Niκoς Smyrnaios

Social scientist, teacher, blogger, father, immigrant. University of Toulouse / @[email protected]

[Niκoς Smyrnaios @smykos]

My book on the critique of the Internet Oligopoly is out !
Through the lens of history & political economy it explains why and how Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft etc. took over our digital world https://t.co/1PNibk6EKr

[Raphael Grably @GrablyR]

Un chemin bien organisé.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Erin Brockovich launches a map tracking AI data centers, and she's asking Americans for help

[Mark Ajzenstadt @mardehaym]

None of this is satire.

→ A company spent $500,000,000 on Claude in one month because nobody set usage limits

→ Uber ran leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used, not what they shipped

→ Uber burned their entire 2026 budget by April. Their COO said he can’t connect any of it to consumer features

→ A CTO told Axios employees were using enterprise AI to check the weather

→ Microsoft canceled most Claude Code licenses because the token bill spiraled

→ Companies are now laying people off to pay the AI bill. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the bill replaced the headcount.

[Tito Costa @tito]

The biggest arbitrage of all is right in front of our eyes

[Chaca-Khan 🦋 @chacakhan]

Μαφία vs Παρακράτος..

*Θα έρθει η ώρα ρε γαμημέμε που δεν θα μπορείς να πατήσεις στη χώρα

[Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darren_cullen]

On the tube

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇪🇸SPAIN'S IRENE MONTERO GOES OFF ON EU VICE-PRESIDENT KALLAS: “Israel has been for 24 hours Kidnapping European Citizens And You’re SMILING?!”

“What would you do if it were Iran? If it were Russia?
But since it is ISRAEL, you smile and look the other way.”

“Shame on you”

[Pierre-Emmanuel Barré @Sale_Con]

Drame en deux actes 😏

[All About Berlin @aboutberlin]

AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Google something, you used to get a link to my website, but now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work. This has a devastating impact on traffic.

[Chris O'Brien @obrien]

We published our extended story about the remarks by @MistralAI CEO @arthurmensch to the French National Assembly. This has been getting quite a bit of attention, and justifiably so. But I've found it striking for 2 reasons:

First, the content. Second, for Mensch himself.

[Yiannis Mouzakis @YiannisMouzakis]

An average household that spent €1,332 per month in early 2020 requires €1,634 in 2025 to purchase the same basket of goods and services. This is about to get far worse #Greece

[Niκoς Smyrnaios @smykos]

Όταν η Κου Κλουξ Κλαν και οι Texas Rangers κυνηγούσαν και σκότωναν Έλληνες μετανάστες στα σύνορα με το Μεξικό. Καταπληκτικό ποντκαστ για ένα άγνωστο κομμάτι της ελληνικής μετανάστευσης. Μπόνους τα τραγούδια εποχής του Γιώργου Κατσαρού. https://t.co/FdpOocEVvz

[Niκoς Smyrnaios @smykos]

J'ai discuté avec Caroline Stevan pour son podcast des marchés de prédiction type Polymarket et de leurs enjeux socio-économiques et politiques (et non je n'ai rien dans bouche, c'est la post prod qui a fait ça !) https://t.co/idhq4eBXNp

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

No smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence points to smartphones, not economics, as the culprit for the global drop in fertility:
• In the US and UK, births fell first and fastest in areas that got 4G earliest
• Birth rates were stable in the US, UK and Australia until 2007; in France and Poland until 2009; in Mexico and Indonesia until 2012; in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal until 2013-15
Each of these inflection points matches local smartphone adoption (see picture).
• The younger the age group, the sharper the drop.
• in-person socialising among young adults is dropping. In SK, by 50% in 20 years
• Sexual dysfunction is higher among heavy social media user
• Effect is largest in culturally traditional societies — Middle East, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa
• Decline holds across countries hit hard by GFC 2008 and those not hit, fast-growing and not growing.
Excellent again @jburnmurdoch.
https://t.co/RYEMXD2bRM

[Julia Cage @CageJulia]

Se rend-on vraiment compte de ce qui est en train de se passer ?

Que c'est l'ensemble de nos libertés et du débat d'idées qui sont aujourd'hui menacés en France ?

Après avoir mis au pas les rédactions de nombreux médias (I-Télé devenu CNews, Europe 1, Le JDD etc.) ⬇️

[desdeabajo @desdeabajo_info]

#EnCirculación🌎 | LA IA Y LA GEOPOLÍTICA DE LA INFORMACIÓN

✍ por Olivier Koch y Nikos Smyrnaios

🗞 Encuentre este artículo en la edición de abril de 2026.
https://t.co/eGFYg1KbDD

📣el dipló, una voz clara en medio del ruido📣

[Caroline Zorn @c_zorn]

"Débouté de sa demande d’asile en France, le Hondurien de 37 ans est retourné dans son pays fin février, où il disait vivre sous la menace d’un gang local. Dix jours plus tard, son corps était retrouvé dans un ravin."
Il s'appelait Ruben Torres.
https://t.co/JWQtzvfvb9

[Antton Rouget @AnttonRouget]

Les services de police et de gendarmerie n’ont jamais constaté autant de faits de corruption en France qu’en 2025, selon les dernières données officielles.

📈+270% en 9 ans. Sans que cela émeuve les autorités gouvernementales.

Détail sur @Mediapart👇

https://t.co/7bdfML1kBP

[Glu 🇫🇷🥔 @glupommedeterre]

@AntoineGoya @castor_junior_ p t d r celle-là est pas mal aussi

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.