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Many such cases.

04.08.2025 06:17 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Possibly this also only works if they can guarantee renewable energy will be bought as long as there's demand and availability, before other types of energy. Which again I imagine is a fairly typical assumption, because it has zero marginal cost.

04.08.2025 05:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

... producing renewable energy for the network (either directly or buying it off someone else, but there's a mechanism to show it's still renewable energy).

04.08.2025 05:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Probably the relevant bit is the "don't care how much renewable they buy" bit? At least where I live the amount produced daily is highly regulated, so if demand shifts to those companies more renewable energy will be produced almost mechanically as long as they have to prove they are only...

04.08.2025 05:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If it works like the ones I know they can guarantee all the energy they produce for the network is renewable, so that would offset non-renewable energy somewhere else. So I’d say it’s not a gimmick.

04.08.2025 05:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Immigrants are leaving the US workforce in very large numbers.

Remittance payments US→MX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago.

Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.

03.08.2025 22:16 — 👍 323    🔁 124    💬 17    📌 13
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Why do we listen to Odd Lots?
“Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves"
Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade
Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

03.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 52    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 2

Esto que he enlazado explica muy bien cómo la carrera hasta las punto com también incluyó una burbuja de gastos en capital de telecomunicaciones. bsky.app/profile/xanl...

03.08.2025 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What’ll happen if we spend nearly $3tn on data centres no one needs? Nineties adults remember

Esto de @financialtimes.com (Bryce Elder) es demoledor sobre el dinero que se está gastando en infraestructura para IA (la mitad de toda la inversión equivalente del S&P 500) y el crecimiento de rentabilidad necesario (¡1900%!) antes de 2028 para que tenga sentido. www.ft.com/content/7052...

03.08.2025 12:44 — 👍 37    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 4
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Airbnb retira 65.000 anuncios de pisos turísticos sin licencia tras los requerimientos de Consumo | lamarea.com Consumo ha identificado 55.000 anuncios más en la plataforma Airbnb que no cuentan con el número de registro.

Consumo ha identificado otros 55.000 anuncios que no disponen del número de registro oficial, obligatorio por la legislación vigente desde el pasado 1 de julio

03.08.2025 07:03 — 👍 69    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social

My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

01.08.2025 19:03 — 👍 337    🔁 114    💬 17    📌 43

¡Toda publicidad es buena! 🥲

02.08.2025 07:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Emilio Santiago, antropólogo: “Podemos reducir nuestro impacto en el planeta y llevar una vida de lujo” El científico del CSIC vuelve a contradecir a parte del ecologismo con un libro que reniega del mensaje de austeridad o contención

Hace unos días me entrevistó @clementealvarez.bsky.social de @elpais.com para hablar del libro Vida de Ricos. Conversamos en La Fresquera del CA2M de Móstoles, uno de esos palacios del pueblo climáticos que prefiguran lo mejor por venir. Hoy se publica:

elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

02.08.2025 06:47 — 👍 90    🔁 50    💬 5    📌 12
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Me está gustando mucho 'El fin de la paciencia' de @xanlopez.xyz. Discutiría y matizaría cosas, pero me parece muy acertado esto. La crítica a la emocionalidad y espectacularidad de la política (que es también su banalidad y su elitismo) no puede separarse de una crítica a la sociedad la sustenta

01.08.2025 16:35 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

¡Gracias Javier!

01.08.2025 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mi condena por los ataques masivos rusos contra población civil de Ucrania, que ha dejado al menos 31 fallecidos, incluyendo cinco niños, en Kyiv. Mis condolencias a sus familiares. (1/2)

01.08.2025 09:49 — 👍 24    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 1
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Punto de inflexión - Corriente Cálida Xan López Lo queramos o no, la lucha contra el cambio climático ya está irremediablemente atravesada por la lucha contra la tiranía. La causa democrática y emancipadora siempre ha conseguido despertar...

"La causa democrática y emancipadora siempre ha conseguido despertar lo mejor que hay en nosotros, y quizás ahora también resuelva lo que hasta ahora no han conseguido resolver los presupuestos de carbono o las promesas electorales" @xanlopez.xyz en
corrientecalida.com/punto-de-inf...:

31.07.2025 07:34 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Many of the fiscalist versus (market) monetarist debates of the 2010s were - to my mind - pretty conclusively settled by the 2020-21 experience as a stark contrast to policy failures of the 2010s themselves. And yet I suspect the lesson has fundamentally not been learned by policymakers themselves.

01.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

La inmensa mayoría de tuvaluanos —el 82% de la población de Tuvalu— ha pedido el visado climático que acaba de inaugurar Australia.

Es el primer acuerdo bilateral en facilitar las migraciones climáticas. Lo estrena este microestado insular del Pacífico, amenazado por la subida del nivel del mar.

01.08.2025 07:47 — 👍 111    🔁 75    💬 5    📌 4
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Beyond Neoliberalism: The Dream Team "Beyond Neoliberalism: The Dream Team" is a 16-minute video essay that threads together the big themes of the conference: industrial policy, climate, inequality, state capacity, and the future of globalization. Featuring an all-star cast of thinkers, policymakers, and journalists. Visit the CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://beyond-neoliberalism.org/ - watch highlights and full-length videos of every panel - listen to the conference podcast - see a full archive of photographs Listen to the Conference Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-neoliberalism-the-conference-podcast/id1825070611 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7Gc3JCHtVwCaoMjibrAGxi

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31.07.2025 17:38 — 👍 20    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

Asunto inquietante: para los Trumpistas irse de X ya es en sí mismo sospechoso. A estas alturas es evidente que es la red social oficial del régimen, razón de más para no utilizarla.

31.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 32    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Montoro recibió un escrito de la caja B del PP elaborado por uno de los fiscales que ahora limitan la investigación contra él Un correo inédito de su jefe de gabinete informa al entonces ministro de Hacienda de que el documento del fiscal Anticorrupción les ha llegado sin firma por dos vías y que lo utilizarán para preparar ...

Ayudas ilegales desde dentro de la fiscalía a Montoro cuando se investigaba la caja B del PP; obstáculos desde dentro de la fiscalía cuando se investiga a Montoro.

Tremendo esto que cuenta ⁦‪‬Pedro Águeda en @eldiario.es
www.eldiario.es/politica/mon...

30.07.2025 20:58 — 👍 271    🔁 189    💬 11    📌 5
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The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

31.07.2025 15:17 — 👍 783    🔁 248    💬 18    📌 24
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

19.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 9751    🔁 3190    💬 163    📌 354
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Punto de inflexión - Corriente Cálida Xan López Lo queramos o no, la lucha contra el cambio climático ya está irremediablemente atravesada por la lucha contra la tiranía. La causa democrática y emancipadora siempre ha conseguido despertar...

INVERNADERO | Punto de inflexión 🌊

«La transición renovable y la electrificación general ya no son simplemente una buena apuesta para evitar los peores escenarios de caos climático. Son, dicho llanamente, el núcleo de la gran revolución industrial de este siglo». (@xanlopez.xyz)

31.07.2025 13:13 — 👍 19    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1
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Esta es la portada de "A la sombra de Marx", el libro que publico en septiembre. Lo edita Akal (@akaleditor.bsky.social), en la estupenda colección que dirige José Luis Moreno Pestaña (@hexisfilo.bsky.social ), y lo prologa Luis Alegre.

23.07.2025 06:39 — 👍 67    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 1

my finger is just a bloody nub at this point i've been tapping the sign so much

30.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 2528    🔁 797    💬 25    📌 21
Disputar la Transición Energética La temperatura media del planeta ha aumentado 1.1 °C respecto a los niveles preindustriales (1850-1900), alcanzando el ritmo de calentamiento más rápido de los últimos 2000 años. Este calentamiento, d...

Escribo sobre los errores de ciertos ecologismos en relación a la Transición Energética.

Hacen falta movimientos que se involucren en el despliegue planificado y regulado de las nuevas infraestructuras, no que se opongan a él.

david-mapa.github.io/posts/retard...

30.07.2025 23:07 — 👍 41    🔁 29    💬 4    📌 2
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Spending 5 per cent on defence doesn’t make Nato stronger An arbitrary target won’t enhance members’ capabilities or co-ordination and encourages creative accounting

While no one disputes that Europe needs to do more for its defence, the focus on defence spending percentage of GDP won’t get us there. Indeed, making Europeans commit to an arbitrary spending target is the best way to keep Europe from reaching strategic autonomy.

My rant in the @financialtimes.com

28.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 351    🔁 95    💬 24    📌 26

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