This is the first oil crisis in which clean alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries — are both inexpensive and widely available.
clean technology flying off the shelves already...
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There is no hope, is there?
ohhh we've got some stone-cold stunners, folks
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the curse of living in godless berlin and not the catholic south is that easter is relatively boring.
Exciting
The curse of brilliant policy ideas flesh out through Pocast conversations is that I have a backlog of Podcasts - and I only listen to them while on commute. So much better if they have transcripts to read and internalise.
‘Unwaged and often unrecorded, “women’s work” has proved too difficult to measure. It is the great originality of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬, a research project led by Jane Whittle, to have found a solution to this problem.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on medieval work.
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“If managed effectively, globalization can still live up to its once vaunted potential as a counterweight to global fragmentation and conflict,” argues Eswar Prasad.
My last chance at starting my PhD next month is shot down. Can anyone advise an international student in Germany here what stipends I can still apply? And any short-term contract research or any jobs that can bridge my time here until the next cycle of stipends?
What’s left in the German intellectual public sphere? Sloterdijk?
Requiescat in Pace, Habermas, who died on the birthdays of Einstein and Marx.
here's mine: I'm at a reception at the home of one of my philosophy profs in Evanston, and as I turn a corner I see Habermas and Derrida standing face to face—for the first time in a decade since their falling out. they're smiling and cordial, speaking English to one another. I can't find my voice.
Jürgen Habermas gestorben #Eilmeldung
I hope everyone’s got your Minsky books somewhere where you can reach them easily. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
I am aghast that a first world country like Germany does not stock up on escalator spare parts. @deutschebahn.com
Seems like they’ve been cutting corners.
Depthless vanity meets censorious overreaction .
First direct incident on the territory of an EU member state in the fallout of the US/Israel-Iran war in Cyprus, targeted at the UK base. More and more Europe is getting drawn in.
In Frankfurt am Main for a night, and I miss how friendly people in the Rhein-Main region is in contrast to the coldness of Berliners.
All the ÖPNV delays from signalling problems and cable theft. It’s getting really ridiculous, laying bare the incompetence of the authorities.
my mom’s college friend texted asking me to remove ‘ADHD and autistic’ from my instagram so that she may forward my book to ‘the ladies’
I will absolutely not be doing that. at least not at this time for that reason
in case you’d like to buy it www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654317...
The debacle over the Tooze profile is my idea of entertainment.
The sheer incompetence of @deutschebahn.com in going through a byzantine process ro acquire Deutschlandticket. It’s been two hours and i cant even get Tink or Verimi to approve my subscription.
I'm just reading some of the debates about the American Constituion, and this quote by Benjamin Franklin seems particularly relevant today:
"[T]here are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money.
"The conditions upon return [for Russian POW] can be so dire that some families have lobbied to keep their sons out of prisoner exchanges."
The mind boggles. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
I think a lot about how New Dealers plastered plaques on everything they built and hired Woody Guthrie to tour the Pacific Northwest writing propaganda songs about power dams. those guys knew ball
“Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed.”
I genuinely affirmatively think that it is now a democratic imperative to spend as much time as you can offline. Read more offline. Socialise more offline. Discuss media you consume with other people offline. Out there is a real world full of people looking for real human connection - seize it
