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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 35m

"...there is a deadlock of imagination in the global north, and a deadlock in the possibility of action in the global south.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom

www.theguardian.com

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 43m

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 58m

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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WikiResearch @wikiresearch.bsky.social · 11h

"Demographic disparity in Wikipedia coverage: a global perspective" (top 12 languages) epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/1…
- Women slightly overrepresented (not underrepresented) among living article subjects since ~2015, but still have shorter articles
- Developing countries overrepresented

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 13h

"Putting the cart before the horse" is a good analogy to describe demands for climate action that are completely removed from demands to provide climate finance. Climate action in developing countries faces many structural barriers of which climate finance is a big one

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 1d

In case that's of interest, I'm speaking at the LSE in a couple of weeks (22 October, 6.30pm - 8pm) alongside brilliant peeps.
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Seeing Beyond the Core: Alternative visions of order in times of global crisis

6.30pm Weds 22 Oct | Ilias Alami, Lina Benabdallah, Jasmine Gani, Jenna Marshall | Free public event at LSE

www.lse.ac.uk

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 18h

You’re the sun that I want?

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Héctor Tejero @htejero.bsky.social · 18h

I got chills, they're multiplying
And I'm losing control
'Cause the power you're supplying
It's electrifying (electrifying)

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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 1d

2⃣ In part 2 we open up the discussion to six Global South climate experts, Sunita Narain @ndubash.bsky.social Anumita Roychowdhury @harjeet11.bsky.social Diego Pacheco @rishirbhandary.bsky.social to weigh in

www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...

The NDC death loop (Part 2): Demands for ambition, disappointment and relevance in a fractured world

As the 30th Conference of Parties (COP30) approaches, the effectiveness of the current NDC framework under the Paris Agreement is under scrutiny. Experts argue that while ambitious targets are set, th...

www.downtoearth.org.in

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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 1d

1⃣ In part 1 we ask a list of non-exhaustive questions around the framing: is the cycle of demanding ‘ambitious’ NDCs hinged on emission-cutting targets serving the purpose of climate or low-carbon development, particularly for the Global South?

www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...

The NDC death loop (Part 1): Demands for ambition, disappointment and relevance in a fractured world

This is part one of a two-part series. Read the second part. With climate impacts escalating, climate action remains one of the most urgent imperatives. Yet the

www.downtoearth.org.in

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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 1d

🖊️New op-ed: The NDC Death Loop

As COP30 approaches, the current cycle of voluntary climate pledges is facing a crisis of relevance; climate governance needs to be reinvented, especially for the Global South

@trishant.bsky.social @cseindia.bsky.social

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1d

A slightly overlooked thing is that this was and remains a colonial war with a global audience. Unlike other colonial wars, where the mutual discovery of deeper hatred than either suspected is limited to combatants, the mutual discovery here occurred even among non-combatants.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 18h

Saw a person riding a suitcase/electric scooter down the road and we locked eyes for a bit too long

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 18h

I feel v vindicated for not paying attention to France recently

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister

Lecornu, who resigned as PM on Monday, is tasked with urgently delivering a budget to parliament The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has named Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, reappointing him after he quit the job earlier this week. Lecornu’s immediate task will be to deliver a budget to parliament by the end of Monday. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of ways to understand the contemporary moment but one is the role of owners of immobile assets - oil, gas, coal and land- who want to ensure they can continue to extract rents (and pollute) and who prefer an authoritarian set up to do so. Their threat perception rises with every new eco tech

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

This is a hell of a contrast to news that BLM has canceled a solar project in Nevada that would have delivered 6.2 GW of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau

www.nytimes.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

an important update re: convo on the convergence of interest between fossil capital as such and state managers (especially but not exclusively of petrostates) that @bostonreview.bsky.social hosted. if we can't break that then that might be the ballgame

www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Apr 18

“The control over the flow of information—which now includes not only direct communication but nearly all modern exchanges of financial and social capital—is one of the pivotal levers involved in the power struggles of contemporary geopolitics”

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

on.ft.com/3YGEEvJ

Screenshot of Financial Times Alphaville further reading:

- OpenAI is building a social network (The Verge)

- Liz Truss to launch 'uncensored' social network
to counter mainstream media (The Guardian)

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Pedro Zubieta-Funes @zetaefe.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel goes to María Corina Machado—not Trump, but a loyal disciple of his causes: backing Netanyahu, cheering Latin America’s far right, calling for a U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and dreaming of privatizing its oil. Maduro is a dictator, but this isn’t peace.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 19h

A possible defence of scrolling as inquiry?

philarchive.org/rec/SIETPO-11

The Journal of Philosophy
ONLINE FIRST
published on October 9, 2025
Susanna Siegel ®
https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil202510213
Wandering Inquiry
Inquiry is guided, in the minimal sense that it is not haphazard. It is also often thought to have as a natural stopping point ceasing to inquire, once inquiry into a question yields knowledge of an answer. On this picture, inquiry is both telic and guided. By contrast, mind-wandering is unguided and atelic, according to the most extensively developed philosophical theory of it. This paper articulates a puzzle that arises from this combination of claims: there seem to be plenty of examples of inquiry progressing within mind-wandering, yet theories of inquiry and mind-wandering can make wandering inquiry seem impossible or incoherent. I offer several solutions to this puzzle and make the case that taken together, they illuminate a prevalent form of inquiry that the burgeoning literature on that topic overlooks, to its detriment:
"low" inquiry- inquiry that progresses spontaneously, without executive control.

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The Journal of Philosophy @jrnlofphil.bsky.social · 23h

"Wandering Inquiry" by Susanna Siegel #newarticle
#onlinefirst #philosophy #philsky

doi.org/10.5840/jphi...

Wandering Inquiry - published on October 9, 2025

Inquiry is guided, in the minimal sense that it is not haphazard. It is also often thought to have as a natural stopping point ceasing to inquire, once inquiry into a question yields knowledge of an a...

www.pdcnet.org

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 1d

#observingeconomics @paulgp.com's paper on Credibility Revolution

arxiv.org/abs/2405.20604

Tracking the Credibility Revolution across Fields

This paper updates Currie, Kleven, and Zwiers (2020) by examining the credibility revolution across fields, including finance and macroeconomics, using NBER working papers up to May 2024. While the gr...

arxiv.org

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Anderson Lee @andersonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting dataset of RE cost of capital across the world
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 20h

I knew it reminded me of something

Visualization of OpenAI’s links to other tech companies

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Apr 11

Craig David emerging as the key theorist of this world historical moment:

Walking Away - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbb7... - US-China divorce

Rise & Fall - youtu.be/pU2ukeS2JTE?... - Dealing with relative decline

Fill Me In - youtu.be/3imO7PFU5cI?... - Fake/misguided attempt to deal w. trade def.

Craig David album cover for "Born To Do It"

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Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social · 1d

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