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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18h

Husam Zomlot thanked the people of Scotland in a rousing speech to SNP conference

🗣️ 'The Palestinian people will never forget the support of the people of Scotland when we needed it most'

Husam Zomlot thanks people of Scotland in rousing speech to SNP conference

www.thenational.scot

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Jan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social · 15h

I wrote something for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on Marx on self-realisation in work, and how the prevailing interpretation - put forward by G.A.Cohen - gets Marx wrong.

jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...

For Karl Marx, Human Flourishing Is Inherently Social

Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

⚡️ WATCH: Returning Home to a War Zone

In southern Lebanon, daily drone patrols hover above villages, launching strikes with no warning.

Video report by @jeremyloffredo.bsky.social for Drop Site News

www.dropsitenews.com/p/watch-bint...

WATCH: Returning Home to a War Zone

In southern Lebanon, daily drone patrols hover above villages, launching strikes with no warning.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h

After the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement was signed, Israel launched an intense bombing campaign on southern Lebanese towns such as Aitaroun and Bint Jbeil. Israel has since violated the ceasefire more than 4,500 times. Journalist Jeremy Loffredo (@loffredojeremy on X) was on...

Video below ⬇️

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 18h

The Thiel stuff is a real advertisement for the virtues of analytic philosophy.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

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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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

sudansolidarity.com

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 16h

“…the specific issue I have with ‘s-curves’ is that when presented the visualisations often give the impression that the modeller has simply ‘wound forward’ from the historical trend as opposed to having ‘wound back’ from an estimation of the future.” - @arthurdowning.bsky.social

The problem with 'S-curves'

The pseudo-scientific ‘model’ that dominates the energy industry

energynetworks.substack.com

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 16h

I think its fine to construe s-curves as a regulative ideal - but just saying that won’t fix any misunderstandings

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 16h

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Stylised illustration (not actual data) titled ‘The Unstable Mid-Transition?’ showing the energy transition.

Chart displays market share (NOT BASED ON DATA) over time from 2010 to ~2060. A red shaded area labeled ‘High-Carbon Capital’ starts high in 2010 and declines. A blue shaded area labeled ‘Low-Carbon Capital’ starts low in 2010 and rises. The two areas intersect around 2030, marked with a question mark and labeled ‘Uncertain/unstable mid-transition period.’

The right side notes: ‘Stranded assets, Unstable demand, Oversupply/undersupply, Volatile oil/gas markets.’

Source: Illustration from IMF WP/23/184.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 16h

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 16h

I think its fine to construe s-curves as a regulative ideal - but just saying that won’t fix any misunderstandings

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Aug 28

Reminded me of this (if you think of structural breaks as shifting between equilibria on an S-curve).

observablehq.com/@fil/fitting...

web.archive.org/web/20220523...

Also shows why historical/domain-specific intuition is so important.

HT @fil.rezo.net and Constance Crozier

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 16h

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Aug 28

Reminded me of this (if you think of structural breaks as shifting between equilibria on an S-curve).

observablehq.com/@fil/fitting...

web.archive.org/web/20220523...

Also shows why historical/domain-specific intuition is so important.

HT @fil.rezo.net and Constance Crozier

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 16h

“…the specific issue I have with ‘s-curves’ is that when presented the visualisations often give the impression that the modeller has simply ‘wound forward’ from the historical trend as opposed to having ‘wound back’ from an estimation of the future.” - @arthurdowning.bsky.social

The problem with 'S-curves'

The pseudo-scientific ‘model’ that dominates the energy industry

energynetworks.substack.com

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1d

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 17h

Banger youtu.be/L6WhyPVYpMc?...

HAVI - Andaaz e Karam | Intimately Unplugged | LIVE at 432

YouTube video by Intimately Unplugged

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 17h

I just miss him

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 17h

Me ever since my barber moved to Luton:

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 5d

With the US now seemingly unwilling to buy European export goods as it did in the past, and with China’s import growth slowing, Europe must refocus on domestic growth drivers. Public investment may play a crucial role in this.

Link to paper: wiiw.ac.at/achieving-ge...

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 5d

In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 17h

Yelling “PUT ME IN COACH” at the chancellor

Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Jan 26

Cloning Sophie Ellis-Bextor to support the UK’s growth strategy

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Jan 26

Cloning Sophie Ellis-Bextor to support the UK’s growth strategy

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