Mrinimalism
@mrinimalism.bsky.social
Integrity professional by day, Existential anxiety practitioner by night. Environment, public international law and everything in between.
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Happy to see this out with @beckerbastian.bsky.social and Hanna Lierse!
TL;DR: People believe that taxing the rich both reduces inequality AND promotes economic growth. Even those on the right! Check the thread for more! 👇
TL;DR: People believe that taxing the rich both reduces inequality AND promotes economic growth. Even those on the right! Check the thread for more! 👇
🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone.
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation | Journal of Public Policy | Cambridge Core
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation
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November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Happy to see this out with @beckerbastian.bsky.social and Hanna Lierse!
TL;DR: People believe that taxing the rich both reduces inequality AND promotes economic growth. Even those on the right! Check the thread for more! 👇
TL;DR: People believe that taxing the rich both reduces inequality AND promotes economic growth. Even those on the right! Check the thread for more! 👇
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Do not threaten us with a good time
May 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Do not threaten us with a good time
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May 1st is May Day, a festival of working-class self-organization stretching back over 135 years.
We're celebrating with a sitewide sale: take up to 50% off all Verso titles through May 8th!
We're celebrating with a sitewide sale: take up to 50% off all Verso titles through May 8th!
May 1st is International Workers' Day
May 1st marks International Workers' Day, a festival of working-class self-organization stretching back over 135 years. We're celebrating with a sitewide sale: take up to 50% off all Verso titles thro...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
May 1st is May Day, a festival of working-class self-organization stretching back over 135 years.
We're celebrating with a sitewide sale: take up to 50% off all Verso titles through May 8th!
We're celebrating with a sitewide sale: take up to 50% off all Verso titles through May 8th!
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On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.
March 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.
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No, no, no. The US is not behaving like a “third world country”, or a “banana republic” or as if it were “Americastan”. The US is behaving like a Western country, because that is what it is. That term just doesn’t mean what you think. Stop dragging us into your mess. Own up to who you are.
March 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
No, no, no. The US is not behaving like a “third world country”, or a “banana republic” or as if it were “Americastan”. The US is behaving like a Western country, because that is what it is. That term just doesn’t mean what you think. Stop dragging us into your mess. Own up to who you are.
🛍️ 🛒 shopping time!
March 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🛍️ 🛒 shopping time!
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NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
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“Not to justify the mass killing of civilians. However” is an instant block.
March 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Not to justify the mass killing of civilians. However” is an instant block.
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'how do we weigh smug claims about the life saving benefits of steam transportation and modern grain markets when so many millions, especially in British India, died alongside railroad tracks or on the steps of grain depots?'
Mike Davis, in the extraordinary Late Victorian Holocausts
Mike Davis, in the extraordinary Late Victorian Holocausts
We've discounted the entire Essential Mike Davis collection in celebration of his birthday.
Discount ends tonight at midnight EST!
Discount ends tonight at midnight EST!
Mike Davis: Prophetic Marxist Historian and Activist
The legendary Marxist thinker and activist Mike Davis explored political power and social class for decades. His sharp analysis and glittering prose criss-crossed over urban studies, political economy...
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March 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
'how do we weigh smug claims about the life saving benefits of steam transportation and modern grain markets when so many millions, especially in British India, died alongside railroad tracks or on the steps of grain depots?'
Mike Davis, in the extraordinary Late Victorian Holocausts
Mike Davis, in the extraordinary Late Victorian Holocausts
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Lots of talk of the left dividing itself over pointless feuds, but didn’t we recently just have Occupy Wall Street, Me Too, Black Lives Matter and Ceasefire Now? Not bad for a divided left. Not saying there aren’t divisions, but what interests me much more is the brutal backlash to each movement.
March 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Lots of talk of the left dividing itself over pointless feuds, but didn’t we recently just have Occupy Wall Street, Me Too, Black Lives Matter and Ceasefire Now? Not bad for a divided left. Not saying there aren’t divisions, but what interests me much more is the brutal backlash to each movement.
Maybe eventually Verso books might acquire Teen Vogue. Well done on this article.
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Maybe eventually Verso books might acquire Teen Vogue. Well done on this article.
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For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc
January 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc
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15/🇺🇸USA's Margaret Taylor: "centrality of the Paris Agreement" "primacy of the UN climate negotiations" "uniquely complex nature of the problem" "carefully calibrated approach"
Our Climate Injustice BINGO is filling very rapidly as US lays out arguments to escape accountability.
Our Climate Injustice BINGO is filling very rapidly as US lays out arguments to escape accountability.
December 4, 2024 at 3:53 PM
15/🇺🇸USA's Margaret Taylor: "centrality of the Paris Agreement" "primacy of the UN climate negotiations" "uniquely complex nature of the problem" "carefully calibrated approach"
Our Climate Injustice BINGO is filling very rapidly as US lays out arguments to escape accountability.
Our Climate Injustice BINGO is filling very rapidly as US lays out arguments to escape accountability.
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It's 1898. Foreign powers are fighting over railroads in Africa.
It's 1970. Foreign powers are fighting over railroads in Africa.
It's 2024...
It's 1970. Foreign powers are fighting over railroads in Africa.
It's 2024...
Why is Biden in Angola?
From the US perspective, the main focus in Angola is the Lobito Corridor railway, which is shaping up to be a test of Western and Chinese commitments to African development.
@katemac.bsky.social & I explain @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar...
From the US perspective, the main focus in Angola is the Lobito Corridor railway, which is shaping up to be a test of Western and Chinese commitments to African development.
@katemac.bsky.social & I explain @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar...
December 3, 2024 at 11:50 AM
It's 1898. Foreign powers are fighting over railroads in Africa.
It's 1970. Foreign powers are fighting over railroads in Africa.
It's 2024...
It's 1970. Foreign powers are fighting over railroads in Africa.
It's 2024...
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This is huge.
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 AM
This is huge.
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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Happy 40th anniversary of Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America) - Questions of jurisdiction and/or admissibility - to everyone who celebrates.
November 25, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Happy 40th anniversary of Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America) - Questions of jurisdiction and/or admissibility - to everyone who celebrates.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Intl. Climate Law Researchers: Affirm that the provision of scaled-up liquid resources should aim to achieve a balance between a full and empty cup.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Intl. Climate Law Researchers: Affirm that the provision of scaled-up liquid resources should aim to achieve a balance between a full and empty cup.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Political scientist: The cup is affectively polarized
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Political scientist: The cup is affectively polarized
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Quantum physicist: the cup is half full AND half empty.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Quantum physicist: the cup is half full AND half empty.
November 25, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Intl. Climate Law Researchers: Affirm that the provision of scaled-up liquid resources should aim to achieve a balance between a full and empty cup.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Intl. Climate Law Researchers: Affirm that the provision of scaled-up liquid resources should aim to achieve a balance between a full and empty cup.
Congratulations @andreassieber.bsky.social for this timely piece!
Awesome research from @andreassieber.bsky.social on finance needs for the energy transition. Nice to get the est. in grant terms before playing with debt and interest rate shenanigans www.nature.com/articles/s44... #cop29
Quantifying international public finance provision needs for the new UN climate finance goal - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Quantifying international public finance provision needs for the new UN climate finance goal
www.nature.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Congratulations @andreassieber.bsky.social for this timely piece!
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I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
November 10, 2024 at 9:57 PM
I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.