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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hahaha
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Breathtaking corruption.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
rollingstone.com
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣kalo
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Jan Dehn @jandehn.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NEW BLOG: It is known the British electoral system leads to stagnation by allowing the Big Two to ignore tough reforms. It is far less recognised that the electoral system also prevents smaller parties from gaining crucial experience in parliament and government. www.jandehn.com/post/britain...
jandehn.com
Britain's electoral system: the other problem
UK's First-Past-The-Post electoral system is known to favour Labour and the Tories. What is less recognised is that it also denies critical experience to alternative parties, who therefore tend to fa...
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Jan Dehn @jandehn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Picked up this brilliant drawing from Substack. Love Trump's hands and Bezos' tail.
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Jan Dehn @jandehn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BLOG: Epstein's influence is a symptom of a bigger problem, a SYSTEMIC failure at the heart of Western democracies. Politicians have far to much power relative to the level of accountability. It is time to reform the system to root out charlatans. Here is how: www.jandehn.com/post/what-ep...
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The Epstein files point to a systemic problem in Western democracies
Epstein's social circle included elites from all institutions and the whole political spectrum. This points to a systematic problem at the heart of Western democracies.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
finally some sense-> David Oks "Why I’m not worried about AI job loss We're not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine" davidoks.blog?utm_source=n...
davidoks.blog
David Oks | Substack
The world is what it is. Click to read David Oks, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Jan Dehn @jandehn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
America! Hello! When are you going to wake up? It is getting a bit late......they are coming for you soon! www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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Immigration officers claim sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say colli...
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Jan Dehn @jandehn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
BLOG: Always worth remembering that the finance industry and right-wing populism are bed fellows, but only so far. In the end, both break - and break apart. www.jandehn.com/post/right-w...
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Right-wing populism & the finance industry
The finance industry struggles to distinguish between populists and technocrats on the Right. It is costly.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Congrats & hang on
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/10/2025
I absolutely loath microwaves that have a setting for "power level". What kind of sicko doesn't want to always crank that thing to the max?? We be shouldn't designing our appliances for sickos.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
As an economist (for arg sake)i can confirm we don't know.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Agreed. Big question for me: How do you get chinese leadership & european values?
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.” collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
collectivefutures.blog
The infrastructure of meaninglessness
Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 26/09/2025
America: pay attention. The grift is off the charts. While Americans are paying more for groceries, Trump is making shady backroom deals. He's selling out our national security and economic dominance to enrich himself and his family.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/09/2025
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
ru.nl
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
greekreporter.com/2025/09/09/e... Economic Myth of Tourism: Why It Can’t Make a Country Rich
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The Economic Myth of Tourism: Why It Can't Make a Country Rich - GreekReporter.com
In Southern Europe, tourism is hailed as a modern "heavy industry," an engine for economic growth. But, this reliance is a dangerous illusion.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
💯Neurodivergences are probably the thing with the highest (impact to awarenesses level) ratio. Super important and barely acknowledged
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
We’re at the “I was inspired to invent the torment nexus by sci-fi and I am surprised that its primary use is torment” stage
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
💯👉Another way we are failing an entire generation: we must teach young people to speak | Simon Jenkins www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Another way we are failing an entire generation: we must teach young people to speak | Simon Jenkins
The PM promised to prioritise oracy lessons, but has failed to do so. Set against tests and exams, it is seen as a luxury: in fact it is essential, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
5/9 The Trump administration, like most academic economists, is unable to understand trade systemically, and instead thinks incrementally. But that is a mistake. It cannot change US trade imbalances through a series of one-off "deals".
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Thank God that Commerzbank has a female CEO. Otherwise that picture would have been *really* embarrassing.
German CEOs and German chancellor
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Our preprint “How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy” is now online. We show how coordinated multi-agent LLM swarms can infiltrate communities, craft synthetic grassroots “consensus,” and erode institutional trust—and what we can do now to stop it. osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io
OSF
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
cyprus-mail.com/2025/06/22/m... @cyprus-mail.com nice article! Didn't even know this museum existed
cyprus-mail.com
‘Most boring’ museum has a dusty charm
The door to the Postal Museum creaked open and then silence.   Instead of the soft hum of tourists flipping through postcards or the shuffling of school groups, I was greeted with silence so...
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Chart-heavy thread incoming. This is an attempt to survey the research to answer the question - were the forecasts predicting a lot of Brexit damage correct? 1/n.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Σκέφτομαι αν πήραν ημειλ από @iranianmfa.com και να το πιστεψαν;
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L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
My latest: With one possible exception, there have never been this many coordinated protests on a single day in the U.S. before. I explore why the omnipresence of these peaceful demonstrations matters so deeply, in the face of authoritarian overreach: lakauffman.substack.com/p/when-peace...
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When Peaceful Protests Are Everywhere
There were more than 2000 No Kings demonstrations on June 14, a record-breaking number: Why this ubiquity matters
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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This @jackiesnow.bsky.social @nytimes.com , on GLP-1 wt loss contagion in families www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/w... will not surprise @nachristakis.bsky.social... his 2007 @nejm.org-> www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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In Some Ozempic Households, the Weight Loss Is Contagious
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Jan Dehn @jandehn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
MAG 7, aka the Monopoly Seven. Other countries frown upon monopolies, but America loves them. The social benefits of these companies are substantially lower than their shareholder value due to predatory business practices, but the US doesn’t give a toss about victims; it only cares about winners.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
From Hadestown to Hercules: ancient myths are the gods’ gift to musicals www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
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From Hadestown to Hercules: ancient myths are the gods’ gift to musicals
Newly arrived in the West End, Disney’s demigod is the latest mythological A-lister to knock out showtunes. Why are deities such as Hermes and the ‘half-blood’ Percy Jackson having a moment in musical...
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Krugman wants Europe to help American democracy. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
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A Letter to Europe
You’re stronger than you think. Act like it.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Γριά Μιλλένιαλ @griamillenial.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Έσβησα τον τόπο της επίθεσης επειδή εν έσσιει τόση σημασία. Πλέον υπάρχει ένα φανατισμένο σύνολο που δρα οργανωμένα τζαι βίαια απέναντι σε όσα δεν του αρέσκουν. Οι νέοι εδηλητηριαστήκαν, λέμε τζαι ξαναλέμε, τζαι κανένας εν ακούει.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is so true and equally valid of Trump’s other fellow travelers: “free speech purists” who hate progressives more than they love free speech; “economic nationalists” who hate foreigners more than they love their own; and the tech billionaires who hate regulation more than they love science.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Arsonist fireman syndrome
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"It was an extraordinary admission. If only America’s top economic officials had hit upon the ingenious idea of meeting their Chinese counterparts in person before Liberation Day, the world’s two biggest economies might have been spared a great deal of turmoil." www.economist.com/finance-and-...
economist.com
America has given China a strangely good tariff deal
For the next 90 days, at least
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katharinapistor.bsky.social @katharinapistor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
When a constitutional and a corporate lawyer put their heads together to suggest how NOT to do governance reforms @columbiauniversity.bsky.socia balkin.blogspot.com/2025/05/revi...
balkin.blogspot.com
Balkinization: Review It All
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Janan Ganesh on Kemi Badenoch www.ft.com/content/eaba...
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Amateurs
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/04/2025
Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, isn’t sure who to talk to in Europe about a dispute that threatens to wreck the €1.6 trillion transatlantic trade relationship.
politico.eu
Who handles trade in the EU? The US isn’t sure.
Even after several visits by EU officials to Washington to discuss trade, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he doesn’t know who to talk to on the Brussels side to hash out a deal.
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ac999.bsky.social @ac999.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools
Survey finds social media main cause of poor behaviour, with pupils mimicking Donald Trump and Andrew Tate
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/04/2025
Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump Has Found His Class Enemy
The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The exemptions come days after U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told senators that “the president has been clear with me and with others that he does not intend to have exclusions and exemptions.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
Phones, other electronics exempt from new tariffs, Trump administration says
The exemptions come days after the U.S. trade representative said “the president has been clear” that he does not intend to give exemptions to the tariffs.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 11/04/2025
Vibe check: this is the top-rated comment on a Financial Times article on worsening liquidity and trading conditions in the US Treasury market.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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