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"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 3d

7/End result: Macron calls for a new enlightenment -- the end of dependence on US social media. Not because of economic argument (level playing fields) but because dependence threatens national security. Hate to say I told you so but @himself.bsky.social and I did.
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“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 1d

Excellent reporting by Riley here

Central Banking @centralbanking.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Shane, NYU law professor, on possible Trump coin: “We can now rely on the law, one hopes, rather than the incumbent president’s feelings about monarchy”
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Experts slam proposal for dollar coin bearing Trump’s image - Central Banking

US treasurer’s suggestion attacked as illegal, monarchical and ‘tacky’

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 1d

Triathlon has come a long way

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Airborne

Bicycle

Infrantry

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 1d

I remember chatting to a farmer circa 2019 at a dinner and asking him what he was doing about climate change. No response - just keep doing things as they had been done for generations.

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 1d

The Hungarian numbers are quite something. One interesting aspect is that for the most part, HU farmers lived off state subsidies during the 2010s and few of them used those to upgrade their methods - so when the EU funds stopped coming, they had to push prices higher.

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 1d

Food prices have risen a lot more than other stuff since Covid...

My newsletter asks whether they are now a leading indicator of inflation

www.ft.com/content/de31...

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 1d

An observation while on sabbatical, living in CET Time Zone. I get a lot more academic content on this site. I'm wondering how much more I've been missing out on by sleeping in the US.

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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 1d

Pour one out for the 20-something PhD at the EBA who had to define what a "meme coin" was on their new flyer.

www.eba.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

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The Case Against Generative AI

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 4d

I love my friends so much, they got me the #1 fashion accessory for my birthday.

(Also thanks @robinwigglesworth.ft.com / @alphaville.ft.com)

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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 5d

David Runciman reviewing @tommctague.bsky.social 's new book in the LRB is the birthday present I didn't know I wanted.

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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 7d

"A source that has seen materials related to sales has confirmed that, as of August 2025, Microsoft has around eight million active licensed users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, amounting to a 1.81% conversion rate across the 440 million Microsoft 365 subscribers."

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Dan Hinge @danhinge.bsky.social · 8d

@lkoro.es spoke to the ECB’s Evelien Witlox about the digital euro. Lots of really interesting detail in here about the sorts of design choices that are now getting close to being finalised www.centralbanking.com/fintech/cbdc...

ECB’s Evelien Witlox on design choices for the digital euro - Central Banking

The digital euro’s program director speaks about holding limits, waterfall arrangements, programmability, blockchain usage and offline ‘secure elements’ for

Türkiye's Homemade Crises

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Dan Hinge @danhinge.bsky.social · 9d

Turkey has tied itself in knots trying to avoid having to do standard inflation targeting. The result has been some very innovative (and equally foolhardy) policies... www.nber.org/papers/w34287

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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ECB sheds light on uses for a digital euro - Central Banking

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 9d

I also just don't see it likely that political journos will skeet/post with the pace and veracity of tech reporters - I just don't see "quadruple lock!" having the same social media staying power as "48 megapixel telephoto camera"

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 9d

Going pre-recorded certainly took some of the magic away but this is a view entirely explicable by the rest of the tech industry mimicking Apple's presentation style (and many failing, see Meta two weeks ago)

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 9d

The Apple keynote is a format that ceased to be fresh and innovative by the late 2010s

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 9d

Starmer shouldn't give a conference speech – he should give an Apple-style keynote (FREE TO READ!)

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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 9d

I spoke to some of the participants in the @ecb.europa.eu's Digital Euro innovation platform initiative.

Many reported positive experiences with the simple APIs, and came away wanting more. Conditional payments are cool!

‘Sandbox’ participants speak of largely positive experiences with prototype CBDC

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 12d

If AI survives, prompt engineering will be the equivalent of keyword searching of the pre-AI era

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 12d

Just reminded me how fast things change

Two years ago would have not known what this means

Two years from now this lingo ("wasted tokens on a problem") could well become common lingo (assuming tokens will still be expensive enough to care)

Merz backs using Bank of Russia funds to help Ukraine - Central Banking

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 12d

You've heard of the Greenspan put, say hello to the Navarro put:

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 12d

NAVARRO: ORACLE TO FUNCTION AS THE GREAT FIREWALL OF AMERICA

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 12d

How much time will €140bn actually net Ukraine? Maybe less than Merz thinks.

Frozen central bank assets could collateralise €140bn interest-free loan, says German chancellor

SNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon Worth

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 13d

I was on the inaugural service and it truly would be a shame to lose it

Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 13d

As mentioned earlier by @seatsixtyone.bsky.social the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train might be axed from December

What's happening, and why SNCF never really cared about this train, but why alternatives are tricky, explained on my blog 👇
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In December 2023 the Paris-Berlin night train re-started after a 9 year hiatus. Operated as a Nighjet service by ÖBB, SNCF provided motive power for the train from Mannheim to Paris. They even put SNC...

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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 13d

These are all fairly well-populated towns, so it’s really hard justifying skipping them at the tail-end of the holiday season. (+ it’s already skipping a few, like Akarattya)

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 13d

Loco swapping / dining car decoupling most of the time happens here.

Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 14d

IIRC. swap lines had always been solely Fed prerogatives since the patchwork of the 60s. Aditi Sahasrabuddhe writes about this in her fascinating new book

Stablecoins pose bigger risks to US than to EU – de Guindos - Central Banking

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14d

Brutal and enjoyable piece from @willdunn.bsky.social on Clegg's return from Silicon Valley with Views to Share on standing up to the US and how to save the internet (errr) www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 15d

Luis de Guindos said a few days prior that he hoped populist movements "did not prevail" in Europe.

:)

ECB vice-president also expresses hope that “populist movements in Europe do not prevail”