Clàudia Martínez Gimeno

Bertolt Brecht

In Erwägung, daß da Häuser stehen
Während ihr uns ohne Bleibe laßt
Haben wir beschlossen, jetzt dort einzuziehen
Weil es uns in unsern Löchern nicht mehr paßt.

aus der Resolution der Kommunarden

everywhere the repudiation of making, reading, learning, process. everywhere the negation of mediation. that's immediacy baybee.

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

07:15. Bereits Tausende sind in Gießen

1. El concepto de “nómada digital” se está usando como estrategia de marketing urbano.

Nuevas dinámicas que promueven precariedad laboral y especulación inmobiliaria, y generan vidas inestables.

Publicamos esta investigación analizando el caso paradigmático de Lisboa.

PSC (PSOE-wing in catalonia, i.e. soc-dem, not-really-separatist) keeps their simple majority and would need the *sigh* three left-wing parties (Comuns, ERC, CUP, spectrum of somewhat to super separatist) to form a regional government

meanwhile, junts (conservative, separatist) loses significantly (35 to 19) and PP (conservative, anti-separatist) loses slightly. as is already known from other political contexts, wherever the radical-right grows, conservatives plummet

interesting yet unsurprising stuff happening in catalonia: the recently founded right-wing extremist, separatist (!?) party aliança jumps in electoral predictions from 2 to 20 (!) MPs in the Catalan regional parliament, as Vox (right-wing extremist, anti-separatist) grows slightly up to 13 MPs

I know people here focus on the mere 4% who use Bluesky, but note that only 1 in 5 use Twitter/X, of which 80%+ use it sparsely…

and yet, journalists and politicians treat is as “public opinion” 🤷‍♂️

1. La vivienda no sube porque falten casas, sino porque las familias compiten contra inversores que tienen más dinero y se quedan con las casas.

Los precios los dispara la demanda especulativa, no la residencial.

Antes que construir, hay que regular.

Escribo en @elpais.com 🧵

The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Economic Populism A left that ignores the differences within the working class will never build power.

If of interest, you can read more here:

hammerandhope.org/article/iden...

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

Das mit den Jobcentern, die jetzt psychische Erkrankungen überprüfen dürfen, ist halt auch so ein bisschen ein Beispiel dafür, wie man Methoden, die man jahrelang an Geflüchteten getestet hat, auf andere Personengruppen überträgt. Im Asylverfahren ist es schon lange üblich, dass insbesondere 1/

La BBC y la soledad ciudadana Es tan grotesco que cuesta procesarlo: una cadena pública de un país democrático pide perdón al presidente de otro país porque se sintió ofendido

Si la BBC, con toda su fortaleza institucional, se rinde ante Trump sin resistir, ¿qué modelo liberal sobrevive?

Escribo sobre por qué la rendición de las instituciones ante las presiones políticas deja a la ciudadanía a la intemperie. 👇

elpais.com/opinion/2025...

That is a rarity. These days a pollster or a social scientist might call you up and ask some superficial questions and put you in a box like "believer" or a "none" (a person without belief). And somehow people are content to accept and live within these crude categories of separation. Once you put people into categorical boxes, you are inviting them to see history as a zero-sum conflict between this group and that one. And sure enough, today we live in a political, cultural and religious war between two impoverished armies.

David Brooks training his awesome powers of misunderstanding on the survey measurement of religion is a sight to see. I can't describe all the ways he's wrong, but this one is funny: Surveys cause war.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Companion piece

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Warum? Weil es progressiven Kräften an der Wahlurne nicht hilft, sich permanent für das eigene Programm zu entschuldigen. Sie verlieren damit progressive Wähler und gewinnen nicht im gleichen Maße konservative dazu. SPD und Grüne: Take note.

tweet with a few words altered it reads: nobody: people from ny: i live in new yawk. i have no roommates. none of dem are rats. i eat pizza fawh dinnuh every night. de rent? a reasonable amount of dollars a month

soon:

Imaginar vidas mejores en mundos mejores Sobre esperanza, utopías y narraciones

He escrito una cosa sobre esperanza, utopías y ser capaces de imaginar vidas mejores en mundos mejores basándome en una charla que di el otro día. #HopePrevails

politicasdeladescarbonizacion.substack.com/p/imaginar-v...

Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

Die Töchtergeneration hat verstanden was das für ein rassistischer und sexistischer Unsinn ist. Sie wenden sich deshalb ab von dieser reaktionär-chauvinistischen Politik. Es wäre tatsächlich gut wenn mehr Menschen jungen Frauen zuhören würden, anstatt sie nur als Projektionsfläche zu verwenden.

no kings protests today reminded me of this poem by langston hughes i read a while ago: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

goza cuello, cabello, labio y frente,
antes que lo que fue en tu edad dorada
oro, lirio, clavel, cristal luciente,

no sólo en plata o víola troncada
se vuelva, mas tú y ello, juntamente,
en tierra, en humo, en polvo, en sombra, en nada.

Finally some situationism!! Been waiting and waiting for it

Vox bringt die globale Rechte zusammen Spaniens Rechtsaußen-Partei Vox lud kürzlich rechte Führungsfiguren von Marine Le Pen bis Javier Milei nach Madrid. Der Kongress hat gezeigt, wie enthusiastisch und wie koordiniert diese globale Beweg...

Machado ist Teil eines globalen rechtsextremen Netzwerks, sie ist höchstpersönlich Unterzeichnerin der "Charta von Madrid" des "Madrid Forum". Da tummeln sich VOX aus Spanien und alle anderen Rechtsextremen, siehe dazu hier: jacobin.de/artikel/vox-... (2)

¿Por qué las burbujas económicas (vivienda, bolsa, IA, bitcoin...) últimamente duran tanto y no explotan? Pues porque el mundo ha cambiado mucho desde la crisis de 2008: ya no es el crédito privado el que genera las burbujas, sino los fondos de inversión con dinero propio. Hilo🧵