Radu Stochita
@stochitaradu.bsky.social
🇷🇴 Journalist & Sociology Researcher in the trade union movement. 🇷🇴 Romania Expert both by birth and choice.
look, I created a little thing about #Romania. Fun little project #econsky. Love to translate the data I gather and visualize into accessible info for people outside. Guess what? Inflation is rampant, screw it.
10% inflation
The sky is the limit around here.
wtfromania.leaflet.pub
October 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
look, I created a little thing about #Romania. Fun little project #econsky. Love to translate the data I gather and visualize into accessible info for people outside. Guess what? Inflation is rampant, screw it.
Probably the craziest #inflation story in Europe is Romania. Household electricity prices are up 68% in august 2025. Why? #econsky
September 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Probably the craziest #inflation story in Europe is Romania. Household electricity prices are up 68% in august 2025. Why? #econsky
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This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
September 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
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Skillz.
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Skillz.
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BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”
September 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”
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@edzitron.com is out here calling out the hype beast of AI.
December 13, 2024 at 3:41 PM
@edzitron.com is out here calling out the hype beast of AI.
dumbest question comes from Casey (Hard Fork/Platform) questioning whether extraction of minerals/water from the global south can be counterbalanced with providing ChatGPT Pro free of charge for students of that nation in order to make them more competitive for the labor market wtf
May 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
dumbest question comes from Casey (Hard Fork/Platform) questioning whether extraction of minerals/water from the global south can be counterbalanced with providing ChatGPT Pro free of charge for students of that nation in order to make them more competitive for the labor market wtf
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Finally had lunch with @pkrugman.bsky.social after doing two interviews with him for his newsletter. It was a great time and I look forward to doing more with him in the future!
May 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Finally had lunch with @pkrugman.bsky.social after doing two interviews with him for his newsletter. It was a great time and I look forward to doing more with him in the future!
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For wonks, this is very interesting on how Hungary may have fiddled its income data to make it look like poverty was smaller than it was. Look at the suspicious clustering of incomes just *above the poverty line* in 2018 and 2021 vs 2014 and 2015.
www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...
www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...
May 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
For wonks, this is very interesting on how Hungary may have fiddled its income data to make it look like poverty was smaller than it was. Look at the suspicious clustering of incomes just *above the poverty line* in 2018 and 2021 vs 2014 and 2015.
www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...
www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...
I am reading #Palantir Karp's latest book The Technological Republic and cannot believe a PHD from a top tier German university wrote such garbage, filled with rhetorical traps to attract the "bright minds" of anti-woke podcast listeners.
April 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I am reading #Palantir Karp's latest book The Technological Republic and cannot believe a PHD from a top tier German university wrote such garbage, filled with rhetorical traps to attract the "bright minds" of anti-woke podcast listeners.
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can't believe the goof said a good thing hallelujah to this audience
Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.”
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
April 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
can't believe the goof said a good thing hallelujah to this audience
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Startling graphs from Fritz Bartel’s book, The Triumph of Broken Promises. The economic transition from the 1970s to the end of the Cold War as unmanageable hard currency debts piled up in the Soviet bloc. Whilst the deindustrialization shock was more severe in the West than in the Soviet bloc.
April 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Startling graphs from Fritz Bartel’s book, The Triumph of Broken Promises. The economic transition from the 1970s to the end of the Cold War as unmanageable hard currency debts piled up in the Soviet bloc. Whilst the deindustrialization shock was more severe in the West than in the Soviet bloc.
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Don't make us wave our placards again! We'll do it!
March 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Don't make us wave our placards again! We'll do it!
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Jesus what happened to UNCTAD, it would once have denounced this as the financialisation of oceans
“The opportunities offered to us by our oceans are immense, under certain conditions. We need to put ourselves in a position to ensure that our oceans serve our economies in a sustainable manner,” said Pascal Lamy, Ex-WTO chief and Chair of the Blue Economy and Finance Forum.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Jesus what happened to UNCTAD, it would once have denounced this as the financialisation of oceans
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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Three years ago this week. 🇺🇦
March 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Three years ago this week. 🇺🇦
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OK, not a one-to-one comparison, as Americans have no fascination with the quarter-zips. But people who insist that Zelenskyy should have worn a suit should answer a very simple question. Would Trump and MAGA have a different position on Ukraine if Zelenskyy wore a suit this entire time?
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
OK, not a one-to-one comparison, as Americans have no fascination with the quarter-zips. But people who insist that Zelenskyy should have worn a suit should answer a very simple question. Would Trump and MAGA have a different position on Ukraine if Zelenskyy wore a suit this entire time?
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Enjoyed the latest from @pkrugman.bsky.social speaking with Jim Chanos - in particular this bit. I think I’ve seen this argument (or to be more precise, comparison) somewhere before! open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
February 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Enjoyed the latest from @pkrugman.bsky.social speaking with Jim Chanos - in particular this bit. I think I’ve seen this argument (or to be more precise, comparison) somewhere before! open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...