Sigge K
@sigfusok.bsky.social
MFF, historia, klimatet, tjatter, politik, och allt möjligt därtill... (privat? jajamensan fattas bara. Knappt jag tar ansvar för vad som skrivs)
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Sigge K
@sigfusok.bsky.social
· Jul 8
Bollar lite läsvärda artiklar med en kollega, och tänker att jag kanske kan skapa en tipstråd utifrån dem :)
Blir gott och blandat, om vad som är och kan vara, och vad jag gillar.
Blir gott och blandat, om vad som är och kan vara, och vad jag gillar.
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Okay, time for a much-requested thing: a THREAD OF THREADS. I've now written dozens of these sciencey threads now, and it's increasingly easy to lose them in the scrum of new stuff on here, so - here's a roundup.
First: the mystery of the BONG BONG BONG: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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First: the mystery of the BONG BONG BONG: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Okay, time for a much-requested thing: a THREAD OF THREADS. I've now written dozens of these sciencey threads now, and it's increasingly easy to lose them in the scrum of new stuff on here, so - here's a roundup.
First: the mystery of the BONG BONG BONG: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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First: the mystery of the BONG BONG BONG: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.
De är sååå nära
Det är så himla talande för liberalernas skolpolitik att de kan komma fram till att mindre klasstorlekar och högre personaltäthet med behöriga lärare samt tillgång till stödtjänster är bra för eleverna men ändå inte kan tänka på det som lösning bortom den politiska hetfråga de pratar om just nu.
Att sitta i fängelse är bra för barns skolgång, hälsar det som en gång i tiden var ett seriöst skolparti. www.dn.se/sverige/krim...
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
De är sååå nära
Jag tänker här på orsak och verkan...
För är det att vi avreglerade och sen satt in allt mer pengar på börsen som lett till att kurserna började rusa uppåt?
Samtidigt som den reella avkastningen ändå alltid var hyfsad, även i en reglerad marknad.
ekonomistas.se/2025/01/07/b...
För är det att vi avreglerade och sen satt in allt mer pengar på börsen som lett till att kurserna började rusa uppåt?
Samtidigt som den reella avkastningen ändå alltid var hyfsad, även i en reglerad marknad.
ekonomistas.se/2025/01/07/b...
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Jag tänker här på orsak och verkan...
För är det att vi avreglerade och sen satt in allt mer pengar på börsen som lett till att kurserna började rusa uppåt?
Samtidigt som den reella avkastningen ändå alltid var hyfsad, även i en reglerad marknad.
ekonomistas.se/2025/01/07/b...
För är det att vi avreglerade och sen satt in allt mer pengar på börsen som lett till att kurserna började rusa uppåt?
Samtidigt som den reella avkastningen ändå alltid var hyfsad, även i en reglerad marknad.
ekonomistas.se/2025/01/07/b...
Och är det så vi vill ha det?
"De finansiella aktörerna – banker, försäkringsbolag, kreditkortsutgivare och andra låneinstitut – har gått från att vara ett smörjmedel för att ekonomin ska fungera till att bli själva ekonomin."
"De finansiella aktörerna – banker, försäkringsbolag, kreditkortsutgivare och andra låneinstitut – har gått från att vara ett smörjmedel för att ekonomin ska fungera till att bli själva ekonomin."
LEDARE ”I USA får Donald Trump kritik när han vill införa bolån med 50 års löptid. Här har vi redan byggt ekonomin på eviga skulder.”
– @danielswedin.bsky.social
arbetet.se/2025/11/11/b...
– @danielswedin.bsky.social
arbetet.se/2025/11/11/b...
Bråk när Trump vill införa livslånga lån – Sverige redan där
Presidenten får kritik när han vill införa bolån med 50 års löptid. Medan i Sverige är byggt på eviga skulder.
arbetet.se
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Och är det så vi vill ha det?
"De finansiella aktörerna – banker, försäkringsbolag, kreditkortsutgivare och andra låneinstitut – har gått från att vara ett smörjmedel för att ekonomin ska fungera till att bli själva ekonomin."
"De finansiella aktörerna – banker, försäkringsbolag, kreditkortsutgivare och andra låneinstitut – har gått från att vara ett smörjmedel för att ekonomin ska fungera till att bli själva ekonomin."
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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Found the source of that advert for bad things
It was Bad Advertising
bsky.app/profile/badv...
Let's do this for Australia!
And, add your favourite!
I'm going to develop a community advertising campaign for Aus, start crowdfunding
Who wants in?
Replies below, or DMs
Names of orgs, too please
It was Bad Advertising
bsky.app/profile/badv...
Let's do this for Australia!
And, add your favourite!
I'm going to develop a community advertising campaign for Aus, start crowdfunding
Who wants in?
Replies below, or DMs
Names of orgs, too please
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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"some people spread happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go"
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"some people spread happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go"
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
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"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged."
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged."
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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If you prefer paper vs screens,
you can see Lanefab homes and ideas in these books
(a thread)
"Prefabulous: Small Houses" by Sheri Koones
you can see Lanefab homes and ideas in these books
(a thread)
"Prefabulous: Small Houses" by Sheri Koones
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you prefer paper vs screens,
you can see Lanefab homes and ideas in these books
(a thread)
"Prefabulous: Small Houses" by Sheri Koones
you can see Lanefab homes and ideas in these books
(a thread)
"Prefabulous: Small Houses" by Sheri Koones
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The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
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Vore nog klokt av S-ledningen att bygga en trovärdig rödgrön reformstrategi. Att C, L och KD just nu flaxar som ”prästens lilla kråka” och halkat än hit och än dit är ett uttryck för deras desperation. Sverige behöver rejäla jämlikhetsreformer och en fungerande opposition.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Vore nog klokt av S-ledningen att bygga en trovärdig rödgrön reformstrategi. Att C, L och KD just nu flaxar som ”prästens lilla kråka” och halkat än hit och än dit är ett uttryck för deras desperation. Sverige behöver rejäla jämlikhetsreformer och en fungerande opposition.
Spännande siffror!
#Malmö En tredjedel av alla jobb i Skåne finns i Malmö.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Spännande siffror!
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Stockholmers: does anyone know someone or somewhere who can resew the buttons on a duffle coat who won’t charge me 1400:- for it?
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Stockholmers: does anyone know someone or somewhere who can resew the buttons on a duffle coat who won’t charge me 1400:- for it?
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Hey so Michael Burry (the dude Christian Bale plays in The Big Short) just took out a billion dollar short bet against a few HUGE Ai companies…………
Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.
Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hey so Michael Burry (the dude Christian Bale plays in The Big Short) just took out a billion dollar short bet against a few HUGE Ai companies…………
Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.
Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.
Villhöver
Hybrid cars be like
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Villhöver
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The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:
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This is like saying "we're replacing banks with DraftKings", any journalists treating it seriously and not screaming their heads off about how totally deranged it is should be sent to the gulag
… Sen. Rick Scott says he’ll draft a health care bill based on Trump’s morning Truth Social post. Says his plan is to give people health savings accounts and “let them buy the health care they want.” To say I have questions would be an understatement.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is like saying "we're replacing banks with DraftKings", any journalists treating it seriously and not screaming their heads off about how totally deranged it is should be sent to the gulag
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So now, insiders are saying what is actually in the Epstein files is even worse for Trump than generally known.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doj-admits-republicans-epstein-files-162130218.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doj-admits-republicans-epstein-files-162130218.html
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
So now, insiders are saying what is actually in the Epstein files is even worse for Trump than generally known.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doj-admits-republicans-epstein-files-162130218.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doj-admits-republicans-epstein-files-162130218.html
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Gov't-backing of 50-year mortgage would create more buyers, but 'more demand, same supply' means prices go up. Plus, a buyer who can't afford monthly payments of a 30-year mortgage probably shouldn't be on a 50-year either, they're likely to default.
It'd just be inflating the bubble a bit more.
It'd just be inflating the bubble a bit more.
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Gov't-backing of 50-year mortgage would create more buyers, but 'more demand, same supply' means prices go up. Plus, a buyer who can't afford monthly payments of a 30-year mortgage probably shouldn't be on a 50-year either, they're likely to default.
It'd just be inflating the bubble a bit more.
It'd just be inflating the bubble a bit more.
Helt galet!
Amorteringstakten på bottenlån är runt 140 år, enligt FI. Detta är en av orsakerna till Sveriges ohemula bopriser, och byggsektorns dåliga produktivitet - de behöver inte, vi lånar till vilket pris de än sätter. www.placera.se/nyheter/lane...
Lånetrenden är bruten - Placera.se
Bolånetaket har haft effekt. Vi lånar inte längre upp över taknocken och allt fler med stora lån amorterar. Det konstaterar Finansinspektionen. Men när vi amorterat ned lånet till 75 procent avtar amo...
www.placera.se
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Helt galet!
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Growth for growth’s sake is bad news for the planet’s finite resources. What I’m referring to is economic stimulation: allowing people to work and earn, so they can spend and live. The alternative to the model of “growth” to increase dividends to further stock up the wealth hoarder’s coffers.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Growth for growth’s sake is bad news for the planet’s finite resources. What I’m referring to is economic stimulation: allowing people to work and earn, so they can spend and live. The alternative to the model of “growth” to increase dividends to further stock up the wealth hoarder’s coffers.
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The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.