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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10h

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 13h

France is now in a debt crisis. What matters is the level of yields and the rate at which they're rising. The ECB is to blame. It intervened aggressively to cap Italian and Spanish yields in 2022, so the warning signals that should have come never did... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-a-glob...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 13h

1/ What does it take to become 'meat' in the Russian army? The bottom line, observes one Russian warblogger, is that anyone can become a disposable assault trooper for use in a suicidal attack – it just depends on your commander's attitude and who you might have annoyed. ⬇️

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 17h

Despite sanctions, US exports to Cuba are booming • US firms have shipped 850,000 barrels of fuel (mostly gasoline) to Cuba since Feb. • US allows trade with Cuba’s nascent private sector to head off humanitarian crisis & displace regime as primary supplier of goods www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 13h

Fascinating case study of how misinformation and just-so stories get spread. A Wikipedia editor used bogus citations to mis-credit many small inventions to classic-era Islamic scholars, attributions which then ended up in numerous popular books, articles, etc.

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The Invention of Islamic Invention

How a rogue Wikipedia editor credited Muslims with... everything

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 13h

De retour. Les événements se seraient déroulés dans une grande école d’officiers de l’armée de terre il y a environ une vingtaine d’années. Pour se faire une idée, l’école en question comportait trois cursus d’élèves officiers, soit environ 600 élèves en rythme de croisière, dans la lande bretonne.

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 17h

Puisqu’on évoque le problème du papier-toilettes dans les établissements d’enseignement il faudra peut être que je vous raconte un jour comment la maladie d’un seul caporal-chef a causé le chaos et la desolation pendant trois semaines dans une grande école militaire française

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18h

RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 21h

India's education system is failing vast majority of kids • India withdrew from global PISA assessment in 2009, when it ranked 73rd out of 74 countries • Only 7% of graduates find job within a year because of huge gap between number of graduates and number of jobs www.economist.com/asia/2026/09...

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My today's short essay (Substack) Against purposeful activity and Abrahamic religions in a world of abundance A note on Keynes’ “Economic Possibilities…” branko2f7.substack.com/p/against-pu...

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Against purposeful activity and Abrahamic religion in a world of abundance

A note on Keynes’ “Economic Possibilities…”

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Martin Anota @manota.bsky.social · 22h

Global imbalances and the China challenge (Sébastien Jean & Jean-Pierre Landau) cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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Anne Lavigne @alavigne.bsky.social · 20h

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Couverture du numéro spécial de la Revue d'économie financière, 1991, consacré aux 175 ans de la Caisse des dépôts et consignations.

Première page de mon article dans le numéro spécial, "175 ans de bilans. Jalons pour une histoire financière de la CDC"

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is it?

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Chinese plug-in hybrids. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Alarm bells sound in Brussels as EU sales of Chinese hybrid cars rocket

Explosive growth in imported vehicles omitted from EV tariffs fuels concern for future of European carmakers

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Under the constitutional regime of the Vth République, the president is directly elected by the people of France in a three-round election (editors/Claude, please check for accuracy)

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 29/09/2026

Plug-in #EV share of new passenger-car sales/registrations around August 2026, counting BEVs + PHEVs/EREVs. The remarkable thing isn’t Norway approaching 100%. It’s who else is on the list. Different continents. Different incomes. Different grids. Different governments. Same technological S-curve.

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 29/09/2026

Mainstream narrative of China shock decimating EU industry may be overblown • Over past decade, China accounted for just one quarter of growth in bloc's extra-EU imports • China's share of EU’s imports has barely moved over past decade, rising from 20.5% to 22.3% www.economist.com/business/202...

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 28/09/2026

Wow. Check out the European numbers on favourable views of the US versus favourable views of China….

Screenshot showing poll of how 36 countries see the US and China. Large majority has a more favourable view of China than the US including most European contries

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social and I have a @britishacademy.bsky.social paper on how the US is now somehow managing to combine gross overuse of dollar power (e.g. upcoming ICC sanctions) with genial complaisance about the use of crypto to circumvent ordinary controls

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The US dollar system as a source of international disorder

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Orynick @orynick.fr · 28/09/2026

La page qui s'affiche quand il y a un souci sur le Financial Times est magistrale 😆

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 28/09/2026

feels like a neologism waiting to happen: hyperbonds? claudebonds?

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Anne Lavigne @alavigne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Je relaie ici exceptionnellement une publication sur LinkedIn de mon collègue Christophe Hurlin, président sortant de l'AFSE. lnkd.in/p/exY9466H

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Le repas au crous a 1€ pour tous les étudiants est une catastrophe. Et bien évidemment il sera impossible de revenir dessus.

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📽️ What happens when the world's biggest exporter of one of the most important substances for modern civilisation decides to stop exporting it? We might be about to find out. 🛢️Primer on US diesel and the coming fuel crunch, inc why it could be especially grisly for Britain👇 youtu.be/sYnmyKB9_G8?...

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Trump threatens to ban diesel exports, but at what cost?

YouTube video by Sky News

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Anne Lavigne @alavigne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bientôt dans toutes les bonnes bibliothèques. @patrickaubert.bsky.social @laurentsoulat.bsky.social

Première de couverture du dernier numéro de la Revue d'économie politique, avec le sommaire : "Réformes des retraites : incitations, vulnérabilités, bien être"

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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

EV charging in China was 17.2 TWh in August, up 51.2% year-on-year. That's equivalent to ~1.3 million barrels of oil a day, in a global oil market that shifts about 100m bpd. Just the change from last year cuts global oil demand by 0.5m bpd. english.cec.org.cn#/newsdetails...

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Finally some good news

Photo of a marmot in the rocks. The headline reads: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is pretty incredible. Stocks of banks, travel agents, gyms, phone companies and other companies who benefit from "consumer inertia" got wallopped yesterday. The common thread: AI agents will allow people to get better deals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

La solution pour éviter d’être accusé d’avoir écrit son texte avec de l’IA, c’est de mettre plein de scènes de sexe dedans. L’avenir de la littérature c’est Gérard de Villiers

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A couple of years ago, as Trump II was starting, I was looking for a way to write about Canada and the EU in a way that wasn't achingly dull. Here's a thought: why doesn't Canada join the EU? Well, as it happens… Some (bylined!) thoughts in The Economist www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

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Café Europa newsletter: Canada’s love-in with the EU

Stanley Pignal, our Charlemagne columnist, explores what EU “associate membership” would actually mean for Canada

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Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/n: Because of record-breaking diesel prices, the Trump Admin is reportedly considering a diesel export ban. There is one part of the country that this would squeeze tremendously, risking physical shortages that would prevent people from heating their homes in winter: New England (PADD 1A).

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

En supposant que ce soit avéré, qu’est ce qui est le plus gros problème : Thelyson Orelien qui écrit un livre avec de l’IA ou Miley Cyrus qui plagie intégralement une chanson d’Amanda Lear?

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 22/09/2026

So far AI could be a net job creator, but impact is uneven across sectors • In America roughly 1% of jobs—or around 1m positions—are now directly related to AI rollout • Most job creations are linked to software or maths; meanwhile, administrative-support sector could shed 752,000 jobs in US by 2035

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@alexjubelin.bsky.social idee pour le nom du nouveau thème des militaires des films : « têtes d’affiche » Je suppose qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de vous donner l’idée de traiter le sergent instructeur à la Hartmann dans ce thème ;)

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 18/09/2026

Inspired by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com's FT Alphaville Substack I brought up the chart of European potato futures and boy is this a volatile commodity!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The world has enough heavy news, here's some light stuff: Scientists have confirmed the existence of a species of wild cats previously only known to locals of Bolivia. It is *smaller* than a house cat and its closest living relative diverged 1.4 million years ago. It's called a Tilcayo.

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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

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