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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

P.S. If you're interested in green industrial policy, industrial strategy, and/or national competitiveness in a geopolitical context, feel free to DM me

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Interested in pursuing a PhD in Strategic Management & Organization? Telfer School of Management at U of Ottawa offers a fully funded PhD program with supportive supervisors conducting high-impact research across a variety of fields and topics. Info. session on Dec 2nd (link below)

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

accountants will determine whether AI really is a bubble: "A key element here is depreciation... Tech giants have lengthened server lifespans on the books to six years. Yet Nvidia's product cycles run every year now, making older chips functionally obsolete... long before they've been written down"

cnbc.com

Michael Burry's next 'Big Short': An inside look at his analysis showing AI is a bubble

The investment world is "expecting far more economic importance out of this technology than is likely to be provided," Burry's associate portfolio manager said.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Will “world models” (a machine-learning approach to sorting information that is inspired by how humans learn) leave LLMs in the dust. Some of AIs' greatest minds think so: Behind the AI bubble, another tech revolution could be brewing - on.ft.com/3LYi26n via @FT

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Behind the AI bubble, another tech revolution could be brewing

Today’s eye-popping valuations are based on the assumption that LLMs are the only game in town

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Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes @cca-reports.ca · 22/11/2025

A high-performing innovation ecosystem is essential to the well-being of all people in Canada. Our newest report details the state of science, technology, and innovation in Canada, including key drivers shaping the ecosystem, and barriers and knowledge gaps. 🧪 go.cca-reports.ca/4jPxfm0

go.cca-reports.ca

The State of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Canada 2025

Over the last 20 years, the CCA has carried out a series of assessments evaluating...

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Don't know if this happens to other writers, but when you write of the global north as "Europe and the United States", I always think of this.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish. The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and
edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our
YouTube channel.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/10/2025

Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"We're creating a new man-made ecological disaster: enormous data centres in remote places like deserts, that will be rusting away and leaching bad things into the environment, with no one left to hold accountable because the builders and investors will be long gone"

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"...hardly a good sign that the people I've spoken to keep bringing up Nortel - the Canadian telecom equipment-maker that borrowed prolifically to help finance deals for their customers (and thereby artificially boost demand for their wares)"

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Besides: there are about 15-20 major automotive companies/ groups that dominate ICE production worldwide...

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This isn't surprising - part of the industrial strategy playbook. Govts often back rapid sector growth, expecting many firms to fail; the shakeout creates stronger “national champions” that emerge globally competitive. China’s EV sector is following this playbook.

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It's estimated that "...only about 15 percent of the 129 brands full or partial electric vehicle brands recorded in China last year will still be making money in 2030."

futurism.com

China's Electric Car Industry Is in Deep Trouble

Compared to the US EV market, China's seems to be progressing along healthily — but rampant price wars are causing massive issues there.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

".. three and a half billion dollars in Presidential profits — even though my accounting is necessarily approximate — is a dizzying sum. .. he treats his public office as personal property, as an asset that is his to exploit as if he owned it."

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Samuel L Jackson said this Two Years ago........

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The march of AI progress is unrelenting:

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Sam should talk to the people in charge of AI

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Public concern over what AI will mean for society runs very deep: "For the first time, this report reveals emerging tensions in the narrative around AI. People are beginning to see it as something that could make their lives worse in deeply personal ways."

report2025.seismic.org

Seismic Report 2025 | Seismic Foundation

In this report, through original research, we show how public opinion about AI is changing.

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

this is so ridiculous. written by an LLM or an alien?

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Recent Gartner survey: "...out of 163 business executives, a full half said their plans to 'significantly reduce their customer service workforce' would be abandoned by 2027." futurism.com/companies-re...

futurism.com

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Apropos of nothing, it's perhaps not unimportant that our prime minister does not also hold the title of commander-in-chief.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

“the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt. Those components can then be further processed by naturally occurring bacteria,thereby avoiding generating microplastics that can harm aquatic life and enter the food chain.”

reuters.com

Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.

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Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Elegantly put by Sebastian Boyd:

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/06/2025

Opinion: Recognising what our leaders get right is as important as blaming them for what goes wrong, says Simon Kuper on.ft.com/3FK5sVC

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Thank you, government

Recognising what our leaders get right is as important as blaming them for what goes wrong

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

One obvious economic implication of the latest travel ban is that genuinely international conferences will no longer be held in the U.S.

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

building the banana republic... one tariff at a time

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

How should advanced economies respond? Step 1: Acknowledge that China has executed a long-game industrial strategy, and it’s working Step 2: Study the model. Industrial strategy is no longer a debate, it’s a necessity

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José Carlos Marques @jc-marques.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

China’s critical minerals squeeze is hitting the auto sector hard... just as it consolidates dominance over the global EV value chain

screenshot of a list of articles in the last few days re. the effects of China's rare earth export controls on the global automotive sector

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