Claudia Witte
@mmevite.bsky.social
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Essay über moralische Bequemlichkeit: Auf der richtigen Seite der Geschichte wird es voll taz.de/Essay-ueber-...
Essay über moralische Bequemlichkeit: Auf der richtigen Seite der Geschichte wird es voll
Geschichte ist Chaos, das wir im Nachhinein versuchen, mit Sinn zu füllen. Über Fortschrittsglauben und die Angst vor Sinnlosigkeit.
taz.de
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Essay über moralische Bequemlichkeit: Auf der richtigen Seite der Geschichte wird es voll taz.de/Essay-ueber-...
Making sense of the nonsensical.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com truly is the best trade explainer out there.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com truly is the best trade explainer out there.
I've had some great fun this year occasionally standing in for @soumayakeynes.ft.com on the FT's Economics Show podcast, none more so than the episode that just dropped in which Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com attempts the impossible ie making sense of Trump's tariffs.
What Trump’s tariffs deadline has (not) achieved, with Dmitry Grozoubinski
Trump’s proposed levies have sown confusion. How should the world respond?
www.ft.com
July 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Making sense of the nonsensical.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com truly is the best trade explainer out there.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com truly is the best trade explainer out there.
The concept of the zero-sum mindset helps explain a lot of what is going on in national and international politics today.
“To understand the zero-sum mindset—and why it varies across groups—it is necessary to look at where it comes from,” writes a Harvard professor. In a guest essay she maps out how Americans think about economic issues and policies
To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva
Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss
econ.st
July 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The concept of the zero-sum mindset helps explain a lot of what is going on in national and international politics today.
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Polarised timelines. Election manipulation. Wasn't the EU meant to have the strongest tech regulation in the world?
@johnnyryan.bsky.social says we need to go nuclear: switch off the algorithms.
🎧 www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...
@johnnyryan.bsky.social says we need to go nuclear: switch off the algorithms.
🎧 www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...
Could Europe switch off big tech's algorithms? — The Europeans
The EU supposedly has some of the world's toughest laws regulating big tech. So why does it still feel like Europeans are being sucked into increasingly polarised online communities, and manipulated d...
www.europeanspodcast.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Polarised timelines. Election manipulation. Wasn't the EU meant to have the strongest tech regulation in the world?
@johnnyryan.bsky.social says we need to go nuclear: switch off the algorithms.
🎧 www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...
@johnnyryan.bsky.social says we need to go nuclear: switch off the algorithms.
🎧 www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...
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First, a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appears in the Moscow Metro. Then a Kremlin adviser says that “from a legal standpoint the USSR still exists.” In Russia the past hangs over the present. My report from Moscow.
Stalin statue appears in the Moscow Metro
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
First, a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appears in the Moscow Metro. Then a Kremlin adviser says that “from a legal standpoint the USSR still exists.” In Russia the past hangs over the present. My report from Moscow.
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My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US.
First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.
First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.
Court tariffs bombshell should inspire trading partners to defy Trump
[FREE TO READ] The EU must stand up to the US president’s bullying for the sake of the world trading system
on.ft.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US.
First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.
First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.
That's what I want from a podcast: surprising stories, new insights, and all of it well presented. Good job Micah and Brooke!
On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social...
I speak with @willoremus.com about Musk's propaganda machine.
@beccalew.bsky.social discusses the authoritarian roots of Silicon Valley
Brooke interviews @elysegraham.bsky.social about how scholars and librarians helped win World War II.
I speak with @willoremus.com about Musk's propaganda machine.
@beccalew.bsky.social discusses the authoritarian roots of Silicon Valley
Brooke interviews @elysegraham.bsky.social about how scholars and librarians helped win World War II.
February 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
That's what I want from a podcast: surprising stories, new insights, and all of it well presented. Good job Micah and Brooke!
Remember #Corona ? taz.de/Christian-Dr...
Christian Drosten: „Wir koppeln uns ab von einer realistischen Rekonstruktion der Ereignisse.“
Hatte die Coronapandemie ihren Ursprung in der Natur oder im Labor? Virologe Christian Drosten ist überzeugt: China könnte für Klarheit sorgen.
taz.de
January 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Remember #Corona ? taz.de/Christian-Dr...
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Not to be dramatic, but there really are days when I feel scared of the future.
Like, to pick an example at random, today.
What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth.
The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.
Like, to pick an example at random, today.
What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth.
The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.
January 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Not to be dramatic, but there really are days when I feel scared of the future.
Like, to pick an example at random, today.
What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth.
The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.
Like, to pick an example at random, today.
What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth.
The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.
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This about sums it up.
December 31, 2024 at 3:50 PM
This about sums it up.
#RedLine or rather #BrownLine crossed: after learning about Elon Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right AfD party, I finally overcame #FOMO and deleted my #x account.
December 21, 2024 at 11:01 AM
#RedLine or rather #BrownLine crossed: after learning about Elon Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right AfD party, I finally overcame #FOMO and deleted my #x account.