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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 10h

The "LINDSEY O. GRAHAM SANCTIONING RUSSIA AND IRAN ACT OF 2026" becomes a bit sinister when the US sanctions other countries from importing petroleum products from Russia but increases its own imports. It becomes a "LINDSEY O. GRAHAM SANCTIONING ENEMIES OF RUSSIA ACT OF 2026"

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 21h

Are you, per chance, sitting on a couch while you are sitting on your hands?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And at the cost of destroying the US reputation in eastern Europe (even more). And that cost is already paid.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Never mind... they have a research exception. So being cruel and abusive towards the LLM model for research is okay according to Anthropic.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you a "reverse centaur"? -- "A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant" pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/v...

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (11 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They already put down "existential risks to humanity" in their S1. Good luck insuring that.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe there is enough ROI in writing substack articles

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are people waking up to that they are feeding the plagiarism machine with that millennium price frontrun incident?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you are Apple and staying out of the AI race and don't need AI capex, this would not mechanically push the Apple stock price lower, correct?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

They also do this with more important things. E.g. do you see a country named "Western Sahara" in your google maps?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Maybe good so, because this makes me suspect it was written by LLMs

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

have well funded public TV options with mandatory news content. Maybe we'll see if those fixes are enough soon.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Can't help but think that this is a problem of misaligned incentives that might be hard to fix with individual action. Here in Germany the fixes were "don't allow people to elect the president anymore, they are too stupid and elect old, mentally declining would be kings (Paul von Hindenburg)" and

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When you donate to the church of AGI, you don’t demand much evidence of a return on investment. You take it on faith.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bonus that this introduces a lot of leverage into the system (like other capital gains tax avoidance strategies).

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I got also taught in German school that Hitler turned on the money printing machine again to finance the war and then had to conquer other nations for ROI otherwise there would have been hyperinflation again.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The DB CEO recently called this out p.dw.com/p/5I9BZ Idk, partially that may make her part of the problem. Perhaps would be better to directly remove decision makers that shift responsibility.

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Deutsche Bahn chief Evelyn Palla blasts 'organized irresponsibility' in the company

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Flutter Entertainment and DraftKings also not doing so well

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Did I miss something. Has Minnesota seceded from the US?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Perhaps it was also politically motivated: reform the free market, or face the perception that communist-style solutions are more effective.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I don't get this. Has the US lost the capacity to design/regulate markets? And the solution is to use a system like we had in east Germany with a public option (HO)? Recently heard an interview (Odd lots) about Aldi in NY... maybe make it easier for them to build more discounters?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One problem was that the existing ones were becoming old (>50 years) and unsafe (e.g. BWR instead of PWR) and no one wanted to build new ones. At some point it is better to rebuild things in a modern way instead of maintaining something old.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Needs a clear goal definition first. Is the goal to have a competitor to whatever US company "wins" AI, or to have good AI research. E.g. we have good database research, but US hyperscalers/companies are providing the database services.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Previously this was only accessible on the private market.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I also don't get why there aren't any people standing up to them. For example the investment banks very well could have said that the SpaceX IPO is bad for long term business and refused to participate. My only conclusion can be that they are either too stupid to coordinate or are okay with it.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Elect a reality tv show host, get a reality tv show

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Who needs the FED if there is Circle printing USDC?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I'm for the digital Euro btw. but because I don't like seignorage accruing to often private (but highly regulated) entities. My guess is that this is also why banks don't like it.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Chinese could do the same thing and if the US sanctions a bank they could use e.g. the rare earths lever. At some point it is about state vs state, if a state chooses to protect a bank.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In that case we could pass a law that forces banks to continue to offer Wero. At some point it comes down to who has more power/sovereignty. The could do the same with the ICJ case (pass a law that disallows Microsoft/companies under DMA to not offer their services for certain reasons).

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Just to be sure... you are defending the call made by FIFA, correct?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The work-around they would have found would have been to ship via exempted countries or declare things as magazines.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is not a green transition, this is degrowth.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yeah, but same goes for CoreWeave. And Amazon seems to be up -- they are the choice that will be around.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We want every American to be rich so that they cannot go to heaven

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I agree with your broader point, but do not undestand what makes coding exceptional. Few code that gets written can be formally verified. So for correctness one would need human review and human designed test-suites?

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

KOSPI down 10%. But yeah, everyone knows this was "overbought".

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

From a capacity perspective 10 very large tankers per day through the straight would fully restore pre-war flows. And that's not needed because of the pipelines. So the northern route would not be a bottleneck.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We need a German 401k. That'll fix it. (Toned down version coming this year and too late. Retirement bump already in progress)

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Could also be that Iran is okay with throwing Hezbollah under the bus, but this is a useful fig leaf to delay Hormuz re-opening because they don't think they can get credible commitments from the current US regime.

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postcharlemagne.bsky.social @postcharlemagne.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Yes, this would need to be negotiated. The current US govt is obviously inept to do so. So what to do? Send Chuck Schumer to Pakistan to negotiate?

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