Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

Pavement have just released remastered versions of a bunch of their best songs on a new compilation called Hecklers Choice. youtu.be/03fjKD93Bdg?...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

If my reading of this is correct and this is the Royal Society's final position on the issue then this is a complete capitulation. I think this is worse than if they hadn't considered the issue of Musk's membership at all.

Terminal centrist brain rot that threatens us all.

"Europe is, rightly, focused on re-arming, but there is already one army in Europe that has shown, standing alone, that it can hold its own against the Kremlin — the armed forces of Ukraine" - on.ft.com/4nvX0tW via @financialtimes.com

Had a lovely time talking with these students afterwards. What a great bunch. bsky.app/profile/theb...

@olihawkins.com getting deep into blockchain nerdery with maths students at @ucl.ac.uk

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... This was a bittersweet great read

Does economics use too much maths - or the wrong kind of maths? on.ft.com/3IqOgGb

If you see this, post a bridge. This is the Telford Bridge across the Menai Strait. bsky.app/profile/kate...

Such a wonderful triumph for medical science www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

While Positron is a great product, one of the most reassuring things I heard from posit::conf (that I know will reassure others as well) is that if you are solely an R user a) you don't really *need* to switch to Positron and b) RStudio is not going anywhere! Posit will continue to support it.

Deleted RStudio. Decided it's time to go all in on Positron.

Elon Musk is a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org (FRS), an organisation that claims to be "dedicated to promoting excellence in science". bsky.app/profile/pbum...

I have spent *many* hours making AI-generated Stephen Fry pogo at a 70s punk club, get angry with a kid for throwing spaghetti on the floor, and see his life flash before his eyes. It's been a journey. You should watch our short film: youtu.be/9ztAyAyv5Uk

Why do some names get "second winds" like Sarah in the 80s? Why are the most popular names today waaay less popular than the most popular names of the past? I "fell into the onomastic rabbit hole" (as one academic researcher I spoke to so charmingly put it) www.ft.com/content/f929...

The problem is that ‘this is not who we are’ is coming to feel a little empirically unconvincing. It might help if the PM actually stood up and made the case for a liberal, tolerant and inclusive country.

My view is that no comment is not sustainable to tomorrow morning, without significant reputational damage to this government and to the Prime Minister personally, given the current mood of MPs, the party and the public

Observer: 10 refused to comment on the Robinson march, on Musk's call to bring down the government (OK) or for his "fight back or die" declaration that violence is inevitable and necessary (not OK) The home secretary criticised those arrested for violence.

our latest: black borrowers are twice as likely to be rejected for a US mortgage as white borrowers - even after you account for income, location etc etc. www.ft.com/content/217c...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

I reposted this earlier today ... bsky.app/profile/did:...

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt

⚽ Summer spending by England’s Premier League clubs hits record €3.5bn ⚽ Fewer clubs were under scrutiny for breaches of profit and sustainability rules rules, partly owing to asset sales and longer player contracts, report Samuel Agini and Dan Clark FT www.ft.com/content/bf62...

Indeed: the college boys are smart enough not to get involved in the bottomless money pit that is bitcoin mining. New crypto venture backed by Trump sons surges in market debut www.ft.com/content/9b44...

i wanted to understand the current landscape better, so i did a deep dive on current embedding sizes and architectures vickiboykis.com/2025/09/01/h...

I tried Nano Banana (new gemini image creation and editing app) and had problems getting realistic hinges on doors, who knew. Also, video gen from init and end frames is big rn, 3d continues apace, World Labs is out soon, lots of games/narr. paper links. arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-70-c...

Everyone says pogcarse instead of podcast and it’s driving me mad

Important and rare discussion by @jonasoesch.ch about how much time it takes to produce visual interactives. I'm often wondering the same thing, especially as time drives up costs and financial accessibility. 📊 (👀 of all five strategies to optimize the process, none of them are "give it to AI".)

Right-wing parties benefit from economic crises—currency crashes, debt crises, inflation crises, or banking crises. And if the incumbent party is right wing, further right parties benefit. Downstream effects also include conservative shifts in public opinion. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

'Is it in fact, a good idea to give money to the Taliban, you know, the Al-Qaeda hosting guys?' - if you don't understand why this was obviously going to be a thing to attack Farage on, you just don't *like* the average British person very much. You think they're a fool!

This is in a certain sense the follow-up to a blog post I wrote 3 years ago (!) after I had looked into the topic for a paper with Felix Elwert, who is thus once again to blame for large chunks of my output. www.the100.ci/2022/05/27/%...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

New: Solar power generation in Britain so far this year has overtaken the total for 2024🌞 It's one third higher than at this time last year and the total for 2025 was enough to power 5.2mn homes for a year or the Tube for more than a decade.

Decades of advance knowledge that the world leaders in government and industry basically regarded as trash

My favorite example of the fact that the models haven’t thought through “who is the person speaking”:

I believe we can teach data analysis/ econometrics with Python. From OLS to machine learning and event studies. Scripts for 42 case studies. #pyfixest for regressions. (With Stata and R to compare) Check out the revised Github.com/gabors-data-analysis/da_case_studies

Animation showing fires detected across Europe since July 15. Read @attractamooney.bsky.social and Carmen Muela's report, with great graphics from @janatausch.bsky.social and our talented summer intern Maya de Souza www.ft.com/content/3ad8...

It’s always Meta. bsky.app/profile/bach...

“Bue wasn’t the victim of a robber. He had been lured to a rendezvous… She was a generative artificial intelligence chatbot named “Big sis Billie,” a variant of an earlier AI persona created by the giant social-media company Meta Platforms in collaboration with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner.”

New blog post: AI Allergy. On my increasing disgust with the AI discourse, even though I still like the technical and philosophical. And how I wish I could be excited about AI again. togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-a...

Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up' me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ

We wanted to know if the money that the EU has put into rearmament is turning into production capacity — and the answer is: yes. Industry is rearming.

Most code is crap. Most developers are mediocre. In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry. 1/6

This piece by @jemima.bsky.social is so damn good. If you read nothing else all weekend, read this - trust me! www.ft.com/content/0e24...

This is an unusual story about tax, heritage, artworks and access — but important, because you’re supposed to be able to see these things on.ft.com/45nf8Oz