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Maurice Politis
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Chemical Engineer, techy, trails, trekking, geek-dad of 2 girls. Mala tempora currunt, sed peiora parantur. Type III fun. EN|GR|IT
heuristic: Watermelon flag accounts = instant mute/block = Happier apart.
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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · Nov 18
La libertà non è star sopra un albero
Non è neanche avere un'opinione
La libertà non è uno spazio libero
Libertà è partecipazione

"Al contrario, si può giocare al Fascismo in molti modi, e il nome del gioco non cambia." U. Eco
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Oggi, l'antisionismo è quasi come l'antisemitismo
Angelus Novus (New Angel) is a 1920 monoprint by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, using the oil transfer method he invented. It is now in the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Novus
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Crypto's main function is money laundering, and it should be regulated out of existence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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dalagiorgos.bsky.social
Πολύ ωραία βιβλιοκριτική τριών βιβλίων για το δημογραφικό. Προκλητικό και συναρπαστικό ανάγνωσμα.
Με λίγα λόγια, λέει ότι οι αλλαγές είναι τεράστιες και ό,τι κάνουμε θα έχει αντίκτυπο, ΑΝ έχει αντίκτυπο, πολλές γενιές μετά!
Μεγάλο κείμενο, αλλά αξίζει τον κόπο!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
A welcome change
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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thepitchinspection.bsky.social
As FIFA President Gianni Infantino strengthens his ties with the Trump family and other global autocrats, this question needs answering; Is now the time for FIFA Reform 2.0?

Our latest substack long read.

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Gianni Infantino - "The Emperor of Football"
As FIFA President Gianni Infantino strengthens his ties with the Trump family and other global autocrats, this question needs answering; Is now the time for FIFA Reform 2.0?
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December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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alanderminna.bsky.social
The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.
Europe Needs A New Strategy Too
The new US National Security Strategy helps - or forces - European leaders to let go of the consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and to focus on an own strategy instead.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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andrewleyshon.bsky.social
Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.

www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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culturecrave.co
Quentin Tarantino criticized multiple actors recently, including Paul Dano and Owen Wilson

More on his comments:

popculturenews.com/quentin-tara...
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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kolyk.bsky.social
RIP Frank Gehry
Μεγάλος! Εδω το Jay Pritzker Pavilion που είχα δει στο Σικαγο περσυ
December 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
Strava says the most popular running shoe is now Asics Novablast dethroning Nike Pegasus share.google/XJcVpxb6npEz...
Strava says the most popular running shoe is now made by Asics – dethroning a long-time Nike favourite
In a plot twist, the Nike Pegasus is no longer the most-worn running shoe worldwide
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December 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
Γενικά ειναι σωστό, όσο κ εαν είμαστε tribal ακομα κ στα σχόλια
skaios.bsky.social skaios @skaios.bsky.social · 1d
Για να μη διαδοθεί η ανάπτυξη στο bluesky των παθογενειών που κατέστρεψαν το τουήττερ, το μπαζζ ρηάλιτυ τέηπ κ.ο.κ., θα ήταν ευκταίο μειωτικές συμπεριφορές απέναντι σε καλοπροαίρετους συνομιλητές να αποδοκιμάζονται από εκείνους που συμφωνούν επί του περιεχομένου με εκείνους που τις εμφανίζουν.
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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thalysandratos.bsky.social
The question should be why the European commission was buying ads on X.
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 9h
The European Commission has lost access to its control panel for buying and tracking ads on Elon Musk’s X — after fining the social media platform €120 million for violating EU transparency rules.
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”…
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
I find it increasingly hard for anyone with a progressive spine to justify staying on X
December 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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fabiosabatini.bsky.social
🧵Il tubare degli oligarchi di Putin con gli oligarchi di Trump su X racconta meglio di qualsiasi documento ufficiale il progetto politico del nuovo asse dell’autoritarismo: autocrazie contro democrazie liberali.
È già tutto lì, in pubblico.

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December 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
Starmer's Labour mainstreaming the far right one step at a time.
jonkingh.bsky.social Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 1d
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
ome of the dangers of AI chatbots were "quite scary".

"Right now, they're not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be."
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
people were clear early on (2022):

[L]arge parts of the left, supported by their glorious leader Jeremy Corbyn, struggled to identify who is in charge of the vast majority of the war crimes committed in Syria (Spoilers: it was, ofc, Assad supported by Putin). freedomnews.org.uk/2022/03/04/f...
December 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
www.economist.com/internationa... Yet because AI can make images so cheaply, and allows ever more outlandish scenarios, the web will soon be flooded with increasingly extreme synthetic smut.
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
55 years ago today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kniefal...
December 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/technology/a... Google said in its announcement that Intellexa, a cyber intelligence company that is sanctioned by the U.S. government, was "evading restrictions and thriving."
Apple, Google send new round of cyber threat notifications to users around world
Apple and Google have sent a new round of cyber threat notifications to users around the world, the companies said this week, announcing their latest effort to insulate customers against surveillance ...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
[Y]ounger citizens with access to the bank of mum and dad, a network of family contacts or the prospect of an inheritance to get them on the housing ladder, can still look forward with confidence. But the overall impression continues to be of a system loaded against younger workers
glyko.bsky.social glykosymoritis @glyko.bsky.social · 14h
Labour is slow-marching working people to populism: The challenge for this govt. is to convince voters the system works for them. A country that does not serve its working generations cannot be surprised if they look for answers elsewhere, however destructive the solutions on offer. archive.ph/uqHnu
If Brexit ought to have taught the UK one thing, it was that once people no longer feel the system is working for them they will be open to radical - even self-harming - alternatives. Nine years on from that referendum, ever larger numbers feel they live in a country that is letting them down. And this feeling is especially acute among younger workers, the later millennials and early Gen-Zers turning in rising numbers to populist parties both left and right. Yet last week's Budget showed a government plodding steadfastly towards the guns of electoral showdown. Keir Starmer did not create this problem - the damage done by the Conservatives cannot be overstated - but it is making matters worse. The consequences are far wider than just for Labour. Capitalist liberal democracy relies on a belief that the interests of ordinary voters are sufficiently aligned with the interests of the more successful. The shares of the pie, of course, are unequal but the have-nots must see a path to becoming haves; the have-somes to having more. The chance of a home, a job that more than covers the bills, prospects for their children and so on: this is the stake in the system that creates that alignment of interests and embeds political stability. The central crisis of western politics since the financial crisis has been the erosion of this promise. For what happens to liberal democracy and the capitalist model when rising numbers question if they will ever have that stake? We can see an answer in the levels of support for insurgent parties peddling nonsense economics. Nigel Farage's Reform UK has led in the opinion polls for most of the year. Meanwhile, the charismatic new leader of the Greens has taken his party to second place among 25- to 49-year-olds, advocating defiance of the markets with an inflationary borrowing spree and taxing the richest out of the country. All of which brings me back to last week's Budget. Any government with an interest in long-term political stability ought to be thinking hard about why so many young people are wandering into the arms of economic populists. The overriding mission must be to do whatever it takes to get the economy motoring. Yet after a brief pick-up, real household incomes are set to stagnate once more over this parliament. For all the things it is getting right (planning reform, more investment in infrastructure), over two Budgets and almost 18 months Labour has added costs and regulation to business and increased taxes on working people. Its response to the cost of living is more state support (or enforced minimum wage rises) but the priority now has to be growth. Stagnating living standards and reduced prospects can in the current climate only drive people towards populism.
December 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
Thank God it's Saturday at Friday's
December 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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thalysandratos.bsky.social
Η θέση του ιμπεριαλισμού ως εργαλείου για νέες αγορές έχει κάποια βάση όταν πληρώνει *άλλος*, πχ www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... όταν πληρώνεις εσύ, όπως καλή ώρα λέει ότι θα κάνει τώρα η Ευρώπη, υπάρχουν πολύ καλύτερες επενδύσεις να δώσεις τα λεφτά. Πόσω μάλλον όταν δανείζεσαι.
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War
(April 2013) - We provide evidence that increased political influence, arising from CIA interventions during the Cold War, was used to create a larger foreign market for American products. Following C...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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cubiclogic.bsky.social
Η δε Ευρώπη ως πολύ πρόσφατα φιλοξενούσε τις διαθέσεις της Ρωσίας, είτε από φόβο, είτε λόγω της επιρροής που ασκούσε η Ρωσία στην ελίτ της. Επιρροή που ακόμα υπάρχει αφού σε ΗΒ βρισκόμαστε στα πρόθυρα εκλογής του Farage, σε Γαλλία οι Μπαντέλες και οι Μελενσόν αλωνίζουν ...
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
mgpolitis.bsky.social
"Με τον άνθρωπο"
thalysandratos.bsky.social Theodore Alysandratos @thalysandratos.bsky.social · 1d
Όταν κάποιος μας υποδείξει πότε απείλησε η ΕΕ τη Ρωσία με εισβολή ή έστειλε drones να απειλήσουν το αεροσκάφος του Πούτιν με κατάρριψη ή έβαλε βόμβες σε πολιτικά αεροπλάνα/εργοστάσια, να συζητήσουμε την επιθετικότητα της ΕΕ. Μέχρι τότε, τα "μα κι η ΕΕ" είναι φανταστικός ισαποστακισμός.
December 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM