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ECB’s Lagarde Renews Call for Cooperation to Save Global Order European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde reiterated calls for global partnership to salvage an international order that not only benefits the strongest.

How are we gonna shape the new world?
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Whuuuut?!

It always seemed odd to me accounting is zero-sum but the economy is purported to be non zero-sum, but the economy is measured by the accounting. Then factor in how the accounting ignores externalities and the outcome is today's disaster.

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general António Guterres has warned. Speaking to the Guardian after the UN hosted a meeting of leading global economists, Guterres said humanity’s future required the urgent overhaul of the world’s “existing accounting systems” he said were driving the planet to the brink of disaster. Continue reading...

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

If we borrow the German practice of compound words we get: Plutokleptkakistocracy.

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government.

But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

What a time to be alive for sociologists and historians.

There's a part of the world where whatever was icy yesterday is icy today.

Here's a C Major voicing (of many on a guitar) in the notation:
@C4B3
@G3
@E3D3
@C3A2

That's read: "A4 on/at B3" on a guitar in standard tuning (i.e. the 10th fret of the B string). I use it like text guitar tab, and the notation is easy to parse in machine code.

@A4B3 = 440 Hz

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Acquires xAI Ahead of Planned Mega IPO Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired xAI, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire’s increasingly costly ambitions to dominate artificial intelligence and space exploration.

SpaceX and xAI Merge
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I can’t believe the greediest people on Earth would let us down.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. n.pr/4kcbr5h

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen - One Step Up (Official Video)

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I'm so grateful for the top half of the Circle of Fifths.

From the altitude of 100 years from now, this era will be an epic profile of the differences in human character which emerged from our history.

The U.S. needs a national commission to repair the biggest flaw in our political system: bad faith by a major political party, one which normalizes fraud and lies as its core political strategy, rather than rational civil administration.
The foundation of the problem is competing epistemologies.

Can we stop starting statements with “I mean,” unless you actually screwed up your previous sentence?

What I can't stop thinking about is the Trump agent seen on camera clapping, literally clapping with glee, seconds after his coworkers executed a US citizen in broad daylight for peacefully exercising his First Amendment rights

It feels like we are having one Kent State a day and no one can stop it

As bad as things are, imagine how much worse they would be if the Supreme Court majority weren’t uncompromising originalists.

In a world of AI, people with brains are the vanguard of humanity.

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Do the mistakes of AI, and its predecessor auto-complete, help fine tune our thinking? Or does it add a layer of unnecessary, inefficient, wasted labor to the tools? Artificial mistakes wreck the intellectual and emotional flow of our natural thoughts.

We're entering the information automation age.

New guitar; winter acclimation commenced. 🥶 —> 😎

Whoa!

Yes, quite the computational achievement from small creatures with big language skills.

My hand holding a copy of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. I am next to a bus window, you can tell it's slightly chilly outside lol

I'm being subtle on the bus