Great summary by IFAC

10.06.2025 08:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

8/8 The Council has 4 key recommendations:
1) Ensure budgetary policy smooths the economic cycle.
2) Set a sustainable rule for net spending.
3) Focus on competitiveness and infrastructure.
4) Make spending forecasts more realistic.

10.06.2025 06:47 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Trump is halfway to making America a police state The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point

"It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum." My column on an Oval Office meeting that was every bit as chilling as the assault on Zelenskyy in late February. www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

15.04.2025 11:28 — 👍 571    🔁 207    💬 30    📌 26

Which three are British @nymag.com? 👀 😬

01.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

but, but... how did he get stuck in there in the first place?

27.03.2025 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This year’s essay title is: “‘Men must endure / Their going hence, even as their coming hither’ – King Lear. Have we no more active rights over life, birth and death?” See www.hubertbutleressayprize.com for T&Cs. Closing date 4/7/25. 1st prize 1500€.

24.03.2025 19:52 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

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Dublin city centre, 9am

24.01.2025 09:14 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is a very good piece.

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Very sad news. Donal was an absolute gent, a brilliant journalist, and a guiding light for younger colleagues. I owe him a lot. RIP.

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Here's what to expect in the coming weeks

- Tomorrow (the 21st) will be the December solstice, and we confirm that -- even though the stretch started 7 days ago -- it'll be the day of the least daylight

- The 22nd will be the day of the greatest concentration of mis-timed grand-stretch jokes.

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Just for the record

29.11.2024 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Simple but effective on Chrome today

29.11.2024 08:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've started on a first starter pack - some Twitter Ireland originals and media types go.bsky.app/FLAa4Lb

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