Eduard Antoniu
@edisky.bsky.social
Kid of the '60s, teen of the '70s, hanging in the '20s
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Donald Trump's decision to remove Maduro without a clear plan for democratic transition leaves Venezuela at risk, raises questions about America’s credibility, and escalates international tensions. And we should all be paying attention.
Trump Hasn’t Thought This War Through
By attacking Venezuela, Trump now has both “inside” and “outside” problems with no easy solutions
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Donald Trump's decision to remove Maduro without a clear plan for democratic transition leaves Venezuela at risk, raises questions about America’s credibility, and escalates international tensions. And we should all be paying attention.
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Brian Eno; Proust; "blue, yellow, beautiful"; "distortion"; "pretension" and the fine art of appendices.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2026/1/6/blue-yellow-beautiful
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2026/1/6/blue-yellow-beautiful
"Blue, yellow, beautiful" — alina Ştefănescu
The common assumption is that there are real people and there are others who are pretending to be something they're not. There is also an assumption that there's something morally wrong with pretendin...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Brian Eno; Proust; "blue, yellow, beautiful"; "distortion"; "pretension" and the fine art of appendices.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2026/1/6/blue-yellow-beautiful
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2026/1/6/blue-yellow-beautiful
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🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why?
To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
1/11
To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
1/11
OSF
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why?
To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
1/11
To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
1/11
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I will never understand people who say things like, “I don’t do politics.”
Like, okay. You don’t do politics. Politics is still going to decide your rent, your healthcare, your wages, and what happens to your body. Congrats on the illusion of distance.
Like, okay. You don’t do politics. Politics is still going to decide your rent, your healthcare, your wages, and what happens to your body. Congrats on the illusion of distance.
January 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
I will never understand people who say things like, “I don’t do politics.”
Like, okay. You don’t do politics. Politics is still going to decide your rent, your healthcare, your wages, and what happens to your body. Congrats on the illusion of distance.
Like, okay. You don’t do politics. Politics is still going to decide your rent, your healthcare, your wages, and what happens to your body. Congrats on the illusion of distance.
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But not you, Scotland.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Only Greenland should decide its future, Starmer says
It comes after President Trump again said
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
But not you, Scotland.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Swap you Greenland for Hawaii. We were there long before you.
January 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Swap you Greenland for Hawaii. We were there long before you.
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The Brain is Not a Computer: A Neuroscientist’s Crisis
www.ocrampal.com/the-dead-end...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
www.ocrampal.com/the-dead-end...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
The Dead End of AI: What Neuroscience Reveals
Every year, thousands of bright minds enter neuroscience programs driven by a profound question: How does the brain work? They emerge years later with advanced degrees, sophisticated experimental tech...
www.ocrampal.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The Brain is Not a Computer: A Neuroscientist’s Crisis
www.ocrampal.com/the-dead-end...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
www.ocrampal.com/the-dead-end...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
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An extraordinary life and another reminder of the richness refugees bring to Irish society.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Holocaust survivor, jeweller and table tennis maestro: Ireland’s oldest man dies aged 107
Josef ‘Joe’ Veselsky, who fled Czechoslovakia in 1948 after surviving the war, was Trinity’s oldest student in his 90s
www.irishtimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 AM
An extraordinary life and another reminder of the richness refugees bring to Irish society.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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‘You may reasonably object to the orthodox Freudian picture of the unconscious. But can we doubt that there is more, much more, to our individual and collective lives than that of which we are consciously aware?’
Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 11:35 AM
‘You may reasonably object to the orthodox Freudian picture of the unconscious. But can we doubt that there is more, much more, to our individual and collective lives than that of which we are consciously aware?’
Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Clouds and silver linings… No point pretending we won’t have fun watching Trump and his dimwits make a complete horlicks of occupied Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Clouds and silver linings… No point pretending we won’t have fun watching Trump and his dimwits make a complete horlicks of occupied Venezuela.
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When we try to formalize a neuron computationally, we don't translate biology into code—we perform a violent collapse.
www.ocrampal.com/what-a-neuro...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
www.ocrampal.com/what-a-neuro...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
What a Neuron Teaches Us About Computation's Limits
When we try to formalize a neuron computationally, we don't translate biology into code—we perform a violent collapse. We lock causation into fixed arrows when biology lives in causal ambiguity. We sy...
www.ocrampal.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
When we try to formalize a neuron computationally, we don't translate biology into code—we perform a violent collapse.
www.ocrampal.com/what-a-neuro...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
www.ocrampal.com/what-a-neuro...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
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January 4, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Trump says he’s going to run Venezuela himself. They’ll be begging for mercy in weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Trump says he’s going to run Venezuela himself. They’ll be begging for mercy in weeks.
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The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:46 PM
The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.
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Just your occasional reminder that Venezuela’s oil reserves are greater than Saudi Arabia’s, and nearly 4X those of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
January 3, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Just your occasional reminder that Venezuela’s oil reserves are greater than Saudi Arabia’s, and nearly 4X those of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
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Welcome to the Epstein war.
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Welcome to the Epstein war.
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On top of this, success rates in the UK for key social science grants are 1.5%. If you win one, it costs your university more than the award is worth (iirc, funding only covers circa 80% of costs once all’s said & done). For reasons nobody can explain, we must all apply for these grants.
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
On top of this, success rates in the UK for key social science grants are 1.5%. If you win one, it costs your university more than the award is worth (iirc, funding only covers circa 80% of costs once all’s said & done). For reasons nobody can explain, we must all apply for these grants.
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December 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I've been doing this as a comedy bit for years, but I do believe it; before I die, I will see the establishment of a Royal Commission on Britain's failure to attract sufficient immigration, and many of today's broadsheet ethnonationalists will be on it
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I've been doing this as a comedy bit for years, but I do believe it; before I die, I will see the establishment of a Royal Commission on Britain's failure to attract sufficient immigration, and many of today's broadsheet ethnonationalists will be on it
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Advice to myself —
Do not make laws.
Do not form habits.
You do not possess a way.
You do not possess a style.
- Philip Guston, 1978
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
Do not make laws.
Do not form habits.
You do not possess a way.
You do not possess a style.
- Philip Guston, 1978
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
Guston and allegory. — alina Ştefănescu
Only fiction will accommodate the facts of life...Our choice, insofar as we have one, is not between fiction and fact, but between good and bad fiction…If it's a matter of words, if it's a function of...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Advice to myself —
Do not make laws.
Do not form habits.
You do not possess a way.
You do not possess a style.
- Philip Guston, 1978
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
Do not make laws.
Do not form habits.
You do not possess a way.
You do not possess a style.
- Philip Guston, 1978
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
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Engjellushe Morina writes on the EU accession of Albania, Moldova, Montenegro and Ukraine within the next five years. The EU must avoid indefinite gradualism and institutional reform cannot be deferred. Full accession should be the paramount focus.
https://bit.ly/4pKSfhf
https://bit.ly/4pKSfhf
Accelerate the accessions: Why faster is better in EU enlargement policy – European Council on Foreign Relations
The Ukraine war has revived EU enlargement for Albania, Moldova, Montenegro and Ukraine, but they face obstacles. Accelerating membership for these frontrunners
bit.ly
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Engjellushe Morina writes on the EU accession of Albania, Moldova, Montenegro and Ukraine within the next five years. The EU must avoid indefinite gradualism and institutional reform cannot be deferred. Full accession should be the paramount focus.
https://bit.ly/4pKSfhf
https://bit.ly/4pKSfhf