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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 30m

Russia escalates and preparing for broader war in Europe - it needs cannon fodder and there is none spare left.

If Russian citizens had any sense of self-preservation, they would wake up and overthrow Putin regime. Otherwise they will be sent to the western front very soon.

The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 2h

🪖 Reservists in Russia have been officially allowed to be involved in hostilities abroad, — Russian media

❗️The document opens up the possibility of using the mobilization reserve — about 5 million people outside Russia.

Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 5h

Good time to actually finish reading this excellent book

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 6h

So, Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt are Nobel in econ

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified ...

www.nobelprize.org

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 7h

The Nobel Prize for economics is due to be announced soon, and Alphaville is running a live blog to mark the occasion. www.ft.com/content/f392...

Alphaville’s Nobel Prize for economics live blog

Welcome to the FTAV hot take factory

www.ft.com

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

Japan, EU and US, who form their own production clusters, are highly dependent on those supplies for their production lines to keep running.

Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

China forms the largest cluster. Many European countries are in the same production cluster as China, which is highly unusual given how far they are.

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

China is at the center of the rare-earth global supply chain, with the most critical role in the production of magnets and components for electronics. The network graph shows you clusters of production using rare-earth materials in 2024.

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

🧭 As tensions mount, the question remains: will the world recalibrate away from Chinese control — or get pulled deeper into decoupled tech blocs? #GlobalEconomy #TechWar

Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

🌍 But there’s opportunity amid danger. Companies should diversify, invest in alternative materials, and press governments for supply-chain cooperation. #Resilience #FutureTech

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

⚖️ The semiconductor industry is behind hostages in this fight. Supply chains, costs, innovation, defense — all vulnerable. #SupplyChainRisk

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

... but it backfired in the US, sending stock market and crypto exchange to panic mode ie. Dodgecoint sank 40% on the immediate announcement, prompting Trump into TACO mode

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

💥 In retaliation, Trump is threatening sweeping 100% tariffs + software export restrictions. The message: hit China where it hurts...

#Tariffs #Geoeconomics

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

🔬 China’s Announcement No. 61 now extends controls to magnets, processing tech, and export licenses — even for foreign firms using Chinese-sourced rare earths.
cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...
#RareEarths #TechPolicy

Ministry of Commerce Notice 2025 No. 61: Announcement of the Decision to Implement Controls on Exports of Rare Earth-Related Items to Foreign Countries | Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Read our translation of a notice that expands Chinese export controls on rare earths.

cset.georgetown.edu

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 8h

🚨 Breaking: China’s latest rare-earth export curbs target global semiconductors — now the U.S. is fighting back with threats of 100% tariffs. A supply-chain flashpoint has erupted. #TradeWars #Semiconductors

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 1d

I left for 3 reasons

It got very anti-Ukrainian, pushing russian simps to the top of my list

blue tick promotion and anti liberal bias made it intolerable in general

And engagement and impact of tweets fell to 0

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 1d

Tech bro: It is not that we are investing ridiculous sums of money into a product that may never get to the level we claim it will get.

It is the rest of mankind who are dull and unimaginative

Me: Isn't it ridiculous or I am not seeing the big picture?

Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 2d

100% tariff on China? Wait, but it has been happening before, hasn't it.

So we are walking in circles

Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 2d

It is one of those days to remember. Not getting the Nobel Prize by you know who cost American people dearly

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

On the territories of Donetsk region occupied by Russia,48 Ukrainian children have been placed under forced psychiatric treatment as punishment for "extremism," Mariia Krasnenko, the author of the report How Russia Erases Ukrainian Identity Under the Guise of Combating Extremism, reported.