Diana Salazar on dealing with gangs www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

My take on England’s daftest sport: Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage? economist.com/britain/2025...

Middle class consciousness is on the rise: Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!  economist.com/britain/2025...

Trump is wrong about almost everything But he's right to pursue deep-sea mining, even though he *probably* isn't motivated by the real reasons it's a good idea (a supply of essential metals with lower emissions and ecological harms than the largest sources today)

Heroically spent this week at The Crucible. Please reward my shoeleather reporting with a click. The strange success of snooker: immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going economist.com/britain/2025...

enjoyed this enormously lemonslice.com/replay?id=95... (video call with LLM-driven Baron Harkonnen)

Angus Reid shows the Liberals with a 5pt lead. LPC 42 (+26 vs December) CPC 37 (-8) NDP 9 (-12) BQ 8 (-3) GPC 1 (-2) Gives them a 2pt lead in our tracker: www.economist.com/interactive/... 🇨🇦

First (highly respected) Abacus poll post-Carney shows the Conservatives down 3, Liberals up 5

this is a really good point. one way of thinking about Apple's failure to ship genAI products is that the features inherent to genAI tech don't fit well with Apple's brand

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

Trump fentanyl riffs are just not credible the CBP seized 13 grams (grams!!!) of fentanyl at the Canadian border in January. That is down by a factor of 180x since Trump was elected The CBP seized 16x more fentanyl at interior ports in 2024 than it did at the Canadian border

This is beautiful (love the arcing) cc @halhod.bsky.social

For the past year, I've been investigating the global rise of online scams - a predatory, multi-billion dollar industry that rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. Scam Inc, a new 8-part podcast from The Economist and hosted by me, is out in February: econ.st/3CoAdxJ

Shock: Greenlanders are 85% to 6% against joining Team America. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I've been following Brad Zamft's thinking and work ever since we met at an ARPA-e over a decade ago. Enjoyed every bit of it. There isn't too much journalism ten years in the making, but this story is just that www.economist.com/science-and-...

And yet there's more to the DeepSeek story. Building a very efficient model that uses few chips probably requires building one (or more) inefficient models that use a lot of chips first. TLDR don't bet against Big Chip yet This is good blog.heim.xyz/deepseek-wha...

nothing, according to premarket this morning

The launch of Sputnik in October 1957 knocked about 10% off US equities in three weeks.

Deepseek's training-compute economy seems to me like a deeply bearish signal for Nvidia, and yet... what am I missing?

i somehow think this study will receive dramatically less attention that studies analysing the possible opposite outcomes

Apple Intelligence seems...useless?

Denmark's king has added a polar bear for Greenland (and a ram for the Faeroes) to the coat of arms as Trump sends Don Jr. off to try to buy Greenland. www.kongehuset.dk/nyheder/fast...

seems like a bad bet to me. buying and installing GPUs in racks to build and flog software is MUCH more scaleable than buying them to stick into or support robots. trying out a chatbot is so much easier than trying out a robot www.ft.com/content/7c3d...

a lovely thread from Ol, in which i am lucky enough to feature

Where did Santa get his name? How did St Nicholas become the children's patron? What do the Dutch have to do with it? How about early New York patriots? The Civil War? Is Father Christmas the same guy? I learned quite a lot researching this. www.economist.com/the-economis...

Lots going on in France but a lovely piece by @sophiepedder.bsky.social on the reconstruction of Notre Dame. Until his death last year it was led by Jean-Louis Georgelin, my old prof at Sciences Po & the most patriotic man I ever met (he insisted we call him “mon général”). He would've been proud!

Love how this guy takes the mickey out of The Economist's obsession with airships. And that they printed it

El presidente de Argentina habló con The Economist el lunes en Buenos Aires. Aquí está la transcripción en español de nuestra conversación con Javier Milei www.economist.com/the-americas...

Here is the English transcript of Kinley Salmon's remarkable interview with Javier Milei www.economist.com/the-americas... Many jaw-dropping moments, including

On Monday Kinley Salmon, our Latin America correspondent, interviewed Javier Milei in Buenos Aires Our cover story examines his dramatic reform programme in Argentina, one year after he took office, and the lessons it holds for the rest of the world

please can more people put me in a starter pack. i want more followers. i barely "skeet" and have no intention of "skeeting" more, but i am human and so enjoy my number going pointlessly up

Took this this morning especially for the guy who thought I should edit the pylon out of my Exe/tree/mist photo the other day. I always love elements of landscape that look like line drawings (and I know I Im not alone).

This year I spent months reporting in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vTt...

My underwhelmed & unenthused wrap of #COP29: www.economist.com/internationa...

this is a good resource blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/

Fascinating piece by our Southern Cone correspondent on a vanishingly rare phenomenon: that of the sensible referendum result www.economist.com/the-americas...

this story by Mat Youkee is gruesome and fascinating, an ecological phenomenon at the intersection of migration, deforestation and climate change www.economist.com/the-americas...

I admire the New Yorker. So am appalled to see this nonsense about GPT-4 redteaming got through fact check “It”, GPT-4, did not merely “use a workaround”. the red teamers told it to use Taskrabbit, then browsed on its behalf in newyorker.com/magazine/202...

good times over on the other app

this still happening?

wrote about deep sea mining, its environmental impacts relative to terrestrial mining, and the sheer amount of metal required for transition https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/07/02/deep-sea-mining-may-soon-ease-the-worlds-battery-metal-shortage

well?

is this a joke i don’t get or are people actually doing this again?

nothing says long weekend like a blocked drain and the bubbling heat of sulphuric acid

please can all of the app give molly some love?

surely it’s skuds, not “skeetlongs” 😐

Every amoeba, mosquito, and sea horse; every lichen, dandelion, and sapling of silver birch; every drunk, mime artist and kid scrabbling for survival in a megalopolis trash-heap; they ALL count more and deserve more recognition, respect and care than your ‘evil genius’ AI.

@youngvulgarian.bsky.social almost all NY media twitter here atm tbh

@jjvincent.bsky.social oi oi! you’ve already missed one mind-number round of drama, so good timing. no one talking about ai yet tho 🤔