I hope everyone’s got your Minsky books somewhere where you can reach them easily. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
One of the dumbest narratives that has emerged about the UK economy is that net zero is what’s holding it back. I’m not sure how anyone can thinking switching to renewable energy is a cost at this stage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
ah yes, a great channel
that was worth reading and there is no view from nowhere...but there is an obvious bias!
Off the top of my head:
- Tel Aviv destroyed, media hiding it
- Iran badly losing; their govt hiding it
- US being bankrupted, China enjoying it
- Russia doing nothing
- Russia supporting Iran
- US/Israel mounting another genocide, nobody noticing
Any more?
The sheer volume of narratives about the Iran War on social media makes it impossible to keep up with what's actually going on.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
get a life
The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills.
The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.
It's funny to me when people who love to go on about second order effects of economic policies and the challenges of central planning without local knowledge suddenly drop all of that when it comes to foreign policy.
There’s a scenario here — not yet the central scenario by any means — where we have to revisit the debate about how to handle inflation driven by external supply shocks AKA terms of trade shocks and reconsider the lessons we failed to learn in 2023-24. Policy interest rates are a blunt tool.
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social
“France is not world-renowned for its streamlined and business-friendly system of bureaucracy; nor is it famous for the progressive and co-operative personalities of its rural residents.“
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
I’m glad someone finally noticed this! It’s a huge problem for the abundance agenda in my opinion, because it puts them face to face with the kind of question they didn’t want to ask
archive.md/tc874
wasn’t expecting such direct support for my loose mental theory that progress in gaming has replaced progress in real life for my generation
(See also: gym)
Received the best birthday present ever
I’ve only started to listen to this, but so far it’s good, and @unlearnecon.bsky.social has a good track record of creating good stuff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxzd...
Wonderful vid by @unlearnecon.bsky.social. Complex issues require this level of analysis to get the outcomes we want.
i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl
“If you read or share only one article today, make it this:
HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 … Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of power of the office for self-enrichment.”
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social
No paywall:
archive.is/ZmfJC
Started reading this without looking at the author and after a few paragraphs I was like "wait, is this @mattbruenig.bsky.social" and sure enough, it was jacobin.com/2025/03/abun...
Pretty good write-up on the rent control debate by the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Getting beaten to death by the guards is definitely bad, but is it worse than twitter
Rewatching shawshank and my first thoughts were “wow, look at all the outside space they have” and “must be peaceful without social media”
Reviewer 2, Flame of Eternal Torment
Getting rejected from academic journals is a bit like dying in FromSoft games. It's really depressing, but you have to see it as a necessary part of the learning process.
"Yes, obviously" 💀
ohhh thank you so much!
could not find this among the ocean of DESTROYS video slop, anyone recall?
