albertob

Citizen of nowhere. Mostly Syria, some economics.

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” (Alexander Pope)

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@nntaleb If you ever happen to go back and have free time try:

1) The passeggiata Anita Garibaldi in Nervi- a flaneur's heaven
2) The hike from Camogli to Punta Chiappa: it slopes up and then down-the ultimate Mediterranean vertical hike
From Punta Chiappa take boat to San Fruttuoso

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@JFCrisp Murders have been trending down for a while

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@florianederer Platini was acquitted

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@cjcmichel Also Abkhazia

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@florianederer Nothing new under the sun

At least we dodged the Pirlo bullet. He was coaching in the 2nd division of the UAE-not a good springboard to the national team

I was ready to subscribe to tennis TV and forget soccer existed

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@vitalbaa L'analisi costi-benefici della TAV è mai stata positiva?

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

"Beefsteak socialists"

You should copyright that

[Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso]

I think its time to realize that the rise of right-wing collectivists should be described as beefsteak socialists: brown on the outside, red on the inside

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

Nobody understands Russia better than the Russians

If the West really wanted to destroy Russia, why did we give them billions in help?

[Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin]

This. This is a key difference between the Weimar Germany and the "Weimar Russia". After the collapse of the USSR, Russia has never been punished in any way. Instead, it received a massive amount of help - direct help in billions of dollars, subsidized credits in tens of billions, technology transfers and trade opportunities - in hundreds of billions of dollars. The Russian grievances were developed in spite of the massive help and support it received.

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@Afinetheorem How many conservatives serve in top econ depts?

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@KuperSimon I was. Since the beginning of the tournament

They were the most imperfect among the favorites

Too easy rooting for France or Spain

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@florianederer @carloblacksun Lauti's fate was sealed by the sendoff

Scaloni had only one sub left. It had to be a defender

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@JFCrisp Shot in Western Sahara. To benefit from govt subsidies

Would you watch a movie shot in Xinjang/Rakhine/West Bank to benefit from govt subsidies? If yes, then go

It's a value choice. I won't judge you either way

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@k_sonin Fair assessment even if it pains me to admit it

[Meg Keene @MegKeene]

Critics have noted that conversation about Jews being excluded from publishing hasn’t had much data. As a mathematician’s kid I was determined to fix that. Today my numbers were published by @JTAnews. What I found was grim.

Between 2023 and 2024, there was a 76% decline in fiction deal announcements to large presses that mentioned Jews, Judaism or Israel.

The early 2026 numbers are worse: Looking at what has been announced so far this year and annualizing the comparison, fiction deals mentioning Jewish content are down 82% at large presses compared with 2023.

Full story and my case for why Jewish publishing is a vital cause for our peoplehood here:

https://t.co/g09PPWkLM6

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

Best analyst on Ukraine

[Serhiy Kudelia @skudelia]

And he makes it at the time when most mil analysts credit Ukr army with turning the tide of war to its favor. If this is the level of animosity between top civilian defense official and the country’s top military general, Zelensky had no other choice but to fire one of them…

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

@RenaNetjes Catalan also close to Northern-Italian dialects

"Carrega" is "chair" all the way to the Dolomites

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@rglenner True for my mum's house, too

Except that it's Italy and the technician is AWOL

[albertob @rickyalberto62]

Genius

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

People complain about FIFA rigging the games then come back to writing about why we should do industrial policy.

[Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso]

I need to repeat the following that I wrote a few months ago.

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Classical liberalism is the enemy of all collectivists—left and right alike. It is loathed and despised by communists, Nazis, socialists, fascists, national-revolutionaries, theocrats, and militarists. The sub-families of collectivism all see each other as enemies, yet all of them see liberalism as an enemy. They share contempt for all liberal ideas and blame it for a host of social problems -- each of which is respectively defined by each group in ways that is mutually exclusive to other definitions.

The members of the great liberal family, for their part, reciprocate this contempt. The problem is that they sometimes forget that they, too, should be the enemy of everyone. Historically, in situations where they faced multiple collectivisms, they tried to choose the lesser evil or failed to grasp the nature of a new form of collectivism. At times, they therefore made the mistake of not being the enemy of everyone. Liberals in Italy looked the other way in 1922 -- fearing the communists in the wake of the Communist violence in the aftermath of WW1, they tolerated the Fascists (until they realized too late their error). Some liberals shrugged at Pinochet's authoritarianism because Allende was a radical socialist. It forever tainted the value of opening up an economy in terms of poverty eradication.

It is thanks to these errors of judgment that all enemies of liberalism can overlook the fact that even imperfect and incomplete applications of liberal ideas have led to more prosperous and more ecological societies, with people living longer, in better conditions, and so on. They can point to the errors in judgment of classical liberals to obscure the failures of their worldviews. They can use them to obscure that the imperfect applications of all collectivist ideas have led to famines, wars, impoverishment, dictatorships, unimaginable violence, and the denial of individuals’ fundamental rights—always with the thoroughly Jacobin excuse that you cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Classical liberals need to be true to their calling: be the common enemy of all collectivist ideologues.