Ilya Lozovsky
@ichbinilya.bsky.social
Writer and senior editor at OCCRP. Investigative journalism, democracy, corruption, US politics, Europe and Eurasia. More fun than this profile IRL. Currently in Amsterdam!
can this be real??
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
can this be real??
It’s not the worst example of the genre, but I’m glad they don’t do this postmodern shit anymore. It annoys me that this building is trying to be funny.
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s not the worst example of the genre, but I’m glad they don’t do this postmodern shit anymore. It annoys me that this building is trying to be funny.
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Belgium is still blocking the use of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Belgium is still blocking the use of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
walking around Amsterdam in the fall: Not Bad
November 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
walking around Amsterdam in the fall: Not Bad
hey, that’s a nice city
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
hey, that’s a nice city
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Today, Hungarians protest again. And a traveler captured an image of the crowd, snaking up Andrassy Boulevard to Heroes Square, from their RyanAir flight. Who needs drones?
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today, Hungarians protest again. And a traveler captured an image of the crowd, snaking up Andrassy Boulevard to Heroes Square, from their RyanAir flight. Who needs drones?
You may have heard that AI data centers use a huge amount of water, but that's not true in any meaningful sense.
Manufacturing one pair of jeans uses more water than the number of AI prompts you'll make over your whole life.
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
Manufacturing one pair of jeans uses more water than the number of AI prompts you'll make over your whole life.
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
The AI water issue is fake
On the national, local, and personal level
andymasley.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You may have heard that AI data centers use a huge amount of water, but that's not true in any meaningful sense.
Manufacturing one pair of jeans uses more water than the number of AI prompts you'll make over your whole life.
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
Manufacturing one pair of jeans uses more water than the number of AI prompts you'll make over your whole life.
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
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This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.
ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.
October 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.
this is exactly what a "Hungarian novelist" looks like in my imagination
Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.
nyti.ms
October 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
this is exactly what a "Hungarian novelist" looks like in my imagination
Man, the New York Times is good. This story about a couple of friends opening a restaurant is so well told and delivered.
Also, it's a great subject! Honest business is a noble pursuit that literally enables modern life.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Also, it's a great subject! Honest business is a noble pursuit that literally enables modern life.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How to Open a Restaurant in NYC
A year in the making of a rookie’s first restaurant.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Man, the New York Times is good. This story about a couple of friends opening a restaurant is so well told and delivered.
Also, it's a great subject! Honest business is a noble pursuit that literally enables modern life.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Also, it's a great subject! Honest business is a noble pursuit that literally enables modern life.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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You've probably seen a lot of angry posts today about how "Angela Merkel blamed Poland and the Baltics for the Ukraine war" in a recent interview.
They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇
They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
You've probably seen a lot of angry posts today about how "Angela Merkel blamed Poland and the Baltics for the Ukraine war" in a recent interview.
They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇
They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇
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Brussels to curb the travel of Russian diplomats within the EU, in response to a surge in sabotage attempts that intelligence agencies say are led by spies operating under diplomatic cover.
Czech-led initiative backed after Hungary drops its veto. With @andybounds.bsky.social
on.ft.com/46Umr0T
Czech-led initiative backed after Hungary drops its veto. With @andybounds.bsky.social
on.ft.com/46Umr0T
EU to curb Russian diplomats’ travel as suspected spy attacks mount
[FREE TO READ] Intelligence agencies say sabotage operations are often led by spies posing as diplomats
on.ft.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Brussels to curb the travel of Russian diplomats within the EU, in response to a surge in sabotage attempts that intelligence agencies say are led by spies operating under diplomatic cover.
Czech-led initiative backed after Hungary drops its veto. With @andybounds.bsky.social
on.ft.com/46Umr0T
Czech-led initiative backed after Hungary drops its veto. With @andybounds.bsky.social
on.ft.com/46Umr0T
You've probably seen a lot of angry posts today about how "Angela Merkel blamed Poland and the Baltics for the Ukraine war" in a recent interview.
They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇
They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
You've probably seen a lot of angry posts today about how "Angela Merkel blamed Poland and the Baltics for the Ukraine war" in a recent interview.
They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇
They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇
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Proud that our investigation — about how people are recruited for "pro-Russian" sabotage on Telegram — has been short-listed for the 2025 Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism!
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans Are Recruited Through Telegram to Commit Sabotage, Arson, and Murder
The cases are multiplying across Europe: Young men with pro-Russian views instructed on Telegram to carry out sabotage attacks. Western security officials point to the Russian special services. For th...
www.occrp.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Proud that our investigation — about how people are recruited for "pro-Russian" sabotage on Telegram — has been short-listed for the 2025 Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism!
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
Is AI going to replace human writers? It’s a question in which you might say I have a professional interest.
For certain kinds of utilitarian writing, I think the answer is yes.
For certain kinds of utilitarian writing, I think the answer is yes.
October 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Is AI going to replace human writers? It’s a question in which you might say I have a professional interest.
For certain kinds of utilitarian writing, I think the answer is yes.
For certain kinds of utilitarian writing, I think the answer is yes.
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Dutch news now reporting this Gaza demo in Amsterdam drew 250,000. If so, I think that makes it the biggest in the Netherlands since the anti-nuclear-missiles demo in 1981.
Red Line demonstration for Gaza in Amsterdam today is very big by Dutch standards. Museumplein packed and overfill, certainly tens of thousands. This is just people on the way, and it’s been like this for kilometers.
October 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Dutch news now reporting this Gaza demo in Amsterdam drew 250,000. If so, I think that makes it the biggest in the Netherlands since the anti-nuclear-missiles demo in 1981.
Proud that our investigation — about how people are recruited for "pro-Russian" sabotage on Telegram — has been short-listed for the 2025 Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism!
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans Are Recruited Through Telegram to Commit Sabotage, Arson, and Murder
The cases are multiplying across Europe: Young men with pro-Russian views instructed on Telegram to carry out sabotage attacks. Western security officials point to the Russian special services. For th...
www.occrp.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Proud that our investigation — about how people are recruited for "pro-Russian" sabotage on Telegram — has been short-listed for the 2025 Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism!
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
The latest in a series of incidents that get more ominous the longer they continue.
Now, unidentified drones surveying critical infrastructure and military sites in Germany. www.newsweek.com/nato-drones-...
Now, unidentified drones surveying critical infrastructure and military sites in Germany. www.newsweek.com/nato-drones-...
NATO ally confirms new mystery drone swarm, critical sites targeted: Report
A drone swarm that flew over Germany deliberately surveyed the NATO ally's critical infrastructure, according to an internal government memo.
www.newsweek.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The latest in a series of incidents that get more ominous the longer they continue.
Now, unidentified drones surveying critical infrastructure and military sites in Germany. www.newsweek.com/nato-drones-...
Now, unidentified drones surveying critical infrastructure and military sites in Germany. www.newsweek.com/nato-drones-...
You can say "Chotiner got 'im again" and of course lots of people ARE saying that, but to me it seems they're just arguing about the borders of liberalism and it's not some kind of fundamental gotcha. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Can Liberalism Be Saved?
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
www.newyorker.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
You can say "Chotiner got 'im again" and of course lots of people ARE saying that, but to me it seems they're just arguing about the borders of liberalism and it's not some kind of fundamental gotcha. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Horrible story about a Russian man who fled the military, hoped for asylum in the United States, but has now been sent back to the gulag.
September 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Horrible story about a Russian man who fled the military, hoped for asylum in the United States, but has now been sent back to the gulag.
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A very cool story about how Feeding America implemented an artificially designed "market" to help distribute donated food. Made for huge gains, effectively feeding an additional 60,000 people per day!
Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
How market design can feed the poor
America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.
www.worksinprogress.news
September 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
A very cool story about how Feeding America implemented an artificially designed "market" to help distribute donated food. Made for huge gains, effectively feeding an additional 60,000 people per day!
Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
A very cool story about how Feeding America implemented an artificially designed "market" to help distribute donated food. Made for huge gains, effectively feeding an additional 60,000 people per day!
Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
How market design can feed the poor
America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.
www.worksinprogress.news
September 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
A very cool story about how Feeding America implemented an artificially designed "market" to help distribute donated food. Made for huge gains, effectively feeding an additional 60,000 people per day!
Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
This is a really cool story about how revolutionary the Ford Model T manufacturing process really was, and how much human ingenuity and labor it took to invent and perfect techniques that went on to change the world.
I found this really moving. www.construction-physics.com/p/ford-and-t...
I found this really moving. www.construction-physics.com/p/ford-and-t...
Ford and the Birth of the Model T
Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N, a four-cylinder, two-seater car initially priced at $500. At the time, the average car in the US co...
www.construction-physics.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is a really cool story about how revolutionary the Ford Model T manufacturing process really was, and how much human ingenuity and labor it took to invent and perfect techniques that went on to change the world.
I found this really moving. www.construction-physics.com/p/ford-and-t...
I found this really moving. www.construction-physics.com/p/ford-and-t...
We all agree social media creates huge negative externalities for our society, right? What do we normally do with negative externalities? Tax them, right? Is this anything?
September 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We all agree social media creates huge negative externalities for our society, right? What do we normally do with negative externalities? Tax them, right? Is this anything?
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But lets get to Weiss and The Free Press. Here is their key claim. Universities are the main culprits behind American political violence - no other potential sources mentioned - akin to radical madrassas training terrorist.
This is truly insane rhetoric from an outfit about to take over CBS News.
This is truly insane rhetoric from an outfit about to take over CBS News.
September 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
But lets get to Weiss and The Free Press. Here is their key claim. Universities are the main culprits behind American political violence - no other potential sources mentioned - akin to radical madrassas training terrorist.
This is truly insane rhetoric from an outfit about to take over CBS News.
This is truly insane rhetoric from an outfit about to take over CBS News.