Andreas Sator
@asator.bsky.social
Journalist, Podcaster, Autor ✍️🎙️📚 • Erklär mir die Welt • http://asator.substack.com • Falter, Standard, SN • ✉ https://a-sator.at/kontakt
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Das Geheimnis der lebenswerten Stadt:
Die Abwesenheit von Autos.
Die Abwesenheit von Autos.
January 6, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Das Geheimnis der lebenswerten Stadt:
Die Abwesenheit von Autos.
Die Abwesenheit von Autos.
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Oh wow - OpenAI’s Greg Brockman was the single largest donor to Trump’s super PAC over the past 6 months. I knew OpenAI/Brockman were trying to flex their muscles politically to block all meaningful AI regulations, didn’t realize they had literally become Trump’s largest donor
NEW: The Trump-backed MAGA Inc. super PAC raised $100m+ in the 2nd half of 2025, including from donors with interests before his administration:
▶️Greg & Anna Brockman (AI policies): $25m
▶️Juul (Trump's FDA approved Juul's vapes): $1m
▶️American Rights & Reform PAC (cannabis rescheduling): $1m+
▶️Greg & Anna Brockman (AI policies): $25m
▶️Juul (Trump's FDA approved Juul's vapes): $1m
▶️American Rights & Reform PAC (cannabis rescheduling): $1m+
Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Oh wow - OpenAI’s Greg Brockman was the single largest donor to Trump’s super PAC over the past 6 months. I knew OpenAI/Brockman were trying to flex their muscles politically to block all meaningful AI regulations, didn’t realize they had literally become Trump’s largest donor
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My reflections on my year of trying to increase, on paper, my paper productivity using AI. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
Reflections on Vibe Researching
My year-long experiment in AI first research
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
My reflections on my year of trying to increase, on paper, my paper productivity using AI. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
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1 Jahr Citymaut in New York:
11% weniger Verkehr, Kaufkraft ist NICHT zurückgegangen (die Leute kommen jetzt öffentlich), massive Mehreinnahmen für den öffentlichen Verkehr. Autoverkehr fließt 4,5% schneller, öffentliche Busse fahren 2,5% schneller.
11% weniger Verkehr, Kaufkraft ist NICHT zurückgegangen (die Leute kommen jetzt öffentlich), massive Mehreinnahmen für den öffentlichen Verkehr. Autoverkehr fließt 4,5% schneller, öffentliche Busse fahren 2,5% schneller.
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:34 PM
1 Jahr Citymaut in New York:
11% weniger Verkehr, Kaufkraft ist NICHT zurückgegangen (die Leute kommen jetzt öffentlich), massive Mehreinnahmen für den öffentlichen Verkehr. Autoverkehr fließt 4,5% schneller, öffentliche Busse fahren 2,5% schneller.
11% weniger Verkehr, Kaufkraft ist NICHT zurückgegangen (die Leute kommen jetzt öffentlich), massive Mehreinnahmen für den öffentlichen Verkehr. Autoverkehr fließt 4,5% schneller, öffentliche Busse fahren 2,5% schneller.
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The permitting reforms of the old 🚦 coalition paying off? I thought that coalition was a ToTal FaiLuRe!1!
Germany greenlights record 2,000 km of high-voltage grid extensions in 2025
Country approves several major high-voltage direct current connections from windy north to industrial centres in the south
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...
Country approves several major high-voltage direct current connections from windy north to industrial centres in the south
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...
January 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The permitting reforms of the old 🚦 coalition paying off? I thought that coalition was a ToTal FaiLuRe!1!
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Das Thema hatte @asator.bsky.social auch in seinem Buch teilweise behandelt und auch Bregman verweist auch immer wieder auf EA.
Alles gut!? – Quellen zum Buch – Andreas Sator
a-sator.at
January 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Das Thema hatte @asator.bsky.social auch in seinem Buch teilweise behandelt und auch Bregman verweist auch immer wieder auf EA.
Ein paar Dinge, die sich in die richtige Richtung bewegen
Ein paar Dinge, die sich in die richtige Richtung bewegen
But several countries navigated choppy waters well.
asator.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Ein paar Dinge, die sich in die richtige Richtung bewegen
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And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 AM
And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations
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Wie die Festnahme des venezolanischen Präsidenten durch US-amerikanische Spezialeinheiten ablief.
(Geschenk-Link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...
(Geschenk-Link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...
Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Wie die Festnahme des venezolanischen Präsidenten durch US-amerikanische Spezialeinheiten ablief.
(Geschenk-Link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...
(Geschenk-Link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...
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Schad ist es um Maduro nicht. Aber auf der anderen Seite fehlen mir persönlich auch Gaddhaffi und Saddam Hussein wenig, trotzdem würde ich anerkennen, dass weder ihre Länder noch die Welt sich durch ihren Sturz radikal zum besseren verändert haben.
January 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Schad ist es um Maduro nicht. Aber auf der anderen Seite fehlen mir persönlich auch Gaddhaffi und Saddam Hussein wenig, trotzdem würde ich anerkennen, dass weder ihre Länder noch die Welt sich durch ihren Sturz radikal zum besseren verändert haben.
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Maduro enjoys absolute immunity as head of state. There is no justification whatsoever to kill or capture him. He didn’t start a war, he isn’t a combatant. Remember how some whined about Ukraine’s alleged strikes on Putin (which never happened)? They would actually have been legally justified.
This is as illegal as it gets. Unlike all
of his predecessors (think of Bush and the Iraq war), Trump doesn’t even pretend he cares about international law.
of his predecessors (think of Bush and the Iraq war), Trump doesn’t even pretend he cares about international law.
The U.S. carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela early this morning, capturing leader Nicolás Maduro and flying him out of the country, U.S. President Donald Trump said.
#[politi.co/49jjQit
#[politi.co/49jjQit
January 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Maduro enjoys absolute immunity as head of state. There is no justification whatsoever to kill or capture him. He didn’t start a war, he isn’t a combatant. Remember how some whined about Ukraine’s alleged strikes on Putin (which never happened)? They would actually have been legally justified.
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2025 has been a historic year for clean energy in UK, with renewable project approvals reaching a record-high 45 GW — nearly double of 2024.
This surge was driven by an exceptional rise in battery storage capacity, which almost doubled to 28.6 GW, alongside strong growth in offshore wind & solar.
This surge was driven by an exceptional rise in battery storage capacity, which almost doubled to 28.6 GW, alongside strong growth in offshore wind & solar.
December 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
2025 has been a historic year for clean energy in UK, with renewable project approvals reaching a record-high 45 GW — nearly double of 2024.
This surge was driven by an exceptional rise in battery storage capacity, which almost doubled to 28.6 GW, alongside strong growth in offshore wind & solar.
This surge was driven by an exceptional rise in battery storage capacity, which almost doubled to 28.6 GW, alongside strong growth in offshore wind & solar.
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Weakening growth in demand for oil and gas is already having geopolitical consequences. When oil goes ex-growth, all hell will break loose - and all heaven too. Expect some highly non-linear decades.
NEW: Small-scale protests demanding that the Iranian government address the devaluation of the Iranian rial and high inflation rates have continued for the second consecutive day in Tehran and Hamadan City, western Iran, on December 29 amid a rapid collapse of the Iranian currency. 🧵(1/6)
December 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Weakening growth in demand for oil and gas is already having geopolitical consequences. When oil goes ex-growth, all hell will break loose - and all heaven too. Expect some highly non-linear decades.
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Should have added context for my followers: with rising VIX (roughly = market stress), UST yields fall (flight to safety), but beyond a certain VIX point, they rose again. Yikes. Should be a downward slope if USTs are the risk-free asset.
Searching (fruitlessly, for something else in) the IMF's Oct GFSR, I can see why this chart gives them the heebie-jeebies.
UST mkt has flunked both its last two tests as global risk-free asset. www.imf.org/-/media/file...
UST mkt has flunked both its last two tests as global risk-free asset. www.imf.org/-/media/file...
December 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Should have added context for my followers: with rising VIX (roughly = market stress), UST yields fall (flight to safety), but beyond a certain VIX point, they rose again. Yikes. Should be a downward slope if USTs are the risk-free asset.
Martin Zinggl wollte zu Fuß von Wien nach Istanbul gehen.
Und er hat es geschafft.
Was er auf seiner Reise erlebt und gelernt hat – ein sehr lustiges und zugleich inspirierendes Gespräch.
Folge 377 von Erklär mir die Welt hier hören:
xn--erklrmir-3za.at/2025/12/30/3...
Und er hat es geschafft.
Was er auf seiner Reise erlebt und gelernt hat – ein sehr lustiges und zugleich inspirierendes Gespräch.
Folge 377 von Erklär mir die Welt hier hören:
xn--erklrmir-3za.at/2025/12/30/3...
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Martin Zinggl wollte zu Fuß von Wien nach Istanbul gehen.
Und er hat es geschafft.
Was er auf seiner Reise erlebt und gelernt hat – ein sehr lustiges und zugleich inspirierendes Gespräch.
Folge 377 von Erklär mir die Welt hier hören:
xn--erklrmir-3za.at/2025/12/30/3...
Und er hat es geschafft.
Was er auf seiner Reise erlebt und gelernt hat – ein sehr lustiges und zugleich inspirierendes Gespräch.
Folge 377 von Erklär mir die Welt hier hören:
xn--erklrmir-3za.at/2025/12/30/3...
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30 Ratschläge für ein gutes Leben asator.substack.com/p/ratschlage...
30 Ratschläge für ein gutes Leben
Es ist etwa zwei Monate her, dass ich im Fitnessstudio das Verlangen verspürte, ein paar Lebensweisheiten in mein Handy zu tippen.
asator.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
30 Ratschläge für ein gutes Leben asator.substack.com/p/ratschlage...
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Ich bin immer wieder beeindruckt, wie umfassend sich @asator.bsky.social mit der Welt und dem Leben beschäftigt. Und wie unaufdringlich er seine daraus gewonnen Erkenntnisse versucht, weiterzugeben. Danke!
December 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ich bin immer wieder beeindruckt, wie umfassend sich @asator.bsky.social mit der Welt und dem Leben beschäftigt. Und wie unaufdringlich er seine daraus gewonnen Erkenntnisse versucht, weiterzugeben. Danke!
GenAI zum Klügerwerden:
If you use it as a dialogic thinking space where you externalities thought and use it to hold, reshape, question, extent, perturb your thinking. Just like a good teacher or mentor could, except you need to set and guide the interaction style.
December 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
GenAI zum Klügerwerden:
30 Ratschläge für ein gutes Leben asator.substack.com/p/ratschlage...
30 Ratschläge für ein gutes Leben
Es ist etwa zwei Monate her, dass ich im Fitnessstudio das Verlangen verspürte, ein paar Lebensweisheiten in mein Handy zu tippen.
asator.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
30 Ratschläge für ein gutes Leben asator.substack.com/p/ratschlage...
No One's Nice To Bari Weiss - Mike Pesca
No One's Nice To Bari Weiss
What the Outrage Over 60 Minutes Gets Wrong
mikepesca.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
No One's Nice To Bari Weiss - Mike Pesca
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Also true: Vance is anti-European because the EU shows how well liberal democracy can work.
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Also true: Vance is anti-European because the EU shows how well liberal democracy can work.
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The threat to German auto producers isn't from Chinese cars flooding Germany. It's from Chinese cars flooding to emerging markets (red), where they're killing the market for German cars. That's not something EU tariffs on China are going to be able to fix...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...
December 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The threat to German auto producers isn't from Chinese cars flooding Germany. It's from Chinese cars flooding to emerging markets (red), where they're killing the market for German cars. That's not something EU tariffs on China are going to be able to fix...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...
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Where the world’s electricity comes from. Looking forward to the update including 2025.
December 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Where the world’s electricity comes from. Looking forward to the update including 2025.
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First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
December 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike