Chris Powers
Brusselaar in the EU bubble. Reader of books📚 , frequenter of cafes ☕️ , swimmer of pools 🏊♂️ . Keen observer of economic security news, and 🇪🇺-🇯🇵 relations.
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- 1. How is this acceptable?! 2. It’s February !
- Nice to be back in the European Parliament for the EU Tech Stars Summit, organised by @greens-efa.eu. It’s bringing together some of those working to make European tech sovereignty (one of my fave topics), a reality. 🦾
- “Authoritarian infrastructure leads to an authoritarian society” @robin.berjon.com said, in reference to our current tech stack. And he also brought up the infamous Technate, a “deeply rooted ideology that keeps reappearing”. Before giving several recommendations for ‘regime change’
- Solution cannot be personal responsibility @robin.berjon.com says. Makes sense, and is exactly where solid behavioural economics comes in, which was also featured in this week’s @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social Nudges, incentives, and interventions at the level of society. Poke poke
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View full threadAnd last part of the @greens-efa.eu EU Tech Stars event: Keynote from @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social flanked by MEPs Sergey Lagodinsky @alexandrageese.bsky.social
- Good coverage of Mistral AI in here @wired.com :-) www.wired.com/story/mistra...
- Good Rapporteur this morning from @euractiv.com with some insight into the political dynamics in Slovenia 🇸🇮 , and the moves and blockages around Moldova’s EU accession process 🇲🇩 Nicely done @nicolettaionta.bsky.social et al 🎩 newsletter.euractiv.com/mail/583ab6f...
- 🇪🇺 Commission finds that Apple Maps doesn’t qualify as a gatekeeper under the DMA because it’s not used very much in the EU 🍏 🔥
- Great read from @brusselstimes.com on the @corporateeurope.org report on big tech platforms’ push to water down the EU’s legislation, and the planned DFA in particular.. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1952810/us-tech-giants-pressuring-eu-to-keep-us-addicted-to-social-media/
- Very sad news out of Luxembourg and Rheinland-Pfalz about the killing of a train conductor. www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/s...
- Read all the way through the thread to the 2nd derogation, which is key! 🔑
- This morning’s newsletter from @eurcorrespond.bsky.social mostly reminded me that I’m not as young as I think. newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/09m1miu5g... It expressed nostalgia for 2016 as the turning point before things got bad. But for me history reads a little differently (1/2)
- 2016 was the traumatising year of Trump and Brexit. I thought I had everything figured out in 2016, until *that* referendum screwed up my ‘plans’. And it followed a refugee crisis, a euro crisis, and so. Maybe 2010 was the last good year. But it immediately followed the Great Recession.
- Anyone still wanting to give Bill Gates a free-pass or soft treatment in relation to the other American oligarchs should watch this. Twisted. P.S. His book Source Code is supposed to have a sequel. He's gonna have a hell of a time spinning this.
