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today we directly purchased Argentine pesos Blogging at
https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
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New Substack post: is AI a bubble? (better late than never on this one I guess)
someunpleasant.substack.com/p/this-is-im...
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This Is Imaginal Disk
"A fool and his money are one big party" - Robert Kiyosaki
https://someunpleasant.substack.com/p/this-is-imaginal-disk
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Marisa Kabas
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New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
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How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders
SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-republicans-sb-244-trans-drivers-licenses
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Isolyth
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
about 9 hours ago
……. Deep cut
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Justin Ling
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Oh wow, I hadn't even realized that they made an arrest in this case. I'm no expert in Brazilian politics, but it really seems like Lula is pulling the country back from the brink.
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Pop Crave
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“Stateside” is now PinkPantheress’ highest peaking single on Global Spotify (#2). It surpasses “Boy’s a liar Pt. 2” (#3).
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Don Moynihan
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Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.
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claude levi strauss code
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there's this tension between "you need to take popular positions on salient issues" and "you should build tech infrastructure" when the average person *hates* that infrastructure and thinks it's causing their bills to go up at triple digit rates
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the thing is that the pro israel coalition against "islamoleftism" misses that the islamoleftist myth is just the (profoundly antisemitic) great replacement theory with a post oct 7 rebrand
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Molly White
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Newsletter: Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.
www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/
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Issue 101 – Bought and paid for
Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their fi...
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/
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Alexander Reid Ross
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I'll be honest with you. I see stuff like Platner QTing a holocaust denier and Ana aggressively posting "goyim are waking up," and I try to spin it into something satirical and humorous, but I think of the lovely and vulnerable, completely innocent Jews of this country, and I'm filled with terror.
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the real risk of the paramount merger isn't that they use the studio to be an effective propaganda tool for reactionary politics. we're all too familiar with the smashing success of whiskey fridays on that front. it's what happens when they realize they can't tell people what to believe
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Sarama Burwani @ 7.4
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Sam (ABeardedPanda)
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Looking at a woman's instagram posts like they're the entrails of a goat to divine how much she gets around is breaking new grounds in incel shit
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I was just talking with my mom about why Anne Frank's diary is so important. They agree
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olive consumer
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Something to remember is this instance of disenchantment is a test run and exists in the context of the President stating in plain terms that everyone who does not support his and his party's agenda is an un-American traitor who is not a legitimate part of the polity.
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I like how Shen Yun is China before Communism and now the CCP has put up their own version of it that's dancing robots
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sadly this also means that the most important qualification for speaking in public is "being attractive"
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Sky Marchini
2 days ago
greenwald be like
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It's kind of insane how his radicalziing moment was that stupid boomer controversy about John Kerry's military record
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Sky Marchini
2 days ago
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Robin Wigglesworth
2 days ago
ICYMI, FT Alphaville now has a Substack, which doesn’t cost a thing. Yes, there are a LOT of newsletters these days. But if you appreciate stupidly detailed explorations of finance and economics, judicious shitposting and killer charts, then please sign up?
ftav.substack.com
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FT Alphaville | Substack
We're the FT's finance blog. If it's dumb, delightful or just weird and involves money we're probably interested in it. Click to read FT Alphaville, a Substack publication.
https://ftav.substack.com/
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BeijingPalmer
2 days ago
I'm not certain how British media managed to find such an absolutely corrosive bunch of columnists, but it really is a particularly vile crop nowadays.
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Jessica Kant
2 days ago
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
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This is the core idea of Richard Hanania's book
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Honestly I *do* thing the surrogacy industry is very sinister and is reducing women to their body parts in service of a dehumanizing fascist project. It's just that using this to abide the TERF project ("the sacred bond between mummy and baby")... also serves fascism and they don't realize it
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Danielle Blake
3 days ago
The line about “the reduction of reproduction to body parts” is sending me, if anyone’s doing that it’s Cates by insisting only women who’ve given birth from wombs they were born with can be considered mothers!
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Seth Cotlar
3 days ago
There really wasn't much of substance to engage with in Trump's SOTU, but the childish, 1950s-vintage vision of US History it ended with is notable for its ultra-nationalist and eliminationist logic. David Neiwert gets at it here.
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The History We Hide: Trump’s War on Memory
MAGA wants to make us forget about our eliminationist past—so they can repeat it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidneiwert/p/the-history-we-hide-trumps-war-on?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
3 days ago
The lesson, as many of us have been shouting for years, is that white supremacists hate us all— and any member of a minoritized group that thinks they’re the exception is utterly delusional.
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Jeff Sharlet
3 days ago
We could say this is just about money, or incompetence, but there's no denying what it is in practice: Bezos effectively siding with Russia.
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Robinson Meyer
3 days ago
Today on Shift Key: HOW THE DATA CENTER BOOM IS CHANGING IN 2026 I’m joined by Peter Freed, former head of energy strategy at Meta, to discuss the challenge of financing the data center boom & how data center developers are pairing two unlikely energy sources together:
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Data Centers Are Creating a New Kind of Battery Monster
Rob checks in with Near Horizon Group’s Peter Freed about the AI boom’s power needs.
https://heatmap.news/podcast/shift-key-s3-e31-peter-freed-data-centers
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Liberal Currents
3 days ago
"If any moderately tech-literate user can bypass a law, its primary function shifts from protection to signaling and surveillance. The law restricts speech not by preventing access, but by imposing friction, risk, and data collection on those who comply."
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The Far Right’s Mission of ‘Protecting Minors’ From Online Porn Broke the Internet
A new censorship infrastructure is being built right out in public.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-far-rights-mission-of-protecting-minors-from-online-porn-broke-the-internet/
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Sharon
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watching a guy with 8.8M subscribers put out this propaganda: there's a transnational far-right power grab and you're not ready for it
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Techie blowhards betting on things they have no idea about versus normie econ types have already lost a 1,000,000 dollar bet about inflation and now got cleaned out on Kalshi
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Nick Timiraos
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A tax economist put his entire life savings into a prediction market bet that DOGE wouldn’t cut spending. His wife read the Kalshi comments from the people on the other side and grew *more* confident because “they didn’t seem to understand what they were buying.” He made a 37% return
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The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE
Until Elon Musk came roaring into the nation’s capital, Alan Cole was largely a plain-vanilla investor.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-tax-nerd-who-bet-his-life-savings-against-doge-6b59eda2?st=graguy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sharon
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I mean that would require them to know of any American political thinkers beyond Fukuyama, Huntington, and the New York Times antiwoke beat
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He wrote a book about how to dismantle the Civil Rights Act in 2023 and cowrote Project 2025 as well, it's not like he had a cringe phase ten years ago he's regretful over. His *recent* blog posts about trans people are that they're disgusting and pitiable, and his stuff on race is still abhorrent
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jamelle
3 days ago
caring about literal white supremacist hate is woke and cringe so, you know
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from figurative blood libel to *literal* blood libel
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transsexual gynomorph
5 days ago
very important video please watch
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elias isquith
4 days ago
A deeply humane and, I found, moving piece from
@jvl.bsky.social
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Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Flight 93
The memorials are the same; it’s the terrorists who have changed.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/alex-pretti-renee-good-and-flight-93?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=2jj89g&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Zak Yudhishthu
4 days ago
Haven't seen it on Bluesky yet: a nice paper is making the rounds, estimating that the cost of housing permits in LA can explain 1/3 of the gap between construction costs and housing prices. That is: LA's terribly slow housing permitting is extremely costly!
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the citrini thing is slop but unfortunately so is most ai commentary (except my own, obviously)
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Quantian
4 days ago
Ed Zitron must be absolutely seething that “guy who wrote a blog post so good it wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars of growth stock market cap in a day” is in fact a real job you can do but it turns out it’s not him.
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Dan Davies
4 days ago
at Alphaville, I point out that the G20 has no agenda (as in, I am not just saying it's a bit rudderless, there is literally a placeholder website where its program usually lives) and this may be a problem
www.ft.com/content/84ad...
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Global regulation, the best is yet to come
Rules < rulers
https://www.ft.com/content/84adad06-a224-456b-b12f-1c81ff1bf353
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what's the word for like an oyster catcher? an oystermonger? i haven't seen any consistent options
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Justin Carter
4 days ago
A Knight of Seven Boroughs
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Bill McKay
4 days ago
The piece I wrote for Liberal Currents on Musk's USAID cuts and how we can respond to them is out, take a look if you get the chance.
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