Reposted by Matteo Nebbiaiae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026the problem really is that, even if you accept their claims about their technologies, it simply doesn't make them experts on politics or the outside world in general 317718
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This is... insane. The EU spent untold hours of human labor and political effort to create the DSA's intricate system of rules for platforms. And the CJEU is just smashing it, like a toddler. 620070
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This is just an invasion by any other name. In a just world, Israel would face the same treatment as Russia. 13987399
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Wake up babe, another form of structural power just dropped 132
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 14/04/2026#Trump is a window of opportunity to advance new bilateral and regional trade agreements. Promoters of digital regulation should use it to move beyond a defensive posture and pivot toward globalising digital rules. open.substack.com/pub/matteone...open.substack.comCounterattack: Is It Time to Make Digital Regulation Global?How Trade Politics Could Globalise Digital Rules 000
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 13/04/2026AI agents discovered trolling, another step towards the superintelligence apocalypse. 211
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiÉamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I learn this morning that Péter Magyar is neither Leon Trotski nor even Clement Attlee. Horror of horror! That he's not in Putin's pocket and wants to be a normal EU member will do for me, for the moment 1145
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that) 163078496
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiIWM Vienna @iwm.at · 02/04/2026We are delighted to welcome seven new fellows to the IWM in April: Khalid Bencherif, Richard Cockett, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, Milorad Ivanovic, @matteonebbiai.bsky.social, @thomasseifert.bsky.social, and John C. Swanson. 👉 Learn more about their work on our website: www.iwm.at/news/new-fel... 032
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni. They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years. Unprecedented. (📸 Cradle Media) 221338975
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait. 473234881
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 17/03/2026www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/con...phenomenalworld.orgConscious Uncoupling | Phenomenal WorldCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has declared a "rupture" in the liberal order. Can US allies organize themselves apart from the US? 000
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/20261/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries 191210402
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Put the Strait of Hormuz on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang 271476175
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe... 321274600
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share: 514177357128
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiFrancis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social · 09/03/2026North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...open.substack.comNorth Korea Was Right About Nuclear WeaponsYes, really. 5368
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiYusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 07/03/2026Why the US is facing strategic defeat @policytensor.bsky.social “The Trump administration needs to understand that there are no military solutions here. Talk to the Omanis. Find a diplomatic solution before this brings the whole house down on your heads.” policytensor.substack.com/p/why-the-us...policytensor.substack.comWhy the US is facing strategic defeatDrone, Missiles, THAAD 41210
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 28/02/2026The government wants to Huawei any company that pursues a radical woke ideology like "no domestic mass surveillance" except it has no legal basis to do so and its rules for compliance are gobbledygook www.wired.com/story/anthro... 525274
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"long-range high-precision munitions are completely useless without targeting data: if you don’t know what you need to strike, high-precision is no longer an asset" bindinghook.com/data-really-...bindinghook.comData really is the new ammoAs Europe aims for defence sovereignty, access to US data remains a thorny topic. 010
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 19/02/2026"it’s a little disturbing how closely this discourse follows climate-debate patterns set down 20 years ago by the right. Either a man-made phenomenon isn’t happening or, if it is, it’s not important". open.substack.com/pub/transfor...open.substack.comThe left is missing out on AIAs a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right 000
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/ 21592224
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 10/02/2026The EV debate in one picture: Even the smallest, most efficient gas car has a higher life-cycle footprint than the largest BEV. Size matters. Power matters. Powertrain matters more. This figure comes from this great paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 33619
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026This effort to curry favor by acting like an insult comic will be forgotten within the Trump administration in a day, but will make headlines and be remembered for decades in the countries being insulted. 481620370
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Given Trump's mental health status, maybe newspapers are 4D chessing to let Trump believe he actually made that commitment. World order by performativity 000
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 21/01/2026A good explainer of what might happen domestically if Trump chooses the military option on #Greenland 000
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 21/01/2026"Restaurants are opening in DC" - Trump, 2026. "Restaurants are full" - Berlusconi, 2011, right before Italy's debt crisis. 020
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiAbe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 21/01/20261/Its easy to write off Trump as a mad king on Greenland. But it is as much about Court politics -- Trump and his insiders -- than simply a tantrum. Like any King, it is about makeup (hint: Estee Lauder). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comHow a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territoryUS president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island 46646
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 20/01/2026"there's a third possible response to tariffs, one that's just sitting there, begging to be tried: what about repealing anticircumvention law?" pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...pluralistic.netPluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 010
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... " 813204086511
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiPaige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 12/01/2026🧵 Thread on beautiful data centers: MareNostrum 4 (Barcelona SCC): Often called "the most beautiful data center in the world," this facility is housed inside the Torre Girona Chapel, a deconsecrated 19th-century church. When fully installed, it will have a peak performance of 13.9 Petaflops. 715048
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiAbe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 04/01/20265/This is not a world marked by spheres of interest in the traditional sense because the focus is not about competing blocks. It is about extraction and dominance for the insider elite clique. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...project-syndicate.orgThe Trump Doctrine in VenezuelaRichard Haass explains why the US military intervention and arrest of Nicolás Maduro will play well in Beijing and Moscow. 14414
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Good point, also connected to the fact that Trump doesn't seem to have a particular plan for elections/democratic institutions. I feel neoconservatism was at least worried about what "good institutions" should be exported after intervention. 161
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text. 3927971346
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...cornellpress.cornell.eduCatastrophic Success by Alexander B. Downes | eBook | Cornell University PressIn Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change.... 16637260
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate. 360197494397
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Now let’s see how many Iraq war "critics" are doubling down on Venezuela 😬 010
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing. 7245141301
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 03/01/2026you could say unbelievable, our European leaders will not condemn Trump's flagrant breach of international laws, but we've all watched them cower on US/Israel impunity in Gaza. 25119
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Venezuela is an important oil producer (~top15 in global ranking), with some of the world's largest proven oil reserves. Supply chocked last year but export to 🇨🇳 was picking up. The current uncertainty will be profitable to other fossil giants (🇷🇺) Unless, just an idea: we take renewables seriously 35221
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/01/2026A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵 121604886
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Wow, seems terrible. If only they put a Smart Businessman in with near-total, unconstitutional remit over federal spending, I bet he could find out and then stomp it all out easily! 1855952
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 19/12/2025"it can’t be overstated what an own-goal supporting this whole dumb thing was for Democrats, who not only helped Trump’s friends steal partial ownership of #TikTok, they saber-rattled over a ban during an election season where they desperately needed young people to vote". 031
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 19/12/2025I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne... 1020571
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 15/12/2025This is excellent on the fundamental incompatibility between Starmer’s focus on “growth” and his determination to reduce the number of migrants. As Ben concludes, something will have to give and that’s likely to Starmer’s time in government app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/71810/...app.prospectmagazine.co.ukLabour’s Mr Micawber politicsThe government hopes that ‘something will turn up’ to produce growth, but curbing immigration will only harm the economy 52210
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiBorderlex @borderlex.net · 16/12/20252026 in 🇬🇧 trade policy: Labour Party’s undercurrents may well be leading to breaking taboos over post Brexit red lines in relation to EU. Read @davidheniguk.bsky.social for more (no 🔏) f.mtr.coolPerspectives: UK trade policy sets sights on Brussels - Borderlex - European trade policyThe United Kingdom’s post-Brexit ‘global Britain’ trade policy has not delivered the expected results nor offered a good alternative to deep ties with the European Union. In the British debate, ten years after the referendum, all roads are leading back to Brussels. 011
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiLucas Guttenberg @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Is Germany again dragging its feet and undermining a "simple" solution to the Ukraine financing problem, instead pushing the ubercomplex reparations loan? It's a tempting eurocrisis reflex that if only there were a will in Berlin, there would be a better way. But there isn't. Here is why: 411650
Reposted by Matteo NebbiaiGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵 251167602