I don't know why this thread showed up in my feed, but I'm delighted it did.

🟣 “La ciencia no es un índice de empleo” Pablo Zamora, empresario y cofundador de NotCo, describe como “obtusa” la mirada del Gobierno sobre el gasto universitario en investigación científica, reduciéndolo a meras transacciones económicas.

visual metaphor klaxon

Shades of Geoffrey Howe here.

I think this is really burying the lede here.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...?

Shrinkflation. I haven't eaten any yet. This is the entire contents of a tube of crisps claiming to contain 379 grams of salty, high-cholesterol goodness.

Shrinkflation. I haven't eaten any yet. This is the entire contents of a tube of crisps claiming to contain 379 grams of salty, high-cholesterol goodness.

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If you grew up with, like, 10 VHS tapes that your parents recorded off the TV at Christmas, there is no hard mode.

Y'all I just found out there is an abandoned Chicken Church in Indonesia and I have been obsessed.

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

I'm in a conference on monetary policy in Colombia, where there is an open fight between the Ministry of Finance and the central bank, which has increased rates massively (in the run up to election), and the Minister of Finance is giving a presentation on monetary policy.

Tensions in the Iran war ratcheted up over the weekend as the US Navy fired upon and boarded an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman. It’s the first seizure in the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz bloom.bg/4sNMT5o

In 2025, US tariffs hit 9.6 percent, the highest in 80 years. Estimating the short-run impacts and assessing whether the tariffs have achieved their stated goals, from Pablo D. Fajgelbaum and Amit Khandelwal www.nber.org/papers/w35064

Birthright citizenship is a powerful tool for reducing youth crime, from Leander Andres, Stefan Bauernschuster, Gordon B. Dahl, Helmut Rainer, and Simone Schüller www.nber.org/papers/w35070

Trump says the US will now block the Strait of Hormuz after failed peace talks. He’ll never learn. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The US Navy will “shortly” begin a blockade of ships entering and leaving the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post

it's absolutely silly how much random knowledge you can accrue with a Bloomberg terminal and a dash of intellectual curiosity.

They say you become more right-wing as you get older. I certainly find myself getting less and less concerned that the pension triple lock is going to bankrupt the country the closer I get to receiving it.

Look at this. This wallet has just put an $800,000 bet on boots on the ground in Iran. They previously were right about the time US struck Iran first. Unusual.

Fuel prices in Chile went up 30%-50% last week. Went to the store today. Bread has gone up 25%.

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I'm not a military strategist, but surely you'd be more likely to find the uranium if the plans weren't leaked to the Wall Street Journal ahead of time.

Treasuries will remain offered and rightly so. Having said that the belly and certainly long end are very quickly coming to a point of being over their skis IMO. The next 6mths will be a conflict of 2 narratives - inflation vs growth/recession CB’s aren’t as keen to hike as STIR traders think 4/n

I don’t think equities (using Spooz as my proxy) are going to properly shit the bed. I do think they continue to trade weakly and def to the downside while there is nothing close to an Iranian resolution in sight. In short a grind rather than a cliff fall. 2/n

Prejudices confirmed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chile, anoche. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

UK’s renewables power output hit a record on Wednesday, with a surge in wind and solar generation helping to blunt the impact of the Middle East war on power prices www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NI TRUMPSOCI <GO>

At least 34 people were killed when a Colombian Air Force plane carrying 125 people crashed just after takeoff deep in the country's southern Amazon region on Monday, authorities said.

It's like one of those old "choose your adventure" novels being read from beginning to end. It makes no sense. On one page the dragon is dead; on the next page it's alive and has eaten your friend.

A few weeks ago oil was about $70 a barrel and Iran was mostly selling at an often steep discount to China. The US Treasury will now let them sell at $110 a barrel on the open market for a few weeks at least. I’ve read quite a lot about the history of economic warfare. This is quite new.

Norman propaganda.

No decent human being would ever say anything like that.

Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Oil sketch of seven chicks, c. 1665-c. 1668, oil on canvas, 32 cm × 38 cm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Huge job opening at Bloomberg in SF: bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobD...

Alex James doesn't spend much time at the dentist.

I have mixed feelings about this story. Detecting 22 kilos of raw, un-refrigerated meat seems like a pretty low bar. On the other hand, she's sitting right there next to 22 kilos of raw meat and hasn't stolen any of it. (Plus, she's a labrador and all labradors are awesome.)

Don’t know about about anyone else, but I’m really struggling with risk allocations at the moment.

Some people are smarter than others.

Future historians are going to have a lovely time arguing about the causes of the US-Iran war. It's just going to keep on giving.

"Could" is doing a lot of work here.

Kemi Badenoch's spokesman denies she is ashamed of British animals, after the Conservative party call the Bank of England's decision to put British wildlife on our banknotes "deeply depressing"

Compare this thread to the Chilcot Checklist, produced after the invasion of Iraq to avoid another stupid war.

Sums it up: “The timing here is difficult to ignore. Tesla is in the middle of trying to prove that its Robotaxi business is real and scalable, not just a stock price narrative…”. #$TSLA #$TSLAQ Some things are deeply rotten at Tesla. Too many senior departures lately... electrek.co/2026/03/09/t...

Words to live by.