JP Ahonen
@jpahonen.eurosky.social
Watching dominoes from Greece. Tech leader. Finnish reserves. Usually early in predictions. Occasionally wrong. Always post-mortem. Mapping the emergence of evergray wars between autocratic East and technocratic West, with EU in the crosshairs.
My $SPCX earnings beat prediction is not doing too well: by the looks of it, the beat will not survive even tonight. After market has pushed the price down -8%, almost wiping out the pre-earnings bull entirely.
JP Ahonen@jpahonen.eurosky.social · 20h agoI’ll predict the beat will not survive scrutiny past the weekend. Just long enough for the lockup expiry to come and go.
9/10 🇫🇮 Suomessa vastaavaa keskustelua käydään korkeintaan politiikan reunoilla. Väittelemme siitä, miten vanhaa mallia pitäisi soveltaa – emme siitä, toimiiko malli enää. Kukaan ei kysy ääneen, miksi samat lääkkeet eivät tunnu tehoavan, vaikka niitä annostellaan yhä uudelleen.
Ceuta, July 31st. 50,000 people directed to the border by Moroccan police. 96.6% returned the same day. The US Congress had pre-authorised $40M to Morocco two weeks earlier. No declaration of intent, no formal conflict. Just a weapon deployed and withdrawn. #EvergrayWars
I’ve had a lot of discussions last night about age gating social media. I’ll share an observation: For many Americans it boils down to simply not being able to trust their government or institutions in handling their identities. I feel for them. We in EU shouldn’t wait, but proceed.
Japanese engineers develop a technique to recover and recycle 90% of Lithium from old EV batteries.
Scientists recover 90% of lithium from old batteries — here's why it matters
A metals plant in Tsuruga of the Fukui Prefecture has positioned itself as a major player in the battery recycling industry by achieving near-record levels of lithium recovery.
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Even smart people are sharing a drop of 5% in cohort use in first 90 days as proof age gating is a dead horse. Anti tobacco laws took decades to bite, and even today it’s an ongoing process. By comparison these interventions are fast and effective, even with platforms simply not complying.
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
Analysts keep referring to “solar powered orbital data centers” when defending $SPCX valuations. Power generation is not the issue in space, it’s getting rid of heat: Convection does not work in a vacuum. Physics problem. Not engineering. Just ask ISS. www.fool.com/investing/20...
Forget Rockets. This Is The Real Reason Wall Street Can't Stop Buying SpaceX. | The Motley Fool
Wall Street is still optimistic about the stock after it dropped below its IPO price.
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And yet...if you want the EU to become more state-like, political and powerful there is a strong likelihood that European policy and politics will experience the kind of bog standard party polarisation that always afflicts member states on a supra-national level
Alberto Alemanno@alemanno.bsky.social · 2d agoEU Ministers discuss Schengen this week over a crisis that never threatened Europe's free-movement area: no one leaves Ceuta without a border check. Instead, the EPP & far-right allies use this manufactured crisis whose price was paid by real lives to attack Spain's different stance to migration.
Wrote this to LinkedIn, but might as well share here: Europe is currently rearming itself faster than it has done since the end of the cold war. The past 40 years have changed a lot in the industrial base that is trying to it though. We have two categories of defense industrial companies now:
Se se vasta olisi uutinen jos Suomen hallituksen joku edustaja edes joskus myöntäisi virheen. Mutta se ei kuulu heidän käsitteeseensä rehellisyydestä. Riikka Purra ja Mari Rantanen pelaavat 🇷🇺 pussiin kansallisen turvallisuuden nimissä yle.fi/a/74-2023909...
Riikka Purra: Ehdotus Espanjan sulkemisesta Schengen-alueen ulkopuolelle Ceutan vuoksi ei ollut hätiköity
Perussuomalaisten puheenjohtaja, valtiovarainministeri Riikka Purra moittii Espanjan aiempia ratkaisuja paperittomien siirtolaisten vetovoimatekijöiksi.
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Events of the past few days in Europe have been some of the most disturbing in many years - and not for the reasons given by much of the mainstream media. My latest open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
The EU right wing bloc is working to the benefit of the US government keen to divide EU. The wave of immigrants was not because of Spanish immigration policy, but because the US wanted to punish Spain for not allowing use of bases. Weaponized immigrants, first by 🇹🇷 and 🇷🇺, now 🇲🇦 suppprted by 🇺🇸.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2d agoSpanish PM Pedro Sánchez has learned a hard truth over the past few days: Once one of the EU’s most charismatic and influential leaders, he is now effectively a pariah in the bloc. Brussels Playbook knows more 👇
Ceuta is perhaps the first smoking gun in what could turn into an evergray war between EU and the United States.
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d agoTwo top Republicans, both originally pro-Trump, confirm the US attacked Spain using Morocco as a proxy. US paid Morocco at least $40M two weeks before the Ceuta breach.
Two top Republicans, both originally pro-Trump, confirm the US attacked Spain using Morocco as a proxy. US paid Morocco at least $40M two weeks before the Ceuta breach.
YAC News@yacnews.bsky.social · 3d agoUS House committee declares Ceuta and Melilla as 'Moroccan territory' www.yacnews.com/us-house-com...
A lot of people complain EVs are not “car enough”. For me it’s the opposite. I always hated cars. I absolutely hate every mechanical piece and oily part, and the assumption that as a man I should know how it works, and how to fix it when it doesn’t. My EV is a solution to go from A to B.
Tämä tiedoksi kaikille Suomen hallituksen toteuttaman disinformaatiokampanjan uhreille.
Secretary General of the Estonian 🇪🇪 Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With the correct take. I'm not a huge fan of Spains PM Sánchez but in crises you support and help first, horse-trade after. Its not about personal politics, it about valuable ally and member of OUR #EU
I think Wildberries and AWS hits, and the way mainstream media accepts them, signals a shift in the Overton window when it comes to dual use facilities getting targeted. I wonder if EU defense bull run, ReArm Europe, which prioritizes dual use, takes this development into account?i
President Pedro Sanchez has had everything thrown at him bar the kitchen sink. He really is doing a remarkable job as leader managing each crisis with intelligence, composure and integrity despite continuous desperate attacks from opposition. An example for all progressive leaders.
No nyt ollaan tärkeän äärellä! Osaako joku kertoa ajantasaista tietoa?
Natsastore@natsastore.eurosky.social · 4d agoOnko rättisulkeiset muuten vielä juttu, vai onko joku kehdannut kyseenalaistaa niiden sotilaspedagigisen arvon?
Sánchez on Italy’s stupid Schengen decision: “Solidarity and empathy are optional. Respect for European treaties and data is not. Number of irregular entries between 2021 and 2026 according to Frontex: 1/
More than 48,300 of the approximately 50,000 people who entered the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco have returned, a Spanish government official told POLITICO.
Almost all of Ceuta migrants have returned to Morocco, Spain says
“Most of the people that came yesterday are now back in Morocco,” an official said.
politico.eu
Arvaan että EU luovuttaa asiassa harkintavallan Espanjalle, ja siitä muodostuu malli. Samalla luulen että EU alkaa etääntymään YK:n pakolaispolitiikasta. Rajavaltiot toimivat poliittisena puskurina, EU suojaa selustaa.
Okay, so the mandate is there, but the office is unmanned. This means the frontier labs will be running labs around the regulator, while pretending to comply. How about two things: 1) Improve compensation models 2) Re-examine eligibility criteria Tip: The world is moving faster than degrees.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 5d agoThe European Commission formed its AI safety unit two years ago to oversee the actions of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies. This weekend, it will gain an arsenal of new regulatory powers.
Good for Carlos. Another nail in the coffin of Infantino’s presidency, if not FIFA itself. A man can dream..
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5d agoCarlos Cordeiro, FIFA's adviser on the White House Task Force for the World Cup, resigns in protest at its private equity plan.
Can I invite you to play a mind game? Let’s assume you are lost in a desert. You are running low on water. You stumble upon a guide service booth. There are two guides. One appears sharp, but you can’t speak their language. The other is obviously a deranged asshole, but you share a language. 👇
When talking about these AI bubble, people get three things confused: The technology The supply The demand The tech is genuinely amazing, even with problems. The problem is the supply & demand imbalance at any price price point.
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
