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Duolingo scrubbed all of the posts from its TikTok and Instagram channels as the brand continues to face backlash for its CEO's announcement that it's going "AI-first."

"If you work for a Greek company, there is a very good chance you hate your boss. This is not a coincidence". By @greekanalyst.bsky.social greekanalyst.substack.com/p/greek-mana...

Talos, the first AI Robot Machine. Greek Mythology eurekacourses.org/the-story-of...

Plato, Republic: analogies with Trump's rise to power and playbook nymag.com/intelligence...

US brands' reputation change after Trump's inauguration

The self-made US billionaire financier and philanthropist,R. Rosenkranz, is about to publish The Stoic Capitalist: Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious. (Don’t be put off by the title if you aren’t ambitious, exceptionally or otherwise.) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stoic-cap...

The End of free trade is very hostile for small nations (via @data.ft.com )

Trump and Sopranos

France, the country of true justice

"Throughout the past year the Greek government has painted a very rosy picture of amazing improvements in salary levels while opposition have likened Greek salary conditions to the Middle Ages... Both are wrong", by @greekanalyst.bsky.social greekanalyst.substack.com/p/salaries-i...

Gen Z’s growing disapproval of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is driving them to a platform owned by neither of them: Tumblr www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-flocki...

"Bluesky isn't just another Twitter/X competitor. It fixes what's wrong with social media". By Fred Vogelstein crazystupidtech.com/archive/blue...

Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.

Athens' Most Important Woman open.substack.com/pub/classica...

Revealed: betting companies’ huge financial influence in European football www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Podyssey is great and funny

The meaning of life, sort of

"5 economic myths about Greece ...and why they are wrong, with data" by @greekanalyst.bsky.social greekanalyst.substack.com/p/5-economic...

For Elon Musk’s Tesla, there is such a thing as bad publicity Tesla’s woes are a rare example of bad press that does harm the brand, because its CEO’s public profile is so opposed to its environmentalist image www.marketingweek.com/for-elon-mus...

“Debate training can promote leadership emergence and advancement by fostering individuals’ assertiveness, which is a key, valued leadership characteristic in U.S. organizations,” says MIT Associate Professor Jackson Lu news.mit.edu/2025/climbin... #WorkLife #Leadership with @haikalis.bsky.social

Ο φοιτητής συνδιοργάνωσε συγκεντρώσεις διαμαρτυρίας στο πανεπιστήμιο Columbia για την Παλαιστίνη. Δεν έχει κατηγορηθεί για κανένα έγκλημα. Έχει πράσινη κάρτα, βρίσκεται νόμιμα στις ΗΠΑ. Μπήκαν στο σπίτι του και τον συνέλαβαν μπροστά στην (αμερικανίδα, έγκυο) σύζυγό του. Το πανεπιστήμιο, κιχ.

AI is already doing our work. As of September 2024, 18% of financial consumer complaints, 24% of corporate press releases, and 15% of job postings showed signs of LLM writing. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09747

AI Will Upend a Basic Assumption About How Companies Are Organized The economy is built on the idea that expertise is scarce and expensive. AI is about to make it abundant and practically free www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Σε δήμο πέριξ της Αθήνας με μικροαστικό κόσμο και υπολογίσιμη αγορά, τα μαγαζιά κλειστά κατά 90%. Με σημείωμα στην πόρτα περί συμπαράστασης. Καποιοι ιδιοκτήτες λένε ότι έκλεισαν μήπως τους κάνουν ζημιές, αλλά μάλλον αυτοί είναι μικρή μειοψηφία #Τεμπη

Excellent piece by Peter Turchin who has been saying it for at least ten years--s it is not something made up right now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Instagram changed contemporary painting What started as a great idea, ended up being a monumental trap marinarocade.substack.com/p/instagram-...

Chinese tech stocks versus US 'Magnificent Seven" market value via @financialtimes.com

Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, φάρμακο για όλες τις ασθένειες ή ευκαιρία για νέα κόλπα;

Χρονια πολλά, πολλά @theiosthanassis.bsky.social

The Airbnbification of Athens Mass tourism vs the need for affordable housing by @greekanalyst.bsky.social greekanalyst.substack.com/p/the-airbnb...

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

Physical books' revival. One factor driving the boom is BookTok. www.axios.com/2025/02/01/b...

⚠️ Bank of Greece bulletin says corporate profits have been the main factor in inflationary pressures since 2021, both in the eurozone and in Greece. In Greece in particular, the leading player among businesses is the services sector. www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1260...

Turn to right in UK, too

Greece's top administrative court has intervened for a *fifth* time over delays concerning the demolition of illegal floors at the Coco-Mat hotel in Makrygianni, central Athens. www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...

‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield. www.wired.com/story/lawmak...

Why DeepSeek is different, in three charts The Chinese artificial intelligence model’s innovative design allows it to outperform other popular models at significantly lower costs www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."

"OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us" sez.us/l/bahaqtx5

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

Interesting results for Greece, tops the list for religious nationalism in the EU

"Departing the New York Times" by @pkrugman.bsky.social contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

Greenland’s population is overwhelmingly against leaving the Danish realm in favor of the US

Η Tesla του Elon Musk ταυτίζεται με τις κινεζικές εταιρείες. Είναι πολλά τα λεφτά, Elon

Το δημοσίευμα διαβάζεται και αλλιώς: τι συμβαίνει με το κόστος των ιδιωτ νοσοκομείων και γιατί έχει πέσει η ποιότητα των υπηρεσιών τους. www.businessdaily.gr/epiheiriseis...

Paul Krugman vs New York Times "...The editing became extremely intrusive. It was very much toning down of my voice, toning down of the feel, and a lot of pressure for what I considered false equivalence.” And, increasingly, attempts “to dictate the subject.” www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...