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Jan Lindberg wrote that a person from Fores in SVT had said that it would be impossible for the Center Party to reach an agreement with the Sweden Democrats. Lindberg argued that the Center Party saw itself as the obvious midpoint of politics and expected other parties to relate to it. He also wrote that the person had not considered that the Center Party, according to him, had a good chance of being removed from the parliament in an extraordinary election. https://t.co/qnkE7Hd0lS #Politik #Sverige #Riksdag (translated)

Maria Falk wrote that she considered it a waste of time to discuss with people who believed that public service conveyed neutral news. She described the conversations as meetings with someone from a parallel universe and said that they gave her a headache every time. She also wished her followers a nice Thursday. #publicservice #nyheter #diskussion (translated)

Scheldt stated that according to him a new rule applied within the N-VA universe: when an officer with a Muslim name died, they were thanked by name in parliament by the president, while apparently this did not happen for an ordinary officer who was shot dead. #NVA #politiek #discussie (translated)

Tadek Solarz wrote that KLM, according to him, moved the written customer service to the Philippines, which would lead to the loss of about 150 Dutch jobs. Filipino employees would answer Dutch customer inquiries using AI translation software. Solarz stated that KLM paid Dutch customer service employees about €2,650 gross per month, compared to an average of around €300 for similar work in Manila—a difference of almost 90%. He contrasted this development with calls from trade unions and policymakers for higher quality jobs and higher salaries. He also wrote that according to PISA research, one third of Dutch fifteen-year-olds did not reach the minimum level of reading proficiency. He warned that simple jobs were disappearing while the demands on employees were increasing, even though such work served as a stepping stone to the labor market for many people. According to Solarz, the economy was increasingly demanding higher qualifications, while a significant portion of the future workforce struggled with basic skills. #KLM #klantenservice #arbeidsmarkt (translated)

Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, has announced a massive shift towards artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of its games, while Disney made a $1.5 billion investment in the company in 2024 to create a connected game universe. #IA #EpicGames #Fortnite (translated)

Furkan Yildirim wrote that, according to recent reports, SpaceX intends to borrow 40 billion dollars to purchase Nvidia chips. Nvidia itself holds around 123 million SpaceX shares and is simultaneously building a 500-billion-dollar platform with six major financial institutions that offers loans to customers for Nvidia chips and guarantees part of it. Yildirim described this as a circular flow of money. According to the Financial Times, 10 billion dollars of the SpaceX deal should come from bank loans and 30 billion from bonds. Apollo is supposed to lead it, which according to Yildirim is also one of the partners of Nvidia's platform. When SpaceX was looking for investors, they received a two-page memo with space images describing the data centers as being located in an unspecified place in space. An investor reportedly asked, according to the Financial Times, how he should explain that to his investment committee. Yildirim also pointed to skepticism in the bond market: SpaceX sold bonds worth 25 billion dollars in June; the bonds, maturing in 2056, are currently trading at around 85 cents on the dollar and have a risk premium at junk bond levels. SpaceX reported losses of 4.9 billion dollars in 2025 and 4.28 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2026 alone. Nevertheless, the company is officially considered an investment-worthy debtor at the second worst level of this category. According to Yildirim, this classification allows insurers and pension funds to purchase bonds on a larger scale. Apollo's life insurer Athene typically takes a large share in such deals. As further evidence of the development, Yildirim cited information from Goldman Sachs, indicating that by 2026 about 500 billion dollars in AI-related debt had already been taken on. By the end of the year, the bank expects more than 750 billion dollars and nearly 1.2 trillion dollars for 2027. According to the Financial Times, Nvidia also negotiated with insurers at the end of September about the transfer of default risks related to chip loans. Yildirim wrote that the investment boom is increasingly being financed through debt and referred to a detailed video on the topic published the previous day. #SpaceX #Nvidia #Finanzen (translated)

The Physics Nobel Prize 2026 will be awarded to the Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen for his significant contributions to the IceCube experiment at the South Pole and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from the universe. #PhysikNobelpreis #Neutrinos #IceCube (translated)

Dr. David Lütke wrote pointedly that a failure of Merz, according to his portrayal, would not only cause the government to fail, but also Europe, Ukraine, the climate, the world, the galaxy, and ultimately the universe. He named Putin, Trump, and the AfD as those responsible. https://t.co/kDThLIROtZ #Politik #Regierung #Krise (translated)

There is a crisis in cosmology, as the dark energy spectroscopic instrument DESI operating in the Arizona mountains has created the largest three-dimensional map of the universe, which calls into question our understanding of dark energy and pushes us to look at perspectives for rewriting the cosmological standard model. #kosmoloogia #tumeenergia #universum (translated)

Uurimus näitas, et nii väikeste kui ka supermassiivsete mustade aukude ainet neelamise ja välja paiskamise mehhanismid on ühesugused, tuginedes samadele füüsikaseadustele, mis võimaldab astronoomidel paremini ennustada, millal ja milliseid ainejugasid mustad augud tekitavad. #mustauk #universum #astronoomia