Kwakkenbos
@kwakkbo.bsky.social
Deputy Director of Amnesty International European Institutions Office. Shiba Inu and Development Finance enthusiast. Thoughts my own, no wucking furries you cunning stunts.
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The Brussels Times and De Tijd examine the finances of the Brussels Region. The report raises questions about the true size of the debt.
Behind Brussels’s finances: debt worse than it appears?
Behind Brussels’ finances: debt worse than it appears?
www.brusselstimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The Brussels Times and De Tijd examine the finances of the Brussels Region. The report raises questions about the true size of the debt.
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Quite possibly the nerdiest Lunch with the FT we've ever run, featuring the inelastic markets hypothesis, 'econophysics', the Black-Scholes model's weaknesses and several drive-by shootings of economists. www.ft.com/content/6f54...
Investor Jean-Philippe Bouchaud: ‘The whole bull run is because of an influx of money’
The physicist and hedge fund manager on why the efficient markets theory is ‘all wrong’, economists with ‘mathematics envy’ — and what Camus can teach us about compromise
www.ft.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Quite possibly the nerdiest Lunch with the FT we've ever run, featuring the inelastic markets hypothesis, 'econophysics', the Black-Scholes model's weaknesses and several drive-by shootings of economists. www.ft.com/content/6f54...
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📝 A smarter, more integrated financial toolbox is needed to move the EU's Global Gateway "from start-up to scale-up." But how can this be achieved?
Read the paper 👉 bit.ly/4nbk3Kk
Read the paper 👉 bit.ly/4nbk3Kk
September 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
📝 A smarter, more integrated financial toolbox is needed to move the EU's Global Gateway "from start-up to scale-up." But how can this be achieved?
Read the paper 👉 bit.ly/4nbk3Kk
Read the paper 👉 bit.ly/4nbk3Kk
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Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says
The UN aviation organisation has been captured by the industry, a report has concluded, leading to the urgent action required to tackle the sector’s high carbon emissions being blocked.
Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at the recent “environmental protection” meeting of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the report found. The ICAO is the forum where nations agree the rules governing international aviation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
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Thoughts on Trump ordering flags to half-mast for Charlie Kirk but wouldn't even call the Governor of Minnesota after Democratic elected officials were killed in by a Trump supporter.
Democratic lives do not matter to Trump
Democratic lives do not matter to Trump
September 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Thoughts on Trump ordering flags to half-mast for Charlie Kirk but wouldn't even call the Governor of Minnesota after Democratic elected officials were killed in by a Trump supporter.
Democratic lives do not matter to Trump
Democratic lives do not matter to Trump
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Voters have given Japan’s government a pasting in elections for the upper house, after a campaign that focused on immigration and living costs.
www.ft.com/content/f733...
www.ft.com/content/f733...
Japan’s PM Shigeru Ishiba signals intent to stay on despite election blow
Prime minister says he will still take ‘responsibility for national issues’ despite exit poll suggesting setback for LDP
www.ft.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Voters have given Japan’s government a pasting in elections for the upper house, after a campaign that focused on immigration and living costs.
www.ft.com/content/f733...
www.ft.com/content/f733...
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The 709 Crackdown led to the unjust prosecution & persecution some of China’s most diligent human rights lawyers & legal activists.
But it was just the start of a decade-long assault on human rights & the rule of law that shows no signs of abating today. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
But it was just the start of a decade-long assault on human rights & the rule of law that shows no signs of abating today. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Chinese government impunity for crackdown on lawyers fuels decade of repression
As Amnesty International signed on to a joint statement ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the ‘709’ crackdown on human rights lawyers in China, the organization’s China Director Sarah Brooks said: “...
www.amnesty.org
July 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The 709 Crackdown led to the unjust prosecution & persecution some of China’s most diligent human rights lawyers & legal activists.
But it was just the start of a decade-long assault on human rights & the rule of law that shows no signs of abating today. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
But it was just the start of a decade-long assault on human rights & the rule of law that shows no signs of abating today. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Yippee, my broker is the first Belgian broker to offer crypto… Fees are fees and demand is demand I guess. They’re on a roll after pushing risky bonds with sleazy sales-mails for highly indebted private companies. Never trust sell-side. Write that down! ✍️
a man in a red suit and tie is saying sales team assemble .
ALT: a man in a red suit and tie is saying sales team assemble .
media.tenor.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yippee, my broker is the first Belgian broker to offer crypto… Fees are fees and demand is demand I guess. They’re on a roll after pushing risky bonds with sleazy sales-mails for highly indebted private companies. Never trust sell-side. Write that down! ✍️
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Stable coins are big, but not beautiful...
... they're just not money and come with a host of other dangers
Volatility is one
ft.com/content/86af...
... they're just not money and come with a host of other dangers
Volatility is one
ft.com/content/86af...
June 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Stable coins are big, but not beautiful...
... they're just not money and come with a host of other dangers
Volatility is one
ft.com/content/86af...
... they're just not money and come with a host of other dangers
Volatility is one
ft.com/content/86af...
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The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼
June 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼
I don't understand how anyone can look at Mike Johnson and not think "that guy might be the devil." Like in a movie it would be the big reveal hahaha he was the devil all the time and the audience would be booing at how obvious it all was. Of course Mike Johnson is the devil. Look at him!
June 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I don't understand how anyone can look at Mike Johnson and not think "that guy might be the devil." Like in a movie it would be the big reveal hahaha he was the devil all the time and the audience would be booing at how obvious it all was. Of course Mike Johnson is the devil. Look at him!
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Tesla drivers in France sue over Elon Musk’s political antics
https://www.ft.com/content/ef4a97f1-8196-4abe-93b1-73f90fdefa42
https://www.ft.com/content/ef4a97f1-8196-4abe-93b1-73f90fdefa42
Tesla drivers in France sue over Elon Musk’s political antics
Lawsuit seeks termination of customers’ leases, alleging CEO has ‘tarnished’ brand
www.ft.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Tesla drivers in France sue over Elon Musk’s political antics
https://www.ft.com/content/ef4a97f1-8196-4abe-93b1-73f90fdefa42
https://www.ft.com/content/ef4a97f1-8196-4abe-93b1-73f90fdefa42
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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus
When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus
The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus
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Terry Moran has been recognized with many awards including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Emmy Award, the Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondents' Association (2x's) & the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award.
Stephen Miller has been recognized as the Spawn of Satan.
Fuck ABC.
Stephen Miller has been recognized as the Spawn of Satan.
Fuck ABC.
June 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Terry Moran has been recognized with many awards including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Emmy Award, the Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondents' Association (2x's) & the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award.
Stephen Miller has been recognized as the Spawn of Satan.
Fuck ABC.
Stephen Miller has been recognized as the Spawn of Satan.
Fuck ABC.
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what's "the brussels effect"? (wrong answers only)
June 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
what's "the brussels effect"? (wrong answers only)
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Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."
June 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."
says something about the world we live in when both the richest person in the world and the most powerful person in the world are both absolute fucking morons
June 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
says something about the world we live in when both the richest person in the world and the most powerful person in the world are both absolute fucking morons
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Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite.
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin
Darren Beattie, who alarmed the State Department with his pro-Moscow views, is married to a woman whose uncle has ties to Vladimir Putin
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite.
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
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FT SCOOP: Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn - validating the pricetag struck when xAI bought X in March
It comes as the world’s richest man returns from Doge to his business empire and the AI race
on.ft.com/4dGFY85
It comes as the world’s richest man returns from Doge to his business empire and the AI race
on.ft.com/4dGFY85
Elon Musk’s xAI seeks $113bn valuation in $300mn share sale
Deal to allow investors to buy into group following March takeover of X
on.ft.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
FT SCOOP: Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn - validating the pricetag struck when xAI bought X in March
It comes as the world’s richest man returns from Doge to his business empire and the AI race
on.ft.com/4dGFY85
It comes as the world’s richest man returns from Doge to his business empire and the AI race
on.ft.com/4dGFY85
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June 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Hot take: chicken fried steak is a better beef wellington
June 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hot take: chicken fried steak is a better beef wellington
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It would have been easy for Musk to take his plane to a country like Uganda to see the work U.S.A.I.D. has done providing medicine to people with H.I.V. Instead, he drew on the counsel of internet trolls and staffed DOGE with lackeys who were similarly ignorant.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It would have been easy for Musk to take his plane to a country like Uganda to see the work U.S.A.I.D. has done providing medicine to people with H.I.V. Instead, he drew on the counsel of internet trolls and staffed DOGE with lackeys who were similarly ignorant.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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The US president said the billionaire, who helped bankroll his presidential campaign last year, was 'going to be back and forth' between his businesses and Washington. https://on.ft.com/4jvA3nI
May 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The US president said the billionaire, who helped bankroll his presidential campaign last year, was 'going to be back and forth' between his businesses and Washington. https://on.ft.com/4jvA3nI
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"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
www.huffpost.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...