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“The rest of the nobility found a cheerful acceptance of slavery the smoothest road to wealth and office”. Tacitus, The Annals. Reposts are not endorsements. Opinions my own.

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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 9h
France has taken center stage these days among the G7's three most bond-sensitive economies, with the French-German 10-year spread moving more than 50 bps in the last month. (The other two economies are Japan and the UK.) #economy #markets #france #Eurozone #europe #bonds #yields
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just last year data center construction was less than office construction, now it's larger than office construction ever has been
a graph comparing data center and office construction
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
7/ How to bargain with China for its cleantech manufacturing firms to actually work for local ownership, jobs, domestic value-add, joint research? Our research: cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/docs/cm-fdi-... Design conditionalities eg. EU new act for industrial policy bsky.app/profile/fber...
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 29/09/2026
Social media has defined our attention landscape for two decades. It is now coming to its end. What comes next, and how will AI reshape the attention economy? 🧵 New essay for Informational Democracy informationaldemocracy.substack.com/p/after-soci...
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After Social Media
Visioning · Petter Törnberg on how AI is remaking the attention economy
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Woke up one day to discover that my field had moved to discussing research mostly on 4chan, explaining that yes, there were a lot of horrible things on the other boards but they mostly didn't see it
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
14/ Germany hosts a fully owned Chinese CATL battery plant. And its carmakers are doing many tech partnerships. You can enter any country on our Hopkins CM-FDI explorer to find all foreign owned or joint venture cleantech manufacturing plants.check it out:) cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/explorer.html
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW: The big story is not Chinese EVs everywhere —but Chinese EV factories everywhere. And its not just Chinese firms going out. Our CM-FDI database tracks every foreign Solar, Wind, EV and battery manufacturing plant built in 21st century. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/09/2026
Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity ft.trib.al/z7i7mIp
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Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
The tech group is responsible for ‘Project Jupiter’ payments despite force majeure notice on New Mexico project
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Kevin Carey @kevincareywb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Coming this Thursday & Friday, 8th World Bank/ ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference; fascinating technical sessions plus keynote session: "Measuring the Welfare Impacts of Government Policies," by Nathaniel Hendren (MIT), midday Thursday, online. www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
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8th World Bank/ ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference
Join us for the 8th edition of the World Bank / ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference, that will take place in Washington, DC, on September 24-25, 2026.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'The Royal Society should declare the rapid development of artificial intelligence to be an “emergency”, mathematicians have urged, amid escalating alarm about the technology’s potential threat to humanity.' Open letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Royal Society urged to declare AI ‘emergency’
Mathematicians express ‘extreme concern’ over the pace of development, following existential risk warnings
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/09/2026
UK bosses must ‘sit down’ with staff if they block WFH requests ft.trib.al/YlXf3DA
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UK bosses must ‘sit down’ with staff if they block WFH requests
Louise Haigh tells Trades Union Congress that every request for flexibility ‘should be taken seriously’ by employers
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 14/09/2026
The solar revolution — made possible by cheap Chinese panels — is transforming energy, economies and lives in the developing and industrialised world alike. But such a massive, ungovernable influx of energy carries significant risks, too ... Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/EhTO8yz
Two charts show solar’s rapid rise and plunging costs. Installed solar capacity climbs sharply from 2014 to 2025, led increasingly by China and the rest of Asia-Pacific. Meanwhile, inflation-adjusted solar-module prices collapse from nearly $40 per watt in 1980 to well below $1 today.
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Nabil Wakim @nabilwakim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What's even more effective than electric cars to cut oil demand worldwide? Surprisingly: e-bikes! 280 million e-bikes are cutting 1% of the world oil demand, and it's growing.
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’d forgotten this part of the 9/11 story www.thetimes.com/article/685a...
Later the same morning, on a delayed flight from Newark airport to San Francisco, passengers on board United Airlines Flight 93 were able to guess the intentions of the men who seized
control of their aircraft after learning of the attacks on New York from calls to
their relatives.
"Don't worry, we're going to do something," said Thomas Burnett Jr, 38, in a final call to his wife, Deena.
The passengers held a vote to storm the cockpit. They boiled water to throw on the hijackers and used a trolley as a battering ram, preventing the
Boeing 757, which crashed into an empty field in Pennsylvania, from reaching its suspected target, the US Capitol.
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I guess they can’t advertise the luxury tier that actually respects privacy until after the IPO
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kansas City making Streetcars great again
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 04/09/2026
"Without explicit support for the cognitive demands of effective human-agent interaction, AI agent systems will continue to passively incentivize the degradation of the very human skills they rely on." This new paper by @mmitchell.bsky.social et al. is important. —> arxiv.org/pdf/2608.23642
AI agents pose significant risks as they are granted increasing autonomy. A commonly proposed solution is human oversight and keeping a “human in the loop”,but this is not a simple solution: Not only do current approaches to AI agent
design impede effective human oversight, but the cognitive capacities required
for it are also themselves degraded by extended use of AI systems. This position
paper argues that current approaches to the development and deployment of
AI agent systems do not support effective human oversight, they contribute
to its degradation. To address this, a top priority in the advancement of AI agents
should be supporting the situated goals and cognitive requirements of effective
human oversight, treating the human needs of overseers at the same level of importance as AI agent capability. To put this idea into practice, we connect work
on automation and human-computer interaction to AI agent processes, outlining
design-level affordances and organizational protocols that (1) support overseers in
exercising critical judgement and (2) counteract the skill atrophy that arises from
extended use of automation. We urge developers and deployers to adopt these or
similar approaches. Without explicit support for the cognitive demands of effective
human-agent interaction, AI agent systems will continue to passively incentivize
the degradation of the very human skills they rely on.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs—official data released this morning shows employment dropped by 4k last month and is down 42k over the last year That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms
a graph of the year-on-year change in US tech employment
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 04/09/2026
Manager of Norway’s $2tn oil fund proposes slashing US Treasury holdings ft.trib.al/LRCiqqM
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Manager of Norway’s $2tn oil fund proposes slashing US Treasury holdings
Overhaul of bond positions suggested to Ministry of Finance aims to boost returns
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 04/09/2026
Is a university degree still worth it? There are signs the knowledge-work boom is over — at least, the 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 knowledge-work boom — and the skills that will be rewarded may look very different very soon. Read @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/MITbB0C Take our poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/Wwma8SA
Line chart showing annual growth in the US college wage premium, graduate supply and implied demand since the early 1980s. Demand for graduate workers has recently fallen below zero for the first time, while the wage premium has also declined sharply despite continued growth in graduate supply.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The kind of journalism you only get from publications that take no ad revenue. www.consumerreports.org/cars/electri...
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We Tested 13 Electric Scooters. We Don’t Recommend Any. - Consumer Reports
CR doesn't recommend e-scooters because of their high speeds and rising injury rates. Two of CR's testers sustained injuries while evaluating e-scooters, too.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21/08/2026
Panama Canal to cut daily transits as El Niño grips region ft.trib.al/7j35vPn
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Panama Canal to cut daily transits as El Niño grips region
Authority plans to reduce number of passages for the second time in its 110-year history
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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Les derniers relevés montrent qu'avec une moyenne de 28.5°C, la surface de la mer Méditerranée vient de battre son record absolu de température. En d'autres termes, la mer Méditerranée n'a jamais été aussi chaude tous mois confondus. 5/6
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Nicolas Hervieu @nicolas.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026
« Contre toute attente » ? Pas. Du. Tout. L'essentiel des juristes & même le Conseil d'Etat avaient alerté sur la constitutionnalité plus que douteuse du texte. Mais évidemment, réfléchir & se documenter est plus difficile que, comme d'habitude, griffonner son petit dessin à l'emporte-pièce.
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The European Correspondent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Can you think of a word in your native language that is missing in English? Tell us in the comments which word we should cover next!
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Insee @insee.fr · 07/08/2026
#Démographie | En l’espace de 8 ans, l’espérance de vie des personnes dont le niveau de vie est compris entre 800 et 1 300 euros diminue. 👉 www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...
Espérance de vie à la naissance des femmes et des hommes selon le 
vingtième de niveau de vie et la période. Entre les périodes 2012-2016 et 2020-2024, l’espérance de vie des personnes du 1er vingtième augmente légèrement, celle des personnes du 2e au 5e vingtième diminue, tandis que celle des personnes du 6e au dernier vingtième progresse.
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Le pire n’est jamais certain: www.ft.com/content/e3fa... How Rheinmetall gambled on Germany’s doomed warship project — and lost
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How Rheinmetall gambled on Germany’s doomed warship project — and lost
Arms company’s €15bn frigate blow tests faith among investors
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/08/2026
Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Pretty big break happening in academia between the “AI is banned for reviews” journals and the “AI is mandatory for reviews” journals. www.refine.ink/blog/economi...
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Refine partners with the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society
Two leading publishers in economics now use Refine's AI-assisted technical verification as part of their publication processes.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
1/2 The @economist.com is right to draw attention to the problem of ‘agentic flooding’ where citizens are overwhelming state machinery through AI assisted complaints and appeals. But their unsatisfactory solution seems to be (1) scale back rights 🤔 and (2) use AI back… economist.com/leaders/2026...
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How AI is breaking the British state
Equipped with models and agents, citizens could bring government to a halt
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/08/2026
Hugo spritz boom shakes Aperol’s fizz ft.trib.al/a4RFRK1
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Hugo spritz boom shakes Aperol’s fizz
US sales of Campari’s orange spirit outstripped by Bacardi’s St-Germain elderflower liqueur
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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Just to illustrate the scale of Friday's US currency intervention (very small, relative to daily turnover):
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
On t'other, it suggests that a lot of what we flatter ourselves as reflecting individual level human thinking is produced by cultural tropes/heuristics and collective structures for coordinating search across large scale information spaces that can now be compressed and maybe radically improved.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Very good @samfr.bsky.social post on the risks around technical specialisation at 14 and why the focus should be on employer behaviour and stopping free riding samf.substack.com/p/burnhams-f...
The hidden secret to the success of the German and Swiss apprenticeships systems is not that they're less snobby about vocational training, or that they select early, it's that they have a way to force employers to engage, and they make it easy to do so. In Germany it's done via chambers of commerce, which employers in each sector have to join. They ensure everyone participates. The Swiss do the same via professional organisations, which also run "inter-business" apprenticeships, allowing small businesses to group together to offer training rather than do it all themselves.
Devolution offers an opportunity to start doing the same in England. The big thing
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/07/2026
The clay, the grapes and the politics of Georgian wine ft.trib.al/tE7R2BC | opinion
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The clay, the grapes and the politics of Georgian wine
As some producers focus on qvevri, skin contact and indigenous grapes, others are chasing a more polished international style and distance from Russia
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Cash flows migrating from AI firms to chips makers
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Flavien @flavienm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Resilience to market crashes vary substantially across OECD economies
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
June temperature records tumble across
Europe
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Maxime Combes @maximecombes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
23 juillet 2026 La rivière Drôme ne se jette plus dans le Rhône. #secheresse
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Antonin Thyrard @antonintd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.
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Doubling Down - Dissent Magazine
Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
” It’s an artificial intelligence-powered tool that parses nearly 1,800 documents and transcripts from Warsh, with the goal of helping users understand how he may analyze issues related to the economy or monetary policy. (2/3)
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16/07/2026
US chip and memory stocks slide in fresh bout of Wall Street tumult ft.trib.al/8JNwket
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US chip and memory stocks slide in fresh bout of Wall Street tumult
Investors pull away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Elsevier introduces required interactive visualizations written in proprietary language to be placed behind a paywall
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The Simpsons Monkey Paw Wish
ALT: The Simpsons Monkey Paw Wish
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Christian Chavagneux @chrisaltereco.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Aux Etats-Unis, on met des data centers partout. Y compris dans des endroits où il y a régulièrement des tornades. C'est bien sûr un assureur qui a fait le calcul !
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Christian Chavagneux @chrisaltereco.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
D'après un ponte de Mitsubishi, on ne peut pas facilement transformer une usine de production de voitures en usine de production de drones. www.ft.com/content/31de...
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Converting car plants to make military drones will fail, warns Japan defence titan
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries chief says tactic risks being ‘enormous waste’ of taxpayers’ money
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