Hector Moreno

Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?

Los salarios reales siguen aumentando en la mayoría de los países de la OCDE, pero el ritmo se está desacelerando. Descubre los últimos datos sobre el mercado laboral, el crecimiento salarial y las tendencias de la inflación. 🔗 brnw.ch/21x1iOd [En inglés]

Nice discussion of this paper by @bencasselman in the New York Times. nytimes.com/2026/04/03/bus…

Dozens of US legal experts are warning that strikes on Iran could amount to war crimes. Their concerns fall into four areas, including what they describe as the dismantling of civilian protection. Al Jazeera’s Julide Ayger looks at some of the infrastructure that's been hit.

Despite having been judicially cleared of allegations of sexual misconduct, a Western-led campaign against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan has led to a political decision to disregard the judicial findings and proceed with a disciplinary process. US-Israel allies Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan, & South Korea voted to continue the proceedings against Khan, who was leading the prosecution of Israeli genocidaires when he was derailed by this campaign. Senegal, South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Kenya voted against the decision. Sadly, 4 Latin American countries voted with the West. Uganda and Bosnia abstained. middleeasteye.net/news/icc-gover…

The U.S. and Israel bombing universities isn’t a “new frontline,” it’s a war crime.

"This paper shows that census forms commonly generate incentives for enumerators to disproportionately omit members of larger households. Using microdata from 254 censuses, we estimate that this leads to undercounting in at least 60% of censuses."

📢📊 ¿En qué medida la medición de la pobreza es afectada por aspectos metodológicos en contextos de inflación cambiante y cambios de precios relativos? @ivanalbina, Leo Gasparini y @ltornarolli analizan 3 mecanismos claves, tomando el caso de Argentina 2018-2025. 🧵👇 [1/8]

This is preposterous. A German journalist-citizen has been de-personed by the European Commission for daring to write on the genocide - branding him a 'Russian asset'. Having denied him the means of survival in his own country, they have now done the same to his wife. Putin is laughing his head off as the 'liberal democratic' West is descending fast into the pits of fascistic authoritarianism.

!!! HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY CALL !!! As of yesterday, German authorities seized the bank accounts of my wife. She is not sanctioned and has committed no crime. As of now we have only ca. 104 euros left — with two newborn babies and one 7-year-old child!!! @yanisvaroufakis @ClareDalyIRL @wallacemick @kennardmatt @Stella_Assange @PLottaz @Miquel_R @irezugasti @RSF_inter @amnesty_de @amnesty @_ZachFoster @CasparShaller @AliAbunimah @MaryKostakidis @der_neukoellner @SevimDagdelen @mkhalili @LaBase_TV @PabloIglesias @falasteen47 @EyeonPalestine @newscord_org @FWarweg @jungewelt @FuocoSavinelli @AlanRMacLeod @MintPressNews @wallacemick @_jneumann @amnesty_de @ChrisLynnHedges @IJFMedia @Fidias0 @johnnyjmils @goldi @CPJ_Eurasia @fehimtastekin @georgegalloway @euobs @AssalRad @OrenZiv_

The future of AI isn't just about work automation. It's about billions of people having a thinking partner in their pocket. Read the full paper: "How People Use ChatGPT" by Chatterji et al nber.org/papers/w34255

After the right to torture Palestinians, Apartheid Israel claims the right to HANG Palestinians. The shame of the century continues. Ben Gvir belongs in The Hague.

“A law of death that only applies to Palestinians.” Protesters gathered outside Downing Street to demand that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer act rather than just condemn Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinians. Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Saleh reports.

Israel passed a law making the death penalty the default sentence for certain lethal attacks, with Palestinians fearing it could lead to executions without due process reut.rs/4c4fYDv

Returns to education: OLS vs Machine Learning -- New paper (with @Al_Mansor_Hela + @RyotaroHiraki): Using 2024 CPS data, we compare OLS vs. double machine learning to estimate returns to education in the U.S. Bottom line: 8-9% per additional year Remarkably consistent across methods OLS still performs well in low-dimensional, near-linear settings edre.uark.edu/_resources/pdf…

🔵 Missed the presentation of the latest @OECD Interim Economic Outlook, “Testing Resilience”? Watch the video below and get the highlights. ➡️ Report in English: brnw.ch/21x1crT ➡️ Report in French: brnw.ch/21x1crS #EconomicOutlook #OECD

BREAKING: Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon is illegal, says Canada's PM Mark Carney, condemning it in clear terms. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/qbbcjy

Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne. The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

BREAKING: UN rights chief Volker Turk slams the Israeli parliament’s approval of a “deeply discriminatory” new death penalty bill, warning that applying it on occupied Palestinian territory “would constitute a war crime.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/3m4oa4

The US bombed a primary school in Iran, killing 168 girls. Why is nobody talking about this anymore? These abominable war crimes should not be forgotten — and nor should the lives, hopes and dreams of human beings who were slaughtered with impunity.