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Reigniting the Party: Lessons from a Stalled Migration to Bluesky
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If you think your profession is dying, it could soon be gone
Younger workers once foresaw the demise of horse-drawn carriages — but anticipating obsolescence can be self-fulfilling

DOJ Withdraws NY Times Subpoenas After Judge Notices It Never Bothered To Follow The Rules For Subpoenaing Reporters
Just last week we had the story of the Trump DOJ issuing very questionable subpoenas of NY Times journalists while trying to track down who leaked information to those reporters regarding the poten…

7 Apps You Can Unlock With Your Bluesky Account - Loam
There’s a whole world of apps growing on top of Bluesky. It’s called the Atmosphere, and you already have the key to all of them.
Dario Amodei, hype, AI safety, and the explosion of vibe-coded AI disasters
What the AI cheerleaders don’t tell you

Tracking employee voice: developing the concept of voice pathways
Different disciplines have studied employee voice as a key component of workplaces. However, they have not tended to look at voice as a journey en route to enhanced (or diminished) employee voice with a start, diversion, delay and combining twists and turns during processes leading to outcomes. In this article, we build on existing theory and phenomena to develop the concept of ‘employee voice pathways’. We use this concept to provide a framework for analysing the processes underpinning employee voice as a potential desirable form of employee voice as well as outlining areas for a future research agenda.

Risque de pénurie de carburants : "Avril devrait être bien pire que mars", prévoit une spécialiste
Les infrastructures énergétiques sont désormais au cœur de la guerre au Moyen-Orient. Celles qui ont été attaquées ne pourront pas refonctionner normalement avant "une longue période, voire des années", selon Anne-Sophie Corbeau, chercheuse spécialiste de l'énergie.

Pénurie de kérosène : va-t-on vraiment manquer de carburant pour les avions au mois de mai ?
Y aura-t-il une pénurie de kérosène dans les avions ? C'est ce que craint le patron de Total, Patrick Pouyanné. Les aéroports européens s'inquiètent aussi. Les avions pourraient être cloués au sol dans trois semaines si le trafic maritime n'est pas rétabli. Explications.

On vous explique pourquoi les spécialistes redoutent une pénurie de carburant en France
Le patron de TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné, a estimé vendredi que la France risquait d'entrer "dans une ère de pénurie énergétique" en raison de la guerre au Moyen-Orient. Samedi, Emmanuel Macron a rejeté cette analyse pourtant partagée par les experts.

‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says
Exclusive: International Energy Agency’s Fatih Birol, the world’s leading energy economist, also says UK should largely forgo North Sea expansion

Pro-Iran hackers claim ‘sophisticated’ attack on Bluesky
A pro-Iran hacking group that has been relentlessly targeting American companies with DDoS attacks claims it disrupted Bluesky with what the social media site called a “sophisticated” attack that…

Differences in AI adoption in Europe and the US: Explanations and implications for productivity growth
The economic impact of generative AI will depend on the speed and breadth of adoption by workers and firms. Drawing on a survey of workers in the US and six European countries and a firm survey covering 32 European countries, this column explores the speed of AI adoption across countries and whether an ‘AI gap’ will exacerbate existing productivity differences between the US and Europe. There are large differences in AI adoption across countries, much of which are accounted for by management practices. Higher AI adoption rates are associated with faster productivity growth but not with changes in employment.

Bluesky is doubling down
I’m currently in Vancouver for ATmosphereConf 2026, surrounded by people who care deeply about things like data portability and unparalleled seismic activity on the Alaskan coast. If that sounds weird, don’t worry. All you really need to know is that this conference is nerdy, it’s niche, and

War and the lost generation of inventors
Large wars destroy not only lives and infrastructure but also the human capital that fuels long-term economic progress. This column presents new evidence from Britain that shows that communities that lost many young men in World War I experienced persistent declines in subsequent innovation. The losses were particularly detrimental for frontier technologies and breakthrough inventions, highlighting how war can leave long-lasting scars on a country’s capacity to generate new ideas.

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.