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We're 24 hours from the first Full Moon of the year! This Cancer Moon offers a huge lesson on feelings and goals. Your goals should energize and nurture you. But do they feel like stone cold statues? Staring you down, saying you can't live up to a great ideal in your head?

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My first review for #bookstr in 2026 is the thoroughly enjoyable “The National System of Political Economy” by Friedrich List.

Written in 1841, it provides an excellent snapshot of thought in his day. His background (itself very interesting) shines through his ideas, and reading his thoughts on the future of the new nation of Texas, matter-of-fact views on slavery, talk about cloth manufacturing like people discuss Nvidia today, international competition, and his disputes with Adam Smith’s laissez-faire is very interesting.

List belongs to the Historic School of Economics which no longer really exists in Western thought since the Methodenstreit out of which Menger birthed the Austrian school.

Book One is List’s history of a bunch of important nations and I found this particularly fascinating. His discussion of the Hanseatic Leagues and the interplay with a burgeoning England is super interesting, and about the ebbs and flows of Portuguese, Dutch and French power, and his The Germans section is simply excellent. History buffs with an interest in economics would enjoy Book One as a standalone, it’s truly excellent.

If I was to sum up List’s main arguments I’d say it’s twofold. One, he takes issue with Adam Smith not differentiating between agricultural and manufacturing productions. Smith’s classic example of Scotland growing grapes for wine says List, is stupid; no-one thinks they should - they should trade for agricultural products their nation is unsuited for. But they should make that trade by developing higher order manufacturing, not by trying to trade commodities for commodities. He focussed a lot on this split.

Which brings us to his second point that nations are at different stages of development - it’s fine for Britain (and Smith) to argue for free trade because they stand to benefit most from it being the most developed country on Earth at writing, but if other nations hope to compete then they must protect infant industry by way of tariffs and balancing trade such that they can develop enough to eventually compete.

This thinking is what has dominated Asian economics; it’s why China are where they are, it’s why Worst Korea and Japan have conglomerates like Hyundai and Mitsubishi.

And it’s also behind Trump’s hard-ons for tariffs in 2025 (albeit Trump’s influence is from American thinkers influenced by List; not List himself).

So just from an understanding of what’s happening in the world today, I’d highly recommend this book. You’ll gain an appreciation for the economic thinking influencing modern policy makers on protectionism, and a more nuanced way to think about laissez faire which I think is well worth considering.

If you want to read beyond Austrian school economics and broaden your perspective, this would be worthwhile to at leash challenge your own notions.

Chelsea tracking Morocco international starlet

Chelsea's scouts and board have met to discuss a transfer move for 22-year-old right-back Omar El Hilali, currently playing for Spanish outfit Espanyol. The defender has caught the eye with several good performances this season, including two assists, and the Blues are weighing up a transfer deal that could be worth up to andamp;pound;18 million to sign the youngster.

https://www.eyefootball.com/news/61439/Chelsea-tracking-Morocco-international-starlet.html

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Morning phenix

Truth ☀️💜🧡

I'm not familiar with them... I've figured for a while the only place I feel comfortable keeping my work is to self host, obviously that has MAJOR impact on visibility etc. I'm lucky in that most my income is as a studio/live engineer rather than artist/perfomer but I have ultimate control over the files' visabilty (as much as any digital artefact can be) and official usage. I'm not relying on sending it into some blackbox of tech to see if it's gonna pay any bills.

Supporting those platforms, you're an employee but on less than gig economy conditions, everything about 'being viral' is about you publicing the platform for them.. I'd rather go my own way with things and there is a cost to that.

My overiding thought today is we just have to try and build a whole parallel internet, nothing is set up in our favour and everything feels like a battle in the digital world.

That looks like a fun folk tradition.

法国拟推动立法进一步限制未成年人使用社交媒体

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据法国媒体报道，法国议会将于今年1月审议一项由政府起草的法案，该法案旨在自今年9月1日起禁止未满15岁的未成年人使用社交媒体。报道说，政府推动这项立法的初衷是保护未成年人免受不良网络内容骚扰，以及沉迷社交网络可导致的睡眠障碍等伤害。法案还包含禁止高中生在校期间使用手机的相关条款。法国政府自2018年起已禁止从幼儿园到初中的在校学生使用手机，但该举措并未得到充分落实。（新华社）

https://m.jiemian.com/article/13837576.html

ロシアとウクライナ “攻撃受けた” 1日の攻撃を双方が非難 #nhk_news

https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015018251000

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私はそもそも最初

> echo '[1,2,3]' | jq '[.[] | select(. >= 2)] | add' #=> 5

> を何と言うか [.[] | select()] と一旦ストリームにしてから配列に再構築するんじゃなくて

> echo '[1,2,3]' | jq '. | filter(. >= 2)] | add' #=> 5

> みたいに配列のまま扱う何かは無いもんか

と，配列のまま扱う何かを求めていたのですが，そもそも map(f) を使ったとて [.[] | f] してるのであればそれは「配列のまま扱ってるわけじゃない」のであって，そこもおかしかった．

Zur Vervollständigung sollte da noch die Erwerbsquote von Frauen dazu. Die ist auch deutlich gestiegen und erklärt einen Teil des Anstiegs.

These people are fricking insane.

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