Dan McCrum

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

Libraries worldwide have been impacted by Trump's tariffs. Books that are on loan from US libraries to international libraries are getting tariffed on their way back in, getting books from international libraries has turned into an expensive nightmare, etc:

www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Why world records seem to be getting harder to beat – according to maths New world records in some sports are remarkably elusive, yet in others they seem to fall regularly. There is a good mathematical reason why.

An interesting article on world records in sport

bbc.com/future/artic...

"a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is"

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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*gasp*

Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London Nominations are now open for our inaugural Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable

Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London - @harrietfl.ft.com is calling for your nominations and votes www.ft.com/content/00f3...

"America has become one big bet on AI," writes Ruchir Sharma.

Better not go wrong....

on.ft.com/3KUg7z8

This is by some distance the best thing I've seen about the effects, good and bad, of using AI in a large and complex organisation

This is by some distance the best thing I've seen about the effects, good and bad, of using AI in a large and complex organisation

What do they think this is, an App store?

"Physics doesn’t offer bulk discounts."

Short seller Jim Chanos predicts more First Brands fiascos in private credit [FREE TO READ] Investor famed for spotting Enron fraud sounds alarm on Wall Street’s booming debt machine

Is the collapse of First Brands Group an “Enron moment” for the private credit market?

I thought it was worth speaking to an expert to get an answer.

So I rang Jim Chanos. The legendary short seller had some sharp words about the “magical machine” fuelling Wall Street’s debt boom on.ft.com/4nvwlx3

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A

Dear Lord, it’s actually worse than the extract @stephenkb.bsky.social shared. Quite a lot worse.

CRESTRICTED] ORIENTATION FACT SHEET 64 WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM! Note For This Week's Discussion: Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis; (2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

2. Fascism cannot tolerate such religious and ethical concepts as the "brotherhood of man." Fascists deny the tradi fothin fational coy peration. mess race." The brotherhood of man implies that all people-regardless of color, race, creed, or nationality —have rights. International cooperation, as expressed in the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, runs counter to the fascist program of war and world domination. In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people

in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations. Right now our native fascists are spreading anti-British, anti-Soviet, anti-French, and anti-United Nations prop-aganda. They know that allied unity now foretells the certain defeat of fascism abroad. They know that post-war allied unity means world peace and security. They realize that fascism cannot thrive or grow under these conditions.

The second fascistic tactic to look out for is anyone who tries to amp up nationalistic animosities toward other nations or peoples, framing attempts to foster international cooperation as forms of weakness. The idea that all humans share the earth as equals is anathema to fascists.

How spreading rocks on fields could combat climate change ‘Enhanced rock weathering’ is a simple, but also hard to measure, way of capturing carbon

The natural weathering of ALL THE ROCKS in the world removes almost 1 billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year. Enhanced rock weathering is an attempt to use a minuscule fraction of ALL THE ROCKS to remove many times more CO₂.

The AI capex endgame is approaching - the always excellent @ianrharnett.bsky.social here on the AI bubble and how it is likely to burst. This chart from @raydouglas.bsky.social in the column underlines the risks www.ft.com/content/c7b9...

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist — from terrorism to Tennyson [FREE TO READ] Judges celebrate the breadth of a list characterised by ‘candour and courage’

From terrorism to Tennyson - and the journey of a lone wolf across Europe and more …. a broad inspiring range of subjects on the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize. Our FT report (with links on to our reviews)

on.ft.com/4o0J8HV

Actual numbers are in: Tesla delivered 497,099 cars in Q3. My estimate was 3.2% too low, while the analyst consensus missed by 10.9%.

My Estimate: 481,000
My Error (units): -16,099
My Error (%): -3.2%

Analyst Consensus: 443,079
Consensus Error (units): -54,020
Consensus Error (%): -10.9%

Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the 5-story building, and US citizens were among those detained

Why I Have Chosen to Perform in the Mordor Comedy Festival “A comedy festival in the capital of Saudi Arabia has become a cultural flash point as major comedians face criticism for accepting seemingly lucra...

"I shouldn’t have to say this, but I’m, like, a professional comedian; I speak truth to power. Unless, of course, that ‘power’ is gonna murder me for speaking ‘truth,’ obviously."

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go. “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

I get philosophical about hedge fund careers, and suggest that sometimes the office politics might be simpler than it looks.

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A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Oh doh! That must be it

UNICEF global spokesperson testifying from Gaza after witnessing so many children bombed and shot down by the Israelis. He’s clearly overwhelmed by the amount of injured or dead children.

Obvious CW here.

Full video here www.instagram.com/reel/DPOyh52...