Milan Babic
@mbabic.bsky.social
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climate politics, state & corporate power | author 'The Rise of State Capital': http://t.ly/MfSm & 'Geoökonomie' (2025): https://t.ly/4nUBl | contact: milanbabic.com
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mbabic.bsky.social
the whole list seems to be AI slop. Few of these sources actually exist.
mbabic.bsky.social
as someone working with the demographic affected by this on a daily basis, I see two ways out:

either the AI bubble bursts and we get back to a pre-pandemic graduate job market (lol)-

or soft neo-luddism becomes a political idea progressives should seriously consider

www.ft.com/content/62e7...
The graduate ‘jobpocalypse’: Where have all the entry-level jobs gone? | FT Working It
The promise of AI’s workplace abilities amid economic uncertainties have caused many companies to take pause
www.ft.com
mbabic.bsky.social
good article by Wallace-Wells on the diminishing salience of climate politics and how geoeconomic competition is reshaping decarbonization: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.
www.nytimes.com
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
the history will continue until morale improves
poorly photoshopped die Hard 2 poster with Francis Fukuyama wielding a gun in front of explosion. caption: "History 2"
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maxwillems.bsky.social
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️

It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...

It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Short 🧵 ...
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
let's fucking go
cleanpowerdave.bsky.social
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

🧵
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edzitron.com
At first I thought GPT 5 had got this right then I saw things like "Tonnessee," "Mississipo" and my personal favourite "West Wigina." Please do not respond just saying the different typos to me we can all read the joke, we all know about "Distrricke"
mbabic.bsky.social
Neu in der WirtschaftsWoche: habe einen Essay darüber geschrieben, wie wir die nicht mehr so flache Weltordnung besser verstehen können. Schaut mal rein 👇

emagazin.wiwo.de
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volts.wtf
Sodium-iron batteries at grid scale: 200MW/400MWh, enough to "regulate up to 580 GWh annually."

"The facility supports more than 30 local wind and solar power stations, alleviating the impact of intermittent supply and facilitating the integration of high shares of renewables into the grid."
😍
China launches world’s first grid-forming sodium-ion battery storage plant
The Baochi Storage Station in Yunnan integrates lithium and sodium-ion technologies at scale, a global first, aiming to stabilize renewable energy and cut costs as China accelerates its energy transit...
www.pv-magazine.com
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mbabic.bsky.social
'we can win back voters many have written off – if we give them something to vote *for*'
anildash.com
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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benbraun.bsky.social
🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate.

Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.

We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Screenshot of the title page of linked article:
"Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks"
By Benjamin Braun and Maximilian Düsterhöft
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nataschastrobl.bsky.social
Schon krass wie Menschen nach jedem Funken Hoffnung dürsten.

Fast als könnten progressive Parteien was davon lernen.
mbabic.bsky.social
Mamdani defined what he calls the politics of the future in his post-election speech.
This is how you beat fascism: not by administrating the decline (hello Democrats), but by contrasting the darkness of fascist end-times obsession with the vision of a new dawn. More of this, please 👇👇👇
mbabic.bsky.social
The fundamental task to maintain some price (and hence political) stability in a heating and geopolitical world is to decarbonize rapidly and fairly.

Everything else is noise.