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Rudy Remo

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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Essence of US politics in a nutshell
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Matt Stoller @matthewstoller.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Today I released an investigative piece on something most people don't think about until they really need it - ambulances. The price of ambulances has skyrocketed since 2012. Why? It's likely... private equity. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/code-red-w...
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Emergency Prices: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market
Emergency service costs have been going up for years, frustrating city officials. One reason seems to be private equity, which bought up ambulance makers and raised prices.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
4/5 Even better would be a Tobin tax on gross capital inflows along the lines John Hansen has proposed (the market access charge). This would have exactly the same impact on reducing the US trade deficit and supporting...
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This makes total sense until you think about it for one single second. What do these "other markets" replace EU imports with? Is it Chinese imports? Why would that be happening?
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
At the end of the day common sense prevailed. The too-clever-by-half nonsense died on the rocks, and the previously impossible rational solution became possible within one single hour. All the very sensible, very smart pundits should take a look at themselves.
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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 12/12/2025
Build your own ATProto Adventure! An atproto SvelteKit template. I needed a confidential oauth client, so I thought to abstract the start of the project to a template for anyone to use! I am hoping this will be one of the easiest ways for devs to start an atproto project w/ oauth demo.atpoke.xyz
a simple un styled website that says 

SvelteKit ATProtocol OAuth template
A build your own ATProto adventure

It's up to you on what this project should be and what it looks like. Fork the project on tangled.org to make it your own. This web hosted version is mostly just a technical preview showing a demo of what the application looks like and how it works, not a lot here, or even styling that's up to you, not me. But if you Login you can poke people or see who poked you, so there's that at least.
A bare minimal SvelteKit demo that...

    Can have local dev oauth with setting the .env variable DEV=true
    Can switch to production oauth when you set the OAUTH_DOMAIN variable to a domain like mycoolwebsite.xyz and making sure the website is server to the internet
    A persistent session store using drizzle with sqlite
    A docker compose and documentation on how to deploy to railway
    An example page using the atproto Agent where you can make a post or poke someone
    Uses microcosm for demoing some AppView-less features you can do, like seeing who has poked you without a backend.
    Source code can be found on tangled.org
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The coal pits are yearning for the children.. Seriously though: tax the old & well off. Y'know, wealth. But since this is the Economist, best we can do is lament about the unsolvable conundrum.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Brilliant essay by Inés Escobar González on Mexico's experiences with neoliberal economic policies. @escobargonzalez.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/pundi...
aeon.co
Pundits and historians declare neoliberalism over: Mexico begs to differ | Aeon Essays
The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is as relentless as ever
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 16/02/2025
Everyone, please read this: (h/t @j.wieche.rs)
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force.

Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.
Against stupidity we are defenseless.
Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need not be believed - in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical - and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.

For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
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Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
1/In the US, Elon Musk says he champions free speech. In China, his car company, Tesla, is silencing criticism - with the backing of the state. Tesla China sued car owners, outlets and bloggers pointing out safety issues - and has won almost every case. apnews.com/article/tesl...
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Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages
Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Persistent massive trade surpluses, how do they work..?
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If only there was someone with the power, who -in the moment of crisis- seized the opportunity and forced the stakeholders to confront the structural issues head-on, instead of facilitating can kicking, extend and pretend, etc etc. Ah, well..
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Good thing overcast skies are virtually unheard of in NL.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The PLA will complete much of capacity to conduct major combat operations over the next 2-3 years. Combined with our domestic situation, it has the ingredients for supreme danger and stupidity. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
lowyinstitute.org
China, Taiwan, and the PLA’s 2027 milestones
Be prepared to be surprised.
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is so cool ♥️
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
This is the way
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
The debate showed us that Biden is totally incapable of doing the job, as of right now. What conclusions you draw from that is up to you, but that is a fact.
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
There's the small issue of being manifestly incapable of doing the job, but sure, maybe he can "win" if we wish hard enough. Weekend-at-Bernie-ing DiFi was such an all'round success, so yeah, let's run that playbook again.
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Rudy Remo @rudyremo.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Let's have some fun here!
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