@fabianjoya.bsky.social
Things I believe:
* Nuclear Power is the solution to global warming
* Social media is a tool for authoritarianism and a threat to civil society
* Crushing Russia in Ukraine will result in peace
* China is an evil empire
* Nuclear Power is the solution to global warming
* Social media is a tool for authoritarianism and a threat to civil society
* Crushing Russia in Ukraine will result in peace
* China is an evil empire
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Russia is preparing its final maneuver in Pokrovsk to capture the entire Donetsk region, says Syrskyi.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Russia is preparing its final maneuver in Pokrovsk to capture the entire Donetsk region, says Syrskyi.
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Morning update from @hoholenko.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Morning update from @hoholenko.bsky.social
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The fact that someone was fooled by a spoof from a website (literally) called the Dunning-Kruger Times has no bearing at all on my confidence that he would definitely have the upper hand in any negotiation with President Xi, or Putin.
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The fact that someone was fooled by a spoof from a website (literally) called the Dunning-Kruger Times has no bearing at all on my confidence that he would definitely have the upper hand in any negotiation with President Xi, or Putin.
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Among Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, it was Hungary that exited Moscow's grip in 1990 with the highest GDP per capita.
The Russian-backed Orban regime has since looted the country to the point that it's now the lowest.
The Russian-backed Orban regime has since looted the country to the point that it's now the lowest.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Among Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, it was Hungary that exited Moscow's grip in 1990 with the highest GDP per capita.
The Russian-backed Orban regime has since looted the country to the point that it's now the lowest.
The Russian-backed Orban regime has since looted the country to the point that it's now the lowest.
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Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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There's a little bit of economics underlying Musk's trillion dollar payday. Let's try to make sense of it all by serving up a main course of the Economics of Superstars, with a side of Principal -Agent problems, and a healthy helping of Political Economy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWxM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWxM...
Elon Musk 'worse for Tesla than any other CEO' after $1 trillion deal | Justin Wolfers
Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan Justin Wolfers tells Times Radio's Fergus Macphee what the unprecedented $1 trillion pay deal Elon Musk has agreed actually…
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There's a little bit of economics underlying Musk's trillion dollar payday. Let's try to make sense of it all by serving up a main course of the Economics of Superstars, with a side of Principal -Agent problems, and a healthy helping of Political Economy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWxM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWxM...
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Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
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In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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The China bots are very active recently and like to portray China as a benevolent global superpower. So here's a quick reminder that China has become Russia's biggest trading partner since the invasion, which is the only reason Putin's war machine can keep fighting in Ukraine...
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The China bots are very active recently and like to portray China as a benevolent global superpower. So here's a quick reminder that China has become Russia's biggest trading partner since the invasion, which is the only reason Putin's war machine can keep fighting in Ukraine...
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The reason the EU gets pushed around by the US and China is this: Russian shadow fleet oil tankers operate with impunity in the Baltic, keeping Putin's war machine running. If you want to be feared and respected, you have to confront the challenge right in front of you. Nothing else really matters.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The reason the EU gets pushed around by the US and China is this: Russian shadow fleet oil tankers operate with impunity in the Baltic, keeping Putin's war machine running. If you want to be feared and respected, you have to confront the challenge right in front of you. Nothing else really matters.
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1983 I visited Travemünde in West Germany and saw the fences and guards of the Iron Curtain. I asked my father if the wall would ever fall. "Not during mine, and even your, lifetime" he answered. Seven years later we visited Berlin. My father bought himself a big chunk of the wall as a souvenir.
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
1983 I visited Travemünde in West Germany and saw the fences and guards of the Iron Curtain. I asked my father if the wall would ever fall. "Not during mine, and even your, lifetime" he answered. Seven years later we visited Berlin. My father bought himself a big chunk of the wall as a souvenir.
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Just going to be an incredible decision if SCOTUS says they needed to make an emergency intervention because of the risk that poor people might get food they are legally entitled to
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just going to be an incredible decision if SCOTUS says they needed to make an emergency intervention because of the risk that poor people might get food they are legally entitled to
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Hitler literally said similar shit.
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Hitler literally said similar shit.
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My expert political opinion is that killing the job market, raising grocery prices, kicking people off their health care, stealing taxpayer money, and trying to starve 40 million Americans is pretty damn unpopular.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
My expert political opinion is that killing the job market, raising grocery prices, kicking people off their health care, stealing taxpayer money, and trying to starve 40 million Americans is pretty damn unpopular.
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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Many Germans are unhappy about immigration, but it's almost impossible to say this out loud, because you very quickly get called very bad things. So people stay silent and vote for the AfD. The CDU is the last best hope to bring this issue into the political center and take it away from the AfD...
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Many Germans are unhappy about immigration, but it's almost impossible to say this out loud, because you very quickly get called very bad things. So people stay silent and vote for the AfD. The CDU is the last best hope to bring this issue into the political center and take it away from the AfD...
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Immigration is a difficult issue on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, it caused the Democrats to lose the 2024 election (in my view) and immigration policy has radically changed. In Europe, the political center prevents that with its "Brandmauer" or "cordon sanitaire." Which is more democratic?
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Immigration is a difficult issue on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, it caused the Democrats to lose the 2024 election (in my view) and immigration policy has radically changed. In Europe, the political center prevents that with its "Brandmauer" or "cordon sanitaire." Which is more democratic?
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Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Pro-China bots are very active recently and spread misinformation. So it's important to be clear what role China plays in the world. It's the single biggest pillar of support for Russia's war machine and invasion of Ukraine. China is Putin's biggest enabler in his war on Western Europe. The truth...
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Pro-China bots are very active recently and spread misinformation. So it's important to be clear what role China plays in the world. It's the single biggest pillar of support for Russia's war machine and invasion of Ukraine. China is Putin's biggest enabler in his war on Western Europe. The truth...
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South Korea's exports to tiny Kyrgyzstan just reached half a billion Dollars in one month. This stuff is obviously not headed to Kyrgyzstan but is going to Russia. The West is guilty of a collective failure on Ukraine: chasing short term profits instead of shutting down autocrats. We must do better.
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
South Korea's exports to tiny Kyrgyzstan just reached half a billion Dollars in one month. This stuff is obviously not headed to Kyrgyzstan but is going to Russia. The West is guilty of a collective failure on Ukraine: chasing short term profits instead of shutting down autocrats. We must do better.
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This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.