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Mexico’s Big Green State | Jose Maria Valenzuela Claudia Sheinbaum plans to repurpose the country's state-owned enterprises towards decarbonization

Get in loser, we are doing Big Green State in Mexico @abenanav.bsky.social
@danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social

things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...

2. What Epstein wrote to Thiel in 2016 lines up with what he wrote to his business partner Ehud Barak in 2014: “with civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you.” Social collapse is a business opportunity.

how can we suffer these people to live among us, let alone purport to rule us? they're not just our enemies. they're an affront to the human experiment. they're hostile to all life not their own. they'd burn any number of us alive to avoid even a moment of mild discomfort. hideous

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

they’re being mean to Ezra Klein, no! no!!

US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet

burning the planet but at least we get more slop everywhere

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Artificial intelligence researchers hit by flood of ‘slop’ Conferences restrict use of LLMs after surge of low-quality AI-generated papers and reviews

"Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with a problem core to their field: how to stop so-called “AI slop” from damaging confidence in the industry’s scientific work."

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Richard Hanania @RichardHanania • Feb 1 By obsessing over Epstein, they're attacking healthy heterosexuality.

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know.

I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.

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That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband

these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly

www.ft.com/content/608a...

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Military Tells Key Middle East Ally to Prepare for Attack on Iran In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government.

Drop Site claims that an Arab government was informed that attacks on Iran could commence as soon as Sunday, local time, and "would not be limited to nuclear or missile sites but also target regime change"

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for economic ...

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

New paper in CNS:

'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'

This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...

An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

Instant classic

Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. In response, people drove ICE and Minneapolis police out of the neighborhood.

An Eyewitness Account

Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.

again incredible bravery, people showing up like this when the border cops have shot yet another person

Tucker Carlson interviewed Peter Brimelow this week. For those interested in the latter's arc from financial journalism to immigration restrictionism see the chapter in Hayek's Bastards or the article version here, open access in the Journal of American Studies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.

Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it A new report confirms that Tesla has reduced its workforce at Gigafactory Berlin by roughly 1,700 employees over the last...

Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it

A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council.

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Brazil Is Set for a Battery Boom. China Is Poised to Benefit Multiple Chinese companies, including Huawei, are expected to bid in an upcoming Brazilian energy-storage auction.

Between 2007 and 2024, power-sector projects accounted for 45% of China’s investments in Latin America’s largest economy, totaling $35 billion. So now that Brazil needs batteries for the grid, guess who is set to benefit?

🎁🔗
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nuclear weapons are now ESG compliant Boom times in EU sustainable finance

Nuclear weapons are now ESG compliant 💥 www.ft.com/content/f789...

I reviewed MORE AND MORE AND MORE which argues that there’s no historical precedent for an “energy transition”; instead, we see symbiotic linkages between wood, coal, oil, and now renewables. I’m convinced. But the book’s analysis of capitalism falls short @thebaffler.com Link ⬇️

Davos gave us globalism and now offers a front-row seat to its collapse.
With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

And mentioning this book, which everybody should read

just about everyone seems to be going on about tables and menus these days. an era-defining metaphor?

Chartbook 428 To matter or not to matter: Two theories of Davos 2026. There are two takes on the annual World Economic Forum meeting convening in Davos this week.

"Can’t wait to get back to even more active posting" writes Adam Tooze while publishing his newsletter twice a day 😂😂

BBC News headline: "BP set to scale back green investments as profits drop sharply"

BBC News headline: "BP scales back climate targets as profits hit record"

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world.
Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.