You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
Stefan Berreth
@sberreth.bsky.social
Naviguiding people to knowledges, connections and spaces that let them realize their potential
Broke: Arguing wit trolls on social media. Woke: arguing with your frontier labs AI chat about dropping the soft-washing caveats it injects against hallucinated straw-people problems to avoid answering the actual question you've asked it.
Something to listen over the weekend in case the weather is as bad on your end as it is on mine.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last mo.'Exception and Exceptionalism' - yes the eagle-eyed among you may notice a nod to Jane Austen in the names of these podcast episodes. Or is it Blackadder The Third.....? rolandmcs.substack.com/p/podcast-ex...
Why are the Trump administration's 250th celebrations so feeble? Because it's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Blood and Soil Aren’t What Binds America Together
If you don’t believe in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, celebrating it is difficult.
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Exactly this. It’s about Europe taking the initiative. Good Europe Express by @henryjfoy.ft.com “Diplomats say that … the fact the debate is happening at all reflects a growing recognition that Europe needs to either speak up or be talked over.”
Europe grasps new reality with Putin envoy and US military replacement
Also in this newsletter: EU closing in on deal to make it easier to detain and deport migrants
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Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back 1/many
In service of today being „national“ zipper day in remembrance of the patent for it having been issued on April 29 1913, behold a tour de horizon on polite and witty ways of letting people know that their fly is down across multiple cultures and languages.
Adam Sharp@adamcsharp.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe second best phrase I’ve heard for when someone has the zipper of their pants undone is the Chinese 天安门开了. It means “The Gate of Heavenly Peace is open.” The best phrase I’ve heard is the Spanish la farmacia está abierta y el doctor dormido. It means “the pharmacy is open, and the doctor asleep.”
In ihrem aktuellen FAZ-Gastbeitrag beklagt Katherina Reiche eine "Selbsttäuschunug" in der Energiepolitik. Tatsächlich fällt der Täuschungsvorwurf aber teilweise auf sie selbst zurück, denn der Text enthält diverse falsche oder irreführende Zahlen. Ein Thread. (1/17) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
If someone on Tomorrow's World in the early 80s had told childhood me that one day I'd watch a live colour broadcast of astronauts rounding the Moon on a wireless telephone I'd never have believed them. But here we are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Artemis II live: Watch as Artemis astronauts travel further from Earth than any humans before
The four astronauts beat a previous record of 248,655 miles set in 1970, as they travel on a looping path around the far side of the Moon.
bbc.co.uk
TE pun of the day: „Due to levies sales of Chevys will not quickly run dry“ 🎶 China is breaking into one of the world’s weirdest car markets economist.com/asia/2026/03... from The Economist
China is breaking into one of the world’s weirdest car markets
Uzbekistan's car market is dominated by Chevrolet vehicles due to industrial policy and high tariffs, though Chinese electric vehicles are gaining ground.
economist.com
P squared psi divided by twice the mass plus V psi equals E psi.
Strait of Hormuz transits really do seem low. From a relative mean of 7.8 ships/pass to a mean of 0.33 last week. Figure is derived from ships detected in Sentinel 1 sat-data, ie independent of the present electronic warfare in the area.
Would love to have a „nobody ever talks …“ trope filter in my feeds.
We recorded episode 104 of our podcast, and while our guest, Rebecca Barth on Ukraine was *truly brilliant*, I think the second part of the podcast is even better because it is exactly the seemingly-super-nerdy-but-actually-truly-relevant stuff we set out to talk about when we started this.
Folge #104 Vier Jahre russischer Krieg gegen die Ukraine | NATO: Was denn jetzt? Tot oder stärker denn je? - Sicherheitspod
“Sicherheitshalber” ist der Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. In Folge 104 diskutieren Thomas Wiegold, Ulrike Franke, Frank Sauer und Carlo Masala mit Rebecc...
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Inspired by @rendle.dev 's NDC talk, I open-sourced a harness structuring AI coding agents into engineering roles: Analyst → Architect → Developer → Reviewer, each consuming the last role's output. gitlab.com/stefanberreth/agentic-engineering-harness
stefanberreth / Agentic-Engineering-Harness · GitLab
A meta-engineering toolkit for transforming software projects into structured agentic engineering setups.
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In more Atlantic-leaning European capitals, the prospect of standing alone without America has prompted distress. In Paris, which maintains a fully independent nuclear deterrent and builds its own fighter jets, it feels like vindication
That irritating feeling that France was right
Donald Trump’s America makes Gaullism respectable again
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Some thoughts from Munich www.focus.de/politik/ausl...
MSC 2026: In München zeigt sich, dass Europa die Leitfigur fehlt
Auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz nahmen viele die Rede von US-Außenminister Marco Rubio mit Erleichterung auf. Doch der Schein trügt, sagt Sicherheitsexpertin Ulrike Franke im Interview.
focus.de
It looks like you can easily replace „System 1 type violence“ as described in the article with „System 1 type voting“ in an environment that is increasingly shaped - for each individual - through social media into a permanent anger laden „you or me“ situation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime
A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.
newyorker.com
Europeans have real leverage in the face of Donald Trump’s threats towards Greenland and time on their side. They must use it to raise the prospective costs of annexation. @ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social ecfr.eu/article/arct...
Arctic hold‘em: Ten European cards in Greenland – European Council on Foreign Relations
Europeans have real leverage in the face of Donald Trump’s threats towards Greenland—and time on their side. They must use it to raise the prospective costs of
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"The key is not technology; it is institutions," Méndez Galain said. "Once the rules are fair and predictable, the system builds itself."
Justin@ediparolev.bsky.social · 7mo ago“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Joint statement by 4 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors. Excellent opening in particular.
America’s Strategic Alliance with Denmark and NATO
A statement by 14 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors
newsletter.ivodaalder.com
A radical re-focus of the EU on economic growth and innovation, including concrete steps forward. Well worth reading in full, even if technical at times. 👇 constitutionofinnovation.eu
The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance
An academic paper examining Europe's innovation challenges and proposing a constitutional framework for economic renaissance.
constitutionofinnovation.eu
Very interesting project by @bruegel.org here. Remarkable differences still in market value across Europe.
Georg Zachmann@gzachmann.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe launched our @bruegel.org EU Renewables Value Tracker based on great work by @mariejuge.bsky.social & @aroth.bsky.social: www.bruegel.org/dataset/eu-renewables-value-track Five insights 🧵: 1) The value of additional solar plants in south-east Europe and particularly Italy is still very high.
