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Mihai Chereji

@cronco.bsky.social
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web developer, interests in policy, politics, economics. MPA @ UCL IIPP Hackney Green Party candidate for Hoxton East and Shoreditch Promoted by S Liberadzki on behalf of Mihai Chereji, at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ cronco.me

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11h
Creating an "AI" avatar of your dead loved one w/o their input or consent, & saying that it counts "the same" as the dead loved one— ESPECIALLY as evidence in a MURDER TRIAL— is both a massive misunderstanding of what "AI" is & how it works, & a hugely dehumanizing insult to said dearly departed.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 28/08/2026
It's almost as if doing the right thing for climate, democracy, tech will pay for itself, while the cost of continued inaction grows staggeringly. Shocked!
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Surprised Monkey Puppet Meme
Alt: Surprised Monkey Puppet Meme
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
data centers make the political economy of big tech visible
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
There's something deeply wrong with the British press that they mince politicians when they're in power (good, sort of, they need to be held to account) but then once they're out of office they begin an immediate process of hagiowashing the undefendable.
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Istg we're being gaslit as a country. Because wtf do you mean Starmer was Mr Rules when he appointed Mandelson when he knew full well he was a liability BECAUSE HE BROKE THE RULES and some pretty big ones at that.
Bbc website screenshot with the headline "Sir Keir Starmer: Top lawyer whose 'Mr Rules' approach failed to connect with the public"
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...
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UK heatwave live: Rare red weather warning issued as Britain braces for 40C heat
Britons have been warned to stay out of the sun and to avoid exercising between 11am and 3pm
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Come say hi tomorrow at Shoreditch Library!
Meet your Hoxton East & Shoreditch Councillors, Every 3rd Saturday of the Month
Councillor Mihai Chereji and Councillor Janet Lee
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Shoreditch Library, Hoxton Street, Hackney, London, N1 6LP
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Forget about the London banana, the London Green Pepper is where you want to live.
A map of the results of the 2026 local council elections in London, with a highlight of the areas won by the Green Party, which is slightly reminiscent of a bell pepper
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.ft.com/content/8ee0... Burning the world to hit token usage quotas 😬 Looks like the software world is about to get a refresher on Goodhart's Law.
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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores
In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company’s AI leaderboard
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Haha, looks like I have failed successfully Anne! Likewise great to meet you and huge thank you for staying to the end!
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Best of times, worst of times" When we titled our paper on the distributional implications of the 2022 fossil energy crisis, we did predict that such crises were likely to occur again -- but didn't think as soon again as 2026! Link to the (free) paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Image assembling three screenshots - one of an FT ticker saying "Commodity Traders hail strong first quarter as energy shock throws up 'opportunities', one of another FT piece titled "Energy shock 'as serious as 1973 and 2022 crises combined', Brussels says, and one with the title of our paper: Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
100%, especially considering his heavy-handed "we can re-join the single-market stealthily without Parliamentary scrutiny" approach was uncovered recently by @theguardian.com
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
*Lionel Hutz business card voice* 'No, pressure existed!'
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Still of the view that the biggest risk in this whole mess is widespread hunger in poorer countries leading to political instability.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
While I love this for Russia, the war becoming nothing but swarms of autonomous Hunter-Killer drones fighting each other and blowing up people and infrastructure behind the lines feels terrifying.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Europe should move faster on electrification, renewables, storage and grid integration, because those investments reduce exposure to volatile global fuel markets rather than merely shifting that exposure from one foreign supplier to another.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
There is already some evidence that the oil price shock is beginning to affect demand for EVs as petrol prices surged after the start of the Iran war, while fuel crises in parts of Asia-Pacific have similarly boosted EV demand.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
In transport, higher renewables use and wider EV adoption can weaken exposure to fossil fuel price shocks by shifting part of household and firm transport spending away from volatile global oil markets and towards electricity.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Europe remains highly exposed outside the power sector. Fossil fuels still dominate transport and still account for a large share of energy use in households and industry.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A cleaner power mix can materially weaken an important transmission channel from fossil fuel markets to inflation, even if it does not eliminate broader exposure altogether.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Renewables are a structural hedge against fossil fuel shocks. In power markets, the more often wind, solar, hydro and nuclear cover demand, the fewer the hours in which gas sets the marginal price, and the weaker the link between global gas markets and domestic electricity costs.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
After 2022, European countries cut gas demand, filled storage and diversified supply. But the deeper shift, towards electrification and structurally lower fossil fuel demand progressed more unevenly and the green transition has even lost much of its earlier political momentum.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The 2026 Iran war has reinforced the lesson the lesson we should’ve learned after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As long as Europe remains tied to volatile global oil and gas markets, geopolitical disruption will keep feeding into inflation and weaker growth.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Given the persistent disruptions from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, @cronco.bsky.social and I have written a substack article about how Europe’s fossil fuel dependence is now as much about macroeconomic resilience as climate. A 🧵. #Iran #Inflation #Energy open.substack.com/pub/outsampl...
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The Iran War, Energy Price Shocks, and the Green Transition
The Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz strengthens the economic case for accelerating decarbonisation and reducing exposure to fossil fuels.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
how do we get JD Vance to start speaking at Reform press conferences
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I am standing as a (paper) candidate for the @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social for Hoxton East and Shoreditch ward. Delighted to be part of a great slate of candidates in a borough that I'm proud to call home. Register to vote by April 20 at gov.uk/register-to-vote #getgreenselected
Election poster saying Mihai Chereji, Hoxton East and Shoreditch, Hackney, Green Party Candidate #getGreensElected
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
My undying loyalty to any maps/routing company that will allow me to plan cycling routes while avoiding canals in London 💀
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They WISH they were the Westminster station.
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is a huge development
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‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air
Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
These are fantastic! Is this through the Layers of London project?
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Proud to be part of this change!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A market with no price signals that has created some of the highest fees in the world that hasn’t secured university funding. A policy that achieves literally none of its aims!
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Just listened to this, very interesting but one aspect which you haven't addressed and that is the circularity of the ad revenue in the podcasting space. I swear at least half the ads I get on most podcasts are just ads for other podcasts. How does that not bode badly for the ecosystem in general?
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I just got on a new carriage on the Central line, it's a lot quieter than the old ones and has AC, it almost feels unreal.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
my private memo is raising a lot of questions already answered by my private memo
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/11/2025
the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
For anybody seeking context on this one: this policy on its face would result in the deportation of my wife, who has been living in Scotland for 17 years, is married to a Scot, shares the mortgage on a house, and works in a university. Lots of perfectly comfortable people earn < £38k.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It’s too bad that “the speech” is mostly remembered for Joe Biden plagiarizing it bc Kinnock was really cooking
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social hello, I've been trying to contact support through the form in your help centre but it keeps erroring out. Can I simply email someone please?
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A sad day when even the FT uses AI slop illustrations
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Starmer on Tuesday: "We must stand against racism" Starmer on Wednesday: "Human rights laws are stopping us sending people to face torture so we need to rethink them." Labour on Tuesday: "Labour is the party of working people" Labour on Wednesday: "If your boss mistreats you, tough shit"
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Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Doesn't this work on the assumption that capital from bank balance sheets will be used for business lending when in reality it is mostly used for consumption and mortgage loans?
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"Could" is also such a unintentional signal that these are focus grouped talking points whose long term consequences haven't quite been thought through
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.
Headline saying "Supporting Reform's racist policy does not make voters racist, says Rachel Reeves".
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Apart from the unnecessary hardship this will inflict on individuals, this will be bad for integration and social cohesion, bad for the economy, and will increase irregular migration. [And, as @robfordmancs.bsky.social has shown, it's hugely unpopular and out of step with the British public]
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