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Labour’s AI Growth Zones: The Corporate Land Grab Disguised as Innovation How Starmer’s government is carving up Britain into deregulated fiefdoms for Big Tech, without asking a single community

Beyond concerning,
The European Commission is reportedly considering delaying parts of its landmark AI Act following heavy lobbying from U.S. tech giants and pressure from Washington.
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Please read!
substack.com/@europeanpow...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission

WTF?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Says He Has Reached Out to Zohran Mamdani

Jamie Dimon redefines "insufferable."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...

Please sign.

It's times like this that I regret moving out of London. Congratulations!

Please could you spread this?

Time to re-read it!

So how's that "Hispanics for Trump" thing working out?

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Useful information--thanks.

Everything Wes Jackson writes is worth reading.

This is important.

These job losses across USA are not a temporary correction. It is structural. AI is now being used to justify the redundancy of knowledge workers in exactly the way globalisation was once used to justify the redundancy of factory workers

This will be happening in UK too very soon. A crash is coming

Trump threatens to launch attacks in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’ Nigerian government denies US president's claim of not stemming 'horrible atrocities' against Christians.

Too bad he doesn't extend the same concern to Palestinian Christians.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Or Frederic Brown's "Answer."

It's going to be difficult--hedge funds are good at hiding stuff. Not something I have ever tracked, but the FED does track treasuries, obviously, and may track weird transactions as well. The problem is it's the Fed, and finding stuff is a nightmare. The NY Fed might be a better bet.

The Treasury basis trade rears its head again Bills and bonds and Treasury basis trades, oh my!

Here is a pretty good summary of the problem. Yes, it's an issue--not the only one, but certainly a potentially major one.
www.ft.com/content/1df2...

What would you like to know?

I like the way Buttigieg looks like Saddam Hussein here.

This is a very big deal.

Gimme Shelter.

Today I learned that animal agriculture mouthpieces who aim to delay climate action fear calls to individual action. Why? While individual action to burn less fossil fuel is fairly constrained by infrastructure - e.g. car-dependent cities - choosing to eat less meat and dairy is much more effective.

The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science Datasets have been removed, federal websites scrubbed and thousands of Noaa staff purged. Experts warn disaster defences are at risk

The man is a menace. Of course, we already knew that.
www.ft.com/content/2df1...

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

To the surprise of absolutely no one:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

‘Gas them’: How a leaked pro-Nazi young Republicans chat sparked GOP storm The chat history, seen by Politico, included messages containing slurs, racism and rape jokes.

They seem nice.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Trump torpedoes international deal to reduce shipping emissions The International Maritime Organization delays vote on reducing pollution in shipping after Trump threatens sanctions.

Really, the man is a threat to the future of humanity. What won't he trash?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Useful Information.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

US moves to cancel one of the world’s largest solar farms Trump administration scraps approval for 6.2 gigawatt Nevada project

It's kind of weird watching my country (which, admittedly, I don't live in any more) race as as fast as it can to return to a mythic energy past.
www.ft.com/content/7a3c...

Every UK resident should sign this.