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Jérôme Treperman

@jerometrep.bsky.social
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Science-Technology-Innovation Policy / Managing Partner @technopolis-group.com

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/30/w... Film censorship in China „used to manage things out in the open; now the real decider has become the market and capital.“ „…everyone self-censors to be safe, and the “hand” slowly becomes invisible. @chinabooksreview.com
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Wang Xiaoshuai on Chinese Cinema | China Books Review
The pioneering filmmaker discusses the past and future of China’s film industry, and what it feels like to be caught between the censors and the market.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026
‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’ www.ft.com/content/7a28...
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Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction
ALT: Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction
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Rasmus Birk @rasmusbirk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Instead of doing ‘Anton Jäger should write more clearly’-discourse, let me just recommend this excellent review in the LRB on his book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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William Davies · Easy to Join, Easy to Leave: Politics on Speed
This is what distinguishes hyperpolitics from the mass democracy of the mid-20th century. Symbolic political gestures...
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 09/09/2026
It appears to me that the scenario they invented for this evaluation is explicitly designed to get it to do exactly this. They remove the instructions for the task to "protect the vendor" or something but it's pretty easy to reconstruct from the text.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I went back to China after a decade away—I'd previously lived there for 20 years. Some notes:
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App Life in China
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 upholding birthright citizenship is just some grim shit. We're a sudden death of Sotomayor or even Roberts away from a full scale rewriting of the Constitution
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
„About 90 per cent of the industry’s profits are generated by 5 per cent of all VC firms.“ www.ft.com/content/f56b...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/05/2026
Pope Leo warns AI revolution driven by ‘idolatry of profit’ ft.trib.al/gsOGwKH
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Pope Leo warns AI revolution driven by ‘idolatry of profit’
Pontiff says it is ‘not permissible’ to entrust lethal decisions to artificial systems
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is a disaster. Science is an international endeavor. Major steps forward happen through serendipity and collaboration. Grants fund science, but people -- Americans and non-Americans, both in our country and overseas -- create science. That makes us healthier, richer, and safer.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/04/2026
Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.
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Trump ousts National Science Board members
Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Need an "im standing with the bureaucrats in Brussels" shirt
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 24/03/2026
India’s tech sector has long been seen as a ladder to the middle class. But for many workers, the reality looks very different: long hours, intense pressure, and a growing mental health crisis.
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NBER @nber.org · 20/03/2026
Working from home (WFH) raises fertility rates. Globally 0.3 extra kids per WFH couple, and in the US 0.5 extra kids per WFH couple, from Steven J. Davis, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Katelyn Cranney, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate www.nber.org/papers/w34963
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Insightful read on impact of AI: „Anywhere a job involves language and information, this new combination of skills — part rhetoric, part systems thinking, part skepticism about a bot’s output — may become the fabric of white-collar work.“ @clivethompson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
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Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
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Technopolis Group @technopolis-group.com · 26/02/2026
Women hold only 30% of professorial posts in Germany. Can funding programmes really change this? We evaluated the issue in the Berlin Programme for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching. Read the report 👉 bit.ly/4ubD8A2 #TechnopolisGroup #TechnopolisDeutschland
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
„Never say never to a Deal Guy“ www.piratewires.com/p/inside-pen...
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Inside the Culture Clash That Tore Apart the Pentagon’s Anthropic Deal
despite anthropic frustrating the admin with its blogging and very slow 'politburo' of ethicists, emil michael,
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/02/2026
This is genuinely really bad, the kind of shit that guarantees a bad outcome. Very dodgy
AI startup Serval closed a private deal with venture-capital giant Sequoia in December that valued it at less than $400 million. Days later, Serval announced a new milestone from another funding round.
This time, its valuation had topped $1 billion, giving it Silicon Valley's coveted "unicorn" status.Serval's $600 million valuation surge in less than a week is an example of a fundraising tactic that has grown increasingly popular for sought-after startups and top-tier venture-capital firms in recent months.
A startup sells a stake of its company to a leading investor at one valuation and, either soon after or at the same time, offers additional shares to other backers at a much higher valuation.
The result: The leading investor books a massive gain, at least on paper, and the startup can announce and publicize a much higher value.
Startups have long commanded lofty valuations that have generally been less rooted in the strict dollars-and-cents metrics investors use to evaluate publicly traded companies. In some ways, a company is worth whatever an investor is willing to pay for it.
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Cozy and Comforting Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 20/02/2026
Whoa. If this works as described in humans that is a big deal
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Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say
A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 18/02/2026
NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Is Actually Here, and It’s Not Terrible
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
„Moreover, if even the Chinese Communist Party cannot force women to have children they do not want, nobody can.“ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Why are fertility rates collapsing? Gender roles
A big part of female graduates’ decision to have children depends on how they expect their husbands to behave
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Anthropic “spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off millions of books, before scanning their pages to feed more knowledge into the AI models behind products such as its popular chatbot, Claude.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
China created their own ÉNA for AI, with its Yao Class at Tsinghua for top 30 computer science students
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 14/01/2026
The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
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Gesines Jobtipps @gesinesjobtipps.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
[B] Technopolis Deutschland: Public Policy Analyst/Consultant (w/m/d) Umwelt-, Energie- und Klimapolitik, 14.12. #job @technopolis-group.com technopolis-group.jobs.personio.com…
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Martin Wolf: „…the conclusion might be that Europe now suffers from a paradox of its history: the fragmentation that made its states powerful and rich is, in the new world, a barrier to their remaining so.“ on.ft.com/47LUHfy
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Can a fragmented Europe continue to prosper?
What once made its sovereign states powerful and rich could now be a barrier to their remaining so
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Steffen Vogel @steffenvogel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ein Nachruf auf Micha Brumlik: Gegen die Relativierung von Wahrheit stellte er die Frage nach der Verantwortung www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Zum Tod von Micha Brumlik
Vom Zionismus über den Antizionismus zum Postzionismus: Der Publizist Micha Brumlik verband jüdische Identität mit universalistischer Ethik wie kaum ein Zweiter. Nun ist er im Alter von 78 Jahren gest...
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I still remember a time when no-one would believe that a state dept could post something like this. It was only a year ago.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar. Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Ann-Katrin Müller @akm0803.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Müllermilch Boss with Fringe Friends: A German Dairy Billionaire's Links to the Far Right
The dairy billionaire Theo Müller is friends with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany. She and other fringe figures were invited to his extravagant bi...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/09/2025
After making millions as a commodities trader, a job he came to hate, Jonathan Kleisner joined the Fire Department as a rookie paramedic at the age of 41. Now he’s determined to be the best rescue medic anywhere.
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The Millionaire Who Left Wall Street to Become a Paramedic
After making millions in a job he came to hate, Jonathan Kleisner joined the Fire Department as a rookie paramedic at the age of 41. Now he’s determined to be the best rescue medic anywhere.
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@grandcontinent.bsky.social?‬) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
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Mario Draghi’s Full Speech: Europe’s Harsh Reality — Powerless on the Global Stage! -ITALIAN-
YouTube video by EU Debates | eudebates.tv
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/08/2025
‘David Graeber upends the familiar history of the species in which primitive societies were egalitarian and the agricultural revolution brought a new order of class and domination. He wanted to show that life wasn’t really like that.’ @leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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GAU @deaidua.org · 07/08/2025
Major General Maik Keller, Deputy Commander of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, said in an interview with the FAZ that a few months ago Russia managed to severely damage a MIM-104 Patriot radar unit in #Ukraine. 1/3
Image: Bundeswehr/Christian Schneider
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’ www.ft.com/content/cccb...
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Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’
JPMorgan Chase boss warns on EU competitiveness and market complacency over tariffs
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Once children start first grade, a maths gender gap appears. This likely happens because school confronts them with societal expectations and gender norms, where math is rather associated with boys than girls www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Martin Wolf: „We are at a turning point: we must choose wisely.“ www.ft.com/content/0356...
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An ever riskier world economy
Trump’s tariff war brings with it unpredictability and a consequent loss of confidence
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Institut Avant-garde @ecoavantgarde.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thomas Roulleau rappelle que 85%des investissements pour la transition énergétique sont réalisés par les pays avancés et la Chine, les 15% restants étant répartis entre des pays représentant 2/3 de la pop. mondiale. Ils font notamment face à des coûts élevés du capital et au surendettement.
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
„Europe, which this week launched a renewed effort to invigorate its start-up industry, appears stuck on the old Silicon Valley playbook.“ www.ft.com/content/2261...
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The VC industry needs a geopolitical reboot
AI is rewriting the rules of the technological and investment game
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Jérôme Treperman @jerometrep.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
„Vielleicht bekommt Friedrich Merz von Maischberger, Lanz oder Illner irgendwann doch noch die Frage gestellt: Herr Merz, niemand kann etwas für seinen Naziopa – aber was haben Sie seit 2004 aus der Geschichte Ihres Großvaters gelernt?“ taz.de/!6081570/
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Friedrichund seinNaziopa
Am Dienstag soll Friedrich Merz zum Kanzler gewählt werden – und muss sich gleich zum 80. Jahrestag der Befreiung verhalten. Als sie vor Jahren zur Vergangenheit seines Großvaters recherchierte, verkl...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/04/2025
The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
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France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Interesting Dani Rodrik piece on the Trump tariffs in the broader context of the weakening of the manufacturing export led model. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...
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Opinion | With Trump’s Tariffs, the Fate of Developing Countries Now Rests in Their Own Hands
For the billions of people who still live in poverty, the path to prosperity may look very different than it has since World War II.
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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So if I’m reading this correctly, USTR used the “trade deficit divided by imports” formula. And then they added two variables which, multiplied together, equal 1 and therefore do not change the result. Just to make things look a bit more scientific? ustr.gov/issue-areas/...
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Technopolis Group @technopolis-group.com · 11/03/2025
Bridging Europe's Innovation Finance Gap: New strategic approaches to strengthen growth financing of technology-intensive startups What’s being done? What comes next? Read the article by our Managing Partner @jerometrep.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bILtlD #Innovation #InnovationFinance #Technology
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
How a president hoping to fund his government with tariffs and possibly annex Canada instead wrecked the economy and set continentalism back for almost a century. Excellent thread.
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