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Georg von Graevenitz

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 2h
I spoke with The Daily about what’s happening to mathematics in the age of AI—and what it feels like to be a mathematician right now. The conversation went places I hadn’t expected. Thank you to Rachel Abrams, Annie Minoff, and their team. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/p...
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Mathematicians’ Latest Problem: What if A.I. Can Do Our Job?
In the span of just a few months, A.I. systems have solved some of the biggest outstanding problems in math — adding mathematicians to the list of those terrified of losing their job to the technology...
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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · 2h
PhD students & early-career researchers: how do you build a successful research programme? Our next Expert Workshop with Dr Mimosa Distefano, Prof Henry Overman OBE & Prof Anna Valero will cover developing, funding & managing research. Register here: bit.ly/4ihpyH8 #EconSky
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
Trump is now facilitating Putin's attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Inheritance taxation is unpopular, even amongst people who are unlikely to ever have to pay it. Why? In four different studies - experiment! panels! behaviour! - @cvalebeek.bsky.social and I show political trust is a strong predictor for support for the tax. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Political trust and inheritance taxation: evidence from four studies
Inheritance (estate) taxation is a potentially powerful instrument for reducing inequality and raising state revenues, yet it attracts opposition well beyond the small minority who will ever pay it...
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#AgiosEfstratios went from being dependent on #diesel to achieving energy self-sufficiency with #renewables #DimitriosKardomateas recalls that on the island of Agios Efstratios, “Before, 100% of electricity was produced from diesel" www.euronews.com/2026/10/12/o... #DonaldTrump #ActOnClimate
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Why was this Aegean island chosen to test green energy autonomy?
For Agios Efstratios to go from being totally dependent on diesel to achieving energy self-sufficiency with renewables, leaders needed support from the local population. They also needed a replacement...
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
It's official. I AM AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR!!! WOW 😭✨ #TheDoubleTax has won the prestigious 2026 Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize, awarded to one author whose work advances gender equity. Past winners include NYT Bestsellers and National Book winners. #GodsPlan womensway.org/events/18th-...
WOMEN'S WAY 

2026 Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize Winner
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, Economist and Author of The Double Tax

Anna Gifty stands in front of library, smiling, wearing an oversized yellow sweater and holding THE DOUBLE TAX with the cover facing the camera

photo credit: Corban Swain
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Romesh Vaitilingam @econromesh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My January 2008 @voxeu.org conversation with #MichaelWoodford about the communication strategies of central banks & their importance for the effectiveness of monetary policy, #EconomicsNobel cepr.org/multimedia/c...
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Central bank talks
In an interview recorded at the American Economic Association meetings in New Orleans in January 2008, Michael Woodford talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the communication strategies of central banks ...
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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fantastic news! "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026 was awarded to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford and for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation." www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Polling suggests the public still values universities but no longer trusts the deal they offer. Jim Dickinson sifts five years of surveys for what’s driving the doubt – and what universities can do about it wonkhe.com/blogs/britai...
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Britain likes its universities but not its degrees
Polling suggests the public still values universities but no longer trusts the deal they offer. Jim Dickinson sifts five years of surveys for what’s driving the doubt – and what universities can do ab…
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We really need to make Meng's Big Data Paradox central to teaching, don't we? Researchers don't know this stuff bc they have never been exposed to it. But it is fundamental. (Link to paper PDF statistics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...)
3. Compensating for quality with quantity is a doomed game.
3.1. A law of large populations? Under a probabilistic sampling, a central
driving force for the stochastic behaviors of the sample mean (and alike) is the
sample size n. This is the case for the Law of Large Numbers (LLN) and for the
Central Limit Theorem (CLT), two pillars of theoretical statistics, and of much of
applied statistics because we rely on LLN and CLT to build intuitions, heuristic
arguments, or even models. However, identity (2.3) implies that once we lose control of probabilistic sampling, then the driving force behind the estimation error is
no longer the sample size n, but rather the population size N. Specifically, (2.3)
and (2.5) together imply that
(3.1) Zn,N ≡ Gn − GN

VSRS(Gn)
= ρR,G1−f
f σG
1−f
n S2
G
= √
N − 1ρR,G.
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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The red curve has a form that has not been seen before: it simply does not stop rising further and further. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, at the level of the equator, the water is getting hotter and hotter. #Climate #Crisis 1/
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Meinung: Klimakrise: El Niño treibt Weltmeere auf Rekordhitze – Folgen werden tödlich
Von der hiesigen Öffentlichkeit weitgehend ignoriert, bahnt sich eine akute globale Katastrophe an. El Niño bricht, von der Klimakrise verstärkt, lang vor seinem Höhepunkt Rekorde. Das wird teuer – un...
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Holger Binding @hermgamma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Invest into solar and batteries to replace Diesel generators around the tropics, all equity with FX unhedged. That stuff pays back in months and, frankly, bears much less political risk than buying USD assets.
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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Im ICE @deutschebahn.com von München nach Frankfurt: der Schaffner teilt mir mit, meine BC sei nicht mehr gülitg (laut App noch bis 24.10. gültig) und ich müsse einen erhöhten Fahrpreis zahlen. Auf meine mehrfache Nachfrage hin, warum eine BC, die bis 24.10. gültig ist, am 10.10. nicht mehr gültig
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Die Erderwärmung beschleunigt sich, der vergangene Hitzesommer hat uns in 🇩🇪 16.000 Tote (RKI) und 40 Milliarden € (DIW) gekostet. Und Ministerin Reiche will den dringend notwendigen und erfolgreichen Ausbau der Erneuerbaren sabotieren! 🤯 Unverantwortlich. 😠 www.taz.de/!6216523
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Das große Rollback
Eigentlich sollte Katherina Reiche (CDU) die Wirtschaft ankurbeln. Doch ihre Gesetze für den Strommarkt sind dazu nicht geeignet. Was genau will die Bundeswirtschaftsministerin?
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here are the faces of people whom russia murdered in their beds in Pryluky. Three babies, two older children. 17 adults. Is that what American taxpayers want to fund by procuring diesel from russia? Maybe Europe also stops remaining fuel purchases from the terrorist state? The world of hypocrisy.
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Mike Kling @mikekling9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Die Erbschaftssteuer dient auch dem Zwecke, die Ansammlung von Riesenvermögen in den Händen einzelner zu verhindern." Nicht Karl Marx... Nicht von irgendwelchen Linksradikalen formuliert... Verfassung des Freistaates Bayern, §123 (der § ist im Ganzen lesenswert, by the way)
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nachdem es in dieser Woche im Bundestag schon viel Kritik an den Energiegesetzen gab, ist sie jetzt auch davor zu hören: Mehrere tausend Menschen demonstrieren gerade auf der Reichtstagswiese gegen ein Abbremsen der Energiewende.
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licia @astra99.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
a new global study reveals 51% of migratory bird species are declining, affecting every major flyway. this really highlights the delicate balance and interconnectedness of our planet's systems.
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More Than Half of the World's Migratory Bird Species Are Declining, New Global Study Finds
A comprehensive global review, led by researchers from Georgetown University and the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has revealed that approximately 51% of the world's m
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Yevgeniy Golovchenko @golovchenko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump’s announcement to buy diesel from Russia is a big deal. It’s a major shift from US policy to limit Russias revenues from oil products. This brings us a bit closer to a future where the EU increasingly implements the most important sanctions without the US. Here is what I would keep and eye on👇
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...
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184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archive
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great discussion of the “Messy Job” book by @lugaricano.bsky.social et al with @annastansbury.bsky.social and @adamposen.bsky.social. I loved the combination of elegant price theory (Garicano) and a labour-econ perspective on power (Stansbury). www.youtube.com/live/uqtSXxX...
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Book discussion: Messy Jobs: The Work that AI Cannot Reach
YouTube video by Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Dan Mead @danmead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How can we revitalise post-industrial towns and fight the far right? A new academic paper from UC Berkley shows how the development of Luxembourg as a financial centre also boosted the economy and reduced the vote share for the National Rally in nearby ex-manufacturing towns in France.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is such a shame
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Did you just make me English ?? The schools were, but they weren’t in the UK, some of the teachers were British, many weren’t.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 08/10/2026
Germans know perfectly well who this is. Putin invited former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to his home for his birthday after learning from media reports that Schröder was in Moscow, the Kremlin says. The Kremlin referred to the former German leader as Putin’s “old friend.” #Russia
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 08/10/2026
President Zelenskyy and UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband paid tribute to the victims of a russian missile strike on Pryluky that killed 22 people, including 5 children. More than 100 residential buildings were damaged, alongside schools, kindergartens, shops, and businesses.
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
By whom ? - it was all over the news here in Germany.
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Dr. Matthias Lachenmann @lawchenmann.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mal sehen, ob er bald Tesla oder Lada fährt…
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Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Die #Entwässerung der Landschaft ist "Wasserpolitik der letzten Jahrhunderte". Schneider und das @umweltministerium.de wirklich der fast einzige Lichtblick in dieser Bundesregierung, da sie klar aussprechen, was Phase ist.
Wasserpolitik muss sich ändern
Schneider sagte weiter, Wasser möglichst schnell abzuleiten und nasse Flächen trockenzulegen, sei Wasserpolitik der letzten Jahrhunderte gewesen. "Heute ist die Aufgabe, Wasser so gut wie möglich in der Landschaft zu halten. Wenn die Gebirge mit ihren Gletschern als Wasserlieferanten ausfallen, müssen die Flüsse, Auen, Wälder und Böden umso mehr zu Wasserspeichern werden", erklärte Schneider.

Dies bedeute zum Beispiel, trockene Moore wieder zu vernässen, Flüssen mehr Raum zu geben und Wälder zu stabilen Mischwäldern umzubauen. Auch die technische Wasserinfrastruktur müsse fit gemacht werden.
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 07/10/2026
Dass die meisten Menschen hierzulande diese Grafik weiterhin noch nie gesehen haben, ist ein Ausdruck kollektiven Medienversagens. Man kann es nicht anders ausdrücken. Die Verdrängung hat aberwitzige Ausmaße angenommen. #ElNino #Klimakrise #HeißesMeer
Record warm waters in the main El Niño region reached >30°C for the first time in the NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Sea Surface Temperature dataset.
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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
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WWF-Bericht: Tierbestände gehen weltweit weiter stark zurück
Besonders drastisch sieht es in Flüssen und Seen aus. Viele Wildtierbestände sinken laut WWF immer weiter. Der Bericht zeigt aber auch: Schutzmaßnahmen zeigen Wirkung.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
since apparently the original article failed to upload:
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sure, it borders on many relevant fields of research (on links between transnational experiences and cosmopolitan views etc). But I think it's deeply misguided in confounding all kinds of factors into a "tribalist" vision of political divides (see also sect. 3 here: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article... )
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Boundaries and cleavages: Elements of a cultural sociology of political divides
Abstract. This article advances a cultural sociological approach to political cleavages by bringing cleavage theory into dialogue with research on symbolic boundaries. While structural and institution...
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It was always clear that David Goodhart's fairy tale of a struggle between rootless cosmopolitans and down-to-earth conservatives ("Anywheres vs Somewheres") was not influential because it was accurate, but because it confirmed the prejudices of right-leaning commentators. Now we have the evidence:
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The Road to Nowhere: Being Rooted in a Region Does Little to Predict Support for Populist Parties or Opposition to Migration and Social Change
In his influential book The road to somewhere David Goodhart claims that a split between a majority of people who are rooted in particular places or groups (the “Somewheres”) and a minority of people...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Finally a proper working paper for this study that produced one of the most astounding figures I've ever seen. Basically economics is different from every other field, empirically. This paper looks at the concentration of university affiliations for award winners. www.nber.org/papers/w35875
Figure 2 from the paper: institutional concentration of university affiliation at time of award correlated with institutional concentration of phd granting university. Economics is the most concentrated of any field. 
Figure 2 from the paper: institutional concentration of university affiliation at time of award correlated with institutional concentration of lifetime employment. Economics is the most concentrated of any field.
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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Pacific nations announce a regional #roadmap to transition away from #fossilfuels at #PreCOP31 - adding another 18 Nations who develop such a roadmap. Strong leadership from the #Pacific 💪 Ministers reaffirmed their vision of 100% renewable energy and a fossil fuel-free Pacific.
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I get on my pedestal about this from time to time, but I so encourage folks to ask older relatives & friends about their lives while they still have the memories. Get out the tape recorder. Open up the boxes of old photos and label the names/places. It all gets lost so much faster than you expect.
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Haven’t used this. Have used Pandoc once or twice. Longtime ago.
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
llm2doc.app/latex-to-word
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LaTeX to Word Converter — Editable Equations, Free
Paste LaTeX, preview the rendered equations, download a .docx where every formula is editable Word math. Free, no signup.
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gemini suggests: Option 1: Use a Free Web Interface built on top of Pandoc 1. Open the website. 2. Paste your raw LaTeX code or upload your .tex file. 3. Click Download DOCX. 4. The tool runs Pandoc in the background and hands you a clean Word document with fully editable math equations.
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
CLAUDE & Gemini are LLMs. You access them via browser. Gemini - Google. CLAUDE i - Anthropic. I use both a lot. Pandoc is an open source tool. No AI. You install it on your laptop or go for a website that runs it for you. In the latter case you are uploading file. I have a friend who uses P often.
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So have you tried with Pandoc? I just checked with Google Gemini (via browser) and it is suggesting that pandoc will do a better job. If that is failing you could describe to Google Gemini what you are doing and ask it to suggest fixes for steps that go wrong. This would be an alternative to CLAUDE
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ah yes - that is a pain. So you wrote in tex? That might help you because then you can give CLAUDE the underlying code. Will prob lead to much better conversion results.
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That is tough, because Word is not great for maths. Try uploading to CLAUDE. It does a good job of reading PDFs even with a fair amount of notation. You can then ask to put it out again as a Word doc. Haven’t tried but CLAUDE is good a producing summaries of quite complex materials in Word.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky.com · 07/10/2026
Today marks 20 years since Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow. She recognized Putin's true nature earlier than most—and the regime could never erase the truth she died to tell.
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.
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Georg von Graevenitz @jirzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank you!
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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2026: Demokratien unter Druck. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: Faschismus ist keine Meinung Ruprecht Polenz: Wie ein Volk den Verstand verliert – und was wir dagegen tun können Fr., 9.10., 20 Uhr: Haus am Dom Sa., 10.10., 10 Uhr: ARD/ZDF/3sat-Bühne 👉 www.chbeck.de/empfehlungen...
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@Arbeiterkammer @arbeiterkammer.at · 06/10/2026
Sei dabei, wenn diskutiert wird, warum der #Arbeitsmarkt für viele nicht mehr funktioniert und warum die Schere zwischen den "normalen" Beschäftigten und den Top-Verdiener:innen immer weiter aufgeht. Hier geht's zur Einladung 👇 #AKInfo 2/2
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Buchvorstellung von Arin Dube: "The Wage Standard"
What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It
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