Yusuf
@yusufimaadkhan.com
political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts 📈 | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him
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what do you MEAN Palantir UK is run by the grandson of Oswald Mosley
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
what do you MEAN Palantir UK is run by the grandson of Oswald Mosley
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
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The eplusm scale is an interesting take on the old log-scale chestnut. It is logarithmic for the landmark steps (1, 10, 100), but linear in between. Crazy idea, but according to user studies, it seems to work pretty well in some settings! github.com/jdfekete/d3-...
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The eplusm scale is an interesting take on the old log-scale chestnut. It is logarithmic for the landmark steps (1, 10, 100), but linear in between. Crazy idea, but according to user studies, it seems to work pretty well in some settings! github.com/jdfekete/d3-...
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We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank
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this cartoon sums it up.
This next decade is about China's solar hockey stick of hope against the petrostates led by the US.
China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
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This next decade is about China's solar hockey stick of hope against the petrostates led by the US.
China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
this cartoon sums it up.
This next decade is about China's solar hockey stick of hope against the petrostates led by the US.
China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
This next decade is about China's solar hockey stick of hope against the petrostates led by the US.
China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
Also watched Goodfellas. And I’m embarrassed to say I thought the:
“What do you do?”
“Construction”
Line originally came from Ashanti’s music video for Foolish
youtu.be/gUPrnu3BEU8?... (about 1 min in)
“What do you do?”
“Construction”
Line originally came from Ashanti’s music video for Foolish
youtu.be/gUPrnu3BEU8?... (about 1 min in)
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Also watched Goodfellas. And I’m embarrassed to say I thought the:
“What do you do?”
“Construction”
Line originally came from Ashanti’s music video for Foolish
youtu.be/gUPrnu3BEU8?... (about 1 min in)
“What do you do?”
“Construction”
Line originally came from Ashanti’s music video for Foolish
youtu.be/gUPrnu3BEU8?... (about 1 min in)
I watched the coda version of godfather 3 and ngl this seemed like an inappropriate way to end it
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I watched the coda version of godfather 3 and ngl this seemed like an inappropriate way to end it
Watched the godfather films for the first time this week. They were pretty good. Does seem like a lot of logistics and stress to be a gangster though.
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Watched the godfather films for the first time this week. They were pretty good. Does seem like a lot of logistics and stress to be a gangster though.
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"I’m convinced that it’s the cost of living, not immigration, that voters care about. The Green party is the only party honest enough not to try to conflate the two for political convenience."
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Zack Polanski: ‘Hope has just won in New York – it can win here too’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"I’m convinced that it’s the cost of living, not immigration, that voters care about. The Green party is the only party honest enough not to try to conflate the two for political convenience."
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Just put up this blog post in which I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...
#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...
#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just put up this blog post in which I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...
#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...
#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy
"We now cut live to the very serious UK green transition national security nexus"
on.ft.com/3JAtODj
transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
on.ft.com/3JAtODj
transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"We now cut live to the very serious UK green transition national security nexus"
on.ft.com/3JAtODj
transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
on.ft.com/3JAtODj
transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
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was curious to see what this looked like on a log plot alongside some benchmarks; TSLA market cap has been roughly tracking equilibrium NGDP growth in the 2020s; the low path is ~ typical stock market equilibrium growth or ~3x NGDP; the high path is ~20x NGDP
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
was curious to see what this looked like on a log plot alongside some benchmarks; TSLA market cap has been roughly tracking equilibrium NGDP growth in the 2020s; the low path is ~ typical stock market equilibrium growth or ~3x NGDP; the high path is ~20x NGDP
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I didn't have capacity to add this update to the article, but further steps toward bloc formation can be seen in Trump's recent deals in SE Asia www.ft.com/content/73f2...
US adds ‘poison pills’ to Asia trade pacts to counter China
Conditions inserted by Washington into tariff deals with Cambodia and Malaysia seen as ‘loyalty test’
www.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I didn't have capacity to add this update to the article, but further steps toward bloc formation can be seen in Trump's recent deals in SE Asia www.ft.com/content/73f2...
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Bloc formation (the creation of “a US-led bloc that excludes China” which also entails a China-led bloc that excludes the US) is the most dangerous path forward for the whole world, threatening the potential of China's clean energy industries while greatly increasing the risk of global war
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Bloc formation (the creation of “a US-led bloc that excludes China” which also entails a China-led bloc that excludes the US) is the most dangerous path forward for the whole world, threatening the potential of China's clean energy industries while greatly increasing the risk of global war
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Current efforts towards bloc formation are uneven, inconsistent, and undermined by Trump's interest in cutting deals with Xi. But should the recently renewed US-China trade truce fall apart, a more coherent and consistent bloc formation strategy would likely emerge in the renewed escalatory spiral
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Current efforts towards bloc formation are uneven, inconsistent, and undermined by Trump's interest in cutting deals with Xi. But should the recently renewed US-China trade truce fall apart, a more coherent and consistent bloc formation strategy would likely emerge in the renewed escalatory spiral
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I have a new article out about US-China bloc formation, climate change, and war
🚨 NEW: Read @tobitac.bsky.social “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation.
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Cold War on a Warming World
The US foreign policy response to China's economic development is a threat to the global climate transition.
transitionsecurity.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I have a new article out about US-China bloc formation, climate change, and war
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Trevor Philips, "Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming back from #COP30 having refused to put money into the tropical forest fund on the grounds that we can't afford it. He's right, isn't he?"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Trevor Philips, "Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming back from #COP30 having refused to put money into the tropical forest fund on the grounds that we can't afford it. He's right, isn't he?"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
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English #etymology of the day: the word "mocha" (as in coffee) is ultimately from the name of the city of Mocha or المخا al-Mukhā in Yemen. A port city on the Red Sea, Mocha played an important role in the historic coffee trade. "Moka pot" also has the same etymology.
Reading about Rabbi Baruch ben Shumel. Born in Pinsk, immigrated to Safed (1819) and then travelled widely in the Arab world. Became the physician of the Imam of Sanaa, al-Imam al-Mahdi Abdallah, and then killed by him (after advising the Imam to refrain from sex, and asking to be governor of Mocha)
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
English #etymology of the day: the word "mocha" (as in coffee) is ultimately from the name of the city of Mocha or المخا al-Mukhā in Yemen. A port city on the Red Sea, Mocha played an important role in the historic coffee trade. "Moka pot" also has the same etymology.
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At an event in NY in 2023, Mamdani read from Umar Khalid’s letter. Khalid, a PhD student and scholar has been unlawfully jailed in India; it’s been over four years.
Political prisoners are a blot on our conscience.
Political prisoners are a blot on our conscience.
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
At an event in NY in 2023, Mamdani read from Umar Khalid’s letter. Khalid, a PhD student and scholar has been unlawfully jailed in India; it’s been over four years.
Political prisoners are a blot on our conscience.
Political prisoners are a blot on our conscience.
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“If there’s a glimmer of hope in all this rage-inducing misery, it can be found in the growing number of people around the world who refuse to be intimidated into silence.”
July 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“If there’s a glimmer of hope in all this rage-inducing misery, it can be found in the growing number of people around the world who refuse to be intimidated into silence.”
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Honored and humbled that my featured essay in The Guardian, The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world, has been named a finalist for the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association award for Excellence in Opinion and Analysis!
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Honored and humbled that my featured essay in The Guardian, The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world, has been named a finalist for the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association award for Excellence in Opinion and Analysis!
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Next LSE Political Theory research seminar is with Agnes Tam (Calgary & Frankfurt). The paper is called “The Social Normativity of Social Norms: A Pluralist Account”. All welcome. Thursday 4pm in OLD.4.10. @lsegovernment.bsky.social Please register if LSE-external: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
Microsoft Forms
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November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Next LSE Political Theory research seminar is with Agnes Tam (Calgary & Frankfurt). The paper is called “The Social Normativity of Social Norms: A Pluralist Account”. All welcome. Thursday 4pm in OLD.4.10. @lsegovernment.bsky.social Please register if LSE-external: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM