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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10h

"Deutsche Bank is exploring ways to hedge its exposure to data centres after extending billions of dollars in debt to the sector to keep up with demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing."

Deutsche Bank explores hedges for data centre exposure as AI lending booms

Executives discussing options including shorting basket of artificial intelligence stocks or using derivatives to transfer risk

www.ft.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20h

Let's be clear though. It took 3 minutes to declare a Muslim, Socialist, young, brown, immigrant's electoral victory over a former governor of New York State who is Democratic party establishment through-and-through.

Maybe we should learn something from this. Just a thought.

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 21h

I work with an exceptional doctoral candidate who is studying the blood plasma industry. Amazing work on a wild biotechnology. Can‘t wait to share her findings

Lauren Kirchner @lkirchner.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely 2025 coded - Firefighters are donating their plasma to reduce the forever chemicals in their blood. "If a firefighter donates plasma six times a year, the PFAS in their blood could be reduced by up to 60%." (The plasma is "cleaned" before being used.) www.yourvalley.net/glendale-ind...

Glendale firefighters donate plasma to change out PFAS - Glendale Independent

Across Arizona and the United States, firefighters are facing a cancer epidemic. One cause of this spike in cancer is the record high amounts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also …

www.yourvalley.net

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 22h

i think this is an answer to the question about how excited people are to vote for Mamdani

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State:

"We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

Tonight’s virtual event to launch How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with @interruptcrim.bsky.social’s @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social’s Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts has been postponed. Sign up for notice of new date

POSTPONED: How to End Family Policing

Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communitie...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Zeroisanumber-Still kicking it against the pricks @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 1d

Holy fuck! No wonder they're so desperate for AI to pop off gigantic! It's just a ponzi scheme.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

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California Public Banking Alliance @capublicbanking.bsky.social · 2d

As federal funding for states shrink, people are taking back control, building public banks owned by communities.

Join a national conversation with movement leaders + Senator Elizabeth Warren to reclaim local funds for housing, climate & more!

Nov 19, 12 PM PT/3PM ET
bit.ly/PBC2C

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d

Me: “The fixation on causal estimates is not the appropriate direction social science…What descriptive analysis provides us with are facts. Facts are nouns. Causal analysis gives us contextual estimates. They are adjectives. In the grammar of social science, we should prefer nouns to adjectives.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

Since this person screenshotted me and I can’t detach, I will point out that they are wrong. The market for fake imagery exists. People do not care if the image is accurate, only that it fits their racism.

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 3d

two of the three examples are labeled, and this is what I see in the slop feeds too. Obviously there's no demand to see fake videos of black people trying to spend EBT, the algorithms promote these videos because of people who, at least for the first few seconds, think they're real

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 5d

😭 please, no "This free, interactive workshop is designed to provide practical tools and insights to help you navigate financial challenges with confidence. Whether you’re looking to stretch your budget...or simply make smarter choices at the grocery store, this event is for you!"

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 5d

Many claim we can’t have public goods and services cuz of taxes but this myth keeps us deprived and mad.

There is enough (public) money but it’s an issue of political priorities.

To learn more, check out this @haymarketbooks.org panel I co-organized in 2020.

www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/258-pu...

Public Money and Racial Justice

Money impacts everything. We live and feel the reality of money and for many of us, money problems are the source of great physical and emotional strain. This webinar focuses on a crucial aspect of th...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 5d

My kid is dressing up as six seven for Halloween

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Truthout @truthout.org · 6d

Undoing the deeply internalized individualism that lives in most of us who grow up in capitalism is a massive undertaking of unlearning.

In These Times, We Need Consciousness Raising — and Radical Unlearning

We must unlearn fear, individualism, and the inability to act in order to confront the threats of this moment.

truthout.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." –

Grace Lee Boggs

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 7d

The destruction is devastating; naming storms after oil execs and other billionaires is such a good idea

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7d

As Hurricane Melissa batters Jamaica, climate justice activist @mikaelaloach.bsky.social says "this has been caused by the climate crisis, by fossil fuel companies." She also suggests naming storms after oil company executives to highlight their role.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 7d

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.

A screenshot of a block of text with a black background and white serif font. The text reads:

“I don’t particularly care about the symbols people use to signal their membership in a group. Maybe you do need a terrifying tattoo to be a real Marine. And maybe sometimes that terrifying tattoo might resemble Nazi iconography. If you are willing to accept that from a distance, as many Democrats say they are, a person may not be able to tell the real symbol of hate from its doppelgänger, that is for you to live with.

But, I do care about the political trade-offs we will ask people to make in the name of pragmatism. If the Democratic future requires us to exchange our discomfort with casual Nazism to advance a political agenda, I am not interested. Maybe other voters are — some polling suggests that young voters still support Platner. And maybe Platner will find a way to redeem himself. No one owes him that chance, but there is still a way forward. It’s called doing the work.

But don’t tell me that excusing that tattoo is good politics. It is the exact same politics that the right is selling, in a different outfit.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9d

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 12d

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump

“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”

www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree

Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...

www.michigandaily.com

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12d

"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12d

Really well done this

defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

defector.com

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 14d

Many progressive and leftist pundits argue that caring about racism is an elite agenda. While we should be critical of how race is weaponized by institutions for reactionary purposes, posing critiques of racism as elite suggests one must accept racism as class politics and discredits racial justice.

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 14d

The piece hasn't found a publisher yet on the grounds that its outdated or irrelevant (lots of ink already spilled on Fetterman, I've been working on this for years so I'm also tired of writing about him); but, I submit that it is still relevant

Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 14d

Meaning that headlines should stop lamenting Fetterman's betrayal of progressive voters, because this framing of betrayal is only possible after years of excusing his racism and Islamophobia

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 14d

And, that politics of white supremacy and Islamophobia in Western Pennsylvania, where Fetterman began his political career (think 9/11, Flight 93, etc.), provides some clues to his current grotesque politics (like accepting the gift of that silver pager)

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 14d

But I'm also writing this piece about John Fetterman that, in its current iteration, is about how liberals—and yes, even some leftists/progressives—couldn't read his particular class-based presentation of white masculinity for the white supremacy that it was

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 14d

I saw someone post what is a graham planter and that's where I'd prefer my level of involvement with the current Internet discourse

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