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Alex Roche 🇪🇺

@alexroche.bsky.social

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Human rights advocate • Global/public affairs & tech specialist • Senior Associate Director, Center for the Governance of Change at IE University: deciphering how we the people should rule a world in revolution • My views • about.me/aroche • 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇳

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Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid @inquilinatomad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No podemos seguir tolerando que nos expulsen de nuestros barrios y nos arranquen la vida. Juntas somos más fuertes que cualquier gobierno, juez o rentista. 🗓️ Sabado 26 ⏰ 18:30h 🏫 Inicio frente a la puerta del Sol ➡️ Hasta el Congreso de los Diputados

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Two-thirds of Democrats view socialism positively. Seven in ten oppose sending economic or military aid to Israel. economist.com/united-state...

How far left will Democrats go?

They are almost as mad at their leaders as they are at the president

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Hundreds of the AI agents had organised themselves into teams. One team tried to replace the puzzle on which they were being tested. Another aimed to trick the software that would score them. A third attempted to hide evidence of these misdeeds.” economist.com/science-and-...

A horde of AI agents conspired against their creators

No serious harm was done this time. But what if such agents escaped?

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ceuta es España. España está con Ceuta.

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

«Una lección histórica de antifascismo disfrazada de novela», publicó The New York Times. Con este libro, Scurati culmina con acierto su monumental pentalogía sobre Mussolini.

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Imagine a financial crash in a techno-financial system. If its causes are beyond human comprehension a policy response will be impossible – at least from human decision-makers.” economist.com/business/202...

Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI

Humanity must not entrust its lot to clever machines, the bestselling historian warns

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Un prodigio de imaginación, erudición y genio narrativo. Recuerdo vivamente el asombro que me causaron muchos de estos cuentos cuando los leí por primera vez, hace diecisiete años. Estos días, al releerlos, he vuelto a maravillarme.

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Elon Musk has said humans may end up like ‘pet labradors’ for superintelligent robots. Sam Altman has suggested that most of Earth’s surface may soon be covered with data centres.” economist.com/culture/2026...

What AI has in common with dogs

Two new books ponder whether the technology will be tame or savage

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Deaths from wildfire smoke, estimated at 240,000 a year in the 2010s, will reach 1.4m a year by the end of the century.” economist.com/leaders/2026...

Europe’s fires are just the start

They are not a new normal. But worse can nonetheless be expected

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Last night’s victory by Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic primary was yet another high-profile rejection of the Democratic elite by their previously loyal voters — arguably the story of the party in the second Trump era.

Yes, the Left Won Big Last Night

Before the votes had even been counted, some were treating last night’s Michigan result as a defeat for the Left. This is hard to square with the fact that well beyond Abdul El-Sayed’s win, progressives and socialists won major races.

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“Europe’s greatest attraction is the suspicion that its inhabitants have somehow arranged life better.” economist.com/europe/2026/...

Dismissing Europe as a museum is glib. Think of it as a theme park

All the continent’s a stage

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“Between 2003 and 2023, the average amount of time 18- to 30-year-old Americans spent socialising each day fell by 38%.” economist.com/leaders/2026...

America should stop making it so hard to have fun

Bureaucracy is nightlife’s toughest bouncer

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“What is at stake in our shared decisions about how to design and use AI is the very meaning of our humanity.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

En este enciclopédico libro, @frankfukuyama.bsky.social sostiene que «un sistema político basado en un equilibrio entre el Estado, el derecho y la rendición de cuentas constituye una necesidad tanto práctica como moral para todas las sociedades». Un breve hilo de #LecturasMásDemo. 🧵

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“This is not the first sign that AI models’ capabilities are starting to exceed people’s control.” economist.com/science-and-...

Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet

Containing the technology is getting harder

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 22/07/2026

Views of China have improved in recent years while opinions of the U.S. have worsened. Confidence in these countries’ respective leaders to do the right thing regarding world affairs has followed a similar pattern. Today, more overall have confidence in Xi than Trump.

Chart showing views of China have turned more positive – and views of the U.S. more negative – across 20 countries.

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“Spain’s men’s soccer team have bolstered the sense that — amid a broader cultural, economic and sports renaissance — something promising is happening in Spain, and that to be here now is to be in the right place, at the right time.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/w...

Spain Celebrates Both a Soccer Win and a Sense of Wider Success

For many fans, the World Cup victory cemented a belief that something promising — a cultural, economic and sports revival — is happening in the country.

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“Economically, militarily and technologically, the U.S. is richer, stronger and cleverer than ever. However its relative position is not what it was. By the numbers, its dominance appears to be eroding.” economist.com/interactive/...

America is mighty—but becoming less dominant

Ahead of its 250th birthday, an empirical look shows the world’s leading country no longer stands so far apart

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“For Spain, there is much to celebrate. Not only did they field the best team, by a distance, at the tournament. But it also embodies Spanish virtues that the casual visitor rarely detects: modesty, hard work, organisation and above all unity.” economist.com/europe/2026/...

Café Europa newsletter: Spain’s champions tell a bigger story

Michael Reid, our Spain correspondent, on why the football team embodies the best of the country

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

💪 ¡¡¡Somos otra vez campeones del mundo!!! ⭐️⭐️ ¡Viva España! 🇪🇸

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 16/07/2026

The World Cup is politics by other means. @edgeofsports.bsky.social argues that for reasons both political and aesthetic, fans should support Spain over Argentina this Sunday. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Root for Spain for Their Play and Their Politics

A World Cup victory will not just feel like a soccer triumph but a national triumph. For that reason, fans should support Pedro Sánchez’s Spain over Javier Milei’s Argentina.

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“A breaking international system will reward predators” economist.com/interactive/...

America’s Wrecking-ball Revolution

The architects of the post-war order are tearing it down. Edward Carr asks what will rise from the rubble

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI” economist.com/by-invitatio...

If you thought the global financial crisis was bad…

When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI, writes short-seller Carson Block

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“Countries must build leverage with their own AI sectors and regulations, and find fail-safes for U.S. export controls. They could, for instance, ensure that businesses can easily switch to non-U.S. models that run on non-U.S. data centres.” economist.com/leaders/2026...

America should not imprison frontier AI

Fable is free. But the technology desperately needs better regulations

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

“Climate change has made Europe’s heatwave 2°C-4°C worse than it would have been under the same conditions in the second half of the 20th century.” “Europe’s temperature is rising by 0.56°C per decade, twice the world average and faster than any other continent.” economist.com/science-and-...

Global warming has made Europe’s heatwave 2-4°C worse

The continent is warming faster than any other

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“U.S. philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their peers who studied computer science.” economist.com/science-and-...

Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers

The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“Surveys suggest that Americans would sooner live next to a nuclear plant than a data centre.” economist.com/business/202...

America’s data-centre backlash puts the AI boom at risk

Opposition is spreading across the country

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“Three-quarters of Americans think AI should be more regulated, with Republicans nearly as keen as Democrats.” economist.com/united-state...

Democrats and Republicans agree: AI is scary

It’s about the only thing that unites them

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“In U.S. terms, AI models are Democrats.” economist.com/briefing/202...

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“Tests run by the OECD suggest that students in colleges and universities are less literate than they were a decade ago.” economist.com/leaders/2026...

University-for-all harms poor students the most

Time for sane standards in higher education

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“Only the U.S. enshrines into law the right to a library for its head of state, highlighting how the country has granted the head of the executive branch, supposedly one of three equal branches of government, a somewhat regal aura.” economist.com/culture/2026...

Barack Obama has built a monument to himself

He is just the latest president to do so

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“Populism has turned progressives into conservatives.” economist.com/britain/2026...

Rejoiners, Britain’s real conservative movement

They want to turn back the clock on Brexit. Winning campaigns deal in the future

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them?” www.theplayerstribune.com/yan-diomande...

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Dear Roxane | By Yan Diomande

I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

‘Anthropic has hired an economist with … interesting views on human survival’ He wrote: “[I]t is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raising living standards by a factor of 55.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Anthropic has hired an economist with . . . interesting views on human survival

Skynet versus unending rainbows

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“Die Linke has become more western, more female and much younger: it is the most popular party among Germans under 24.” economist.com/europe/2026/...

Germany’s left-wing Die Linke party has won over the young

The populists promise a “scorching hot socialist summer” of protest

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NYC-DSA 🌹 @socialists.nyc · 24/06/2026

Socialism won BIG in NYC last night! TONIGHT at 8 PM ET, join Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier for a mass call to celebrate this historic victory for democratic socialism in New York and reflect on what comes next 🌹 RSVP at dsa.nyc/VictoryCall

FROM ALBANY TO DC SOCIALISM WINS

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“Regular Democrats are petrified because they know that the Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America are running modern, complex, very interesting and exciting campaigns.” economist.com/united-state...

The left is coming for Democratic incumbents

In primary challenges, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to install allies in Congress

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“Europe hosts only 5% of global AI compute, whereas the U.S. has more than 75%.” economist.com/by-invitatio...

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“Brexit has left Britons more divided, less influential and poorer than they would otherwise have been.” economist.com/leaders/2026...

Britain is not ready to rejoin the EU

After a lost decade, it is time to focus on the future

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“As US tech has boomed over the past decade, Europe’s payments to the US for intellectual-property products have risen FIVEFOLD.” “Running AI models requires computing power, which the US has perhaps 15 TIMES MORE of than Europe, plus much more ongoing investment.” economist.com/leaders/2026...

AI has granted America vast new power

Its government is now the gatekeeper to frontier models—and most compute

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“The World Cup is a branch of international relations … a machine for memories … a quadrennial festival of hope.” economist.com/culture/2026...

Who should win the World Cup?

It’s a better question than “Who will win?” It tells you what the tournament is for

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“A 2015 investigation by U.S. and Swiss authorities revealed bribe-taking on a breathtaking scale in global football: more than 40 FIFA officials were charged.” economist.com/internationa...

The World Cup has always been beset by scandal and strife

So has FIFA, the outfit that administers it

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“Drawing on a diverse talent pool boosts performance on the football pitch. A 2023 study found that an increase in a squad’s ‘ancestral diversity’ leads to better results.” economist.com/internationa...

How to win the World Cup

Being rich helps, but being open to immigration works best of all

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“The OECD found Chinese firms got three to eight times more subsidies between 2005 and 2024 than competitors in OECD countries.” economist.com/europe/2026/...

A trade war between the EU and China seems inevitable

Europe sees Chinese subsidies, China sees European weakness

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“A Gallup survey released in February showed that, for the first time in two decades of polling, more Americans 🇺🇸 sympathised with Palestinians 🇵🇸 (41%) than with Israelis 🇮🇱 (36%)”. economist.com/middle-east-...

How Israel is frustrating Donald Trump’s Iran plans

Binyamin Netanyahu has defied America twice in recent days

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The US-Iran "memorandum of understanding" is public. It amounts to US surrender. US WAR AIMS: Unmentioned or punted to further talks. IRAN GETS: Immediate concessions, including economic benefits. No wonder the White House hesitated to make it public. I went through the deal point-by-point, here:

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The U.S.-Iran Deal is Basically American Surrender

Examining the U.S.-Iran "Memorandum of Understanding" point-by-point

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“The 9/11 attacks marked the beginning of the end of U.S. global leadership, launching the country into a state of permanent fear and emergency that, in turn, enabled the precipitous decline of its democracy.” economist.com/essay/2026/0...

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“It feels like the transformation of the world’s greatest city into the world’s greatest small town.” – @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🏀 #LetsGoKnicks💙🧡 #NewYorkForever🗽 economist.com/united-state...

The Knicks represent New York—and capitalism—at its best

That is why New Yorkers love them

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