Matthieu Bessouet

These are some of the most odious people alive.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Unemployment insurance raises workers' bargaining power and wages, new research from @davidwiczer.bsky.social @atlantafed.org & co-authors.
#EconSky
www.atlantafed.org/research/pub...

Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013

Gaddafi’s widow appeals Malta court ruling to send funds to Libya Safiya Ferkash says Malta lacks jurisdiction over the funds deposited by her late son Mutassim Gaddafi.

Maltese court asks CJEU questions about choice of tort law in case involving Libyan law, where Libyan govt seeks assets deposited in Maltese banks - curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...

seems obvious this is about Gaddafi's son, but CJEU still anonymises it - www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/...

Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

You write a post, there's an ongoing genocide, I write this post, there is an ongoing genoc...

Simple Or perhaps not

New post from me about Trump's tariffs and why Harold Macmillan was right - we Brits are truly Greece to America's Rome - because our Brexit-era compulsion to think everything was 'simple' has a Trumpian heir. A short thread. 1/n

benansell.substack.com/p/simple

On the tariffs @strangeloopcanon.com over at the other place has pretty convincing evidence that the White House may have used LLMs to come up with its tariff model and that that evidence may have come from LLM scraping of a Peter Navarro book. We are in the dumbest AI timeline.

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak

the "Our Blessed Homeland / Their Barbarous Wastes" meme, which depicts identical societies with different coloured flags, and labels describing features of "our" side as glorious, noble, etc, and "their" side as primitive, backward etc. i've edited it so the little boats approaching eachother are labelled "our world-changing technology" and "their dangerous copyright infringement"

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I see! even for trade barr, anoth thought, but it depends how far you're willing to stretch concept of trade barrier and the relevant body of law. For example, maybe today, denial of legal capacity to a foreign firm, a traditional trade barrier, could be illegal under human rights denial of justice

Is it not possible that some trade restrictive measures fall under the prohibition of intervention under customary law (re icj nicaragua)? If so, would that count as a counterexample?

Troll war! This is how it should be waged!

Relevant to the debate on fact-checking amidst Meta's decision, Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs tell a clear and terrifying story about the power of misinformation and propaganda, and its effects on democratic accountability.

drive.google.com/file/d/1M2Nx...

Le décès de Claude #Allègre a provoqué un fait inédit : dans son communiqué nécrologique, le ministre de la recherche souligne que ses mensonges et falsifications sur les sciences du climat signifiaient une rupture avec la méthode scientifique. Je n'ai connaissance d'aucun précédent.

Corporate green pledges: Bauer, Michael; Huber, Daniel; Offner, Eric; Renkel, Marlene; Wilms, Ole

A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up

List of news headlines about AI misinformation

More than 60 countries held elections this year. Many researchers and journalists claimed AI misinformation would destabilize democracies. What impact did AI really have?

We analyzed every instance of political AI use this year collected by WIRED. New essay w/@random_walker: 🧵

Trade in the Ruins (Wonkish) On misunderstanding the postwar boom

No, America's postwar boom wasn't because we'd bombed our competitors into ruin paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trade-in-t...

Farewell to Joe Biden's Embarrassing, Logically Contradictory Foreign Economic Policy Look who paved the way for more protectionism!

I wrote angry today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/farewell-t...

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

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I browse through eurlex

San pe contre champagne. Mes voisins de pallier vivent la fast life (　・`ω・´)