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Albert Pinto

@70sbachchan.bsky.social

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Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development. I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Mar 20

Our world crisis of ecology, economics, and empire, has continued to metastasize. It is shaking confidence in established worldviews & ruling elites everywhere.

@iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
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Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay

Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington’s shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with Ch...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12m

"National & international forces react to each other, foreign and domestic policy issues are increasingly interlinked, and regional and global markets cannot be understood in isolation from each other"

Nick Mulder has a new book and stacked up substack!
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 49m

In every country green energy projects are bringing cheap electricity, growth and jobs.

By rejecting green energy Trump is forcing Americans to forego all 3.

Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1h

my favourite quote in this piece : ’We’re a Brazilian company run out of Canada, joint venturing in Indonesia with the Chinese, and the Saudis have 10 per cent in us. Welcome to the next stage of the political complexity of the world we live in."
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 26

“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”

BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis

Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 3h

Dear Americans…

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4h

By cancelling solar and wind permits, the Trump administration is taking billions of dollars out of your pocket and putting it into the pockets of gas utilities.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 26

BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis

Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Aug 2

A question animating many is who will own the green industries and their value chains?

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International Energy Agency @iea.org · Aug 2

The global energy investment landscape has undergone major changes in the past decade – responding to the rise of new energy technologies and shockwaves from the pandemic & the 2022 energy crisis.

World Energy Investment 2025 examines the shifts in detail 👉 iea.li/40JSiPX

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h

sure gas-heavy Utility companies want higher prices while
Data centers want lower electricity prices as they are input costs.
But data centers also want stable and certain electric supplies so many are resorting to their own gas power plants.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

AI boom spurs Big Tech to build clean power on site

Tech groups and clean power builders are partnering to co-locate data centers and power generation to reduce permitting and grid connection risks.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h

Yes thank you. I had added it to thread when someone else pointed out what you said
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Aug 2

OP too broad: "China is investing very heavily in AI as well, but in different ways & w different expectations. The focus is much more on industrial applications rather than LLMs, although DeepSeek has shown that we can't count China out there either- @shiitake74.bsky.social
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Jul 5

“For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower"
NEW: @katemac.bsky.social and I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social write about what China's tech acceleration means for the world. Subscribe & read here: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h

What’s going on with the stock market?

Don’t worry about it babe

Ok ❤️
Yay ❤️

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Aug 7

"I write about the 3 Americas: one built on AI speculation, one held together by healthcare, and one running on memes"
Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt
@katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted!
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h

By cancelling solar and wind permits, the Trump administration is taking billions of dollars out of your pocket and putting it into the pockets of gas utilities.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4d

China — here is stem cell therapy breakthrough in treating severe diabetes

US under trump — WiFI radiation opens up your blood brain barrier … VaCcINes aRE bAd www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4h

"It’s pretty simple:

- AI is driving electricity demand up

- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built

- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity" [email protected]
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 4h

when i published this:
uva.theopenscholar.com/files/herman...
the reviewers wanted to know why i emphasized the lack physical investment vs significant R&D spending by the tech sector as the big drag on US growth and now we are seeing the counterfactual play out in real life.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

The trillions invested in US AI boom is one of the awesome exercises in PLANNING by commerical and government entities.

-40% of US GDP growth this year is AI
-AI companies account for 80% of gains in US stocks in 2025.

Just don't ask about the social welfare function....
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Sep 10

NEW: Insurance in the Polycrisis @katemac.bsky.social & I

On the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, those who are devalued, displaced, and disinvested already know what the future on an uninsurable earth looks like for the beautiful and the damned.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay

The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Sep 11

3/ start with everything you know about politics of housing, don't start with finance.
climateandcommunity.org/research/sha...

Shared Fates - Climate and Community Institute

Every year, more people across the United States experience climate disasters, forcing them to leave their homes, lose their belongings, and be separated from jobs and …

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Dave O Mitchell @daveomitchell.bsky.social · Sep 6

Similar, though I think your BRICS+ vs US dialectic is more persuasive than his China + Europe vs US, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are surely hedging their bets, but they're materially shifting decisively towards China and BRICS. See: thecradle.co/articles/bla...

Black gold meets green ambition in Saudi Arabia’s energy shift to China

Riyadh’s strategic alliance with Beijing is accelerating its energy transformation, undermining western hegemony and anchoring the kingdom in Asia’s multipolar future.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Sep 3

“energy transition is likely to become the center of a new eco-ideological Cold War that will reshape global alignments and provoke existential resistance from the fossil-fueled ancien régime”
Must read by @nilsgilman.bsky.social. @katemac.bsky.social & I see this similarly.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

The Coming Ecological Cold War

Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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