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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 23h

“As the planet warms, summer is lengthening. By 2100 it will last six months in the northern hemisphere, reckons one projection.” economist.com/culture/2026...

economist.com

Say goodbye to summer. Not just this year’s

The season is imperilled by climate change. It was nice while it lasted

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

“Screens are clearly diverting children from books: just 37% of nine-year-olds in the U.S. say they read them for pleasure now, down from nearly 60% in the 1990s.” economist.com/internationa...

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Are teenagers growing dimmer?

The latest global school tests reveal shocking new declines

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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

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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...

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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-...

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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...

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Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI

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

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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...

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What AI has in common with dogs

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

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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/...

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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...

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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

“AI…concentrates power; it obfuscates accountability; it further despoils nature and climate; it is a means of the wholesale expropriation of cultures, languages and lands for massive profit; and it will probably make us lonelier and stupider.” —Carmody Grey

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

“Real intelligence is inextricable from organic embodiment, from being a feeling organism.” “‘Artificial intelligence’ is a highly consequential misnomer.” “It is simply untrue to say that computers ‘think’. Humans think, using computers.”

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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

«El futuro de la democracia en los países desarrollados dependerá de su capacidad para afrontar el problema de la desaparición de la clase media», concluye Fukuyama. Una reflexión que cobra especial relevancia en la era de la IA.

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

…En esas circunstancias, la depredación pasa a ser una estrategia tan viable para el enriquecimiento personal como la inversión en actividades económicas productivas: la situación en la que vivieron las sociedades humanas durante la mayor parte de su historia antes de la Revolución Industrial.»

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

«Si el cambio tecnológico no logra generar beneficios económicos ampliamente compartidos, o si su ritmo general se desacelera, las sociedades modernas corren el riesgo de verse arrastradas de nuevo a un mundo maltusiano, con profundas implicaciones para la viabilidad de la democracia…

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

…La utopía comunista de Karl Marx no llegó a materializarse en el mundo desarrollado porque su proletariado global se transformó en una clase media global.»

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

«La existencia de una amplia clase media no es una condición ni suficiente ni necesaria para dar lugar a una democracia liberal. Pero resulta enormemente útil para sostenerla…

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

La reflexión de Fukuyama sobre el futuro de la democracia me pareció especialmente convincente. Tres pasajes sintetizan la esencia de su argumento:

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

«Un gobierno moderno eficaz», escribe Fukuyama, «encuentra el equilibrio adecuado entre un Estado fuerte y capaz, e instituciones jurídicas y mecanismos de rendición de cuentas que limiten al Estado y lo obliguen a actuar en favor de los intereses generales de los ciudadanos».

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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. 🧵

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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-...

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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.

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

“Spain’s strong economy is the envy of much of Europe, and last year it accounted for more than 40% of the jobs created in the EU.”

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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...

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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

“More than a third of top journal articles are now written by Chinese researchers, who published as many papers as their U.S., British, German and Japanese peers combined in 2025.”

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

“The U.S. economy is smaller than China’s, adjusted for local prices.” “The dollar’s share of global foreign-exchange reserves has been on a decades-long decline.” “Six in ten Americans think that, by 2050, their country will be ‘less important in the world’ than today.”

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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/...

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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/...

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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

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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-...

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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-...

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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...

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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.

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

“A whopping 45% say they are very or somewhat concerned that AI might cause human extinction. Fully 65% think it will reduce the number of jobs available in the U.S. More than 70% fret about the exacerbation of mental-health problems and the concentration of power in tech firms.”

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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...

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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

“Chinese models are forbidden from contradicting official narratives. When probed, for example, about the three Ts of Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen, they parrot the party line as fact or simply refuse to answer.”

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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...

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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...

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Barack Obama has built a monument to himself

He is just the latest president to do so

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