Weltzeitgeist

'In fact, let me put it a little simpler: all of those data center deals you’ve seen announced are basically bullshit. Even if they get the permits and the money, there are massive physical challenges that cannot be resolved by simply throwing money at them.' […]

'Ineos to cut a fifth of Hull jobs, blaming ‘dirt-cheap’ imports from China

Company says more roles will be at risk unless UK government supports tariffs to protect industry'
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/07/ineos-cut-hull-jobs-imports-china-uk-tariffs

Tariffs/ China deflation […]

'Ineos to cut a fifth of Hull jobs, blaming ‘dirt-cheap’ imports from China

Company says more roles will be at risk unless UK government supports tariffs to protect industry'
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/07/ineos-cut-hull-jobs-imports-china-uk-tariffs

We should see more of […]

'Trump administration begins layoffs of federal workers amid government shutdown'
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/trump-russ-vought-layoffs-government-shutdown.html

All the retail investors who think they can't do wrong with always buying the dip will get rekt spectacularly. This is the time […]

Trump is angry about the new trade moves coming out of China. They don't act like the vasalle European states, and he doesn't like it. He's threatening to also withhold certain trade goods and more tariffs. Maybe TACO will follow, maybe not. All in all, this will lower trade volumes worldwide […]

The US is at a point now where a professor who got bullied by the far-right sends a message basically saying "Phew, we made it out of the country".

It is worth reflecting on this for a minute.

(32) Was ist besser: historischer Materialismus oder einfach nur „normaler“ Materialismus?

I have a bazillion new German followers (hello!), and I'm getting interviewed for German public radio in an hour about "sunlight as a service", and I don't speak any German and I've never been to Germany.

The Fediverse is a truly magical place!

(21) Was ist Geld?

(10) Warum geht es bei Linken immer nur um “Gesellschaft”?

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

(5) Jetzt noch mal Physik studieren? Oder lieber VWL?

50 DUMME FRAGEN AN DIETMAR DATH

Damit ich euch nicht mehr euch mit meinen dummen Fragen belästigen muss, habe ich mir ein Format für Mastodon und Bluesky ausgedacht: Ich stelle 50 dumme Fragen an einen Gegenwartsdenker, der sie mir dann beantworten muss. Hier […]

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Bluesky post von Sam Adams: "congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog" (Bild vom Portland Frog, einem Demonstranten in einem aufblasbaren Froschkostüm, vor der bewaffneten Nationalgarde)

Wollte euch das nicht vorenthalten ❤️

Karl Marx's Capital (Das Kapital), All Volumes - YouTube playlist begun in November 2024, videos still being added

Marx's Capital, Vol. 1 is now complete! Congrats to the comrades who've been listening along with the posts. Here's a link to all 35.5 hours of it: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#politics #economy #economics #history #capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #capital #politicaleconomy #karlmarx

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomed the US strike, describing it as legitimate pressure. She interpreted it as a direct attack on the government, which she said would be overthrown before long.

Pro killing innocent people in the open sea = here is your Nobel Peace Prize.

Western 'values' for everyone to see and stupid liberals are celebrating because it isn't Trump.

Fuck this world!

'Jens Spahn hängt offenbar Konzepten der Linkspartei an' FDP Bastard Dürr mit Foto aus der Abendzeitung München

Ja, sicha. Kann das verdammte Bürgertum mal seine verfickte Fresse halten? In der BRD hat noch nie eine echte linke Partei regiert. Seit 1949. Die bürgerliche Herrschaft hat das alles selbst zu verantworten, ihr scheiß Loser!

US barrel Oil below $60. #deflation

Zum Glück ist der Friedensnobelpreis seit 1973 eh nichts mehr wert. So muss ich mich nicht ärgern, je mehr ich über die diesjährige Gewinnerin lese.

"Doch ungeachtet dieser erwartbaren Widerstände hat das SPD-Führungsduo Lars Klingbeil und Bärbel Bas den Schneid bewiesen, unpopuläre Maßnahmen nicht zu scheuen. Sie haben die politische Kraft aufgebracht, Versäumnisse der Vergangenheit klar zu benennen und Korrekturen vorzunehmen. Das ist zu […]

Lange hält er das nicht durch, schätze. Wolfgang Kubicki trinkt nun bereits am frühen Morgen.

'I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/08/riyadh-comedy-festival-omid-djalili-saudi-arabia

Lmfao. Nobody cares what you have to say ever again. Go fuck yourself, you piece of shit!

Region Valencia/ Denia in Spanien bekommt am Wochenende wohl bis zu 350mm/m2 ab. Die Region wieder komplett unter Wasser.

'The analysts forecast sales of new homes will drop by 8% from last year to between 8.8 trillion yuan and 9 trillion yuan ($1.23 trillion to $1.26 trillion).

That’s a far steeper decline than the 3% drop the analysts had predicted in May.' […]

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

'Es ist die Entropie, stupid!

Der kanadische Soziologe Éric Pineault enttäuscht Hoffnungen auf einen grünen Kapitalismus und weist den Marxismus auf eklatante Leerstellen hin' […]

Demokratie 'Die Parteien der Mitte geben ein Bild ab, das für die Leute extrem beunruhigend ist', sagt di Lorenzo: 'Nämlich, dass die demokratische Mitte nicht mehr in der Lage ist, Probleme effizient anzugehen.' Giovanni di Lorenzo, Journalist

Haha, sehr verräterischer Beitrag. Die bürgerliche Elite schaut weiterhin mit dieser BWL-Denke ('effizient') auf die Welt, stellt sich weiterhin selbst nicht infrage und hat gar kein Interesse daran, wirklich etwas zu ändern. Die Politik ist nur dafür da […]

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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Mark Schieritz Für das progressive Lager gilt: Choose you battles. Die Totalverweiger beim Bürgergeld sind kein Hill to die on.

Witzig. Schieritz glaubt weiterhin, dass sein linksliberaler Nationalismus, der den Kapitalismus bejaht und nicht aufheben möchte, hätte in einer untergehenden Welt etwas mit dem 'progressiven' Lager zu tun.

Mark, komm aus deinen bürgerlichen bubbles heraus and read the fucking room.

This is some bullshit. Hopefully it will help Mark Bray’s book, the Anti-fascist Handbook (2017) fly off the shelves!

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport […]

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