iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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visualcap.bsky.social @visualcap.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Charted: Global Trade by Continent and Country in 2025 🌐 www.visualcapitalist.com/global-tra…

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Ed Porter @edporter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spain reports one row per technology per region, but solar PV comes in two flavours: 45.8 GW grid-connected and 9.5 GW behind-the-meter self-consumption. If your analysis only counts the former, you're missing a sixth of the country's PV fleet before you even start.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is all code becoming the same? On one hand, 95% of Kaggle submissions that set a random seed now use 42 (a Hitchhiker's Guide joke LLMs love). But, it turns out that while coding syntax is converging, approaches to problems are not converging. Human prompters drive real variety in solutions.

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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Airbus is putting its data beyond America's reach. They will run on Scaleway, a French provider, instead. A US law lets American authorities request data held by US firms, including data stored in servers outside the country. Europe is slowly trying to lean less on American technology.

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IATA @iata.org · 20/06/2026

While ✈️ is still expected to remain profitable in aggregate in 2026, we have halved our forecast for the industry’s net profit. The main challenge? Costs are rising faster than revenues. Profits, passenger demand, fuel, and more in the #WeeklyChart 👉 bit.ly/4eSA31X

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The Economist @economist.com · 17/06/2026

With just one prompt, anyone can ask AI to write an article (or create a doctored image of himself as Jesus). It has fuelled concerns of “AI slop”. But is it a tidal wave or a trickle? These five charts help explain the changes

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Did AI write this article?

We track how artificial intelligence is changing five fields

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"Where is AI in GDP statistics?"via @PIIE www.piie.com/publications... "Treating the AI sector as a coherent economic entity yields preliminary estimates of nominal AI GDP at approximately $250 billion in 2025, growing at roughly 2,600 percent per year in quality-adjusted real terms"

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Fertility Rate In East Asian Countries 2025 (Note replacement level is 2.1) Credit: Geo Universe More maps in the series: brilliantmaps.com/east-asia...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The "renewables make electricity expensive" line doesn't survive contact with data. But neither does claim that wind+solar automatically deliver cheap power. Europe 2025: all renewables r = -0.51, wind+solar only r = -0.14. Hydro does heavy lifting. Full analysis Sunday: janrosenow.substack.com

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Manuel Saenz @mrsaenz.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Trump seems to have the same reactions to the Iran war outcome and the 2020 election. Says P. Krugman: "A guy who can’t admit that he lost a presidential election to Joe Biden is not going to be able to admit that he lost a war to the mullahs of Iran."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The world’s ten richest people — all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $260 billion in April. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.7 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, 66 million in total, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 29/04/2026

Congress didn’t lose its war powers. It neglected them. Decades of bipartisan deference to presidents have weakened the Founders’ constitutional check — widening the gap between the foreign policy voters want and the one they get, argues Cato’s Brandan Buck. ow.ly/ilyT50YR5Jx

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Europe has made remarkable progress cleaning up its electricity. In 2024, just 29% of European electricity came from fossil fuels - down from 53% in 2005. But electricity is only 23% of Europe's total energy use. Look at other sectors & it changes dramatically. More here: substack.com/@janrosenow

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

IMF model simulations show that the increase in military spending in EU countries is adding considerable upward pressure on fiscal deficits and public debt ratios, when sovereign debt levels are already high in many member states.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress. But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%. And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported. Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do. More here: rdcu.be/feOjc

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Manuel Saenz @mrsaenz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“…cuando un político se salta las líneas rojas, se las ha saltado para siempre para quienes le sucedan, que podrán ampararse en el precedente y en la falta de consecuencias de su acción.” blogs.elconfidencial.com/espana/mapa-...

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Bolaños desencadenado

El señalamiento de Bolaños a Peinado no es una polémica más: es una ruptura cualitativa de la contención institucional que abre la puerta a futuros gobiernos contra jueces incómodos y pretende influir en el resultado del caso de Begoña Gómez

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Manuel Saenz @mrsaenz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Ultimately, no one will have done more for renewable energies than Donald Trump. The irony.

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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Italy and Spain have given far less aid to Ukraine than Norway, Sweden or the Netherlands, even though their economies are way bigger. Italy and Spain clamor for "solidarity" whenever their bond markets are in trouble, but they don't give it to others... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/what-the-e...

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IATA @iata.org · 08/04/2026

From data and AI to cybersecurity and trust, aviation leaders are navigating a profound digital shift. During #IATAWDS, CEOs from Malaysia Airlines, Thai Airways, Scoot, and IATA discuss the vision needed to drive transformation at scale while building resilience in a rapidly evolving industry.

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 04/04/2026

US trade policy uncertainty reached its highest level on record in 2025, Cato scholars report. Multiple business surveys and anecdotes suggest that this uncertainty undermined long-term business planning and investment. ow.ly/lo8y50YCvEP

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 27/03/2026

All immigrants, both legal and illegal, are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born Americans, the 2010-2024 data show. Check out the new study by Alex Nowrasteh and Michelangelo Landgrove. ow.ly/XYr950YyQPU

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Wealth is highly concentrated and largely inherited in countries such as Spain, Italy, Austrian and Germany. Inheritances and gifts play a considerably smaller role in net wealth in countries such as Portugal, Hungary or Latvia.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"US democracy is currently in a much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in modern times," the V-Dem Institute at Göteborg University in Sweden says. "Trump's second term can be summarized as a rapid and aggressive concentration of powers in the presidency."

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Rising energy prices are pushing up inflation, especially in economies dependent on imported fossil fuels. The durable solution is structural: improve efficiency, accelerate electrification and scale up renewables. Energy policy is economic policy.

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The Economist @economist.com · 09/03/2026

One strategy is to adopt hard-line policies on immigration and crime to steal the populists’ thunder. The other is to give populists a role government in the hope that they become responsible. Both entail ethical and electoral risks

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How the Danes and Swedes handle populism

Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen calls an election to take on the hard right again

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"Manhattan Institute’s Criticisms Vindicate Cato’s Report on Fiscal Effect of Immigrants: Part 1" www.cato.org/blog/manhatt... via @CatoInstitute @David_J_Bier

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

China’s latest energy data offers a signal worth paying attention to. In 2025, emissions from energy and industry fell by 0.3%, modest, but notable, even as total energy consumption rose by 3.5%. The key driver? A continued surge in solar power capacity.

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Martin Anota @manota.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Europe v America: Who’s really winning? A wonkish but important discussion (Paul Krugman) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-a...

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The Russian puppet states of Hungary and the United States abstained on a motion calling for support for lasting peace in Ukraine at the UN today.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

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tante @tante.cc · 16/02/2026

New study by the National Bureau of Economic Research: A survey of 6000 CFOs, CEOS throughout US, Europe, UK and Australia comes to the conclusion that businesses predict that "AI" will improve productivity by a whopping 1.4%. Truly earth shattering. www.nber.org/papers/w34836

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This was not an inevitability. This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind. It does not have to be this way.

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 06/02/2026

Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America. But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"Donald Trump’s policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector: Foreign visitors to the US fell 4.2% in 2025, while international travel worldwide rose 4%" www.ft.com/content/8f6d... Reminder: foreign tourism = US services exports

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Héctor Tejero @htejero.eurosky.social · 29/01/2026

Una candidata a mejor noticia de los próximos años. Que India esté encontrando una vía de desarrollo directamente solar sin pasar por los combustibles fósiles aprovechando la ruta abierta por China. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 26/01/2026

✍️ New article: Could biofuels meet demand for global aviation? Biofuels get a lot of attention as a way to decarbonize aviation. A small amount of biofuel is already blended into jet fuel supplies in some countries. For many airlines, biofuels are currently the most practical decarbonization option

Using all liquid biofuels for aviation would meet just over one-third of demand.

Bar chart with two vertical bars: left bar labeled "Global liquid biofuel production" with value 1,400 TWh; right bar labeled "Energy consumed for aviation" with value 3,930 TWh. A note above the chart states less than 1 percent of global liquid biofuels are currently used for aviation and that reallocating all of them to aviation would provide just over one-third of demand.

Data sources listed: Energy Institute; International Energy Agency; Bergero et al. (2023).

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21/01/2026

The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI. 🤷 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

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CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.

How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 22/01/2026

The Kyiv Independent combed through microchip shipments, revealing that American and European microchips continued to enter Russia in large quantities — mainly from China. Read here: kyivindependent.com/exclusive-am...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Carney: "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 ... "

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

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🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻 @devingaffney.com · 13/01/2026

Something is happening on @bsky.app. For the first time *ever*, we're seeing durable, modest, realistic growth, and it couldn't be happening at a better time. Are we about to hit escape velocity?

Daily Unique Likers from https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Publishers expect traffic from search to fall by 43% in the next 3 years. This is one of the findings of our new report on media trends. Authored by Nic Newman, it's based on a survey of 280 media leaders. Full report buff.ly/Dh2JIuT 7 findings in thread

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

You either die a disruptor, or live long enough to see yourself become an incumbent

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Even after two world wars and a century of upheaval, wealth in 🇩🇪 shows strong persistence. About 8% of today’s top fortunes trace back to the early 1900s: 82 of the richest families today were already among the richest in 1913, challenging the idea of a fully meritocratic elite.

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Ignasi Guardans @iguardans.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

EEUU abandona 66 entidades de colaboración internacional, muchas ajenas a la ONU, incluyendo ciencia, cultura, justicia y ddhh, violencia sexual, universidades, por supuesto clima, desarrollo social y económico , etc www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

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