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katewagner.wehwalt.net
Can some of you read my essay which has been somewhat betrayed by this out of context quote without shitting on it thanks
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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donoteat.bsky.social
when the AI bubble bursts and we have hundreds of extra GWs of capacity on the grid, power will then be too cheap to meter and the hall–héroult process will be essentially free. i propose spinning up the aluminum industry and providing a weekly ration of aluminum billets to all americans
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20d
A few important points here

- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false

- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE

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Data center investment is growing quickly Construction spending on data centers (millions of dollars) SAL,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 ChatGPT launch 21,000 15,000 10200 1,000 Jan 14 Jan 16 Jun 18 Jan 20 Jan 22 J24 In just three years, spending on data centers in the US has gone from $13.8 billion to $41.2 billion per year. Construction spending on data centers has grown by 200% since the launch of ChatGPT. rising data centre forecasts data center growth Data centers are being built very, very quickly Satellite images of OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas • A year ago, Stargate was a plot of dirt in Texas. Today it is home to 100k Nvidia chips using 200 MW. • In another year, the data center will use 1.2 GW of power. • For reference, El Paso Electric has a peak load of 2.4 GW and serves 465,000 customers.
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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yairwallach.bsky.social
200 leading global artists, writers and actors are calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti.

An impressive list here.

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Global voices call for Marwan's Release - Free Marwan
“We express our grave concern at the continuing imprisonment of Marwan Barghouti, his violent mistreatment and denial of legal rights whilst imprisoned. We call upon the United Nations and the Governm...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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My first poem in print. "Holes" in Gutter 32.
So proud.

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Two pages of Gutter Magazine showing the poem "Holes" by Ewan Downie
August 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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maxtani.bsky.social
amazing q&a with paul krugman
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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jwmason.bsky.social
The substantive point here is important too: underestimating the benefits of public spending should be considered an equally serious error as underestimating the costs.
June 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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jwmason.bsky.social
Dan Davies is the Dorothy Parker of economics writing. A few people (not many) might offer comparable insight. But nobody does it as quotably. open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
As I’ve said before, the problem with “government efficiency” isn’t that it’s a bad idea per se, it’s that almost always, the cost of doing something is so much less important than the thing that’s getting done. And yet, I have never in my life seen anyone trying to “fully benefit” the things that they are always “fully costing”. Somebody should set up a Department of Government Effectiveness; there are all too many areas of public policy where the cost/benefit ratio is not a number, because the benefits never arrived.
June 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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adanicklmao.bsky.social
A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!!

donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors

edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social
beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social
happy pride :)

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a cover by artist Pseudonym Jones depicting a transfem and a transmasc solving a puzzle, which reads "a trans person made your puzzle." the subtitle reads "trans puzzles in support of U.S. charities, edited by Ada Nicolle and Sara Cantor, cover art by Pseudonym Jones"
June 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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trillingual.bsky.social
New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...
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May 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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annieleymarie.bsky.social
Europe now has:
20,500 brown bears (a 17% increase since 2016)
9,400 Eurasian lynx (12% increase)
1,300 wolverines (16% increase)
23,000 wild wolves (34% increase)
150,000 golden jackals (46% increase)
- but none of those in the UK!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Europe’s big carnivores are on the rise – but can we live with bears next door?
Numbers of animals once hunted as vermin are rising across the continent. But scientists worry about how we are going to get along with these predators
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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amrcampop.bsky.social
Campop blog #29: It's commonly thought that the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) was characterised by an increase in people working in industry. In today's blog Leigh Shaw-Taylor demonstrates this was not the case. 1/3
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeWhen did England and Wales industrialise? « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work...
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk
January 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
is this a good time to repost my theory that, when the coalition decided to suppress public sector wages, they accidentally suppressed everyone else's wages and thus private sector investment, too
jim.londoncentric.media Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · Dec 30
Holy hell the uk economy as told through Reddit posts.

“should my wife, who has spent years taking all the educational qualifications to be a teacher but quit due to childcare, accept a job in a school (the job pays a minimum wage salary and is a 39 week contract, they sack her for the holidays)”
December 30, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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westerhare.bsky.social
Adorno did talk about how cars condition drivers into fascist thought and behaviour...
And which auto-driver has not felt the temptation, in the power of the motor, to run over the vermin of the street – passersby, children, bicyclists? In the movements which machines demand from their operators, lies already that which is violent, crashing, propulsively unceasing in Fascist mistreatment.
May 14, 2024 at 12:01 AM