Sorry but this isn't really true - the March solar export spike was due to the Chinese export tax rebate ending as the title mentions, the exports were down again in April and May. We do expect effects, but mostly longer term except in a very few markets.

"Well, if they'd send us more guys and maybe bomb the hell out of the North, they might, uh, they might give up."

Ian TB@iantb.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well, crowdsourcing a war plan is certainly a first: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH x.com/lauraloomer/...

"The Ukrainian campaign knocked out more than 30 and 45 per cent of Russia’s actual and nominal capacity, respectively," bruh? www.ft.com/content/3990...

How Putin’s refinery dream became Ukraine’s target

Damage to Russian refineries still visible from space months after strikes

ft.com

if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue

RIP to every regime killed by poor economics because of it‘s hubris but I’m different. and smarter. maybe even smarter than the economists

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is literally how mao starved 40 million people to death

applies to foreign affairs too, there is no cabal of dead-eyed ruthless technocrats in Beijing mercilessly looking to maximize every advantage. it's bumbling upper-middle class white collar professionals all the way down.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

It has so many implications & consequences too. One is, whatever secret cabal you think is running things-- the DNC, AIPAC, globalist elites, George Soros, take your pick --you're wrong. No one is in charge. Everyone is winging it by the seat of their pants. Everyone is fumbling around in the dark.

"Suburbs" is an amazingly bad translation of "banlieue" which almost completely fails to capture Mbappé's point here.

Brett Coughlin@coughlinbrett.bsky.social · last mo.

Kylian Mbappé #WorldCup

The “enshittification” happened because everyone who interacted with them knew they were shady as fuck and screwing their customers via information asymmetry. People were HAPPY to get shittier service to keep their money! Online travel agencies, discount brokerages, Carvana, it’s all the same story

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 4w ago

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

Matt Stoller is trying to find the monopoly responsible for all this

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

hot take: no one actually wants 'authenticity' in politicians: people want a performance that is both competent and has them as the target audience. lots of politicians derided as wooden and stiff are being more 'authentic' than politicians who are personable and likable, who are performing

this is one thing where I'm firmly on the side of the teacher's unions: a lot of the 'criticism' of public school educators is simply 'why can't you all be the extremely self-motivated teachers of these intrinsically motivated students'

we will get a ton of stuff like this, where AI is a very useful tool that, used correctly by experts, can achieve remarkable things. it needs to be reported *as a tool* and examined properly.

Dr Naomi Scott@drnaomiscott.bsky.social · last mo.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

The most deranged thing is that the under classes of Russia will remember these times as grand eras, when they were taken care of by the state, by Putin. They'll declare it the best days since Stalin

Mihnea@miyhnea.bsky.social · last mo.

The survivors will lose their pensions and will get screeched at by government officials that they voluntereed willingly and the Duma never voted a state of war so no veteran pensions for them This will have 97% in Moscow/St. Petersburg

The true blackpill as all proper east Euros know is that foreigners care more of these people than probably 2/3rd of Russia society Minor life inconveniences in the biggest 5 cities will lower Putin/UR's popularity more than 1000 Urals or Kuban proles/ruraloids

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last mo.

god this is harrowing - obviously Slava Ukraini but those poor lads

“working class” has ironically become a tool that’s used *against* class consciousness by appealing to a small mythical privileged class of “real workers” which you, desk job rentier with barely any assets, aren’t “worky” enough to identify as part of.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last mo.

i genuinely do find it fascinating how being authentically "working class" in America now has nothing to do with like, your actual relationship to ownership or your wage relation/bracket, but entirely about what you consume or look like

Nothing beats this

Dr. Brian Laslie@brianlaslie.bsky.social · last mo.

Since Richard Nixon is (apparently) "enjoying a bit of a renaissance," I am reposting my favorite picture of the then vice president enjoying a tropical drink...

Pretty much the solitary reason for left-wing softness on Russia is that a lot of leftists are not historical materialists but constructivists Which it is fine to be, this is coming from a constructivist, but being the latter while insisting that you’re the former leads to weird-ass conspiracism

Even if any of this were true (which it’s not), the only thing to say is: too bad! You can try to organize a society on feudal lines if you want, but the only thing you’d accomplish is getting conquered by a neighboring industrial society. A system that cannot defend itself is a bad one.

Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · 2mo ago

Misogyny is a helluva drug.

This is true, and I think also mostly in spite of himself.

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Genuinely crazy how many people on here just have full on britbrain about Napoleon, treating him like Hitler 0. He was a major force for ending feudalism and encouraging liberalism throughout Europe, long after he died

Like a kind of psychotic homing pigeon, Trump has a long record of regularly returning to terrible ideas those around him thought he'd let go of a few weeks before.

So a force with zero modern combat experience has been training a force with zero modern combat ability.

Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Breaking news: EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas says the EU has "now verified reports that the Chinese military has been training Russian military personnel to fight in Ukraine" Speaking after a meeting of EU foreign ministers - "we are carefully assessing the implications"

I think one of the disconcerting things is that Iran will walk away from this a massive strategic victor but also economically and politically devastated in ways we're mostly forgetting due to lack of coverage. It's brutally bad on the ground - www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The Crisis Iran’s Leaders Can’t Ignore

Two months into the cease-fire, the Iranian economy lies in tatters.

theatlantic.com

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From the Iranian side, to be clear. But IF accurate, hoo boy: US to arrange $300B plus to Iran, US lifts oil sanctions, Iran gets some say over Hormuz, Israel ceases in Lebanon, and in return Iran basically reaffirms NPT commitments. Not having Iran Tru Coat the US Navy's ships too?

Guys, stop giving Trump supervillain-level schemes. He’s doing this because he likes it, not as a humiliation ritual for the county, and the people who are enabling it are doing it either because they also like it or because they think it’s going to make people like us upset.

I do think we've missed a crucial aspect of "was hunter gathering a better way of life than early sedentary agriculture?" which is "who gives a damn?"

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s not ‘right wing tech-chauvinism’ to think that agriculture is better than hunting and gathering.

His Russia was always playing with an immensely weak hand hoping nothing would puncture the balloon. An old-style interstate war of conquest in Ukraine is precisely the kind of balloon puncture that exposed Russia as what it actually was, not what it pretended to be.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

The FT view: Vladimir Putin's delusional view of conquest in Ukraine was supposed to return Russia to imperial great power status. Instead, Moscow's global reach is on the wane. ft.trib.al/ZzJCJYC

the weird recurring brand of anti-agriculture claims is just an Eden myth in a faintly new costume. there was a Perfect World in which You Did Not Have to Work and there was No Suffering and then original sin (farming) was commited.

"The Russians have to go through immense effort to evade sanctions and source components for their ballistic missiles and drones which drives up their cost but ultimately does not stop them from being built so they're pointless"

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2mo ago

discourse nvke

Live look at the Half-Life fandom:

Time to pick up the red telephone in the Oval Office that links directly to Barak Ravid