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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. At Frappéville on a Plateau des Chèvres

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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
bit.ly/3YV3JlX
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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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 3h

Έχω την εντύπωση οτι ολα αυτά είναι έκτακτες ρυθμίσεις μετα απο καταστροφή κ οχι μόνιμη απαλλαγή

Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 3h

Απαλλαγή δεν υπάρχει πουθενά AFAIK, θα μπορούσε να γινει κίνητρο σε περιοχές με δημογραφική συρρίκνωση

Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 3h

a man in a suit singing into a microphone with the word crypto above him

ALT: a man in a suit singing into a microphone with the word crypto above him

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 3h

Εδώ επίσης θα έπρεπε να εχει προσαρμοστεί σε καθε περιοχή, πχ απαλλαγή σε κάποιους νόμους, ή περιοχές, κ κλιμάκωση για αλλες

Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 3h

Θα έπρεπε σίγουρα να εχει αλλη κλίμακα, ξεκινώντας αρκετά χαμηλά

Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 3h

Εύκολα ρυθμίζεις μια μέγιστη αξία για την απαλλαγή, περίπου έτσι ειναι ο IMU στην Ιταλία, αλλά εκεί είναι τοπικός φόρος

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 3h

Η μόνη αλλαγή που Θα έπρεπε να γίνει ειναι η απαλλαγή της πρώτης κατοικίας. Η ελλαδα ηταν εξαίρεση όσο δεν ειχε φορο ακ περιουσίας

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 5h

Beautifully captured by Haaretz's weekend edition cartoon.
(Bibi says: "we did it").

Haaretz cartoon: giant Trump next to a miniature Bibi saying "we did it".

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Mario Seminerio @phastidio.net · 6h

La domanda americana di batterie, per data center e stabilizzazione della rete, è soddisfatta in misura decisiva dalla Cina, leader mondiale inarrivabile che ora intende limitare fortemente l'export, anche a rischio di creare enormi problemi ai propri produttori
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 6h

The Meritocracy!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 6h

🎯 είναι ξεκάθαρη η ανικανότητα να οργανώσουν μια ομάδα κρισης κ διερεύνησης, παντού τσαπατσουλιά, αλλά οι ίδιοι θα μπορούσαν να οργανώσουν στην εντέλεια την συγκάλυψη. Ιστορίες για ηλίθιους από πολιτικούς απατεώνες

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λ³🎲 @cubiclogic.bsky.social · 6h

Κάτι που οι πολλοι βλαμμενοι που κυκλοφορούν αναμεσα μας αδυνατούν να καταλαβουν κσι νομιζούν πως στηρίζοντας κάθε παρανοϊκή θεωρία αδίστακτων ανθρώπων (πολιτικων, δικηγόρων, εμπειρογνωμόνων κτλ.) - χρησιμοποιώντας μάλιστα και συγγενείς θυμάτων - βλάπτει και δεν μπετονάρει την απήχηση της ΝΔ

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 6h

ένας από τους ελάχιστους λόγους που μπαίνω καμιά φορά στο Χ, Β. Βλάχος: "Το αφήγημα του παράνομου φορτίου (που έχει απορριφθεί 100% στη δικογραφία) σας βόλευε πολιτικά γιατί ξέρατε ότι ήταν ένας "δράκος" που ανά πάσα στιγμή μπορεί γίνει καπνός..." x.com/EvanVlacho/s...

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 6h

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 8h

www.news247.gr/gnomes/telik... [σ]τις τελευταίες δημοσκοπήσεις η Νέα Δημοκρατία χάνει ενώ ο Βελόπουλος κερδίζει αν και «οι σώγαμπροι από το ΛΑΟΣ» όπως αποκαλούν, δηκτικά, οι καραμανλικοί τα τρία αγαπημένα παιδιά του Γιώργου Καρατζαφέρη που εντάχθηκαν στη ΝΔ, τσιρίζουν νυχθημερόν, για τα πάντα;

Τελικά ο Άδωνις στηρίζει ή ορίζει;

Ο κ. Γεωργιάδης στηρίζει την κυβέρνηση ή μήπως ορίζει αυτός και κανένας άλλος τον τόνο της επικοινωνίας της, βάζοντας, με αυτό τον τρόπο, τη δική του σφραγίδα σε όλη τη διακυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη;

www.news247.gr

Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 8h

a DUI makes more sense

Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 9h

πέρα από τα αμέτρητα λάθη, σε ποιο σύμπαν το μπουκοτάζ (ιδιωτικού) ενός εστιατορίου στη Αμερική είναι "...a rejection of this government and the policies of the Israeli government" κ όχι καθαρός τραμπουκισμός κ αντισημιτισμός;

Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 10h

Thiel is taking the phrase "The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric" to a whole other level

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

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Δύτης των νιπτήρων @dytistn.bsky.social · 10h

Κοροϊδεύετε εσείς που διαβάζω τα γράμματα στην Καθημερινή

Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 13h

Always make sure to read the Letters to the Editor in @lrb.co.uk

Dirty Books:
Barbara Newman, writing about Boccaccio, notes that ‘in modern Italian, the adjective boccaccesco mean “lascivious”’ (LRB, 14 August). She might have added that in the UK, ‘Chaucerian’ means about the same, though with a scatological edge. Meanwhile here in Japan the Decameron has a special following because slang for ‘big’ is deca and for ‘penis’ is Mara, while ron means ‘a treatise’.

Timon Screech, Kyoto

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Bruno Tersago @brunotersago.bsky.social · 12h

“Return, or prison”: Inside IOM and Greece’s failing migrant return scheme: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio... IOM’s office in Greece pledged to return 16,500 people between 2019 and 2022. It only managed to return around 10,600 people, even after the programme was extended by 10 months.

“Return, or prison”: Inside IOM and Greece’s failing migrant return scheme

The UN agency started offering larger cash grants as an alternative to prison. When that didn’t work, it revised down the targets of the scheme.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 11h

great point about the most controversial prize of them all. Nobel prize winners include Kissinger and Obama and not Gandhi or Havel

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

The Nobel Peace Prize, in my opinion, should only ever be given posthumously.

Given that so many people who champion peace or even achieve temporary peace can also champion war in other circumstances, it should be based on a totality of work.

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 11h

to be interpreted as high pay high status as compared to what machines replaced traditionally, from tractors to assembly line automation

Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 12h

Interesting. Tools displace humans, nothing new here, the only novelty with machine learning tools is that they decrease demand also for some high-pay, high-status jobs, from editors and translators to maybe medical professionals.

Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 13h

It is easy to see why financiers - and Silicon Valley tech billionaires - would want to remove the full employment mandate. Robots and Ai are expected to displace human labour and increase profits. open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve, Full Employment & Civil Rights. CBs Pt 3

The Real Reason for Trumpist Attacks on a Black Fed Governor

open.substack.com

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Maurice Politis @mgpolitis.bsky.social · 12h

Belgian cheese supremacy 😆