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economics, energy, history, finance, ecology // just popping in and out, don’t mind me :0)
Oliver Sacks no :0(
December 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Oliver Sacks no :0(
Really beautiful piece, fragments of an unpublished oral history of the great migration to Guangdong by the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong
The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
www.equator.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Really beautiful piece, fragments of an unpublished oral history of the great migration to Guangdong by the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong
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“Findings suggest a major transition in human behaviour from ~500-300ka. Although the behavioural & cognitive changes certainly involved early Neanderthals & other contemporaneous humans, similar developments likely occurred among ancestors of Denisovans in east Eurasia & of H. sapiens in Africa“🔥😯🧪
Earliest evidence of making fire - Nature
Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a pivotal moment i...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“Findings suggest a major transition in human behaviour from ~500-300ka. Although the behavioural & cognitive changes certainly involved early Neanderthals & other contemporaneous humans, similar developments likely occurred among ancestors of Denisovans in east Eurasia & of H. sapiens in Africa“🔥😯🧪
Trying to decide between getting myself a microscope or a telescope for Christmas… is this a zoom in or zoom out kind of year
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Trying to decide between getting myself a microscope or a telescope for Christmas… is this a zoom in or zoom out kind of year
M23 offensive on Uvira in South Kivu literally says after Trump’s “peace”. 200,000 people flee their homes
Congo Conflict Forces 200,000 to Flee Despite Trump Peace Deal
More than 200,000 people have fled renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past week, according to the United Nations, as rebels continue to advance just days after US Presiden...
www.bloomberg.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
M23 offensive on Uvira in South Kivu literally says after Trump’s “peace”. 200,000 people flee their homes
fr this video is fucking nuts
Ever wondered about how superconductivity is conceptually related to the Higgs mechanism? Boy do I have the 5 hours video for you!
Superconductivity and the Higgs Field
YouTube video by Richard Behiel
youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
fr this video is fucking nuts
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For all its flaws as a certain type of pop cultural history, I still think plowing through Jacques Barzun's "From Dawn to Decadence" when I was 18, and periodically returning to it over the last two decades, has been an excellent foundation for understanding how we got here
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For all its flaws as a certain type of pop cultural history, I still think plowing through Jacques Barzun's "From Dawn to Decadence" when I was 18, and periodically returning to it over the last two decades, has been an excellent foundation for understanding how we got here
Review of new Beckert and Branko books about capitalist past and present. Former seems to fall into that “explains everything; explains nothing” bucket while still remaining undertheorized. Seems to be the general issue with the New Histories of Capitalism
How not to talk about capitalism
The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”
www.newstatesman.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Review of new Beckert and Branko books about capitalist past and present. Former seems to fall into that “explains everything; explains nothing” bucket while still remaining undertheorized. Seems to be the general issue with the New Histories of Capitalism
Ever wondered about how superconductivity is conceptually related to the Higgs mechanism? Boy do I have the 5 hours video for you!
Superconductivity and the Higgs Field
YouTube video by Richard Behiel
youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Ever wondered about how superconductivity is conceptually related to the Higgs mechanism? Boy do I have the 5 hours video for you!
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
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When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
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Five years ago, I became an advisor to Alberta's Eavor Technologies, world leader in closed-loop geothermal technology. Last week their flagship project started delivering power to the German grid.
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mliebreich.substack.com/p/big-news-c...
Big news - closed loop geothermal delivers first power!
Five years ago, I became an advisor to Alberta's Eavor Technologies, world leader in closed-loop geothermal technology. Last week their flagship project started delivering power to the German grid.
mliebreich.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Five years ago, I became an advisor to Alberta's Eavor Technologies, world leader in closed-loop geothermal technology. Last week their flagship project started delivering power to the German grid.
mliebreich.substack.com/p/big-news-c...
mliebreich.substack.com/p/big-news-c...
“In Search of the Enemy of Man”. Thich Nhat Hanh’s first correspondence with MLK, discussing the nature of Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation, June 1965
In Search of the Enemy of Man | Plum Village
Thay’s first letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, sent on June 1, 1965. This was the start of their correspondence and friendship, and they met for the first time in Chicago one year later.
plumvillage.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“In Search of the Enemy of Man”. Thich Nhat Hanh’s first correspondence with MLK, discussing the nature of Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation, June 1965
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You know it’s small in the grand scope of things - but the fact that you have not just Twitter dipshits saying it but the President of the United States calling people “retarded” is vile and obscene. My little cousin has Down’s syndrome and I remember her crying from that word as kids. Scumbags
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
You know it’s small in the grand scope of things - but the fact that you have not just Twitter dipshits saying it but the President of the United States calling people “retarded” is vile and obscene. My little cousin has Down’s syndrome and I remember her crying from that word as kids. Scumbags
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anyways, this is how they do it.
transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
On the Biology of a Large Language Model
We investigate the internal mechanisms used by Claude 3.5 Haiku — Anthropic's lightweight production model — in a variety of contexts, using our circuit tracing methodology.
transformer-circuits.pub
December 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
anyways, this is how they do it.
transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
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Newly improved measure of US repo markets just dropped - Volumes exceed $12.5 TRILLION. (The OFR has been improving its collection of non-centrally cleared repo over the past couple of years)
www.financialresearch.gov/the-ofr-blog...
www.financialresearch.gov/the-ofr-blog...
Sizing the U.S. Repo Market | Office of Financial Research
The U.S. repo market averages $12.6 trillion in daily exposures, due to the addition of OFR’s non-centrally cleared bilateral repo collection.
www.financialresearch.gov
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Newly improved measure of US repo markets just dropped - Volumes exceed $12.5 TRILLION. (The OFR has been improving its collection of non-centrally cleared repo over the past couple of years)
www.financialresearch.gov/the-ofr-blog...
www.financialresearch.gov/the-ofr-blog...
Everyone thank the coevolutionary feedback loop between flowers and bees, beetles and birds. Without them we would have no pretty flowers and ikebana
How Flowering Plants Conquered the Earth: an 800-Million-Year Journey
YouTube video by Mugsy Explains
youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Everyone thank the coevolutionary feedback loop between flowers and bees, beetles and birds. Without them we would have no pretty flowers and ikebana
Apparently my top album of the year was Blue Rev by Alvvways which I could have sworn was released this year but it came out in 2022. time is an ever-faster spinning hamster wheel and centrifugal motion is throwing me off of this bitch
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Apparently my top album of the year was Blue Rev by Alvvways which I could have sworn was released this year but it came out in 2022. time is an ever-faster spinning hamster wheel and centrifugal motion is throwing me off of this bitch
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The fact that Anthropic is consistently at the cutting edge of SOTA with a fraction the investment of other players is a massively under noticed story.
I'm inclined to agree with the folks that think their hyper focus on model alignment is part of the secret sauce there.
I'm inclined to agree with the folks that think their hyper focus on model alignment is part of the secret sauce there.
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The fact that Anthropic is consistently at the cutting edge of SOTA with a fraction the investment of other players is a massively under noticed story.
I'm inclined to agree with the folks that think their hyper focus on model alignment is part of the secret sauce there.
I'm inclined to agree with the folks that think their hyper focus on model alignment is part of the secret sauce there.
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big short was a net negative for literacy on markets
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
big short was a net negative for literacy on markets
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
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6/ 🚨 Per CURRENT and former US officials, there are strong reasons to believe some people on board the Sept 2 boat were people being trafficked.
(That is consistent with prior NYT reporting)
(That is consistent with prior NYT reporting)
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
6/ 🚨 Per CURRENT and former US officials, there are strong reasons to believe some people on board the Sept 2 boat were people being trafficked.
(That is consistent with prior NYT reporting)
(That is consistent with prior NYT reporting)
Sasha Gusev on Twitter every other day giving detailed arguments about why the “scientific” racist crowd are dipshits that don’t understand anything about genomics. You gotta respect the grind
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sasha Gusev on Twitter every other day giving detailed arguments about why the “scientific” racist crowd are dipshits that don’t understand anything about genomics. You gotta respect the grind
The Tang and Song dynasty Buddhist stone monuments in the Boston MFA are more than worth the cost of the tickets for general admission. Absolutely incredible. Highly recommended!
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Tang and Song dynasty Buddhist stone monuments in the Boston MFA are more than worth the cost of the tickets for general admission. Absolutely incredible. Highly recommended!