gari8aldi
@gari8aldi.bsky.social
Mainly a fly on the wall, rarely contributing | Auditor, consultant, adviser ... now retired | Proud "euro-trash"
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Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
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Comment le monde trumpiste applique à l’Europe sa propre obsession du déclin
Comment le monde trumpiste applique à l’Europe sa propre obsession du déclin
Publiée le 5 décembre par l’administration Trump, la stratégie de sécurité nationale, manifeste politique du mouvement MAGA, égratigne les Européens et révèle sa conception excluante et restrictive de la civilisation occidentale, reposant sur la famille traditionnelle blanche et l’identité chrétienne.
www.lemonde.fr
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Comment le monde trumpiste applique à l’Europe sa propre obsession du déclin
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the future of tech is sociopaths chasing engagement clicks with zero ethical considerations at impossible scale
X’s head of product celebrating record downloads of his app on a day where a man’s murder was autoplayed on loop for all to see.
September 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
the future of tech is sociopaths chasing engagement clicks with zero ethical considerations at impossible scale
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Bring back the air raid siren in every town’s fire station. If there’s a real emergency going on that will affect the general public, crank that shit up and wake the dead with it. Strike the fear of god into every mf in a ten mile radius. This is not rocket science, it is ancient tech that works
I do think that officials should be required to post all disaster info on publicly-available government websites (and *then* they can post the same info on social media platforms).
We have to stop relying on social media platforms run by billionaire psychopaths for basic local disaster comms.
We have to stop relying on social media platforms run by billionaire psychopaths for basic local disaster comms.
If you’re an official who insists on using social media as a primary source for vital disaster info, then I believe it’s malpractice to not at least duplicate those messages on multiple platforms in 2025 - including those that people under 40 actually use, like TikTok.
July 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Bring back the air raid siren in every town’s fire station. If there’s a real emergency going on that will affect the general public, crank that shit up and wake the dead with it. Strike the fear of god into every mf in a ten mile radius. This is not rocket science, it is ancient tech that works
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27% of French see the US now as an adversary. (16% in Germany, 18% in the UK)
Most still think the US is a necessary partner - but no longer an ally
Poll instituteforglobalaffairs.org/wp-content/u...
Most still think the US is a necessary partner - but no longer an ally
Poll instituteforglobalaffairs.org/wp-content/u...
July 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
27% of French see the US now as an adversary. (16% in Germany, 18% in the UK)
Most still think the US is a necessary partner - but no longer an ally
Poll instituteforglobalaffairs.org/wp-content/u...
Most still think the US is a necessary partner - but no longer an ally
Poll instituteforglobalaffairs.org/wp-content/u...
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
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BREAKING: Trump starts LIFTING sanctions on Russian banks.
Unbelievable. Just after Putin launched Russia's biggest air assault on Ukrainian civilians, Trump lifts restrictions on some of the Russian banks closest to him. And all done while America sleeps.
An Oval Office, Kremlin-compromised.
Unbelievable. Just after Putin launched Russia's biggest air assault on Ukrainian civilians, Trump lifts restrictions on some of the Russian banks closest to him. And all done while America sleeps.
An Oval Office, Kremlin-compromised.
June 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
BREAKING: Trump starts LIFTING sanctions on Russian banks.
Unbelievable. Just after Putin launched Russia's biggest air assault on Ukrainian civilians, Trump lifts restrictions on some of the Russian banks closest to him. And all done while America sleeps.
An Oval Office, Kremlin-compromised.
Unbelievable. Just after Putin launched Russia's biggest air assault on Ukrainian civilians, Trump lifts restrictions on some of the Russian banks closest to him. And all done while America sleeps.
An Oval Office, Kremlin-compromised.
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“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
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Enquête sur la Heritage Foundation, l’influent think tank américain qui a aidé Donald Trump avec le Projet 2025. Prochaine étape : faire basculer l’Europe. Son président Kevin Roberts est venu rencontrer des leaders de l’extrême droite, fin mai, à Paris www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art... via @lemonde.fr
The Heritage Foundation, les missionnaires du trumpisme à l’assaut de l’Europe
Tout était écrit. La guerre commerciale, le démantèlement des agences fédérales, la chasse aux immigrés… Depuis le début de son mandat, Donald Trump déroule à la lettre le Projet 2025, une bible de 92...
www.lemonde.fr
June 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Enquête sur la Heritage Foundation, l’influent think tank américain qui a aidé Donald Trump avec le Projet 2025. Prochaine étape : faire basculer l’Europe. Son président Kevin Roberts est venu rencontrer des leaders de l’extrême droite, fin mai, à Paris www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art... via @lemonde.fr
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He’s wrong but this is an incredibly common elite pathology: the belief that your voice should be held strategically in reserve, to strike at the right moment and change everything.
Then they do and it’s washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.
Then they do and it’s washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.
June 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
He’s wrong but this is an incredibly common elite pathology: the belief that your voice should be held strategically in reserve, to strike at the right moment and change everything.
Then they do and it’s washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.
Then they do and it’s washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
June 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
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Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias
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Gone nuts or performatively nuts in a desperate attempt to build a career as a RW nut job-for-hire in the US? (which, tbf, is about the only career option open to her at this stage).
June 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Gone nuts or performatively nuts in a desperate attempt to build a career as a RW nut job-for-hire in the US? (which, tbf, is about the only career option open to her at this stage).
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From The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky, in his article yesterday, “The Only ‘Judicial Coup’ in This Country Is By Trump Against Judges.”
“It’s funny. But it’s worth noting that Trump doesn’t always chicken out. Most of the time, he just loses.
“It’s funny. But it’s worth noting that Trump doesn’t always chicken out. Most of the time, he just loses.
May 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
From The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky, in his article yesterday, “The Only ‘Judicial Coup’ in This Country Is By Trump Against Judges.”
“It’s funny. But it’s worth noting that Trump doesn’t always chicken out. Most of the time, he just loses.
“It’s funny. But it’s worth noting that Trump doesn’t always chicken out. Most of the time, he just loses.
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It is much more boring than the crypto or SPAC stuff, but re-privatizing the GSEs without a corresponding raise would be by far the biggest corrupt Trump act in dollar terms. They have something like a $150 billion capital deficit and the market is pricing them handing it back to investors for free
May 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It is much more boring than the crypto or SPAC stuff, but re-privatizing the GSEs without a corresponding raise would be by far the biggest corrupt Trump act in dollar terms. They have something like a $150 billion capital deficit and the market is pricing them handing it back to investors for free
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One thing I haven't seen pointed out, although someone must have said it, is that much of the reported EU surplus is probably a fiction driven by tax avoidance. Ireland supposedly exports 6 times as much to America as it imports; it's 3 percent of EU GDP but accounts for 1/3 the trade imbalance
May 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
One thing I haven't seen pointed out, although someone must have said it, is that much of the reported EU surplus is probably a fiction driven by tax avoidance. Ireland supposedly exports 6 times as much to America as it imports; it's 3 percent of EU GDP but accounts for 1/3 the trade imbalance
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
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I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
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En tant qu'enseignant, après le drame de Nantes, j'ai immédiatement pensé à quelques un des élèves que j'ai vu passer en une vingtaine d'années de métier. Ces gamins isolés, tristes, sombres, visiblement mal dans leur peaux et trainant ce foutu mal être adolescent en partie incompréhensible. 1/4
April 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
En tant qu'enseignant, après le drame de Nantes, j'ai immédiatement pensé à quelques un des élèves que j'ai vu passer en une vingtaine d'années de métier. Ces gamins isolés, tristes, sombres, visiblement mal dans leur peaux et trainant ce foutu mal être adolescent en partie incompréhensible. 1/4
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Joined by Mark Malloch Brown at the @fesonline.bsky.social Crisis in Global Economic Governance event here in DC for the #SpringMeetings on the path forward for the global economy.
More on state capacity in my piece with @rainerkattel.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social ⬇️
More on state capacity in my piece with @rainerkattel.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social ⬇️
Governments Are Not Startups | by Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel - Project Syndicate
Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel explain why ongoing efforts to run the state like a business are doomed to fail.
www.project-syndicate.org
April 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Joined by Mark Malloch Brown at the @fesonline.bsky.social Crisis in Global Economic Governance event here in DC for the #SpringMeetings on the path forward for the global economy.
More on state capacity in my piece with @rainerkattel.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social ⬇️
More on state capacity in my piece with @rainerkattel.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social ⬇️