Jérôme Treperman
@jerometrep.bsky.social
Technology policy
Managing Partner @technopolis-group.com
Managing Partner @technopolis-group.com
Martin Wolf: „…the conclusion might be that Europe now suffers from a paradox of its history: the fragmentation that made its states powerful and rich is, in the new world, a barrier to their remaining so.“
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Can a fragmented Europe continue to prosper?
What once made its sovereign states powerful and rich could now be a barrier to their remaining so
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November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Martin Wolf: „…the conclusion might be that Europe now suffers from a paradox of its history: the fragmentation that made its states powerful and rich is, in the new world, a barrier to their remaining so.“
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on.ft.com/47LUHfy
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Ein Nachruf auf Micha Brumlik:
Gegen die Relativierung von Wahrheit stellte er die Frage nach der Verantwortung
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Gegen die Relativierung von Wahrheit stellte er die Frage nach der Verantwortung
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Zum Tod von Micha Brumlik
Vom Zionismus über den Antizionismus zum Postzionismus: Der Publizist Micha Brumlik verband jüdische Identität mit universalistischer Ethik wie kaum ein Zweiter. Nun ist er im Alter von 78 Jahren gest...
www.faz.net
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Ein Nachruf auf Micha Brumlik:
Gegen die Relativierung von Wahrheit stellte er die Frage nach der Verantwortung
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Gegen die Relativierung von Wahrheit stellte er die Frage nach der Verantwortung
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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I still remember a time when no-one would believe that a state dept could post something like this.
It was only a year ago.
It was only a year ago.
This is straight up white nationalist talking points posted by the DHS.
October 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I still remember a time when no-one would believe that a state dept could post something like this.
It was only a year ago.
It was only a year ago.
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This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles:
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Müllermilch Boss with Fringe Friends: A German Dairy Billionaire's Links to the Far Right
The dairy billionaire Theo Müller is friends with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany. She and other fringe figures were invited to his extravagant bi...
www.spiegel.de
September 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles:
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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After making millions as a commodities trader, a job he came to hate, Jonathan Kleisner joined the Fire Department as a rookie paramedic at the age of 41. Now he’s determined to be the best rescue medic anywhere.
The Millionaire Who Left Wall Street to Become a Paramedic
After making millions in a job he came to hate, Jonathan Kleisner joined the Fire Department as a rookie paramedic at the age of 41. Now he’s determined to be the best rescue medic anywhere.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
After making millions as a commodities trader, a job he came to hate, Jonathan Kleisner joined the Fire Department as a rookie paramedic at the age of 41. Now he’s determined to be the best rescue medic anywhere.
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Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@grandcontinent.bsky.social?) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
Mario Draghi’s Full Speech: Europe’s Harsh Reality — Powerless on the Global Stage! -ITALIAN-
YouTube video by EU Debates | eudebates.tv
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August 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@grandcontinent.bsky.social?) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
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‘David Graeber upends the familiar history of the species in which primitive societies were egalitarian and the agricultural revolution brought a new order of class and domination. He wanted to show that life wasn’t really like that.’
@leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
‘David Graeber upends the familiar history of the species in which primitive societies were egalitarian and the agricultural revolution brought a new order of class and domination. He wanted to show that life wasn’t really like that.’
@leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Major General Maik Keller, Deputy Commander of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, said in an interview with the FAZ that a few months ago Russia managed to severely damage a MIM-104 Patriot radar unit in #Ukraine.
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August 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Major General Maik Keller, Deputy Commander of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, said in an interview with the FAZ that a few months ago Russia managed to severely damage a MIM-104 Patriot radar unit in #Ukraine.
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Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’ www.ft.com/content/cccb...
Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’
JPMorgan Chase boss warns on EU competitiveness and market complacency over tariffs
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July 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’ www.ft.com/content/cccb...
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Once children start first grade, a maths gender gap appears. This likely happens because school confronts them with societal expectations and gender norms, where math is rather associated with boys than girls
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Once children start first grade, a maths gender gap appears. This likely happens because school confronts them with societal expectations and gender norms, where math is rather associated with boys than girls
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Martin Wolf: „We are at a turning point: we must choose wisely.“ www.ft.com/content/0356...
An ever riskier world economy
Trump’s tariff war brings with it unpredictability and a consequent loss of confidence
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June 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Martin Wolf: „We are at a turning point: we must choose wisely.“ www.ft.com/content/0356...
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Thomas Roulleau rappelle que 85%des investissements pour la transition énergétique sont réalisés par les pays avancés et la Chine, les 15% restants étant répartis entre des pays représentant 2/3 de la pop. mondiale. Ils font notamment face à des coûts élevés du capital et au surendettement.
June 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thomas Roulleau rappelle que 85%des investissements pour la transition énergétique sont réalisés par les pays avancés et la Chine, les 15% restants étant répartis entre des pays représentant 2/3 de la pop. mondiale. Ils font notamment face à des coûts élevés du capital et au surendettement.
„Europe, which this week launched a renewed effort to invigorate its start-up industry, appears stuck on the old Silicon Valley playbook.“ www.ft.com/content/2261...
The VC industry needs a geopolitical reboot
AI is rewriting the rules of the technological and investment game
www.ft.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
„Europe, which this week launched a renewed effort to invigorate its start-up industry, appears stuck on the old Silicon Valley playbook.“ www.ft.com/content/2261...
„Vielleicht bekommt Friedrich Merz von Maischberger, Lanz oder Illner irgendwann doch noch die Frage gestellt: Herr Merz, niemand kann etwas für seinen Naziopa – aber was haben Sie seit 2004 aus der Geschichte Ihres Großvaters gelernt?“ taz.de/!6081570/
Friedrichund seinNaziopa
Am Dienstag soll Friedrich Merz zum Kanzler gewählt werden – und muss sich gleich zum 80. Jahrestag der Befreiung verhalten. Als sie vor Jahren zur Vergangenheit seines Großvaters recherchierte, verkl...
taz.de
May 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
„Vielleicht bekommt Friedrich Merz von Maischberger, Lanz oder Illner irgendwann doch noch die Frage gestellt: Herr Merz, niemand kann etwas für seinen Naziopa – aber was haben Sie seit 2004 aus der Geschichte Ihres Großvaters gelernt?“ taz.de/!6081570/
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The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...
www.techspot.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
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Interesting Dani Rodrik piece on the Trump tariffs in the broader context of the weakening of the manufacturing export led model.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...
Opinion | With Trump’s Tariffs, the Fate of Developing Countries Now Rests in Their Own Hands
For the billions of people who still live in poverty, the path to prosperity may look very different than it has since World War II.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Interesting Dani Rodrik piece on the Trump tariffs in the broader context of the weakening of the manufacturing export led model.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...
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So if I’m reading this correctly, USTR used the “trade deficit divided by imports” formula. And then they added two variables which, multiplied together, equal 1 and therefore do not change the result. Just to make things look a bit more scientific?
ustr.gov/issue-areas/...
ustr.gov/issue-areas/...
April 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
So if I’m reading this correctly, USTR used the “trade deficit divided by imports” formula. And then they added two variables which, multiplied together, equal 1 and therefore do not change the result. Just to make things look a bit more scientific?
ustr.gov/issue-areas/...
ustr.gov/issue-areas/...
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Bridging Europe's Innovation Finance Gap: New strategic approaches to strengthen growth financing of technology-intensive startups
What’s being done? What comes next?
Read the article by our Managing Partner @jerometrep.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bILtlD
#Innovation #InnovationFinance #Technology
What’s being done? What comes next?
Read the article by our Managing Partner @jerometrep.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bILtlD
#Innovation #InnovationFinance #Technology
March 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Bridging Europe's Innovation Finance Gap: New strategic approaches to strengthen growth financing of technology-intensive startups
What’s being done? What comes next?
Read the article by our Managing Partner @jerometrep.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bILtlD
#Innovation #InnovationFinance #Technology
What’s being done? What comes next?
Read the article by our Managing Partner @jerometrep.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bILtlD
#Innovation #InnovationFinance #Technology
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How a president hoping to fund his government with tariffs and possibly annex Canada instead wrecked the economy and set continentalism back for almost a century. Excellent thread.
In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.
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While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.
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March 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
How a president hoping to fund his government with tariffs and possibly annex Canada instead wrecked the economy and set continentalism back for almost a century. Excellent thread.
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Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table.
Here is what it means:
Here is what it means:
March 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table.
Here is what it means:
Here is what it means:
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“The Washington Post is dying not in darkness but by the light of noon, and by its own hand,” George Packer writes. The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect: theatln.tc/Uu1eHotV
March 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The Washington Post is dying not in darkness but by the light of noon, and by its own hand,” George Packer writes. The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect: theatln.tc/Uu1eHotV