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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Culturally, he doesn't understand the city. The bus was always second class to the subway. Fucking hell, what a maroon.

Serious people still treat Viségrad24 as a repostable source. I hope this report will get their attention. Because me telling them in the comments "it mixes facts with fake news and is not a reliable source" didn't do the trick.

How easy is it to spot a state-sponsored sockpuppet account on social media? For those of you who claim it is trivial, time to put your belief to the test by Clemson Media Forensics Hub: spotthetroll.org/share/5 Personally I could only make 5/8—despite my 8th year focusing on the sector.

Mitt främsta problem med Andersson är att hon frånkänner ukrainarna egna, sunda önskningar. Ukrainare har en starkare längtan efter fred och en bättre förståelse av krigets pris än vad Andersson någonsin kan filosofera sig fram till. De vet även allt om vad som händer när man försöker tillmötesgå 🇷🇺.

Life Strategy.

This is where the fake Putin is no smarter than his inspiration. War is not merely the use of military force, and confusing those categories is bad. The error was naming big standard political level competition with a force component variant of war.

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

this is the most Atlantic article of all time

...once again, one of the easier ways to turn up the virality on your post is to go from "[popular thing] is true" to "no one wants to admit it but [popular thing] is true"

OBS! - Att det ens finns röster i Sverige som försvarar de senaste dagarnas fullskaliga attack mot pressfriheten och yttrandefriheten i USA är farligare och viktigare än vad ni verkar förstå. Avfärda det inte med att ni förväntade det av Jönsson & co. DET ÄR INTE FÖRVÄNTAT. DET ÄR LIVSFARLIGT.

US coercion of Japan is hardly the worst thing it’s doing right now, but it really is remarkable to read about. Many well-meaning national security specialists are now working for a system that’s actively preying on the world to the benefit of a few oligarchs in the US.

He means that EU rules and laws won't apply to US companies

”The problem with Sweden, it seems, is not migrants. It’s Sweden itself.” New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

Expeditionary warfare, with small professional troops and equipment to fit the crisis management tasks, was NATO’s post-Cold War doctrine. Led and implemented by the US. Europeans should have done more since 2014 but complaining about the small size of European militaries is a bad faith argument.

Boris Pistorius, German Defence Minister, responds to Vance: "This is not acceptable... Democracy doesn’t mean that a vociferous minority will automatically be right. They cannot decide what truth is.... I am happy to live in Europe, where democracy is defended against internal & external enemies."

The way so many European commentators who should know better convince themselves that the EU with one of the largest collective military industrial complexes in the world is automatically doomed whenever Trump issues a brainfart is one of the more irritating socio-psychological dynamics right now

In light of today's devastating announcement of a 75% cut to NIH overhead, it scarcely seems newsworthy that couple dozen COVID contrarians are cosplaying PNAS. But two of them are slated to lead the NIH and the FDA. Is this how they'll stand up for science?

Thousands of people across 50 cities made their voices heard in Slovakia, united with Europe, against oligarchy and impunity. They demand the Kremlin friendly Fico resign. #3E

Disinformation campaigns are exploding across Africa, with Russia believed to be the main instigator. DW explains how the methods and objectives of these campaigns differ from region to region and how effective they are. www.dw.com/en/how-russi...

Every process or movement has tipping point, the time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped. This one has yet to reach its tipping point. There's still time to stop the madness.

Thanks to @cwarzel.bsky.social @theatlantic.com for talking with me about DOGE. Don’t remember cursing, but don’t regret it either.

Today Elon Musk used the fact that our story about Giuliani consorting with organized crime in Ukraine was mentioned in the Trump impeachment to say USAID funded us to attack Trump. Not true. No US money was used. Wikileaks and others picked it up. These are bullies hiding their criminal behavior.

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Rather than being data mules for what is undoubtedly a Nazi salute (which Elon, who is anti-social, will claim is ironic) by disseminating, let's talk about the ways that BY FOCUSING on the fact he did that we can chip away at his ascendancy?