Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeJuan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“The greatest danger is not that humans will not be needed, but that we create an environment where humans don’t need each other.” "Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals." Hannah Arendt If AI wreaks havoc, however unlikely, it will be through this channel. 092
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 290145983885
Reposted by Antonio Avila-Uribealexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Wasting China’s #solarpanel surplus is madness - Clean power, on a scale that would have seemed utopian at the time of the Paris climate treaty in 2015, is now within reach. The price of solar has fallen to rock bottom. And yet factories are idling www.ft.com/content/b6ca... via @FT #ActOnClimateft.comWasting China’s solar panel surplus is madnessClean power is within our reach — yet factories sit idle 710042
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeVoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 21/05/2026T Deryugina, @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social & M Reguant argue a better approach to energy rationing is load limiting via smart meters. Rotational outages function as a regressive tax, but load limiting generates substantial savings while impacting fewer households. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky 1138
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeAssaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The data is in. Between 2023-2025, wind and solar slashed EU wholesale power prices by 24.2% on average. In Spain, the cut was nearly 40% This isn't a forecast, it already happened Renewables are the only cure for gas price insanity 39144
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 18/04/2026La respuesta está cortada. Que dijo después? 000
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeBluesky @bsky.app · 17/04/2026Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day. 1220204254896
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeJulián Macías @julianmacias.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Es innumerable el listado de vulneraciones contra los activistas de la Global Sumud Flotila: - @juanbordera.bsky.social fue agredido con golpes - Néstor Prieto cuenta como fueron amenazados de muerte, privados de agua, comida, sueño, medicina, asistencia médica y jurídica y un largo etcétera. 24475342
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943 256169817919
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribePosit @posit.co · 30/09/2025The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats 29033
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 29/09/2025La transcripción está mal. El presidente dice: "Para escribir una poesía que no sea política, debo escuchar a los pájaros, pero para escuchar a los pájaros hace falta que cese el bombardeo". Borrad el tuit por uno nuevo. 1175
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 25/09/2025The @BBCWorld, @AFP, @AP & @reuters have released a short film calling on the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists access to Gaza. 02214
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeRobert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Sean Duffy, Acting Chief of NASA: "All the climate science ... we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration ... That’s why we have NASA, to explore, not to do all of these Earth sciences." arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...arstechnica.comNASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agencyNASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however. 124012
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeMalas Lenguas @malaslenguastve.bsky.social · 15/07/2025👊 Los ultras agreden a un menor de 15 años en Torre Pacheco a raíz de un bulo #MalasLenguas 99879
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeStephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I try to be open minded when people engage with climate issues, but this kind of argument about AC is really very silly. You only need replace “cooling” with “heating” to see that using appliances/energy to protect against temperature extremes should not be viewed as some kind of moral sin. 5549
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 14/07/2025The best of this post is the discussion in the replies 191
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeStan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I organized an economist amicus brief in V.O.S. Selections Inc. v. Trump, the "Liberation Day" tariffs case in which the government's appeal will soon be considered by the Federal Circuit Appeal Court. 412029
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 07/07/2025Vox miente para quitarle los derechos constitucionales a miles de ciudadanos y residentes. Van a por tus vecinos de 30 años, niños que han nacido aquí, los compañeros de la escuela de tus hijos. Familias trabajadoras que han construido España. Son fascistas y el futuro será oscuro si no se les para. 043
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely 14085383324
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeMaladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways. 8523138413803
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeRomano Tarsia @romantar.bsky.social · 23/05/2025The latest version of “Heterogeneous effects of weather shocks on firm economic performance” is out, with a new section on firm exit. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comHeterogeneous effects of weather shocks on firm economic performanceThis paper provides novel firm-level estimates of the economic damages caused by temperature shocks to European firms. I rely on a panel data analysis to show w 052
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain. 16335135
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/05/2025This is about all of us. Never forget that. 245275817575
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 03/05/2025Otro punto de vista bsky.app/profile/jola... 000
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 28/04/2025Here some additional info. They say there was a huge power loss that created the ocillation: elpais.com/sociedad/202...elpais.comLo que se sabe y lo que no del apagón masivo en España: en cinco segundos desapareció el 60% de la generación eléctricaPese a las hipótesis que han surgido en las horas sin suministro el Gobierno se resiste a especular sobre las causas del apagón 011
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans. 268226184661
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 10/04/2025Interesante artículo. Pero lo de "miles de veces más preciso" es clickbait y falso. 020
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeBen Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The main effect of tariff insanity: Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once. That scar tissue will linger for a long time. 1/ 113239
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Good news: The tariffs are just a bit of short-term pain to get long-term pain. 1640389
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeStephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Road pricing that accounts for vehicle weight anyone... 45924
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribePosthuman @posthuman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever 83118884686
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 03/04/2025Puso un mínimo de 10% Arancel final = Max(la fórmula de arriba, 10%) Lo que muestra que ni ellos se creen la fórmula. 071
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Let's check in with a leading introductory economics textbook. 1011829424
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeProPublica @propublica.org · 09/03/2025“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.socialpropub.liHow DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever SaveThe Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would… 15860852347
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeNBER @nber.org · 02/03/2025Revealing real-time indoor air pollution cuts it by 17 percent overall, 34 percent when occupied. Lower-income households face worse indoor air pollution. A $1 subsidy for monitors has infinite public value, from @rmetcalfe.bsky.social and Sefi Roth www.nber.org/papers/w33510 03412
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeMax Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The mistake is to think Zelensky could have salvaged this. Trump admin just doesn’t want to support Ukraine. Period. There was also never going to be a peace agreement. That’s been clear but everyone has been pretending otherwise. There can be no confusion now. 13853441116
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 24/02/2025Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac... 151465530
Antonio Avila-Uribe @antonioavilauribe.com · 23/02/2025Of likely interest to @justinwolfers.bsky.social . It's not even 4-5$, part of it is not real. 000
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/02/2025An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful. 1593424884
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribePaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 08/02/2025Ok more like 200m dollar cash flow shock 3151
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeRichard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 04/02/2025it is right and proper that USAID funds a true open access journal 022
Reposted by Antonio Avila-UribeJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs. 518154713402
Reposted by Antonio Avila-Uribe🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 31/01/2025Musk is doing austerity while Trump is doing mercantilism And yet Lawrence Summers isn't out there blaring the stagflation horn 28315