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Hey, let's think!
A good watch - good questions asked and interesting thoughts shared.

#banks #finance #society #manonthestreet

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2onC...
Rutger Bregman asks bankers if they're making the world a better place
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
$25M spent trying to defeat him! youtu.be/l07-V2rCebw?...
Zohran Mamdani vs The Machine | Fault Lines Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The "Super Pac" phenomena of USA was doing all it can. And that meant "investing" to influence politics in their favour. ZM and his volunteers had put up a valiant fight with less.
More than $8 million from Mike Bloomberg.

$3 million from Airbnb's co-founder.

$3 million from the Estée Lauder family.

$2 million from Bill Ackman.

$1 million from DoorDash.

$200K from Walmart's heiress.

Zohran didn't just beat Andrew Cuomo. He beat the elite.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I can see it
David Graeber, a Jewish New Yorker, would be smiling today to see a Socialist win in his city.
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Fascism is back. Hoods and all...
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I remember seeing something about this on Instagram once and thought I'd check with the open-source GPT-5 I can access via #duckai #duckduckgo.

Q. Did Ho Chi Minh and Woodrow Wilson ever meet?

Response in replies if interested
#vietnamwar #imperialism #nationalism #nationstates
October 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
God Morgon!
Self realisation: I dilly dally when it comes to finishing a book, near or in the last chapters.

What's everyone reading at the moment?
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Silicon Valley poked fun at the 'god complex' of the tech industry - did it well. It is funny cus' it's true. It is also constantly becoming less funny.
lamateurwrites.substack.com/p/american-g...

#technology #siliconvalley #godcomplex #americangods
American Gods - Holy Technology
Hello World! Now kneel.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🚨 MRP | Greens to win Manchester Rusholme

🟢 GRN – 28% (+5)
🔴 LAB – 25% (-27)
➡️ REF – 17% (+11)
🟣 YRP – 15% (new)
🔵 CON – 5% (-1)
🟠 LD – 3% (new)

Via @FindoutnowUK / @ElectCalculus, 10-18 Sep
October 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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One of the key elements of the book Bullshit Jobs, is that many jobs are not Bullshit and essential.

Those jobs are the pillars of the economy. Just the jobs are not well paid and the workers not well appreciated.
October 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A: Loneliness crisis. Where did it come from?
B: Ah, you Luddite. Look to the future!

youtu.be/rYsNrQ1EX7A?...

#ai #technology #chatbots
AI boyfriend fans take on OpenAI, host own chatbots
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Business idea #23
Politician action figures with Word Salad accessory and a FundMe account
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Gamification of Life
Measure, Share and Consume
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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We're back with our LIVE sessions! Today with @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social and our host Mehran Khalili.

Send your questions here in the chat!
Gaza, NATO, Europe’s Far Right — Live Q+A with Yanis Varoufakis
YouTube video by DiEM25
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September 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Now I have the words to express myself clearly before and after work
Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.
September 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Ze Germans
A story by Anthony Lowenstein
youtu.be/DfK10unkiGw?...
How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right | Featured Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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September 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Great discussion on the politics of migration and more #mustwatch
youtu.be/OIbmf8Q6T-k?...
Are We Living Through The End of An Empire? | Lea Ypi meets Aaron Bastani
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtu.be
September 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What have you done today?
Israel has attacked five different countries today: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria (3 locations, including the ancient city of Palmyra), Yemen, and a boat carrying activists and food in Tunisian waters. That's a wholllllle lot of defending itself, ey??
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
June 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Howard Zinn, who would've been 103 today, is rightly remembered for works like “A People’s History of the United States.” But he was also an antiwar activist who went to North Vietnam in 1968 to accompany three captured US pilots back home.
Howard Zinn Carried Out an Act of Radical Diplomacy in the Middle of the Vietnam War
Today would have been Howard Zinn’s hundredth birthday. He is rightly remembered for works like A People’s History of the United States. But he was also an antiwar activist who went to North Vietnam in 1968 to accompany three captured US pilots back home.
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August 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Tempted to watch the Jubilee surrounded chapter with Mehdi Hasan? Try this instead
youtu.be/QFwA57dQK4M?...
Two teachers react to TERRIFYING Jubilee clip
YouTube video by CasualRevolt
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July 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM