@springbanks.bsky.social
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“If there was a single way to describe Trump’s institutional targets in the first year of his second term, it might be ‘David Rubenstein’s Rolodex.’” Michael Powell spoke with the billionaire about his unintended collision course with the president:
The End of Soft Power in Washington
David Rubenstein was the quintessential symbol of wealth and influence in the capital. Then Donald Trump returned to the White House.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“If there was a single way to describe Trump’s institutional targets in the first year of his second term, it might be ‘David Rubenstein’s Rolodex.’” Michael Powell spoke with the billionaire about his unintended collision course with the president:
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(Artificial) Intelligence meets (Artificial) Beauty.
What could go wrong? );
What could go wrong? );
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
(Artificial) Intelligence meets (Artificial) Beauty.
What could go wrong? );
What could go wrong? );
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Digital tools for optimizing power systems can improve efficiency, enhance affordability, and strengthen energy security. But governments and industries need to recognize this potential, note Fatih Birol and Nandan Nilekani. bit.ly/4i6iY4S
Today’s Electricity Revolution Is Missing a Key Ingredient
Fatih Birol & Nandan Nilekani show how digitalization and interoperability could vastly strengthen energy systems.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Digital tools for optimizing power systems can improve efficiency, enhance affordability, and strengthen energy security. But governments and industries need to recognize this potential, note Fatih Birol and Nandan Nilekani. bit.ly/4i6iY4S
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Important Benn Steil article on globalization, free trade, and the cost of underwriting both. He cites Wendell Willkie in 1944 as "recognizing how perilous it would be to integrate market economies with state-directed ones."
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social
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Important Benn Steil article on globalization, free trade, and the cost of underwriting both. He cites Wendell Willkie in 1944 as "recognizing how perilous it would be to integrate market economies with state-directed ones."
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social
prosyn.org/LkdDyx7
prosyn.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Important Benn Steil article on globalization, free trade, and the cost of underwriting both. He cites Wendell Willkie in 1944 as "recognizing how perilous it would be to integrate market economies with state-directed ones."
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social
prosyn.org/LkdDyx7
Important Benn Steil article on globalization, free trade, and the cost of underwriting both. He cites Wendell Willkie in 1944 as "recognizing how perilous it would be to integrate market economies with state-directed ones."
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social
prosyn.org/LkdDyx7
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The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
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OPERATION WHISKEY DICK
OPERATION LITTLE BLUE PILL
OPERATION PUSHING A NOODLE
OPERATION LITTLE BLUE PILL
OPERATION PUSHING A NOODLE
I’m beginning to suspect all of the men in the Trump administration are impotent.
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
OPERATION WHISKEY DICK
OPERATION LITTLE BLUE PILL
OPERATION PUSHING A NOODLE
OPERATION LITTLE BLUE PILL
OPERATION PUSHING A NOODLE
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“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
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Houses near Arkhangelsk，Fyodor Savintsev，Russian, b. 1982。
October 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Houses near Arkhangelsk，Fyodor Savintsev，Russian, b. 1982。
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（唐）李敬方《劝酒》：
不向花前醉，
花应解笑人。
只忧连夜雨，
又过一年春。
日日无穷事，
区区有限身。
若非杯酒里，
何以寄天真。
不向花前醉，
花应解笑人。
只忧连夜雨，
又过一年春。
日日无穷事，
区区有限身。
若非杯酒里，
何以寄天真。
August 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
（唐）李敬方《劝酒》：
不向花前醉，
花应解笑人。
只忧连夜雨，
又过一年春。
日日无穷事，
区区有限身。
若非杯酒里，
何以寄天真。
不向花前醉，
花应解笑人。
只忧连夜雨，
又过一年春。
日日无穷事，
区区有限身。
若非杯酒里，
何以寄天真。
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The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.
June 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.
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“躺平派”祖师、南宋宗室词人赵长卿《蓦山溪·遣怀》：
无非无是，好个闲居士。
衣食不求人，又识得、三文两字。
不贪不伪，一味乐天真，三径里，四时花，随分堪游戏。
学些沓拖，也似没意志。
诗酒度流年，熟谙得、无争三昧。
风波岐路，成败霎时间，你富贵，你荣华，我自关门睡。
😂😂😂
无非无是，好个闲居士。
衣食不求人，又识得、三文两字。
不贪不伪，一味乐天真，三径里，四时花，随分堪游戏。
学些沓拖，也似没意志。
诗酒度流年，熟谙得、无争三昧。
风波岐路，成败霎时间，你富贵，你荣华，我自关门睡。
😂😂😂
May 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“躺平派”祖师、南宋宗室词人赵长卿《蓦山溪·遣怀》：
无非无是，好个闲居士。
衣食不求人，又识得、三文两字。
不贪不伪，一味乐天真，三径里，四时花，随分堪游戏。
学些沓拖，也似没意志。
诗酒度流年，熟谙得、无争三昧。
风波岐路，成败霎时间，你富贵，你荣华，我自关门睡。
😂😂😂
无非无是，好个闲居士。
衣食不求人，又识得、三文两字。
不贪不伪，一味乐天真，三径里，四时花，随分堪游戏。
学些沓拖，也似没意志。
诗酒度流年，熟谙得、无争三昧。
风波岐路，成败霎时间，你富贵，你荣华，我自关门睡。
😂😂😂
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This is one of more useful and, well, therapeutic pieces, I’ve read of late. A lot of advice here on dealing with narcissists, whether in personal or public life.
www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
I’m A Psychologist Who Specializes In Narcissists. Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump.
"The same patterns that destabilize families destabilize democracies."
www.huffpost.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is one of more useful and, well, therapeutic pieces, I’ve read of late. A lot of advice here on dealing with narcissists, whether in personal or public life.
www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
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In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.
May 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.
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继续谈戈革的《挑灯看剑话金庸》。作为点评金庸时的陪衬，戈革对梁羽生和古龙也略作了点评。比如称梁羽生小说“写得比较陈腐、比较落套，相当地缺乏新意”；认为梁羽生小说里“唯一像点样子的”是《云海玉弓缘》；比如将古龙小说酷评为 “南山有个猴，北山有个牛，砰一枪打死一只喜鹊，前后全无联系，信口开河，语无伦次”；称古龙小说里的人物 “非今非古，非正非邪，非中非外，性格极不稳定，精神极不正常”。戈革对金、梁、古的总评为：“金作如绝代佳人，风姿绰约，仪态万方……令人一见难忘，相思久远；梁作如农村少妇，荆钗布裙，谨严守礼……但动人处较少；古作如异族疯女，有动人处，但行为乖僻，语言啁啾，可以共饮，过后便忘”。😂
May 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
继续谈戈革的《挑灯看剑话金庸》。作为点评金庸时的陪衬，戈革对梁羽生和古龙也略作了点评。比如称梁羽生小说“写得比较陈腐、比较落套，相当地缺乏新意”；认为梁羽生小说里“唯一像点样子的”是《云海玉弓缘》；比如将古龙小说酷评为 “南山有个猴，北山有个牛，砰一枪打死一只喜鹊，前后全无联系，信口开河，语无伦次”；称古龙小说里的人物 “非今非古，非正非邪，非中非外，性格极不稳定，精神极不正常”。戈革对金、梁、古的总评为：“金作如绝代佳人，风姿绰约，仪态万方……令人一见难忘，相思久远；梁作如农村少妇，荆钗布裙，谨严守礼……但动人处较少；古作如异族疯女，有动人处，但行为乖僻，语言啁啾，可以共饮，过后便忘”。😂
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上面那篇文章已经说了：“永嘉医派”将外因称为“六淫”，包含风、寒、暑、湿、燥、火，“感风”取第一字“风”，指感风寒；“冒”是透出之义。“感冒”义为感风之后，感风的症状全面爆发出来。
May 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
上面那篇文章已经说了：“永嘉医派”将外因称为“六淫”，包含风、寒、暑、湿、燥、火，“感风”取第一字“风”，指感风寒；“冒”是透出之义。“感冒”义为感风之后，感风的症状全面爆发出来。
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OMG I'M SCREAMING 😂😂
May 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
OMG I'M SCREAMING 😂😂
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What's cool is that Costco's business model is indeed an ingenious scheme, it just happens to be one that also requires the scrupulous-integrity thing as a precondition for the scheme to work bsky.app/profile/goas...
There's no scheme? Well shit
April 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
What's cool is that Costco's business model is indeed an ingenious scheme, it just happens to be one that also requires the scrupulous-integrity thing as a precondition for the scheme to work bsky.app/profile/goas...
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卡梅隆的大製作，企鵝主演的紀錄片，歷時兩年。
'Secrets of the Penguins' NatGeo Doc Uncovers 'Astonishing' New Behavior
Executive producer James Cameron and wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory tell CNET how they captured never-before-seen moments for the docuseries.
www.cnet.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
卡梅隆的大製作，企鵝主演的紀錄片，歷時兩年。
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cobalt.tools, they also have status.cobalt.tools so you can check when it’s down or not (usually comes back up within a few minutes, unless some api change on youtube’s part broke it)
cobalt
cobalt lets you save what you love without ads, tracking, paywalls or other nonsense. just paste the link and you're ready to rock!
cobalt.tools
April 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
cobalt.tools, they also have status.cobalt.tools so you can check when it’s down or not (usually comes back up within a few minutes, unless some api change on youtube’s part broke it)
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Fruits, 1885 #artbots #cezanne
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12493
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12493
April 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Fruits, 1885 #artbots #cezanne
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12493
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12493
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New from me - is it possible we are actually at peak populism? This post is an exercise in working through a scenario - I may very well be wrong. But also, outside of America, I think something is shifting. Because of America. 1/n
benansell.substack.com/p/twilight-o...
benansell.substack.com/p/twilight-o...
Twilight of the Populists?
Perhaps it's possible that, despite it all, we have reached peak populism
benansell.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
New from me - is it possible we are actually at peak populism? This post is an exercise in working through a scenario - I may very well be wrong. But also, outside of America, I think something is shifting. Because of America. 1/n
benansell.substack.com/p/twilight-o...
benansell.substack.com/p/twilight-o...