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ancasandu.bsky.social
Running away from the internets. @ancasandu all over the said internets. PhD candidate in polsci, working in telco. Bucharest, RO. ancasandu.substack.com
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We now understand that AI doesn’t just mean Artificial Insemination. We support animal & human creativity, but nothing beats the real thing, therefore we will only post Government media with zero or minimal AI. Plus seeing the Singer “Seal” superimposed on an actual seal enraged Icebowl viewers here

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Another reading could be they needed something the size of ending globalisation as we knew it to cover the Signal leak. Spinelessness and stupidity as virtues.

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BREAKING: A deal to spin off the US assets of TikTok was put on hold after China indicated that it would not approve the deal following President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs announcement, according to two sources familiar with the matter reut.rs/3RoUWpf

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At least some things don't change. By this I mean the framing technique.

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Reminder that nativism is the (only) glue that keeps the Trump coalition together and that there is nothing to gain from copying it for the Democratic Party.

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Occam's razor, where art thou?

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I've been amazed by the unhinged economic optimism shown immediately after the election. Things is, it's got nothing to do with anything remotely close to trade. It's an ideologically-driven stupidity of cosmic levels which definitively places the US next to Russia and the like.

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political cartoon circa 1908

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Master strategists everywhere, unite?

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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say So Trump reads the (free) press and "doesn't like to see this stuff". Oh, good then. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Green card holders detained. A French researcher denied entry for anti-Trump messages. A new travel ban on 40+ countries coming. Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...

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open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Becoming the Story: How Journalists Are Being Targeted by Romanian Law Enforcement balkaninsight.com/2025/03/17/b...

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on.ft.com/4hlxZh0

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This is where I am right now. No good or bad options; it's all about survival. And by survival I mean putting on a fight for what we believe in. ancasandu.substack.com/p/sic-transi...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Guess who was gay? Enola! apnews.com/article/dei-...

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The botnet, tracked under the name Eleven11bot, has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

A brilliant piece by @ioponomarenko.bsky.social time.com/7265176/trum...

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This is a brilliant example of code switching, when Trudeau addressed "Donald" directly. What a delivery. youtube.com/watch?v=83f4...

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Timothy Snyder: "In the emotion of the White House, however, it was evident that the situation was psychological rather than strategic." The US was a leader of the free world beucase it was reliable in trying to hang to moral values. Not anymore. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

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Well...

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If I were Europe, I would start recruiting as many disillusioned US civil servants right now. But thankfully I'm not, and probably China is already working on it. Russia has just scored anyway.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America's allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular," writes @davidfrum.bsky.social "The truth is ugly, but it's necessary to face it." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Sorry, Timothée Chalamet. This acting performance demonstrates more nuance and self-control than any biopic role ever will.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

The beauty (and horror) of political theory open.substack.com/pub/josephhe...

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Punk is optimism when everything is falling apart music.apple.com/ro/album/its...

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Cause it's an art, isn't it. ancasandu.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

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ah, the wonders of cobol www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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I feel the need to apologize for having laughed at this www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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"oh, we want peace" www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Alone in a Trumpian world: The EU and global public opinion after the US elections: ecfr.eu/publication/...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Marina ❤️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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On voting intention polls open.substack.com/pub/ancasand...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

The demise of the spokesperson

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody is kung fu fighting www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

So now I have this Substack thing too. Romania & the fabulospirit open.substack.com/pub/ancasand...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

On the Romanian society, at the end of 2024. funky.ong/studiu-neinc...

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Pesky bugs www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Welcome to the new age of 19-century turbo-tech empires

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile, in the telco wonderland

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, so I log off. And then RO presidential elections happen, and I start to question all my social media decisions ever. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Holidays = house chores until you drop dead

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

On the Romanian elections

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