Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA.
on.ft.com/4kSuQYO
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Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA.
on.ft.com/4kSuQYO
«Hält man an der Idee fest, die digitalen Riesen zerschlagen zu müssen, droht ein klassischer Fehlschluss: Man zerstört am Ende genau das, was ihren Wert ausmacht.»
Der Essay von Michael Munger über die Macht der Plattformen und wie man sie begrenzt: schweizermonat.ch/die-zerschla...
This post got thousands of likes on Bluesky despite being published on Mastodon
What I mean by that is not that the Mastodon post was copy/pasted to Bluesky, the post you’re seeing and can natively interact with on Bluesky is literally the original Mastodon post
The power of open protocols
I suspect that this is a common knowledge problem too, partly. If much of the mobilization has come from the bottom up with little elite buy-in, then it is hard to "see" what is happening collectively.
I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
Also this notion that still persists that state owned companies are somehow inherently better to passengers, somehow fairer
Look at SNCF!
It's 100% state owned, and outright passenger hostile!
OK, the profit goes back to the state, but it's not as if it provides a passenger friendly outcome!
Le Monde has published an interview with French ICC judge Nicolas Guillou about the practicalities of being sanctioned by the US and the failure of states to stand up to this assault on the rule of law.
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
A thread with some quotations:
What happens when radical right-wing populist parties are in government? In our op-ed, we summarize some key polisky findings: normalization, curtailed civil liberties, weaker economic performance, greater inequality, and an overall threat to democracy itself www.derbund.ch/adrian-vatte...
With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?
The issue here is a shift to a kind of post-Blair/post-Corbyn pragmatism situated in an ideological space of "markets where they work best/the state where it works best" requires an underlying vision of what an ideal balance between state power and market forces should be within a European society.
I once told someone: „I‘m always happy to hear someone had a good time in my home country [Switzerland].“ They responded: „You must be happy all the time.“
the PRC's perennial problem is that a big corruption crackdown does nothing to alter the dynamics (opaqueness, hierarchy, lack of any outside audit) that creates corruption in the party or the PLA to begin with, so we see this endless cycle.
So pretty much everyone here was already purged or disappeared in the last year; this is just the official confirmation.
Psephologist Sir John Curtice told a Demos-sponsored event at the Conservative Party conference fringe that the Lib Dems “will almost undoubtedly win more seats” than the Tories at the next GE.
“The LD vote is now more geographically concentrated than your vote.”
German asylum claims have halved in the last year. Nothing to do with border theatre; everything to do with developments outside the EU that hardly ever play a role in European countries' domestic migration debates. Still, take the win if it allows you to change the subject.
I wonder if part of that could be explained by age.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
If true, we might as well bury the concept of rule of law conditionality. The EU cannot keep letting itself be blackmailed by Orbán into unfreezing funds withheld over rule of law violations in exchange for lifting his veto, unless it truly wants to lose all credibility as a guardian of EU values
No, China isn't an existential threat to the international order
Steven Langendonk and I weigh in on China's goals for global governance and plea for sobriety
thediplomat.com/2025/09/what...
This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.
In terms of political representation, workers critique forms of political inequality and political exclusion: Politicians, as part of the upper class, only serve the upper class; and politics is a self-referential sphere closed to non-experts.
Absolutely awesome @hankgreen.bsky.social!
youtube.com/watch?v=iWuF...
I somehow missed that there is new evidence for life on Mars. Here‘s an explainer by the wonderful Hank Green.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWuF...
Yulia Navalnaya says foreign tests show her husband was poisoned reut.rs/4mqWzj7
It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer
More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians
buff.ly/rTfNmFC
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Also great mixed with a bit of condensed milk (or milk and sugar), or in ice cream, which I learnt in Vietnam.
