Bridging cleantech innovators and policymakers in Italy and the EU.
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Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
🧵Went through the #DraghiReport. Historic moment & big picture clear: Europe has to evolve its structures, reimagine its financial landscape & rise to the challenges. Moving beyond the ‘whatever' in 'whatever it takes’ to listing concrete steps to safeguard our competitiveness.
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6 - 9 June, Europe elects the next European Parliament. This #CleantechEU thread goes on a journey across Europe, exploring the needs, priorities and risks facing the cleantech community.
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
Happy to jump start an Astral Codex Ten meetup in Milan, Italy. First meeting this Friday at 18:30. DM me if you would like to join! @slatestarcodex @Cupfeder
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
I tried to thread together the recent debates (esp from @NewStatesman @NLR and @PhenomenalWorld) around markets & planning, policy & politics of green transformation. Punchline: planning is good policy; political hope lies in tipping points. 🧵 1/n
phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya was decried for saying “nobody cares” about Beijing’s alleged genocide of its Uyghur Muslim population. But his declaration may be more in line with the tech world’s mindset than anyone wants to admit. vntyfr.com/5PhDBI2
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Thread on Web3.
In 1991 Albert O. Hirschman published a great book, The Rhetoric of Reaction, which outlined three common critical narratives in response to social change & social transformation. With Hirschman, we can identify three types of critiques of crypto/Web3... 1/6
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
This is one thing that I find so annoying about Web3 "critiques" of Web 2.0: they almost never acknowledge that the promises of Web 2.0 were *exactly* the same as those made by today's Web3 fans. Democratizing ownership, broadening participation, disrupting entrenched systems...
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
The U.S. now spends a smaller share of national output on research and development than many other countries. (NYT)
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
** The “macro” view on 2021 inflation
Since March 21, I've given many public lectures on inflation. All of them included the slide below (most recently at the Jahnsson prize lecture)
Tldr: every macro theory of inflation correctly predicted the high inflation that we have seen🧵
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
In Primo Ventures nuova posizione di Investment Manager per il ramo digitale dei fondi ✨ linkedin.com/jobs/view/27827… @PrimoVc
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
Quasar, ecco la call per le startup space-tech startupbusiness.it/quasar-ec… @Startupbusiness
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Did energy constraints really stop the Dutch from industrializing? A thread: 1/
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New job post @PrimoVc ! 😀
Internship – Marketing and Communication linkedin.com/jobs/view/26839…
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
A thing of beauty. And a lot of questions for 'yield curve predicts inflation' crowd
Federico Cuppoloni retweeted
Global capitalism produces so much stuff.
If you haven't, check out this great website summarizing key results from a recent paper in @nature showing that in 2020, anthropogenic mass outweighs global biomass: anthropomass.org
Very recommended essay by @Lizzie_OShea.
"But there is a case to be made that scale and centralization bring about efficiencies and the potential for economic planning, both of which could be oriented toward the common good through public ownership."
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"somewhere along the way, we went from celebrating individual liberty to fetishizing it, so that for too many Americans, all sense of civic obligation and communal good went out the window."
As always, a great article by @FrankBruni.
As always, a great piece by @ByrneHobart, perfectly in line with his previous analysis on how Big Tech can "see like a state". Very recommended reading.
palladiummag.com/2020/07/01/…