Ntina Tzouvala

“Socialism” is a profoundly odd way to describe an arrangement where the president gave himself personal veto power over the board of directors of a steel company.

Not everything that’s insanely corrupt is “socialist.” Rarely, in fact!

Often it’s simply capitalism w/ monarchical characteristics!

CLICKHOLE LIFESTYLE Groundbreaking Discovery: Paleontologists Have Agreed To Start Saying That Stegosauruses Had Beautiful Singing Voices Because It's A Nice Thought And It's Not Like They're Hurting Anyone OCTOBER 16, 2017

this is where i'm at mentally these days

Gone Fishin’ Before the Blog goes on our annual August hiatus, we offer a final plug for the upcoming ALPE conference, count down the ten most read posts of 2025 so far, say a fond farewell to our departing…

lpeproject.org/blog/gone-fi... The LPE blog has gone on holiday, and I have now joined its editorial board. I am choosing to believe that this is a coincidence.

PS. Pitch us all your international law and political economy work, we want to make the blog more internationally-facing.

This is one reason that monetary policy does not work as strongly as in the past. Main channel was housing. But the middle 60% no longer have the income or savings to respond to lower interest rates. Top 10% have lower marginal propensity to consume out of their 35-40% income share

Girl, same

I have a new paper in History of Political Economy that is now available to read for free online. It's about what we can and can't learn from studying – and criticizing – economics using the methods of the history of science. read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)

"In her deficient, warped soul, it seems she lacked something that every woman must have: a morality that she valued more than male approval."

49. The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change What are the consequences of the International Court of Justice's recent Advisory Opinion on climate change, especially for the small island developing States who spearheaded this initiative? Associ

I was very lucky that @mwewerinke.bsky.social and Dylan Asafo agreed to chat with me about that ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change for the latest Called to the Bar episode soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

49. The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change What are the consequences of the International Court of Justice's recent Advisory Opinion on climate change, especially for the small island developing States who spearheaded this initiative? Associ

Have you been waiting for the #CalledToTheBar take on the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change? Of course you have! And it's out! In it @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social speaks with @mwewerinke.bsky.social and Dylan Asafo, both advocates in the proceedings -
soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

This really feels like a defining post of our time

Every accusation truly seems to be a confession these days

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

If you’re an NIH researcher working on mRNA vaccines, you definitely shouldn’t supply any know how to Afrigen or the Serum Institute of India.

A death cult

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Mandate of Heaven for whatever state and its universities step in and offer well-funded labs to these scientists

How Donald Trump’s spending bill will boost Silicon Valley’s defence companies Peter Thiel-backed groups such as Anduril and Palantir are set for paydays worth billions of dollars

Anduril, Palantir, and “a pack of smaller, often Thiel-backed insurgents, competing with traditional defence contractors in a race to capture this influx of cash” on.ft.com/4lbeXfi

Beyond intersectional political economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Is gender oppression a structurally necessary feature in the constitution and reproduction of capitalism, and is discrimination based on race also an in-built necessary element in the making and remak...

Looking forward to dialoguing today with @iliasalami.bsky.social on raced finance in IPE. Here’s a contribution to the debate on the “dialectical tensions” that exist in raced finance; or with @abieler.bsky.social what we call the dialectical matrix of class, gender, race—beyond a “trinity formula”

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

People right there in the middle, though: they grew up before the walled gardens existed, when you had to learn how to form a community that could outlive places, and then did so for decades. Hopping from sinking ship and burning building repeatedly their whole lives, finding their friends again.

What an attack against me personally, someone who left Greece in 2011, the UK 2016, and Twitter in early 2025.

🌎 Promoting Digital Sovereignty in Latin America

In a session with public servants from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social‬ argued for regional cooperation between governments to prevent digital capitalism.

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r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

Everything that you wanted to know about international law, academia, and the world but you were too afraid to ask, from a group that has the right but not the ability to remain silent.

Brazil and South Korea, both countries that survived US supported right wing dictatorships, have shown that political leaders who turn against democratic institutions can be held accountable by them with judicial and political will. Sadly the US appears to have neither.

One superpower wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon (?!) and another is building cheap solar panels and Australia is like ‘I reckon we will go for nukes on the moon, thank you’.

This evening (6pm Sydney time), I will be joining this @cildialogues.bsky.social event on the ICJ AO on climate change: cil.nus.edu.sg/event/adviso... I will be talking about the implications and shortcomings of the AO from the perspective of global political economy and economic justice.