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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 30/09/2026

Well, that’s not the opening paragraph I expected.

1. Introduction

In the 1988 sci -fi roleplaying game Cyberpunk , the European Currency Unit serves as the global currency (colloquially referred to as “euro dollar”, “ed" or “eddie”) . In the story, the dismantling of US
democracy, a sovereign debt crisis and geopolitical mistakes
trigger the collap se of the United States . The European Economic
Community steps in and uses its well -regulated banking system and
single currency to displace the dollar’s hegemonic role.

Xan López @xanlopez.net · 27/09/2026

This by @adapalmer.bsky.social is as good as people say. There’s a lot going on, and it can be confusing at times, but it pays off to persevere. I can also see why some people say the Atmosphere is, in some ways, like the society in the book. Pretty neat.

Too Like The Lightning
A Novel
Ada Palmer

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 23/09/2026

Buenísima película sobre meteorología en la que salen algunas cosa de guerras.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 23/09/2026

I suppose it’s just this.

The Golden Sir @screaminbutcalm
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
5:14 PM • Mar 12, 2019 • Twitter for iPhone

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 23/09/2026

Lo íbamos a pasar mal, pero las petroleras estadounidenses desde luego se merecerían que Trump las encajonase en la autarquía. Es lo que toda productora de una mercancía global desea. (Captura vía @ivant.eurosky.social)

THL
The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter
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BREAKING: Trump calls for a total ban on US diesel exports, saying "Let's not send out the diesel. We make a lot of diesel," that a decision would come "fast," and that an announcement is expected "very soon."
It would be the first US diesel export ban in history.
Europe stands to be hit hardest, as the US is the world's largest diesel exporter and Europe its biggest customer, buying record volumes since the Gulf barrels stopped, making its worst-ever energy crisis worse. Russia, the second largest exporter, has already halted its own exports.
US diesel is at a record $6.53 a gallon today and 16% of French stations are out of fuel.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 21/09/2026

corrientecalida.com/producto/cam...

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 20/09/2026

Their claim that current models are trained for human tastes, making them worse to build on, feels right to me. The whole RLCD/no-text-output/free-output-tokens approach seems like the first big leap in AI in a while. typesafe.ai/manifesto

We're not racing towards the ever-moving goalposts of "AGI, because today's models have long since crossed the threshold of intelligence needed for creating massive economic value. They know an enormous amount, reason across domains, and do things that looked impossible a few years ago.
Yet after years and trillions of dollars invested in the industry, most software still isn't meaningfully intelligent, and life is mostly the same for the average person. That should tell us something: the bottleneck isn't raw intelligence. It's that today's intelligence is hard to build on.

Current Al is trained to be a helpful, articulate, pleasant assistant. 4 Reasonable goals if you assume a human is on the other side of the model. Yet the foreseeable consequence is Al that requires humans in the loop instead of running in the background.
Software has never worked that way. Even the most complex software is built out of simple logic and layered abstractions, with every branch auditable. We want Al to work alongside existing software as a primitive that any programmer can invoke for semantic judgement and decisions, while still using code for what it's best at: exact computation.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 18/09/2026

Recent second round polling from Brazil: not great. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...

Lula (PT) is leading in the polls with an average of 44.8% according to UOL, 44.4% according to BBC/PollingData, and 45% according to ABC Dados. Bolsonaro (PL) follows closely with 44.2% from UOL, 45.5% from BBC/PollingData, and 44% from ABC Dados. The Plano Político poll shows a tight race with Bolsonaro slightly ahead at 50.1% compared to Lula’s 49.9%. The percentages for blank, null, and undecided voters are 11% for UOL, 10.3% for BBC/PollingData, and 11% for ABC Dados.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 16/09/2026

I love the smell of demand destruction in the morning.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 16/09/2026

Most relevant bits of the resolution adopted yesterday, thanks to @boehmlasse.bsky.social for the link. www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

14. Calls, in line with the ECB President’s and the Bundesbank President’s statements5
, for
the development of a deep and liquid common European safe asset to help strengthen
the euro’s international role; points out that EU safe assets can provide high-quality
collateral in international repo markets and offer a euro-denominated liquidity buffer
alongside public backstops; agrees with Mario Draghi6
that, within the EU, such assets
would reduce financing costs, weaken the bank-sovereign nexus and help create a
genuine European bond yield curve, which would deepen capital market integration by
providing a reliable benchmark for price formation in financial products;
15. Stresses that an EU safe asset can only fulfil these functions if issuance reaches a scale
sufficient to create a deep and liquid market; underlines that this could be achieved
through new common issuance to finance genuine European public goods; emphasises
the need for such financing to be allocated and managed at EU level, with a clear
repayment mechanism established from the outset, through predictable and credible EU
own resources without mutualisation of national debt; stresses that any discussion on
potential EU safe assets must fully respect Member States’ fiscal responsibilities, avoid
permanent debt mutualisation and minimise moral hazard risks;

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 15/09/2026

I mean, come on, “the accumulation of society’s science (…) which capital appropriates free of charge”.

Further, in so far as machinery develops with the accumulation of society's science, of productive force generally, general social labour presents itself not in labour but in capital. The productive force of society is measured in fixed capital, exists there in its objective form; and, inversely, the productive force of capital grows with this general progress, which capital appropriates free

of charge. This is not the place to go into the development of machinery in detail; rather only in its general aspect; in so far as the means of labour, as a physical thing, loses its direct form, becomes fixed capital, and confronts the worker physically as capital. In machinery, knowledge appears as alien, external to him; and living labour [as] subsumed under self-activating objectified labour. The worker appears as superfluous to the extent that his action is not determined by [capital's] requirements.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 15/09/2026

The Fragment on ̶M̶a̶c̶h̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ Large Language Models.

Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge, objectified. The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it. To what degree the powers of social production have been produced, not only in the form of knowledge, but also as immediate organs of social practice, of the real life process.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 15/09/2026

Si sumas las dos cosas el resultado es una gráfica de este estilo (👇), que alguna gente lleva usando muchos años, que efectivamente cambia muy lento, y que lo único que consigue es desviar la atención de lo que de hecho ya es la transición energética más rápida de la historia.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 14/09/2026

Draghi says that adopting AI could lead to a 0.3–0.4% annual increase in TFP, according to the ECB. However, he also notes that TFP in Europe has been flat since 2022, precisely when AI was launched. Isn’t it a bit strange that it hasn’t moved at all? www.ft.com/content/f054...

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 12/09/2026

Reconozco que no era consciente de hasta qué punto los centros de datos en España ahora mismo están concentrados en… Madrid. Datos de 2023 pero por el momento la situación es similar, por lo que veo.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 12/09/2026

A mí este tipo de exigencias no me parecen mal, siempre que se hagan a todos los proyectos con un impacto medioambiental importante. En el caso del agua, el impacto viene fundamentalmente a la agricultura y la ganadería. www.eldiario.es/aragon/econo...

“Mejorar la eficiencia de los centros de datos no basta si el consumo total de agua y energía sigue creciendo sin límites", advierten, y reclaman tres cambios: límites ambientales máximos evaluados de forma acumulada por territorio, una planificación que exija cobertura 100% renovable, y garantías democráticas de transparencia y rendición de cuentas.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 06/09/2026

Yep! eurosky.tech/faq/

Who is Eurosky for? Do you need to be European?
Eurosky is building software infrastructure for Europe and contributing open source software for developers globally. Eurosky user services (such as the eurosky.social accounts) are open to anyone who wants their data securely hosted in Europe. It is not just for Europeans.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 06/09/2026

A pretty cool feature I just discovered via @gabriellanonino.com: @mu.social lets you easily choose which "content service" (AppView in nerd-speak) to use. Quite a big deal.

Screenshot of a Mu social configuration page where the user can choose which AppView, called "content service", to use from a list: Bluesky (default), Eurosky, Blacksky, Custom.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 05/09/2026

Little-known fact: if you get verified by all 27 EU countries, you automatically become President of the European Commission. It’s in the Treaties, look it up.

Screenshot showing verification on atproto by:
- La France sur Bluesky/Eurosky
- Spain Atmosphere
- Eurosky Social

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 03/09/2026

I mean, we are starting from very different places, but you could write a very similar diagnosis for most Western economies. "Just give people more money and improve public services", undefeated policy recommendation.

The logical response to the dual economy's structural problems is well understood. It requires a comprehensive shift in the distribution of economic rewards from the state and corporate sector to households: a functioning welfare state that reduces precautionary savings, a stronger social safety net including healthcare, education and unemployment benefits, and wage growth that keeps pace with productivity.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 03/09/2026

This is likely unsustainable in the long run, but it would be great to get a few more years out of it, just to improve our chances of surviving as a species.

The result is a persistent and widening gap between supply capacity and domestic absorption. In some sectors—electric vehicles, solar panels, steel—overcapacity is so severe that firms are selling at or below production cost simply to preserve market share

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 28/08/2026

PS: This game looks like a tactical nuclear weapon against the GamerGate crowd.

DiscussingFilm ®
@DiscussingFilm
X.com
Players may need to learn how to maintain a relationship for GTA 6.
• Optional romance story between Jason & Lucia - managed by having the two spend time together outside of missions
• Ways to strengthen the relationship include going shopping, visiting hair salons & doing robberies together
• Ignoring text messages from the other may negatively affect your relationship
• When playing as one character, you can summon the other to help out

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 23/08/2026

The butterfly is a better logo, but the OG one was so neat.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 20/08/2026

Ok, this is pretty wild. (Still would be nice to be able to login with my atproto identity!)

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 18/08/2026

El petróleo y los dólares estadounidenses que se necesitan para comprarlo se producen artesanalmente en un pueblecito de Soria. www.elconfidencial.com/economia/tri...

Tribuna
Por Maurici Trullas
La trampa de las baterías: cómo España puede cambiar el petróleo por el yuan
La prórroga de la central nuclear de Almaraz encierra una lección que deberíamos
extrapolar antes de que sea demasiado tarde: no desmontes lo que funciona antes de tener algo equivalente.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 13/08/2026

Me entero ahora de que A24 compró PI en 2023 y le hizo un lavado de cara 4K. Habrá que volver a verla.

PI, Darren Aronofsky
A24, 2023 re-release

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 10/08/2026

This bit will be in a movie about the AI/data-center financial bubble someday, explained to the camera by someone famous making a cameo (via Bloomberg).

The Securities and Exchange Commission has made it easier for data center owners to sell asset-backed securities, potentially opening the door for even more debt sales as tech firms scour Wall Street for ways to pay for Al.
The regulator said a major subset of data-center securitizations don't need to have disclosures and investor protections that similar deals require. That includes risk retention - a requirement that companies issuing asset-backed securities retain some of the debt to better align their interests with investors.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 07/08/2026

Good answer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...

We've spoken about capitalism versus socialism.
Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let's talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it's because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don't have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I'm capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I'm so sorry.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 28/07/2026

Está película es muy original, sin muchas pretensiones pero divertida. Algo así como una mezcla entre KILL BILL y ROSEMARY’S BABY. Recomiendo.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 25/07/2026

No deja de ser sorprendente que el autor más referenciado por Braudel en este libro sea Lenin.

Fernand Braudel
La dinámica del capitalismo
Alianza editorial

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 23/07/2026

We wrote the first version of this text in 2023, I think. Sadly, it feels like it becomes truer every year.

Two years later, it seems that the greatest of these challenges is still the political one. Paradoxically, the relative irreversibility of aspects of the Green New Deal, such as the decarbonisation of the electricity mix, seems much more assured by cheapening renewables, and their spectacular technological development, than by our ability to defend the programme. Curiously, as environmentalists who have always emphasised the political rather than technical nature of the ecological transition, we have been more reassured by certain market achievements, technological development, or China’s climate commitments, than by our own political strength, where we have been more modest than we should be.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 22/07/2026

Puede que lo hayan borrado o intentado borrar de una forma que no funcione del todo bien, pero aquí hay una prueba de que algo han hecho específicamente con ese artículo:

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 22/07/2026

Como hombre normativo me gusta Nolan, pero no me llaman tanto la atención las que creo que son más populares (The Dark Knight, Interstellar, ...). Después de ver LA ODISEA estas son mis cuatro de Nolan.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 20/07/2026

Si esto no gana una docena de Oscars hay que quemar los Oscars hasta los cimientos.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 17/07/2026

Renfe envía avisos oficiales por WhatsApp, imagino que por inercia y porque lo tiene casi todo el mundo. La cuestión es que en la propia identidad de la empresa Meta ya te mete con calzador referencias a sus otras plataformas cerradas. Si esto no es ilegal debería serlo. ¡Quizás ya lo sea!

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 10/07/2026

The coalition of the willing. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

European Central Bank President tells
Euronews in an exclusive interview that it is
"pretty obvious we need to have a European asset" that the markets see as safe and liquid, and one that can compete with the US.
Christine Lagarde has welcomed the Spanish government's proposal for joint borrowing, telling Euronews it marks the start of a discussion based on merit rather than "over my dead body" positions, as tough talks on the next European budget get underway.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 08/07/2026

For some people, X is a window into the "Empire that creates reality," to borrow that famous distinction between "reality-based communities" and "reality-creating empires." But what if that digital Empire collapses? www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m...

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 30/06/2026

Igual que suelo decir que la prensa financiera suele ser la fuente más fiable de noticias también os digo que es acojonante que Bloomberg siga con estas historias a 30 de junio de 2026 (de su newsletter "Green Daily").

The problem has worsened since a blackout in April 2025 that plunged most of Spain and Portugal into darkness. Since then, Spain’s national grid operator, Red Eléctrica, has been more aggressive in ordering farms offline, because solar complicates network management. Power systems require stability in both frequency (the grid’s rhythm) and voltage (the electrical pressure that keeps power flowing reliably). Traditionally, large spinning turbines helped maintain this balance, but solar is more prone to sudden shifts in supply and demand and requires more active control.

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