Adnan Abdel

Strategic Comms

[mjbroersma.bsky.social @MJBroersma]

What do young people consider “news” on Instagram? New paper out with @joelleswart based on our ongoing longitudinal research on the news habits of young people on social media and their smartphone https://t.co/3n9Z5xfcOG

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

@JagersbergKnut WWBD

[Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna]

As a competition lawyer I find it particularly galling that politicians blame a revenue neutral carbon price for high costs rather than actually addressing the fact that we have monopolies or near monopolies in so many key sectors from grocery to banking to telecoms to airlines.

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

@tim4hire @threadreaderapp unroll

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

@JavierBlas @JavierBlas Covering all the oils!

[Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1]

Here is a thread of the 100 policies KO (which will lead a new coalition government formed by the opposition) promised to introduce in its first 100 days.

I've divided them into the categories used by KO.

Translations are in quotes; anything else is a summary. Sorry for typos

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

@RampCapitalLLC hope no one decides to cancel salt 🧂

[Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog]

This war is also a little foretaste of the "multipolar world", that Beijing and Moscow promise. It's actually a Hobbesian world in a perpetual state of "war of all against all". Autocracies do not bring peace, they bring war - internal and external.

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.” W. H. Auden

[sophie @netcapgirl]

when you spent the last few months learning linear algebra to get up to speed w AI & now you have to learn condensed matter physics

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

Rhubarb is toxic if not prepared properly.

By this logic, if she had anything with that in it, the headline would read: Chinese attempt to poison Treasury Secretary Yellen, per NYP.

Sensationalist noise.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reportedly dined on psychedelic mushrooms in China, per NYP.

[Turing Post @TheTuringPost]

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, testified before Congress yesterday for 4 hours.

Don't have the time to watch it all?

We've collected the highlights that are already resonating with people 🧵

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

Paywalled, but an amazing development: https://t.co/ycQsofj0sD

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

@AndrewLeezus

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

The 2022 Headline of the Year Nominees

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[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

Was this was the turning point?

[William H Overholt @WilliamHOverhol]

China Charm. China's diplomatic tone has changed. Turning down the heat with Japan, EU, US. Conferences w US academics more frequent and much more candid. Willingness to publish different views striking. Wolf warriors less outspoken. US needs to notice & respond.

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

@WilliamHOverhol

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

@paulisci

[Adnan Abdel @604Adnan]

@DrPhilosophical @lukefoxjukebox