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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 4h

What is "real money" in this context? They seem to be implying that only gold and silver are real money. Is this not a perfect example of fetishism? Gold and silver are not special. They don't have any inherent, unique characteristic that makes them "real" currency.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 1d

@econmarshall.bsky.social has described this better than I can, saying that libertarianism is basically a form of white supremacy. Idk if I'd go that far, but he has a point, especially in the American context where it has always functioned as an attack on the civil rights movement & welfare state.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 1d

These people are perfectly happy to embrace hierarchies that benefit them and abuse whatever privileges they can. They only thought (pretended?) they hated the state because it said they had to pay their employees a minimum wage and send their kids to school with black kids.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 1d

As I've gotten older I've realized this sort of phony libertarianism developed because the federal government was perceived as helping undeserving (read: black) people. It was never based on any deeper concerns about abuses of power.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 1d

China accounted for most of the increase in clean generation: 55% of solar, 82% of wind, and 73% of nuclear, leading for the third consecutive year.

They also accounted for 54% of the global increase in electricity demand.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 1d

New analysis from @ember-energy.org shows that compared to the first six months of 2024, the first six months of 2025 saw a 31% increase in global solar generation and a .6% decline in fossil generation. Renewables overtook coal for the first time.

A graph comparing changes in generation from different sources

A graph showing line charts of electricity generation with renewables higher than coal

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 1d

New analysis from @ember-energy.org shows that compared to the first six months of 2024, the first six months of 2025 saw a 31% increase in global solar generation and a .6% decline in fossil generation. Renewables overtook coal for the first time.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 3d

Paper is a senior thesis by Samuel Fury Childs Daly who currently teaches at the University of Chicago

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 3d

I went down a rabbit hole reading about Walter Rodney and Tanzania and came across a familiar name. Mahmood Mamdani quoted in this paper on the 1964 revolution in Zanzibar. You may have heard of his son @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 😉✊

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 7d

The last coal-fired power plant in New England has closed.

Coal power is gone: Merrimack Station in Bow has shut for good - Concord Monitor

Six decades after it began, coal-fired electricity is officially gone from New England following the shut-down of Merrimack Station in Bow, the region’s last power plant of its kind. Merrimack Station...

www.concordmonitor.com

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 7d

Researchers at King's College London find that income inequality is "a unique societal-level determinant of neurodevelopment and mental health, independent of individual socioeconomic status."

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health

Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.

www.nature.com

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Nobody 56 Special @mrbuick.bsky.social · 8d

:long drag off unfiltered cigarette:
:deep sigh upon exhale:
:opens wallet:

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 8d

Coming this spring. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Against Money

A powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev. Money is unavoidably fundamental to our daily lives. It lurks behind ...

press.uchicago.edu

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 8d

I don't know either but I assume it's that contraption in the Chinese fellatio factory Jordan Peterson tweeted about.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 9d

Traveling for work but you know I keep that thang on me (left wing literature)

The book Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought sits on my lap at the airport

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 9d

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 10d

The tour by @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social is fantastic if you are ever in Barcelona. The Church of San Felipe Neri was especially touching. It was bombed by Francoist forces in the war killing many children. When we visited there were children playing there again 😭

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 10d

Collectives in the Spanish Revolution describes the socioeconomic changes in amazing detail, but doesn't cover political or military developments much.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 10d

Tough question! I haven't read all of these yet, but I can say Homage to Catalonia by Orwell is many people's first exposure to these events and it's very good writing, but comes from a very specific on the ground perspective that may exaggerate Soviet influence.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 10d

Hace unos años me interesa la Revolución española. Cuando viajo a españa trato de visitar a lugares de importancia histórica. ¡Aquí está mi colección de libros de este tema! Y mi gatita Juniper.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 10d

I've been interested in the Spanish Revolution for a few years now. Whenever I travel to Spain I try to visit places of historical importance. Here's my collection of books on this theme! And my cat Juniper 😺

#spanishrevolution #revolucionespañola #booksandcats #booksky

A grey cat sits next to a stack of books on the Spanish Revolution and relevant events. In the background is a framed poster showing important factions of this time period

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 12d

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · Jan 7

My first book of 2025 is the powerful and provocative memoir of Assata Shakur. A member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and later the Black Liberation Army (BLA), she was hounded by police, spied on by the FBI, and accused of crimes she did not commit 💙📚

Brown book with a picture of a black woman and ASSATA written in red letters at the top. The background is a brown wicker basket surface.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 19d

Just finished up this tour with Nick and I can say it is absolutely worth it! One of the best travel experiences I've had. His knowledge, passion, and friendliness are unsurpassed. Thank you, Nick! @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

Photo of the Barcelona Telephone Exchange and a photo of a soldier in front of the same building during the Spanish Civil War

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 20d

using funding provided by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). For additional information: globalwindatlas.info

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 20d

Map obtained from the Global Wind Atlas version 4.0, a free, web-based application developed, owned and operated by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The Global Wind Atlas version 4.0 is released in partnership with the World Bank Group, utilizing data provided by Vortex,

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 20d

Bo Krohn Hansen, Duncan Heathfield, Marko Onninen, Ray Drummond; The Global Wind Atlas: A high-resolution dataset of climatologies and associated web-based application; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 104: Issue 8, Pages E1507-E1525, August 2023, DOI: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 20d

Neil N. Davis, Jake Badger, Andrea N. Hahmann, Brian O. Hansen, Niels G. Mortensen, Mark Kelly, Xiaoli G. Larsén, Bjarke T. Olsen, Rogier Floors, Gil Lizcano, Pau Casso, Oriol Lacave, Albert Bosch, Ides Bauwens, Oliver James Knight, Albertine Potter van Loon, Rachel Fox, Tigran Parvanyan, Søren...

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