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Steven Seggie

@stevenhseggie.bsky.social

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marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · Jan 1

I like New Year Resolutions:

1. get my French from early B2 to C1
2. Lose 15 kg and get in shape
3. Walk at least 15k steps a day
4. Go to the cinema at least once a month
5. Start using a proper to-do list

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 15h

The director of Melania movie

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 17h

no clue but I guess so, and I subsequently found out he had a reputation and also Epstein files etc.

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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 17h

I thought you could get arrested for that kind of child abuse (and quite rightly so) in France?

I always think of a friend who’s a primary school teacher and had a little girl named Klamidia(sic) in her class one year. That deserves jail time.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 17h

Totally gross

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 18h

🤷🏻‍♂️

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 18h

Anyway, hopefully this will kill off The Nation for good. A parody of a publication.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us

Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”

www.thenation.com

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 18h

I have a slogan suggestion for them “It’s Cornwall’s tin!”

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18h

That some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men were writing crime e-mails to crime man Epstein on gmail suggests two non-exclusive things:

a) Our meritocracy isn't all it's cracked up to be;

b) Our overlords operate at levels of arrogance & impunity that make consequences unimaginable.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 18h

Dirty dog that he was

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 18h

John needs to read Douglass North’s work on institutions and then rewrite this. It’s a bit sloppy

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

Very good piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com....

The US under Trump 2.0 has shifted towards authoritarianism as record speed but unlike other examples (e.g. Putin, Orban) it's happened by bypassing institutions rather than permanently corrupting them...

www.ft.com/content/b474...

How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding?

The erosion of established norms has been dramatic but institutions are holding up

www.ft.com

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Rob Cameron @bbcrobc.bsky.social · 19h

Miroslav Lajčák has resigned as advisor to Slovak PM Robert Fico after new messages emerged from Epstein files.

Screenshots show Lajčák (former ForMin & ex-president of UN General Assembly) discussing girls with Epstein.

Lajčák categorically denies claims.

www.aktuality.sk/clanok/2YbO4...

Prezidentské ambície aj sexuálne narážky po stretnutí s Lavrovom. Čo riešil Lajčák v správach s Epsteinom

Miroslav Lajčák sa v zverejnených Epsteinových spisoch objavuje častejšie, než by sa dalo očakávať pri bežnom diplomatickom kontakte. Jeho komunikácia s Jeffreym Epsteinom nebola sporadická ani výlučne pracovná – prebiehala opakovane a dotýkala sa nielen geopolitiky a medzinárodných tém, ale aj osobných otázok, žien a dievčat, ktoré sa v správach objavujú ako súčasť odľahčených, miestami provokatívnych rozhovorov. Nešlo pritom o okrajový motív, ale o jednu z opakujúcich sa tém komunikácie.

www.aktuality.sk

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19h

I wasn’t surprised that his name was in the Epstein files. /fin

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19h

something along the lines of “your friend is stunning I want to fuck her”. I was shocked and didn’t really believe my ears and thought I’d misunderstood his computer voice so I leaned in and said “what, sorry I missed that” and he repeated himself. We excused ourselves and walked away. So, tbph

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19h

some country pub with a lovely garden and lo and behold Stephen Hawking was there. (Sidebar for the story: Lizzie was smoking hot). Anyway Brief History of time had just come out, it was all the rage and I persuaded Lizzie we should go over and say hi. So we did. And in response Hawking said

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19h

Now that Epstein is bag in the news and given that Stephen Hawking is in the files (and since he’s dead so he can’t sue) I can tell my Stephen Hawking story. In about 1996 I went to visit a friend who lived just outside Cambridge, let’s call her Lizzie (because that was her name 😃). We drove to

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah it’s patently untrue

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19h

OpenAI is destined to fail

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20h

Microsoft stock tanked -12% after revealing 45% of Azure’s backlog is OpenAI. Meanwhile, Oracle is struggling to secure loans for its $300M AI deal, risking layoffs to pay for it.

The theme is clear that bankers don’t trust OpenAI’s solvency, and it’s dragging down every partner attached to it.

Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data-center expansion as US banks retreat

Oracle is considering workforce cuts and selling Cerner to alleviate financial pressure, warns investment bank TD Cowen.

www.cio.com

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19h

I would love to believe this, but it is wrong. Let us look at some institutions /1

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding?

The erosion of established norms has been dramatic but institutions are holding up

www.ft.com

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20h

It is very reminiscent of locker rooms, trading floors, & fraternities I have seen, where regardless of their wealth or talent, men defer to the guy they perceive as having the greatest capacity for seduction. Being able to manipulate women is regarded as the highest form of intelligence.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20h

Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data-center expansion as US banks retreat

Oracle is considering workforce cuts and selling Cerner to alleviate financial pressure, warns investment bank TD Cowen.

www.cio.com

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband

these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly

www.ft.com/content/608a...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 23h

Chomsky's prominence despite his lack of seriousness to put it lightly said a lot how movements that indulged him preferred narrative simplism over confronting injustice wherever it comes from in a complex world

Natalia Jagielska (娜塔莉) @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 1d

East Europeans getting troves of validation for hating on Chomsky and US people who blindly venerated him, despite genocide denial.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 23h

I shall

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding?

The erosion of established norms has been dramatic but institutions are holding up

www.ft.com

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up this morning and chose violence

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 1d

The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/

Matt @vintagecodecs.bsky.social · 1d

he also appears to have met moot the same day /pol/ was (re)launched (not my image)

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 1d

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

From: Matthew Hiltzik <
To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000
I think that is wise
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends.
What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating).
In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Emails from an account that appeared to belong to Jeffrey Epstein allege Bill Gates tried to hide a sexually transmitted disease from his wife Melinda after having sex with 'Russian girls', claims Gates says are 'absolutely absurd and completely false' ft.trib.al/XaWoUlL

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 1d

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter

we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

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