Lasse Skou Lindstad
lslindstad.bsky.social
Lasse Skou Lindstad
@lslindstad.bsky.social
Economic policy and stuff
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‘As with climate change, the focus on consumers deflects scrutiny that should be directed towards industry. Not only do companies help establish false representations of consumer wastefulness, they are themselves waste creators on a gigantic scale.’

Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The Nordic countries have far less economic inequality than the United States. Most of the difference is due to the Nordics’ welfare states.
The Nordics Have Low Inequality Mostly Because of Welfare
The Nordic countries have far less economic inequality than the United States. Most of the difference is due to the Nordics’ welfare states.
jacobin.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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butlerian jihad for sports gambling
Completely fix baseball with five words.
October 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The guy who rules Venezuela is bad. And if I learned anything from Iraq it is that the US can quickly remove that guy through force and then everything i will be good and stable.
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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For lidt siden udkom dagens Gâzâ Brîef på Føljeton.

Skynd dig at abonnnere. Det er gratis. Så får du dagens briefing på mail: foljeton.dk/gazabrief

Nåede du det ikke i dag, så kan du tilgå dagens nyhedsbrief her: wp.foljeton.dk/252079/24-ok...

(Vi nærmer os 1.000 abonnenter. ☺️)
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Telling CNN what the ceasefire agreement after 2 years of genocide will mean for Gaza, & how keeping the boot of occupation on the necks of Palestinians will never bring true peace or security for Palestinians or Israelis.
October 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Dagens Gaza brief. 08-10-25.

Gør mig en tjeneste: Like, hvis du kunne lide den. Del, så dine følgere også kan læse den. Der går meget arbejde i det.🤙🙏

freely.modspil.dk/gaza/gaza-br...
Gaza brief, 8. oktober 2025
Af Poyâ Pâkzâd God onsdag formiddag. Dagens Gaza brief. Forhandlingerne om en våbenhvile i Gaza fortsatte tirsdag i Sharm el-Sheikh, ...
freely.modspil.dk
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Friends, I have a substack with my thoughts and others on current events and megatrends from an international political economy perspective. geoeconomic.substack.com
Geoeconomic | Substack
Cornel Ban, associate prof at Copenhagen Business School and fellow at Boston University's China Initiative at the Global Development Program. Click to read Geoeconomic, a Substack publication with hu...
geoeconomic.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I turned my thread on Ai from earlier this eevning into a blogpost. jwmason.org/slackwire/ac...
Actual Intelligence – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
October 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.
October 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
October 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.
September 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale."

It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.

Coincidence?

I think not.
Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.
adamtooze.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City
Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
bit.ly
August 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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🤷🏻‍♂️
August 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Private virksomheder bruger mellem 39 procent og 70 procent flere administrative medarbejdere end det offentlige.

I brancher, hvor der både er offentlige og private velfærdsudbydere, har det offentlige heller ikke mere administration.

#dkøko #dkpol

www.ae.dk/analyse/2025...
Virksomhederne har mindst 39 procent flere administrative medarbejdere end det offentlige
Andelen af administrative årsværk på det danske arbejdsmarked er vokset siden 2010 i både den offentlige og private sektor. Siden 2016 har andelen af administrative medarbejdere i det offentlige dog v...
www.ae.dk
July 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Et huslejeloft begrænser ikke den samlede boligmængde, men det føre til færre lejeboliger og flere ejerboliger. Det er et trade-off, der er værd at lave for at holde lejepriserne nede - og som kan udlignes med flere almene boliger. www.currentaffairs.org/news/rent-co...
Rent Control Is Fine, Actually
Regulating rent prices is often called "bad economics." But it isn't. The effects of rent control are complex.
www.currentaffairs.org
July 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'From the river to the sea' stammer fra PLO og henviser til et ønske om en enstatsløsning med plads til både palæstinensere og israelere. Det bør betragtes som et ukontroversielt kampråb.
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Providing homeless people with housing reduces crime, increases employment, improves health, and does not increase reliance on social benefits. 80% of costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18 months.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes
(April 2024) - This study measures the impact of rapidly placing single adults experiencing homelessness in housing programs on future homelessness, crime, and health. Using a caseworker placement ten...
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July 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM