Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Seeing your (old by now) book (the tiny green one, bottom right the monetary section) on the shelves of someone else, when randomly scrolling bluesky and without knowing how it ended there, is a joy that never gets old and worth to share. Great collection by the way @claudia-sahm.bsky.social

Oui mais si on pouvait faire reproduire les nfts des insectes et les vendre via sa propre crpyto, disons l insecta, on en serait pas là. Il a manque la vision strategique de Dogami.

This enraged me for so many years...when DEI guidelines exist in Europe for aca recruitements, they also never mention class/social background elements

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

Pourquoi #Trump s'en prend-il à la Réserve Fédérale ? Quels sont les enjeux de ces attaques du président étasunien contre la banque centrale et ses dirigeants ? Dans cette tribune pour @lemonde.fr, j'apporte quelques éléments de réponse, issus de mes recherches www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Il y'a une étude à faire sur le changement rhétorique du personnel politique conservateur qui critiquait "populisme", "les extrêmes politiques" et nous sortait la théorie du fer à cheval il y'a un an et qui maintenant reconnait "enfin" la singularité de la menace de l'extrême droite.

World turns shit but brussels remains the best absurd city ever

Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.

Financial war in response to trade war and territorial threats? More and more people appear to be calling for it. So I updated my post on U.S. Treasuries holdings—now with the latest data. benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...

Let's start by, at least, bending the curve and stopping to fuel the AI chatbot hype/foolishness (graphs courtesy of excellent @danielagabor.bsky.social report) www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...

If the EU didnt manage to seize Russian assets frozen within Euroclear accounts, can it overcome coordination (and other) problems to sell 12,6 trillions of dollars of US assets owned by a myriad of private financial operators? Answer is no. Never too late to start though www.ft.com/content/beea...

I'm don't think we should get too excited about this. Eurodollar structure is dollar assets funded by dollar liabilities. If Europe moves to dump dollar assets it's left with ... large dollar liabilities. Not a great position to be in, particularly if access to dollar swap lines is questionable.

Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.

Lets never forget the immense treachery of "regular" conservatives who carved the path for the death of democracy and descent into fascist hellish nightmare. Lets never forgive them neither

Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/

Infographie géniale de la DG Trésor : que finance l'épargne financière des ménages français ? J'aurais parié sur bien plus de dette publique, a priori. www.tresor.economie.gouv.fr/Articles/202...

The post Global Financial crisis big narrative/fear was about the "rise of populism" while the main issue has always been about the rise of the hard/far/radical right. It's never too late to use the correct vocabulary.

“We created the market [for solar] and made it interesting for investors,” says Eicke Weber, former co-chairman of the European Solar Manufacturing Council.“But we forgot to make industrial policies.” Add disgusting politics from conservatives/far right and here we are. www.ft.com/content/3749...

Tooze disagrees that Resource imperialism is an explanation for Trumpists actions. Why not? 1 Assets are small. Oil is heavy & difficult to recover economically 2 Financial liabilities of VZ govt are large Concludes that trump likes "cosplaying" as imperialist adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Chatbots and metaverse going in the same (black hole) direction

Keep on fighting big tech algos

We recently published a study on the transformation of the Eurozone architecture (🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., with Alex Goghie, Matteo Giordano & @rikereimer.bsky.social) and launched an accompanying interactive online tool (🔗 monetary-architecture.com). This is how it came to be 👇

My only use of Chat GPT is to provide same readings than my students' assignements to check whether they used it. In its newer version, without me asking for it, chapgpt automatically proposes potential student's users to blatantly lie & cheat. Just ban this shit from our universities.

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Je propose qu’on impose que toute session sur un LLM soit précédées d’une video de 5 minutes avec VOUS N’IRIEZ PAS À LA SALLE AVEC UN CHARIOT ÉLÉVATEUR VOUS NE BRÛLERIEZ PAS UNE FORÊT POUR FAIRE UNE BLAGUE VOUS NE VOLERIEZ PAS UNE VOITURE POUR FAIRE UN TRAJET À PIEDS

NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated. I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble. But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash. Waiting for the feds? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

Tuilp bulb producer shrugs off "tulip bubble" anxiety with bumper flower bulb demand

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Why don't we have an EU wide carbon tax? Well, some people worked as hard as they could to stop it. Important new research by Fabienne Jouty and Christophe Bonneuil!

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Post 2010 Germany "economic success" would have been very different witout €financial capital flowing back to Frankfurt during the crisis and China industrial demand. Take these two elements away and German growth model look more like Deutschbahn reliability than ordo liberal Mittelstand fantaisies

Oh, I just saw a cognitive dissonance

Pour ceux qui ne l'auraient pas encore vu, cet hommage IA de l'ancienne ministre des Anciens combattants, avec deux Bretagne, plus de Marseille, Madrid française. Et un magnifique casque type Stahlhelm 1935 pour honorer la mémoire des poilus...

EPP's leader Weber going full orwell 1984 double speak. How dares he talk about strenghtening environment and parlementary democracy while his main strategy today is allying with far right parties to dismantle sustainability norms? I would laugh if i would not be furious

What stage of the Ponzi scheme is it when Robinhood wants to allow "amateur traders" to invest in AI startups? www.ft.com/content/7278...

Relying on LLMs to get your diploma and is similar to forging PhD research for boosting your political career in Germany You think it creates shortcuts and notability for getting the top job. But as you are only interested in the CV line, you don't learn anything. And one day, you are exposed.

Au fait, pour visibiliser davantage l'inculpation de Didier Reynders, ancien ministre MR des finances belges pris en plein délit de blanchiment d'argent au café tabac du coin alors qu'il était occupé au bailout des banques, on pourrait savoir s'il arrive à se cuisiner lui même des oeufs en prison?

If Deutsche Bank acts like during the 2007 Global financial crisis, they will sell AI related financial products to their clients while shorting AI with proprietary trading www.ft.com/content/c042...

Its a paradox if there was a bit of strategic vision. It ceases to be one if we consider that the current anti ecological backlash is driven by revenge, some kind of priviledged conservative nihilism,an inability to see beyond a 2y horizon when it comes to profitability margin.

My more elaborate take on why the Dutch election outcome does not represent a defeat of the far right

Could you describe how markets move from euphoria to panic when a bubble bursts? Yes, of course. The shift occurs when more market participants starts to bet that the golden bullshit will be perceived more as bullshit than gold by other market particpants. Do we have indicators? Some.

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...