Yanis Varoufakis ✓
@yanisvaroufakis · Athens, Greece · joined 20 Mar 2010
Economics professor, quietly writing obscure economic texts for years, until thrust onto the public scene by Europe's inane handling of an inevitable crisis
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Στο τελευταίο επεισόδιο των «Econoclasts», ο Βόλφγκανγκ αναλύει τις πρόσφατες εκλογικές ήττες του CDU, ενώ, στο δεύτερο μέρος, υποστηρίζω ότι για την βαθειά κρίση της Ευρώπης ευθύνεται κυρίως η Κεντροαριστερά https://t.co/hsiZy5l6TL
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In the latest episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang dissects the recent CDU electoral disasters while, in the second segment, I argue that Europe's wholesale slump needs to be blamed primarily on the compromised, defeated, co-opted Centre Left https://t.co/hsiZy5l6TL
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Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism | Politics | Al Jazeera https://t.co/ebKheckDsY
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The AI Productivity Delusion: As with previous technological revolutions, it is natural to focus on AI's net effects: Will it create more than it destroys? But unlike previous eras of creative destruction, the real question this time is, “Create more of what?”
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On Breaking Points discussing the war in Ukraine, Europe's political woes, Trump and more. https://t.co/3g1ncPdjSs
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Of all the blueprints I have read on how to redress the long-term damage austerity and financialisation have inflicted upon Britain's society, this one is the most impressive - and hope inspiring. A must read. https://t.co/loftu9rXOJ
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Ukraine launches a massive attack on Moscow targeting oil infrastructure as war escalates. Yanis Varoufakis reacts: "Almost four years since the beginning of this all out war, we ended up in an aerial stalemate in the same way that in WW1 there was a stalemate of trench warfare."
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We’ve got some big plans, and we need your help to make them happen. https://t.co/QKs018vzwN
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The real AI threat isn't what you think - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts https://t.co/919COhi5Uj
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Το πέρασμα της από αυτό τον κόσμο άφησε τις Ελληνίδες πιο ελεύθερες, πιο ανεξάρτητες, πιο ικανές να ορίζουν τις τύχες τους.
Στην Μαργαρίτα Παπανδρέου αξίζουν τιμές που κάποια στιγμή θα αποδοθούν.
Θα μου λειψει η σκέψη της φυσικής της παρουσίας. Και θα την κρατώ στη σκέψη μου.
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Στο τελευταίο επεισόδιο των «The Econoclasts», με τον Βόλφγκανγκ αποκαλύπτουμε την υποκρισία των μεγιστάνων της ΑΙ που δήθεν ζητούν τον «περιορισμό» τους, ενώ στην πραγματικότητα κινδυνολογούν πως τα εργαλεία τους θα σκοτώσουν την Ανθρωπότητα μόνο και μόνο για να αυξήσουν την
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In this AI focussed episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang and I expose the hypocrisy of AI techlords calling for their own 'containment', when in reality they use apocalyptic warnings as marketing devices and as ploys by which to get governments to release them from every
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EEA-membership is not associated EU membership. It is membership of the Single Market - which Canada will NEVER join (as it would condemn Canada to accepting rules, standards and regulations over which it would not be consulted - and for which it would have to pay billions to the
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@yanisvaroufakis You claim to be an economics professor but haven't heard of Greenland? How about Iceland and Norway's membership of the EEA? https://t.co/s8LWg870WJ
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@yanisvaroufakis The EU is heading in the EXACT direction I feared it would. Policy made on-the-fly by an unaccountable elite few.
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@yanisvaroufakis Nobody has lost any marbles. This is a proposal that, to my knowledge and yours, has yet to be defined. Let’s find out what being offered before we get emotional, accusing people of losing their marbles.
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@yanisvaroufakis It’s a trade relationship and a countermeasure against the US/Russia with a fancy label.
They will make something up.
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Sure. But membership is a different kettle of fish!
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@yanisvaroufakis association agreements have existed since the 1960s
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Has she lost the very last of her remaining marbles? Ms von der Leyen offered Canada associate membership of the EU. That would have been fine if it were not for a tiny little snag: there is no such thing as associate membership of the EU! https://t.co/z1x2fv7Wji
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@yanisvaroufakis The Chinese word for conflict (矛盾) stems from a guy who sold unpierceable shields and spears that could pierce any shield.
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@yanisvaroufakis It is no solution. It is the way to a monopoly
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@yanisvaroufakis There’s a lot of us, many in academia, who care about AI risk who have no connection to any such org. I’m worried that focusing on this incestuous funding, even if true, will lead to people dismissing genuine concerns
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"They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's."
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What comes after capitalim?
Wolfgang Munchau and I (yes, The Econoclasts!) will continue our mission to dismantle economic orthodoxy – but this time, we are tackling the ultimate false assumption: the permanence of capitalism.
Holed up in the UnHerd Club, in this live https:/
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On BBC World Service, the NEWSDAY program, this morning, challenging the techlords' BS that they want us to... restrain them. https://t.co/YOZQD2u9NZ
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«Οι εργαζόμενοι στις εταιρείες ΑΙ λένε στις κυβερνήσεις: “Είναι πολύ πιθανό να εξοντώσουμε κάθε άνθρωπο στη Γη· σας παρακαλούμε, σταματήστε μας”. Οι κυβερνήσεις απαντούν: “Ποια φορολογική ελάφρυνση θα θέλατε; Να σας χτίσουμε άλλο ένα data centre;» Ίσως κάποια στιγμή οι
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RAISE YOUR SOUL! My new book telling the story of the last 100 years through the voices of 5 remarkable women. Unlike anything I have written before, it focuses on 5 women who taught me how to resist fascism, authoritarianism, chauvinism &... hopelessness https://t.co/4dqwb75fNI
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Against accounts of the same size
27 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views30 724this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %2.60%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %1.01%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 30 724 | 14 648 | 2.10× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 2.60% | 0.74% | 3.51× |
| Engagement rate | 1.01% | 0.70% | 1.45× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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37.6K18 Sep
48.1K20 Sep
51K21 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.02%16 Sep
1.69%
1.01%
0.29%
1.05%18 Sep
0.32%20 Sep
0.55%21 Sep
0.44%
2.95%22 Sep
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1.44%23 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes62.6%10 941 in total
Reposts19.0%3 315 in total
Replies4.4%771 in total
Quotes1.1%185 in total
Bookmarks12.9%2 259 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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