laurentfranckx
Environmental and transport economist. Civil servant. All posts are personal
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- As some other guy said: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er
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- Goed zo. Met al die mensen die vezelrijk willen eten, is een ongeluk snel gebeurd.
- Telenet mag de term 'fiber' niet zomaar gebruiken bij reclame vrtnws.be/p.JNnZLoKJw?t=177... @vrtnws.be
- Now that's a surprise
- Steve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms. "We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November." "We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- TIL that, in a private conversation in 1943 (before even the Teheran conference), Roosevelt admitted that he nurtured no illusions about the true intents of Stalin, but that he hoped that, after twenty years of European influence, the Russians would become less barbaric.
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- Reposted by laurentfranckxThe guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
- Smart algorithms think I am pregnant and need a sport bra.
- AI has added an aircraft carrier to the fleet invading Normandy
- Reposted by laurentfranckx1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
- A student who would say that at an exam would fail because he had answered a different question than what the professor asked.
- It's getting lonely outside the Epstein files.
- Reposted by laurentfranckx‘To make AI work within organisations, a prosaic set of management problems needs to be solved.’ Yes! The fact we are starting to get articles like this suggests the discourse is maturing. A few snippets economist.com/briefing/202...
- Reposted by laurentfranckxrobert caro has the perfect quote on this:
- Reposted by laurentfranckxI hope people understand what happened here. Yesterday in the late afternoon, Trump said that Putin had promised not to attack Ukraine in such a way that it would damage their heating. Then a few hours later, that is exactly what the Russians did in a massive attack.
- Reposted by laurentfranckxOf all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.
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- Prénom Audi
- Let's be grateful they found no Leni Riefenstahl to make the "documentary"
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- Guess who's not in the Epstein files
- Reposted by laurentfranckxThe UK tries again to join €150 billion EU defence fund. It's ironic. In 2016, the UK - then an EU member-state - would likely have blocked common borrowing, even for defence. The UK of 2026 wants in on an EU programme that would not exist if it were a member. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Fundamental questions in journalism have now evolved from "is it anybody's business that the president of the US has a mistress" to "is it anybody's business that the president of the US has shat his pants in public".
- My research question for today is: "what is a SUV" and now I feel incredibly down-to-earth. philosophersmag.com/what-is-a-qu...
- Reposted by laurentfranckxYou want to go fast: go alone. You want to go far: go with others. You want neither: go with ecologists 😜 📸 @eatgrowlearn.withsophie on IG #ecology #naturelovers #earthygirl #hiking #ecologists
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- Oh, I thought it was just me
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- Reposted by laurentfranckxDo you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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- The whole fuzz about Melania reminded me of a point made by Tom Wolfe in "A man in full": for a trophy wife, a child is her unemployment insurance.
- If they would have called "Melania" "The unbearable nothingness of being", some Kundera fans might have thought it was a sequel.
- When you expect that most people don't understand the general equilibrium effects of reducing labor supply simultaneously with reducing the demand for housing.
- Both the book and the movie are masterpieces, but, given the fundamentally reactionary values of its protagonist, the popular succes of "Il gattopardo" has always been a bit of a puzzle to me.
- Pluribus
- Reposted by laurentfranckx1/ America's democratic backsliding under Trump has been far faster and steeper than in Russia under Putin, Hungary under Orban, Venezuela under Chavez and Turkey under Erdogan, according to this remarkable graph and report from @jburnmurdoch in the Financial Times today.
- Reposted by laurentfranckxWill AI and data centres be the main drivers of future electricity demand? No. The biggest drivers will be the electrification of industry, transport and buildings. When powered by clean electricity, the benefits are fundamental: vastly higher efficiency, dramatically lower emissions & cleaner air.
- "We call him Jeanne d'Arc and we're looking for some bishops to burn him." Churchill on De Gaulle
- Yet another Yank not understanding that the Limeys' way to vehemently oppose an idea is to make polite suggestions.
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- Reposted by laurentfranckxCan’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
- The newspaper for the global capitalist class: "Federal action in the streets of Minneapolis goes well beyond immigration. It is a test of the government’s power to use violence against its own citizens—a dividing-line between liberty and tyranny." www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
- Ik bestelde daarjuist een broodje met martini bij de Panos en nu kan ik er echt eentje gebruiken
- "My nanny once tried to test me. I ate her liver with some ketchup and a nice Fanta"
- Reposted by laurentfranckxjust choked on my beverage
- Reposted by laurentfranckxfriend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
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- Als je via de website van Bepost een adreswijziging wil doorgeven, dan is itsme geen optie (naast het lezen van de eid) naar de *enige* mogelijkheid. Wat dus betekent dat de mensen voor wie omwille van hun leeftijd een verplaatsing naar een van de schaarse postkantoren het meest problematisch is,/
- The "i" in incell
