Philipp Friemann

Product lead & behavioural science expert. Currently exploring web3. Formerly @carefreespace, @B_I_Team and @LSEnews.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

I must be going crazy as I remember this person cheering for the war louder than anyone

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@shashj @owenjonesjourno “in the fog of war”? you do realise your job is to cut through the fog right? somebody actually taking responsibility looks different. the economist can’t be taken seriously.

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@ggreenwald Our German elites are surely close competitors, and they manage to do so even without a system of elite private schools and universities. They combine a complete lack of worldliness with an unwavering belief in their own moral superiority.

[Jon Hoffman @Hoffman8Jon]

We need to address the false narrative that Israel is "fighting America's enemies."

The United States never needed Israel to secure its core interests against the limited regional threats it has faced. In fact, many threats were either byproducts of the special relationship or were exacerbated because of it—among them Arab nationalism, Islamist-inspired terrorism, and “rogue states” like Iraq and Iran.

The special relationship fueled these challenges while steering US Middle East policy toward needless confrontation, making it more difficult for the United States to craft effective policies that acknowledge the relative insignificance of these actors to advancing American regional interests. Instead, Washington inflates such threats, which then disproportionately influence US Middle East policy because of their connection with Israel. The result is a hyperaggressive US posture toward such actors that prioritizes Israeli objectives over American interests.

Israel pursues an expansionist and aggressive agenda in the Occupied Territories and the broader region, emboldened and insulated from the costs of such policies by the United States, who undermines its own interests by facilitating these maximalist ambitions. By binding US Middle East policy to Israel, the United States entangles itself in an unending cycle of conflicts, generates a host of superfluous adversaries while inciting anti-American hostility, and entraps itself in the region.

Israel consistently pulls the United States directly into the regional crises it is often responsible for producing. The United States needs to stop enabling, shielding, and subsidizing Israeli policy. Until this happens, the United States is destined for more needless forever wars in the Middle East.

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@saadmohseni a faux public intellectual indeed. the level of stupidity and hypocrisy is truly astounding. shocking to realise that that’s really the intellectual level most of our so-called elites are operating at.

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@rutgerbregman @quitchatgpt what do you mean there are zero switching costs? this is only about importing the minimal 'memory' function, not taking your existing conversations and knowledge with you.

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@sama Subscription cancelled

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

My new column for the @NewStatesman looks at the worst moment in the EU’s history, at least in my lifetime: the so-called trade deal with the US

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@sbkaufman Maybe stick to subjects you know about, geopolitics and history clearly isn’t one of them. Iran had signed a deal that Trump tore up and was in the process of negotiation even now. What are we even talking about?

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@aaronjmate @JDVance mic drop

[Manaf Hassan @manaf12hassan]

Unglaublich.

Nicht mein Kanzler.

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@bundeskanzler Es ist unfassbar, dass wir von Menschen wie Ihnen regiert werden. Die Lehre aus der deutschen Geschichte sollte es sein, das Völkerrecht zu verteidigen – nicht es mit Füßen zu treten.

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@felixleezd @ADPList Design

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

So shameful and spineless of @BBC. You've lost all respect and all claims to truth telling during this, the supreme moral test of our lifetime. The largest mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing of civilians in modern times is under way and you are too timid to show a documentary you yourself commissioned from some of the country's most acclaimed award-winning documentary makers. Utterly shameful.

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@Popsnfagene @hollowearthterf We have no idea what she LITERALLY said. It could have so clumsy that it would make sense for him to take offense. Or not, and he was projecting. Either way, I think we agree her INTENDED meaning wasn’t bad and that a mature person should be able to clarify the misunderstanding.

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@themelissamoody Would recommend my boss Charlotte Newman, CEO of @carefreespace. We're a fast growing digital charity helping unpaid carers take breaks in hotels that donate unsold rooms. She's a carer herself.

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@photobiogenesis @EO_Nutrition Yes, not the ones your linking to though...

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@callmehouck GPT

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@made_in_cosmos @m_ashcroft I agree, I think it has a lot to do with the lack of sunshine in London and similar areas in London. It can actually be stressful if it’s sunny for a change and you feel like you need to be out and get some light and enjoy yourself.

[Philipp Friemann @PhilippFriemann]

@m_ashcroft @beauhaan @tana_inc @m_ashcroft Beau probably knows what he's doing, but I found his set-up and explanation a bit difficult to follow. Have you seen @Mappletons set-up? She has a great 10 minute video and her approach is not too different. https://t.co/06uMoK0gEn