Mark Thissen

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Border collie working from home..🐕🐾🐑🐑🐑🐑😅

[Richard Baldwin @BaldwinRE]

✍️ @jburnmurdoch @ftopinion
👉“In a society where the gap between the comfortably off and the just-getting-started can be crossed in a decade or two of hard work, success feels attainable and incentives are strong.”
👉”When those gaps are so wide that even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer the prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”, 💥things start to break down.”

[Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful]

Pyramid pie

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[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

If you feel like doing a small good deed this evening, here is a perfect opportunity. Our veteran friends run an animal shelter near Kyiv, and of course they are constantly in great need of support.

@vsheredeha says donations have been very difficult lately, but they still hope to keep the shelter running at least until the end of this year.

So I invite you to help them. I firmly believe that animals are morally pure and innocent, and that they too deserve life, help, compassion, and mercy.

Here is how you can support the shelter. This is 100% legit, and I personally vouch for it:

https://t.co/qWameWGcqy (this should work with most cards worldwide).

PayPal: [email protected]

[Enrico Letta @EnricoLetta]

If we are 27 and not 1 in energy, financial markets and connectivity we, the Europeans 🇪🇺, will never be competitive with 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳. Great debate with @KGeorgieva at the launch of One Europe One Market Campaign. @DelorsInstitute @DelorsBerlin @FriendsofEurope

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[OECD SMEs, Regions, Cities & Tourism @OECD_local]

💡Industrial policy is back.

But here’s the shift: it’s no longer just about what to invest in… it’s where.

Place-based strategies are rising fast because location can decide who wins and who gets left behind.

NEW on #COGITO👇

https://t.co/qn0oKdKjI1

[Richard Baldwin @BaldwinRE]

LLMs to the rescue of reason?
✍️ @jburnmurdoch @ftopinion
💥”there is cause for optimism that the next information revolution may take us in a less corrosive direction”

[Richard Baldwin @BaldwinRE]

How is the other half of the world trade war going? 😮

[OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives @OECD]

Real household income in the G7 area came to a halt in the third quarter of 2025.

In Q3 2025, real household income per capita in the OECD increased by 0.3%, while real GDP per capita growth remained at 0.5%. Both were unchanged from the previous quarter

https://t.co/GrgFgGocFR

[HCSS - The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies @hcssnl]

How does America see Europe? @davhellison and @paulvanhooft have taken a look at the varieties of thinking across Washington and have a warning for Europe’s leaders.

Find out more in new HCSS report:
https://t.co/pfEW3oKUX1

[VoxEU @voxeu]

Following a supply chain shortage, larger firms gain a competitive advantage due to their diversified supplier networks & bargaining power. This allowed firms to increase prices, leading to higher inflation.
@FranzFranzoni @ProfMariassunta @RobertoTubaldi
https://t.co/63MCGfSJjG

[Prof David Bailey @dgbailey]

New @regionalstudies call for papers for a special issue on ‘Mission-led industrial policies & regional development’ ⁦@regstud⁩ ⁦@BISmemberSec⁩ ⁦@ERSA_org⁩ ⁦@tandfonline⁩ ⁦@PRT1969⁩ https://t.co/u37dVaLQl4

[Ruth Vandewalle @ruthruthcairo]

Vandaag ging in #Cairo het fantastische #Grand_Egyptian_Museum deels open. Ik ging langs en was onder de indruk. Terwijl je tussen de duizenden artefacten rondloopt,kijk je uit op de piramides van #Giza. Op de grote opening is het nog even wachten, maar dit is nu al een aanrader!

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

🇬🇧BUILT IN BRITAIN: Production of the MINI Cooper Convertible has returned to the UK after a nine-year run at the VDL Nedcar plant in the Netherlands.

The fourth-generation soft-top will soon begin rolling off the line at the historic MINI Plant Oxford as part of a wider £600 million investment by BMW in its UK factories which will transform the Oxford plant to all-electric production from 2030.

MINI Plant Oxford employs more than 3,400 people and the announcement last year brought BMW’s total investment at Oxford, Swindon and Hams Hall to £3 billion since 2000. #UKmfg

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

You know monopolization in the meat industry is truly bad when even McDonald's sues major meatpackers for conspiring to artificially inflate beef prices.

From fast food to the federal government, antitrust is making a comeback. I'm loving it.

[Mark Thissen @MarkThissen]

The Netherlands scores highest in pupels and students to techer ratio.

[EU_Eurostat @EU_Eurostat]

In the EU in 2022, the ratio of pupils and students to teachers in primary to upper secondary education was 12.1.🧑‍🏫

Lowest in:
🇬🇷Greece (8.3 pupils per teacher)
🇱🇺Luxembourg (8.5)

Highest:
🇳🇱The Netherlands (16.0)
🇫🇷France (15.0)

👉https://t.co/tOfhefRLQ7

#WorldTeachersDay 🧑‍🏫

[ESB @ESBtweets]

Het debat over hoe we als Nederland moeten investeren, is uiterst relevant, zowel op regionaal als op nationaal en internationaal niveau. Ik nodig u uit om u na het lezen van dit dossier ook te mengen in dit debat, schrijft @MinisterEZ. https://t.co/ET1MXCqazy

[International Energy Agency @IEA]

Battery manufacturing capacity has more than tripled in the last 3 years

Completing all announced projects would be enough to meet demand to 2030 on our net zero path

But manufacturing is concentrated in only a few countries, creating supply chain risks: https://t.co/x1BaisAnhY

[ICRICT @icrict]

Apple has to repay €13 billion to 🇮🇪 in taxes.
Their tax avoidance scheme didn’t work.
It turns out #Apple was wrong, @JosephEStiglitz was right.