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Nya avtal för mer kärnkraft! Idag träffade jag Studsvik och deras amerikanska och sydkoreanska partners som nu går vidare med utvecklingen av fyra nya reaktorer – totalt 1 200 MW kärnkraft i Sverige. Ett viktigt kvitto på regeringens arbete för ny kärnkraft och våra fördjupade samarbeten med USA och Sydkorea, inklusive Technology Prosperity Deal. Nu går vi från ord till handling, från planer till konkreta projekt. För Sverige ska inte bara ha en stolt kärnkraftshistoria. Vi ska ha en stark kärnkraftsframtid. Så bygger vi Sverige starkt. ————————————————— New agreements for more nuclear power! Today I met with Studsvik and their American and South Korean partners as they move forward with plans for four new reactors – adding a total of 1,200 MW of nuclear capacity in Sweden. This is a strong vote of confidence in the Government’s work to pave the way for new nuclear power – and in our growing partnerships with the United States and South Korea, including through the Technology Prosperity Deal. We are moving from words to action. From plans on paper to real projects on the ground. Sweden should not only be proud of its nuclear past. We are building a strong nuclear future. #Kärnkraft #Sverige #Energi

"I am ready," confides Olivier Faure to La @TribuneDimanche. 👉The head of the PS will announce his candidacy on Sunday on TF1. 👉Confidences to @PierreLepel. (translated)

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The Age of Experts Is Over If the past two decades—COVID-19, the 2008 financial crisis, and the net-zero charade—have taught us anything, it is this: the age of unquestioned experts is over. Authority issued by corrupt, bloated institutions no longer commands automatic respect. We are entering an era in which trust must be earned, not assumed. Credentials matter less than results. Expertise can become conformity wrapped in a credential; status is no substitute for trustworthiness. The future belongs to those with proven track records, not merely letters after their names. Friedrich Nietzsche warned of this more than a century ago. He distrusted experts who served the spirit of their age—those who mistook consensus for courage and conformity for principle. To Nietzsche, many authorities were functionaries of the status quo: too timid to challenge the sacred assumptions of their time. University professors, state philosophers, and moral enforcers wore obedience as a badge of honor. They did not think; they repeated. They did not challenge; they conformed. They made the ordinary seem profound through jargon, complexity, and ambiguity. Nietzsche saw these not as signs of insight, but as camouflage—cowardice in disguise. He also distinguished knowledge from wisdom. Knowledge can be taught, measured, and tested. Wisdom must be earned through suffering, struggle, and brutal self-examination. Nietzsche admired those who forged their own paths rather than simply climbing institutional ladders. Even in science, he saw a danger. He respected its methods but feared their sanctification. Science, he argued, still required justification; materialists confused method with meaning and data with truth. Experts who presented science as the only path to knowledge were, in Nietzsche’s eyes, dogmatists in lab coats. So the question is no longer, “What are your qualifications?” It is: What have you done? What have you risked? What have you proved? We must recover the courage to think for ourselves—and place our confidence only in those who have earned it through action, not appointment.

🇺🇸 US Consumer Confidence Hits Seven-Month Low on Worse Outlook – Bloomberg https://t.co/ohsegoo8BJ https://t.co/ad8zIAdtL0 #ConsumerConfidence #USEconomy #MarketTrends #US

🚨 Manchester United set to return to table of negotiations today with Brighton for Carlos Baleba. Confidence since yesterday to get the deal done for the midfielder. 🇨🇲 🎥➕ https://t.co/FMilReyxEl https://t.co/SbJmhiRQaB #MUFC #TransferNews #Baleba #CM

The US Public’s Trust in Big Tech Drops to Another Low One thing remains consistent, Americans hold much more trust in small than big business. 67% with confidence in small business means that this institution continues to be the highest-rated of all measured. As for big https://t.co/HcboKtDpWN #BigTech #PublicTrust #SmallBusiness #US

We temporarily slowed some frontier training to strengthen security and monitoring. Our largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold while smaller-scale training and evaluations help us test safeguards and gather more evidence of alignment. I expect confidence in safety to #AI #SafetyFirst #ReinforcementLearning #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweetprovided.Therefore #theresponseis:

The people have spoken. They want price controls. This is a vote of no confidence against market fundamentalism. For a deep dive into the politics of prices stay tuned for Anti-fascist Economics out 10/20. https://t.co/HNfBF8xzOo #PriceControls #MarketFundamentalism #AntiFascistEconomics #Nocountrycodesfound.

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In 1987, my ad agency's biggest client was Nokia's mobile phone business. Twenty years later I sat in Nokia's American press conferences as the world's number one explained why it did not need to adapt. The confidence was justified. That was the problem. https://nordicledger.substack.com/p/when-success-becomes-a-disease?r=mwsn6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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José Mourinho allume Iker Casillas dans son documentaire sorti sur Netflix ! 🥶📺 « La première fois que j’ai parlé avec lui, il m’a demandé plus de vacances pour les joueurs. La deuxième, il voulait retarder l’heure de l’entraînement parce qu’il y avait beaucoup de circulation à Madrid. La troisième fois, il m’a dit : “On ne veut pas aller à l’hôtel. On préfère se retrouver directement le jour du match avant de se rendre au stade.” J'ai alors très vite compris qu’ils avaient été beaucoup trop gâtés. » Des confidences qui éclairent les premières tensions entre Mourinho et Casillas, sur fond de désaccords autour de la discipline et des habitudes du vestiaire madrilène... #Mourinho #Casillas #Netflix

According to a new paper, we might have completely misunderstood the Dunning Kruger effect. Confident people actually do perform better. https://t.co/JQqcnAdXhG #DunningKruger #Psychology #Confidence #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

Darf man mit über 40 noch so knallige Leggings tragen – oder hab ich jetzt offiziell einen Bad-Mami-Stempel? Wer mehr zu sehen will, kennt eh nicht die dunkle Seite meines Fotoalbums… https://t.co/mkuA0QMyFi #Fashion #Style #Confidence

🚨🔵🔴 Barcelona are set to send their new bid for Rodri as the player has told Man City he ONLY wants Barça. Barça have zero doubts internally: total confidence and seen as matter of time, working on the final fee. https://t.co/SHCOPabhqb #FCBarcelona #Rodri #TransferNews #ES #GB

🚨🔵🔴 Barcelona mantain total confidence to close João Cancelo deal by the end of the window. Negotiations ongoing with Al Hilal on transfer fee but no doubts: Cancelo only wants Barça. https://t.co/PgFniaM9uY #Barça #JoãoCancelo #TransferNews #ES #SA

When EU countries don't control their external borders, others start border checks within the EU. This is logical. A travel free area only works if people have confidence that everyone is doing their part in defending external borders. PM Sanchez failed. Legalizing 1m+ illegals #EUborder #MigrationCrisis #SanchezFailure #EU #ES

🚨🔴⚪️ Arsenal in direct talks again today with Newcastle to close Bruno Guimarães deal. Bruno, waiting for green light to travel for medical and contract signing as soon as deal is completed. #AFC mantain total confidence. 🎥➕ https://t.co/ruGFvUYaij https://t.co/D0qgKJ5EzQ #BrunoGuimarães #AFC #TransferNews #GB #BR

🇨🇳 *POLITBURO: TO EXPAND DOMESTIC DEMANDS - BBG *POLITBURO: TO BOOST DOMESTIC DEMANDS VIA FINANCIAL TOOLS *CHINA: ENHANCING RESILIENCE AND CONFIDENCE OF CAPITAL MARKET *POLITBUR: TO DEVELOP NEW FORMS OF INTELLIGENT ECONOMY *POLITBURO: MORE PROACTIVE FISCAL POLICY *CHINA: #China #Economy #FiscalPolicy #CN

🇪🇺 My proxies and regional data suggest that #Eurozone Economic Confidence (July) will surprise upward. *Bloomberg consensus: 96.0e v 95.0 prior #Eurozone #EconomicConfidence #Bloomberg #EU

🇨🇳 #China | CSRC Meetings Will Boost A-Share Market Confidence - Securities Times - The Chinese regulator not only has the will to stabilize the country’s stock market, but also has ample policy tools and regulatory capabilities for that, state-backed Securities Times reported, #China #StockMarket #AShare #CN

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Björn Brodin Jul 23

It must hurt USA now when China is seen more popular then US globally. Over the past year, global public opinion has shifted significantly in favor of China over the United States. According to recent surveys, China now surpasses the U.S. in global approval ratings. In 2025, China's median approval rating reached 36%, while the U.S. stood at 31%. By mid-2026, this trend has continued, with China being viewed more positively than the U.S. in most countries surveyed. For example, in a Pew Research Center survey of over 42,000 people across 36 countries, China is now seen more favorably in the majority of these nations, and confidence in Chinese leadership has risen compared to U.S. leadership. The U.S. leads China in only six of the 36 countries surveyed, marking a notable reversal from previous years ​⁠. Additionally, the Democracy Perception Index 2026 placed the U.S. with a net perception score of -16%, below both Russia (-11%) and China (+7%), indicating a broader decline in U.S. global standing for the second consecutive year ​⁠.