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In the @FinancialTimes today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. ft.com/content/dda58e88-6c36…
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If Bolsonaro wins, “the reactionary international would gain a whole family”.
North South Notes on 🇧🇷 today
What is happening in Brazil, and why do these elections matter so much? We asked a philosopher, a social scientist, a journalist and an organizer.
Now up on North South Notes: by Rodrigo Nunes, Camila Rocha, Piero Locatelli and Stephanie Weatherbee Brito
northsouthnotes.org/p/how-to…
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This has always been clear, and since DeepSeek it's also been clear there was going to be no monopoly. But when I've tried to argue about it proponents just start complaining about Ed Zitron.
To justify today's AI capex, we'll have to spend 9% of GDP on AI services, a study finds. Is it plausible we'll spend as much on AI as on food? Twice as much as on energy? The law of diminishing returns would like a word. My column: wsj.com/tech/ai/will-america…
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How Cornell, disciplined, punished, expelled and indeed facilitated deportation of students who protested Israeli genocide, while simultaneously providing cover for gang rape in a fraternity is an exemplary tale of our time. Senior leadership of the university should resign.
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The economy added just 29,000 jobs in September. Health care accounted for nearly 17,000 of them, or 58% of all jobs added this month. Over the past year, the sector has accounted for 75% of total job gains.
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The idea that anyone, anywhere in the global north, can magic up 3-4% + growth rates again is loony.
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my favorite quote from when i interviewed @MorePerfectUS’s director of audience engagement
📊 @MorePerfectUS was once again the fastest-growing political or political-adjacent YouTube channel in the US last quarter, pretty much tied with @TPUSA.
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“The top 0.1% wealthiest Americans have seen their total wealth more than double since the end of 2019.”
Wild WSJ story on the super rich's wealth growth since 2019: "The ultrawealthy’s recent gains from the stock market dwarf the total wealth of the bottom 50% of all Americans, which is about $4 trillion."
wsj.com/economy/the-gap-betw…
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What if I was suddenly managing and distributing capital to achieve personal and institutional goals
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Public power is more affordable. I don't see the "clash" 🤷♀️ @POLITICOPro
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Earlier this year i interviewed the great historian of China, Judith Shapiro, about the long arc of Chinese environmental thought and practice.
It was a fascinating and incredibly wide-ranging conversation
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I've written about how our national grid resembles a patchwork of private toll roads, rather than a planned interstate highway system. This bill doesn't fix that.
As we look ahead, it is time to think boldly about how we plan and finance the grid, not just how we permit it.
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I'm not gonna give a take on the whole bill because I haven't read it all yet. But here's my take on the transmission title:
This makes it MUCH easier for us to build transmission, but it still leaves nobody in charge of planning the national grid.
Necessary, but insufficient.
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Out of hibernation for this polemic at @salvagedotzone. I argue that left theory and politics shouldn't bend, even slightly, to right shifts in popular discourse. It takes aim at the unusual crew reconstructing right theory (Yarvin, Land, etc.) and some on the left and center.
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this is why we need AI. how else would they know to lay off middle-management at an ailing industrial giant?
(Bloomberg) - BMW AG is planning to deploy artificial intelligence to help eliminate a fifth of management roles by the middle of next year ..
@business
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
