spiral outwards, or how I sequence events, or how I cut between gameplay moments

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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The better your ear is, the more you understand psychology and character drama, the better for me. I've known people who can write 'good lines' that are just good prose and not really, like, meant to be spoken aloud. To me, like, working with actors, getting great performance, that's what we need.

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 14/09/2026

No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/09/2026

when Republicans are on the wrong side of a 60-40 issue they double down over and over and over, it becomes the center of political debate, and more often than not the numbers move. when Democrats are in that position they immediately give up

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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mixing life water and liquid death to create hydrating malaise

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I like this post as an example of how Everything Is A Choice in art. If you're just quickly looking btwn the original & knockoff, you may not really notice/care about the differences between squiggliness of particular lines, but in fact that is an important aspect from the creator's perspective.

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藤見よいこ🍣🥘『半分姉弟』1巻出たよ！ @fujimiyoico.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

以前お世話になったジャーナリストの藤崎麻里さんから、『なぜ今、労働組合なのか　働く場所を整えるために必要なこと』（単著）『ゼミはガチだと役に立つ』（内藤正典ゼミ卒業生としての寄稿）を献本いただきました🙇‍♀️ 『なぜ今、労働組合なのか』は移民労働者の相談窓口の実践についても一章割いていて、本当に今大事なことだ… 私たち国籍関係なく手を取り合うべき労働者同士なのに、その中でさらに弱い人たちへの憎悪を加熱させている場合ではない…本当に敵を見誤ってはいけない😭🫵 日本のジャーナリズムに藤崎さんのような信念を持った人がいることは何より心強いです。どちらも大切に読ませていただきます🙏

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『なぜ今、労働組合なのか　働く場所を整えるために必要なこと』（単著）
『ゼミはガチだと役に立つ』（内藤正典ゼミ卒業生としての寄稿）

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

Finance guy not seeing the skeet was a riff on the math beneficiaries of status quo passively do wrt to trans women is what I’m talking about when I say their ultimate privilege is having systems in place to do their violence for them so they can feel disconnected from while working to maintain it

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

what I wouldn't give It's neat how people have been wanting this for probably 2+ decades now and no high-profile dem has really done it. I guess you could say Walz started making an attempt with the "weird" stuff, but that got shut down quick.

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

(screenshot of a sentence from the article in the quoted post, https://www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-believe-you-care-about-this/ )

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is like an order of magnitude better than you're expecting it to be.

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fun little read, but yes the argument itself is a strongly held belief of mine. Particularly when it comes to the risks of yelling at people for being too extreme, as that behavior is more frequently seen from "big" speakers, e.g. "we have to stop talking about defunding the police" from major Dems.

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Sam @spratt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Even beyond the moral question, which is a no brainer: if you a Democrat who thinks trans rights are a weak point, *why are you talking about trans rights so much*? Talk about the stuff you think is strong! Don't create a whole news cycle about your weak issue! This is basic message discipline!

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/09/2026

even if you are specifically targeting republican voters, you don't wear a sign saying "i am saying this because I am trying to appeal to republican voters" but dem strategists can't help themselves

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Damn straight excellent thread! Thanks to @marcprecipice.bsky.social for the reference.

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People love to complain about voters being dumb and lament politics being all just optics, but then refuse to actually play the optics game and wrestle for framing. Who're really the dumb ones here?

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reading this right after reading that liberalcurrents piece about how people should surrender themselves to leadership (as opposed to forming a collaborative democratic movement where you're part of the decision-making) really drove home how facile that argument was.

First, when people become part of a movement, they will often do so in order to give up their agency to the leadership of the group, feeling that being part of something is enough. This means that someone may enter a group with a specific set of values, but as leadership changes those values to suit leadership’s desires, the people find their own desires sublimated by leadership.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wrote this story for Slate 3 years ago. It's an as-told-to perspective from the mom of a trans boy who accessed top surgery in Texas at 14 years old. This is the kind of Texas family who Talarico wants to ban from seeking healthcare. slate.com/technology/2...

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We’ve Been in Texas for Generations. Our Trans Kid Is Being Treated Here. It’s Getting Dark.

His doctors agree that this care is right for him.

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I generally do not like even the idea of posting an ad, but this reminds me of watching that "we made a cool new vacuum" demo last year and getting nostalgic for new tech that immediately clocked as useful instead of horrifying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6J...

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The Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones™ cleaner | Global Premiere

YouTube video by Dyson

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Given exposure to diversity reduces bigotry, what is the natural extension of that? Normally one has to experience something to form an opinion about it. The exception, of course, is that you can form opinions based on what other people have told you. Who benefits from telling people to be racist?

Abstract text from this paper: "The Role of Diversity Exposure in Whites’ Reduction in Race Essentialism Over Time"

Despite multidisciplinary theorizing on the consequences of the changing racial demographics in the United States, few studieshave systematically examined how exposure to racial diversity may impact White individuals’ lay beliefs about race. In a long-itudinal study, we explored whether living in a racially diverse environment with a high multiracial population was related to Whiteindividuals’ endorsement of race essentialism and its downstream consequences. Endorsement of race essentialism decreasedover time, and greater diversity of acquaintances over time was associated with this decrease. Race essentialism reduction alsocorresponded with a decrease in modern racism and social dominance orientation, and an increase in cognitive flexibility, overtime. These findings are consistent with the idea that a racially diverse social context can shape endorsement of race essentialismand lead to social and cognitive benefits for White individuals.

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hugbee.bsky.social @hugbee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excellent paper & worth the read even if you're already familiar with and agree with its central point. This paragraph (while not specifically about gender) is also a great summation of why systems of power react so violently to trans people trying to exist; people can't be allowed to change tags!

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Critically, in the sorts of models here, inequitable bargaining conventions should be unstable if actors can easily change their tag. If this were possible, then upon the emergence of an unfair outcome, we would expect members of the disadvantaged group to simply switch tags. Why be part of a disadvantaged group if you can join an advantaged one? Upon doing so, they could garner bargaining advantages for themselves. But if all disadvantaged members make the switch, the model reverts back to a single-group model, where fairness tends to be the rule.

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セメントTHING @cementthing.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

＞チェルシー　誰に見られているかわからない、という気持ちはいつもありますね。実際に面と向かって言われることはないんですけど、SNSを見ていると「これだから外国人は」とか「国に帰れ」といった言葉があふれているので……。自分たちの行動一つでそう思われてしまうかもしれないと、私生活でもすごく気を引き締めるようになりました。「アンタのせいで日本が！！」袴姿でバスに乗っただけで突然怒鳴られ…日本育ちの黒人ハーフ女子が心配する“強まる風当り”「日本人優先って、その枠に私たち入ってるよね…？」ありちぇえるちゃんねるインタビュー#3 bunshun.jp/articles/-/9...

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「アンタのせいで日本が！！」袴姿でバスに乗っただけで突然怒鳴られ…日本育ちの黒人ハーフ女子が心配する“強まる風当り”「日本人優先って、その枠に私たち入ってるよね…？」 | 文春オンライン

父がアフリカ出身の黒人、母が日本人という“黒人ハーフ女子”のアリシアさん（24）とチェルシーさん（25）。日本で生まれ育った2人は高校で出会い、YouTube『ありちぇるちゃんねる』を立ち上げて6年…

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