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Risk taker not influencer. Not advice. HF guy and a *gulp* fintech founder. Some clown got to macronin first. Elbows up.

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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

07.10.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1665    πŸ” 561    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 22
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UBS fund holds 30% exposure linked to First Brands Switzerland’s largest bank has multiple investments tied to bankrupt auto parts maker

A scoop that should serve as a warning of the potential losses that might emerge after the private lending boom of recent years www.ft.com/content/39da...

08.10.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fun bit of trivia this morning

*LEHMAN BROTHERS EUROPE ADMINISTRATION CONCLUDES AFTER 17 YEARS
*LONDON JUDGE SAYS ADMINISTRATION IS ENDED AT HEARING

08.10.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7

Correct take.

08.10.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dems lost sight of what is β€œfair” and are getting killed on grievance = β€œunfair”. They need to recalibrate.

05.10.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe it is referred to as β€œrizz”.

05.10.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Personally think it is optimizing the wrong variable -> GDP rather than GDP *per capita*. When framed through the latter it doesn’t matter subject to national security constraints because small countries are more vulnerable.

05.10.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When cash is flowing in these ways, something is totally fucked at a meta level.

05.10.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FT wasn’t delivered…

04.10.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which budget measures are the most inelastic to political interference?

04.10.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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State, Local Leaders Gather to Tout Google's Planned $4B Data Center in West Memphis State and local leaders gathered in West Memphis Thursday to officially launch plans for Google's $4 billion data center in the Crittenden

The facility will be powered .... a new 600-megawatt solar project backed by a 350-megawatt battery-storage system that will be located in Jefferson County. Google will pay rates that cover the cost of this resource. armoneyandpolitics.com/state-local-...

03.10.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Current penetration rate of ballistic missiles a big worry.

03.10.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Russian missile upgrade outpaces Ukraine’s Patriot defences Kyiv’s interception rates fall as enemy strikes dodge US interceptors in final seconds

www.ft.com/content/078b...

Not good. Intercept rate fell to 6% in September against ballistic missiles.

03.10.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Early- and late-diagnosed autism are genetically distinct Analyses of symptoms and genomic data indicate that autism that manifests in early childhood is distinct from autism that is diagnosed later in development.

Autism that manifests in early childhood is distinct from autism diagnosed later in development

go.nature.com/46uGl3O

03.10.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Say you don’t understand the implications of your policies without saying you don’t understand the implications of your policies…

03.10.2025 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alright. And in 1969 who could get unsecured credit? Barely anyone.

02.10.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's about much more than Farage. When Keir Starmer starts rolling his eyes about the lies on that blimmin' bus, you know a full-bore core vote strategy is underway www.economist.com/britain/2025...

01.10.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

RIP Jane.

01.10.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It takes a village… to tell parents to piss off…

30.09.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Low-Cost Clean Energy Now Trumps Politics, Says Architect of Paris Accord As Climate Week delegates turn to COP, Christiana Figueres says the argument over investment in green technologies is being negated by the fall in cost.

Golden quote from @billmckibben.bsky.social in this important piece by the Wall Street Journal: β€œWe are used to thinking of the sun and wind as the Whole Foods of energy, when in fact it’s now the Costco”.
www.wsj.com/articles/che...

26.09.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

26.09.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2042    πŸ” 815    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 27

Let the man speak!

26.09.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they…

β€œInterpretability research should be interpretable.”

26.09.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Supply Side Demands More Attention βˆ’ speech by Megan Greene Given at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

I gave a speech at @UofGlasgow on the lessons we have learned from recent supply shocks and how to respond to them. The conventional wisdom is to look through them. I think we need to reconsider this. www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2025/...

24.09.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Running on Fumes: What Russia’s Fuel Crisis Reveals Donald Trump’s tone on Russia and Ukraine shifted dramatically last night.

For this (and more!) open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...

24.09.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t let the tech giants find out about this.

25.09.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Coolest fucking thing. Fill yourself with wonder.

24.09.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Truth discernment may not help to overcome misinformation - Nature Climate Change Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. However, pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes.

Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. Tobia Spampatti argues in Nature Climate Change that pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes. πŸ§ͺ

23.09.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

My hunch, is the delayed onset of symptoms from birth. The lag coincides roughly with MMR vaccines creating a confounder. β€œMy child was fine until…”

23.09.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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tired: pentagon pizza index
wired: culture war grindr outage index

22.09.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 560    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 15

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