I think a good rule of thumb is that if you’re in a position where you are drawing lessons for your country from events in Argentina, you are either overreacting to events in your country, or you’re already so screwed that it really doesn’t matter what lessons you are drawing.

Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Nous mettons en accès public un document de travail (« working paper ») qui reprend et étend la note 92 de l’IPP sur l’imposition des milliardaires (1/10) www.ipp.eu/publication/...

“In the corridors of the Estonian foreign ministry last week, I saw a large reproduction of the vote tally from last February’s UN debate on Ukraine, in which the US voted with the Russians. The message seemed clear. Don’t assume that Trump’s America is on our side.”

Dr Patrick McGovern, a leading biomolecular archaeologist in the field of ancient alcoholic beverages, has died aged 80. IMcGovern provided strong scientific evidence that winemaking in Georgia dates back to the Early Neolithic (~8,000 years ago). www.decanter.com/wine-news/in...

Ma dernière publi non professionnelle et non scientifique, commandée par @alavigne.bsky.social. On y découvre tout de même des réflexions sur les prix relatifs appliqués aux contraventions suisses et pintes roumaines, les inégalités et les clusters de houblons trialadventureperso.com/2025/09/13/e...

à chaque fois que j'aide mes proches âgés pour des formalités en ligne, je mesure combien le monde est devenu extraordinairement inhospitalier pour tant de gens, la violence sourde des injonctions souvent incompréhensibles : serveurs vocaux, identification à 2 facteurs, autoriser la localisation...

This spring @pewresearch.org asked people if they were happy with how democracy is working in their country. In the US, just 37% were satisfied. Countries with higher #s: Sweden 75% India 74% Indonesia 66% Australia 61% Germany 61% Canada 60% Mexico 51% UK 48% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Fascinating data. There are three things here that really matter to people, and they think matter to everyone: Healthcare Economy Prices There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally: Immigration

this exists it is called thinking

Si avec ça, le PM manque d'idées... www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...

"Et si on allait s'enfermer dans une cuvette pour piéger l'ennemi." (Bis repetita)

The dollar is taking the hit from worries over the US - column here from @katie0martin.ft.com. The stock rally is masking deep anxiety from investors about the path forward for the world’s biggest economy. Great chart from @raydouglas.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ac9e...

The WTO has named Robert Staiger as its new Chief Economist. Here is my @trade--talks.bsky.social podcast conversation in 2023 with Bob where he shared his thoughts about the WTO.

The finding that drinking alcohol improves one's ability to speak Dutch doesn't surprise me. A Zambian friend has long claimed to speak better Afrikaans (a related language) when he's drunk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Si vous voulez tout savoir sur les combats de 1918 et le rôle majeur qui a joué l'armée française, c'est ici et c'est passionnant. Merci pour ce travail remarquable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Ti...

"Il y a une très forte reproduction sociale dans les grandes fortunes françaises." Vous vous usez la vie en heures supplémentaires dans l'espoir de céder un empire immobilier à vos enfants ? Vous vous fatiguez pour rien.

No comment. Anyway, they still could come in useful. newsthump.com/2025/09/18/m...

Everyone should read this post from @himself.bsky.social www.programmablemutter.com/p/repost-abs...

I feel like if you bought an internet connected refrigerator with screens, you deserve this

Then the answer becomes 'how much nuclear is needed, given the likely cost, since the alternative is more renewables, more grid, and more storage, which at some point will be more expensive'. That is a largely technocratic decision.

The nuclear 'debate' falls away when you accept that it is both necessary, complementary to renewables, not substituting for them, and unlikely to be cheap.

While I'm sure he is *also* a frothing maniac, when you take a dispassionate look at the prospects for Musk's empire then it's clear that Telsa's main chance of survival is as the LADA equivalent under an autarkist US government that bans superior Chinese imports wlockett.medium.com/the-cybertru...

THIS TIME IT'S WAR! We're picking up our pulse rifles and getting on an express elevator to Hell. Yes, we're watching Aliens. Stay frosty. Wherever you get your podcasts.

German wine queens as wine ambassadors through the ages. In 1931, the Palatinate became the first—and for a time, only—German wine region to crown a regional wine queen as a way to promote its wine. After 1949, wine queens from all of Germany’s wine regions began competing for the national crown

1/n Latest on history of credit feuds in Econ: Herrade Igersheim ties many existing account of well-known longstanding priority dispute between Duncan Black & Ken Arrow over the median voter theorem with a layer of new archives [open access] link.springer.com/article/10.1...

4/n As late as 1980, he wrote to Coase: "“I have always regarded Arrow as the man who usurped my rights, like a Jimmy Hoffa or a Hitler, and who did it so gratuitously." That's how brutal credit fights in science can turn.

EU proposes to build an anti-drone wall, together with the Ukrainians on.ft.com/4gBnOX2 via @FT

Cela paraît quand même très étonnant que la taxe zucman soit aussi populaire chez les sympathisants LR que chez les verts, et qu’elle soit encore plus populaire chez les sympathisants macronistes.

Un modeste article de votre serviteur sur la consommation énergétique des IA chez @lel-media.bsky.social. Il s'agit de remettre les pendules à l'heure sur les ordres de grandeur et les évolutions favorables (optimisations massives) généralement oubliées dans les narratifs.

Newspapers used to be more fun. (The Pacific Bee, April 1, 1882)

Disengagement is the only option

Dommage collatéral de la fermeture de la frontière polono-bélarusse le temps des exercices Zapad 2025, le transit de marchandise par voie ferroviaire vers et surtout depuis la Chine s'est interrompu. Il représente 25 milliards €. Dommage collatéral pour la Chine bien sûr 1/

Illuminating thread, China starting to leave the West in the dust in innovation.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

It looks like you're trying to force a broken and unpopular product onto your users via increasingly desperate means

Why have tariffs when you can shut down trade by sinking random vessels?

Gouvernement de coalition : la rigueur budgétaire risque d’attendre (Emmanuel Combe) www.emmanuelcombe.fr/gouvernement... 🔓

Workshop Chaire Travail (PSE-Jourdan) le 8/9 juin prochain, l'appel à communication ouvert, date limite le 1er fév 2026. RT appréciés! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/news/call...

Je suis effaré par la quantité de gens qui vivent et commentent l’actualité politique américaine comme si c’était la nôtre. C’est comme appeler le juge au tribunal « votre honneur », il y a un moment où cette réalité virtuelle se substitue au monde réel.

More signs of very weak performance from China’s coal sector today — January-August thermal generation down 0.8% year-on-year, despite extremely weak hydro generation. August thermal electricity is up just 1.7%, during what should be the peak.

I’d like to say it’s shocking, but it’s pretty much what he promised he’d do.

I am reading a book on Fascism in France in the first half of the 20th century, and the book reminded how the French military disaster of May 1940 was immediately given two political explanations, who were both completely wrong, but turned out to be extremely persistent. A thread.

Two econ historians ask, Which had the most impact, UK naval suppression of the slave trade (supply), or suppression of demand at source (US ban on the trade, cut in Caribbean via Haitian revolution, and then the biggest demand, Brazil)? UK naval ban gets most att'n, but isn't most important.

On est d’accord, « Mozart de la finance » est une expression utilisée la première fois par Marine Lepen lors de son premier débat présidentiel contre Macron et n’a jamais été utilisée comme compliment? Ou l’expression a un précédent?

on.ft.com/3I6b7GR Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead (this is by the excellent Dan Neidle - but I reckon there’s only a slim chance of sensible decisions like these)