Alex Roche 🇪🇺
@alexroche.bsky.social
Human rights advocate • Global/public affairs & tech specialist • Senior Associate Director, Center for the Governance of Change at IE University: deciphering how we the people should rule a world in revolution • My views • about.me/aroche • 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇳
“Between 2003 and 2023, the average amount of time 18- to 30-year-old Americans spent socialising each day fell by 38%.” economist.com/leaders/2026...
America should stop making it so hard to have fun
Bureaucracy is nightlife’s toughest bouncer
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“What is at stake in our shared decisions about how to design and use AI is the very meaning of our humanity.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
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En este enciclopédico libro, @frankfukuyama.bsky.social sostiene que «un sistema político basado en un equilibrio entre el Estado, el derecho y la rendición de cuentas constituye una necesidad tanto práctica como moral para todas las sociedades». Un breve hilo de #LecturasMásDemo. 🧵
“This is not the first sign that AI models’ capabilities are starting to exceed people’s control.” economist.com/science-and-...
Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet
Containing the technology is getting harder
economist.com
Views of China have improved in recent years while opinions of the U.S. have worsened. Confidence in these countries’ respective leaders to do the right thing regarding world affairs has followed a similar pattern. Today, more overall have confidence in Xi than Trump.
“Spain’s men’s soccer team have bolstered the sense that — amid a broader cultural, economic and sports renaissance — something promising is happening in Spain, and that to be here now is to be in the right place, at the right time.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/w...
Spain Celebrates Both a Soccer Win and a Sense of Wider Success
For many fans, the World Cup victory cemented a belief that something promising — a cultural, economic and sports revival — is happening in the country.
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“Economically, militarily and technologically, the U.S. is richer, stronger and cleverer than ever. However its relative position is not what it was. By the numbers, its dominance appears to be eroding.” economist.com/interactive/...
America is mighty—but becoming less dominant
Ahead of its 250th birthday, an empirical look shows the world’s leading country no longer stands so far apart
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“For Spain, there is much to celebrate. Not only did they field the best team, by a distance, at the tournament. But it also embodies Spanish virtues that the casual visitor rarely detects: modesty, hard work, organisation and above all unity.” economist.com/europe/2026/...
Café Europa newsletter: Spain’s champions tell a bigger story
Michael Reid, our Spain correspondent, on why the football team embodies the best of the country
economist.com
💪 ¡¡¡Somos otra vez campeones del mundo!!! ⭐️⭐️ ¡Viva España! 🇪🇸
The World Cup is politics by other means. @edgeofsports.bsky.social argues that for reasons both political and aesthetic, fans should support Spain over Argentina this Sunday. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Root for Spain for Their Play and Their Politics
A World Cup victory will not just feel like a soccer triumph but a national triumph. For that reason, fans should support Pedro Sánchez’s Spain over Javier Milei’s Argentina.
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“When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI” economist.com/by-invitatio...
If you thought the global financial crisis was bad…
When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI, writes short-seller Carson Block
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“Countries must build leverage with their own AI sectors and regulations, and find fail-safes for U.S. export controls. They could, for instance, ensure that businesses can easily switch to non-U.S. models that run on non-U.S. data centres.” economist.com/leaders/2026...
America should not imprison frontier AI
Fable is free. But the technology desperately needs better regulations
economist.com
“Climate change has made Europe’s heatwave 2°C-4°C worse than it would have been under the same conditions in the second half of the 20th century.” “Europe’s temperature is rising by 0.56°C per decade, twice the world average and faster than any other continent.” economist.com/science-and-...
Global warming has made Europe’s heatwave 2-4°C worse
The continent is warming faster than any other
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“U.S. philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their peers who studied computer science.” economist.com/science-and-...
Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers
The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind
economist.com
“Surveys suggest that Americans would sooner live next to a nuclear plant than a data centre.” economist.com/business/202...
America’s data-centre backlash puts the AI boom at risk
Opposition is spreading across the country
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
“Three-quarters of Americans think AI should be more regulated, with Republicans nearly as keen as Democrats.” economist.com/united-state...
Democrats and Republicans agree: AI is scary
It’s about the only thing that unites them
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“Tests run by the OECD suggest that students in colleges and universities are less literate than they were a decade ago.” economist.com/leaders/2026...
University-for-all harms poor students the most
Time for sane standards in higher education
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“Only the U.S. enshrines into law the right to a library for its head of state, highlighting how the country has granted the head of the executive branch, supposedly one of three equal branches of government, a somewhat regal aura.” economist.com/culture/2026...
Barack Obama has built a monument to himself
He is just the latest president to do so
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“Populism has turned progressives into conservatives.” economist.com/britain/2026...
Rejoiners, Britain’s real conservative movement
They want to turn back the clock on Brexit. Winning campaigns deal in the future
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“Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them?” www.theplayerstribune.com/yan-diomande...
Dear Roxane | By Yan Diomande
I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.
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‘Anthropic has hired an economist with … interesting views on human survival’ He wrote: “[I]t is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raising living standards by a factor of 55.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Anthropic has hired an economist with . . . interesting views on human survival
Skynet versus unending rainbows
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“Die Linke has become more western, more female and much younger: it is the most popular party among Germans under 24.” economist.com/europe/2026/...
Germany’s left-wing Die Linke party has won over the young
The populists promise a “scorching hot socialist summer” of protest
economist.com
Socialism won BIG in NYC last night! TONIGHT at 8 PM ET, join Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier for a mass call to celebrate this historic victory for democratic socialism in New York and reflect on what comes next 🌹 RSVP at dsa.nyc/VictoryCall
“Regular Democrats are petrified because they know that the Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America are running modern, complex, very interesting and exciting campaigns.” economist.com/united-state...
The left is coming for Democratic incumbents
In primary challenges, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to install allies in Congress
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“Europe hosts only 5% of global AI compute, whereas the U.S. has more than 75%.” economist.com/by-invitatio...
“Brexit has left Britons more divided, less influential and poorer than they would otherwise have been.” economist.com/leaders/2026...
Britain is not ready to rejoin the EU
After a lost decade, it is time to focus on the future
economist.com
