Lovely bit of Disambiguation here

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

[traduction] Le choc chinois 2.0 et la collision des mercantilismes (Adam Tooze) annotationsbis.blogspot.com/2026/07/le-c...

Le sommet de la perche, c'était le niveau de la glace il y a UN AN.

america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)

Look what Harry Kane did!!

"Have we created a technology which is now capable enough to be dangerous, but still not reliable enough to be useful in many domains?" Asks @sarahoconnorft.ft.com ep.ft.com/permalink/em...

belgium's disgraceful win against senegal will be punished with football's biggest mark of shame, being knocked out of the world cup by the united states

Does still feel like BlueSky is shouting into the void compared to old Twitter. I don't expect an avalanche of engagement every time I post, but this is still not where the conversation is, nor where people come for news.

Il faut éviter les politiques symboliques parce qu'elles sont irrationnelles, parce qu'elles font passer ceux qui les défendent pour irrationnels, et parce qu'elles nous éloignent du débat sur les politiques ayant un impact réel.

Vous le savez p-e pas, mais les appareils électroniques en 🇫🇷 sont la V. "tempéré" du truc. Particulièrement les frigo, si il fait + de 25°C chez vous, le fonctionnement n’est plus garanti. Si vous voulez que ça fonctionne jusqu'à 35°C chez vous, il faut acheter la V. équatoriale... c’est 300€en +

"After 18 months, women using GLP-1 drugs who start off without a job enjoy employment rates 27 percentage points higher than otherwise similar non-users." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... by @soumayakeynes.ft.com

Yicai: The 10 most sought-after majors this year were electrical engineering and automation, AI, electronic information engineering, computer science and technology, communication engineering, law, economics, psychology, biopharmaceuticals, and digital media. www.yicaiglobal.com/news/seven-o...

The European Commission on Trump's tariffs, vs the European Commission on EU tariffs:

KNDS, an EU defence group, can't raise capital because of the objections of a German family. Similarly FCAS Fr-Ger fighter project was killed by Dassault, a family-controlled group. Weird to have decisions with big impacts on European defence made by shareholding heirs? www.ft.com/content/5ed2...

𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙚 𝙡𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙙'𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙡𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚 𝗟𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁é 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘃𝗮 ê𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗹𝗹𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗻𝗻𝗴𝗴𝗴𝗴𝘂𝘂𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗲𝗲𝗲

Industrial Policy Is Adapting to Crises, but Remains Hard to Implement Effectively www.imf.org/en/blogs/art...

SCMP: "Reindustrialising “is far more difficult than it was 30 years ago”, said Jean-Herve Lorenzi, president of Le Cercle des economistes. “If we had each defended our own countries’ interests more back then, it would have worked out better.”" sc.mp/9k44s?utm_so...

It's @foreignpolicy.com free week: all pieces are free to read, with no paywall or need to log in - on this occasion I'm re-upping my most popular column ever, outlining how the initial US-Russia peace deal last year came with a US$300bn signing bonus for Trump

The smooth Canadian - Windsor Whisky ad (1978) atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/8209654...

Neuromancer, William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel, was first released exactly 42 years ago today. I read it for the first time in 2025. It holds up remarkably well and is remarkably prescient about AI—so much so that I wrote an essay about just how uncanny it is at times. I also made art

Oops, link to the piece here: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This wonderful @liamdenning.bsky.social piece about the $25,000 bare-bones EV with hand cranked windows that is trying to crack the overpriced US auto market. But I can’t help but think about my $28,000 EV with sunroof, massage seats and SAE2 driver assist that US drivers aren’t allowed to own.

1/9 A very good Adam Tooze explanation of the current state of debate on Chinese imbalances. He is right, by the way, when he dismisses sectoral explanations (I call them “incremental” explanations) for the surge in overall imbalances by noting that... open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Il va bientôt être plus facile en France d’obtenir une injection létale qu’un rendez-vous chez l’ophtalmo

Chinese AI models are just a few months behind American ones • GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4 pro and Kimi K2.6 are almost as good as Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.5 • China's advanced models are about ten times cheaper than their US competitors, outlining China's "good enough" bet www.economist.com/china/2026/0...

Predictive Wolfram Warrior Diplomacy

Le @caeeco.bsky.social (CAE) s’interroge sur les réformes institutionnelles susceptible d’enrayer la défiance démocratique dans la note « Face à l’essoufflement démocratique, réformer les institutions » par Pierre Boyer et Vincent Pons. Une réaction rapide : jackyfayolle.net/2026/06/30/d...

arXiv📈🤖 AI Contagion in Social Networks By Bos, Bosi

[pdf] Le consentement des Français au financement des dépenses de défense (IPP) www.ipp.eu/wp-content/u...

The EU approaches finance for the economy it used to have, not the one that will decide power in 2040 - for @ipq.bsky.social I argue that budget choices, joint debt and the digital euro may decide if Europe remains a great power or slips into the middle-power league

A good example of Europe's spectacular over-regulation is when a minister in Paris decrees how long retailers can have annual sales on, based on the weather. In this case, deciding shops can keep cut-price deals on for another week - beyond which full prices must apply again OR ELSE.

On pensait pas possible que ces mecs pouvaient être plus des merdes que ce dont était déjà persuadé eh ben ils arrivent à nous surprendre quand même encore régulièrement.

Je ne partage pas souvent d'appels comme celui-ci mais pendant que la Coupe du monde concentre les regards, le Venezuela est touché par une catastrophe qui passe sous les radars médiatiques. Si vous en avez les moyens, une cagnotte internationale permet d'aider les victimes. gofund.me/cedb01eb0

One thing that needs to be repeated over and over again: CO2 is a stock pollutant. So even if the world abates emissions very, very quickly (which won't happen), we are just beginning to feel the consequences of global warming. Adaptation is not some project for the distant future.

The country in the world with the most Japanese people, facing off against the country with the second-most Japanese people, in the country with the third-most Japanese people.

“Thatcham Research says ISA systems that misread speed limits can lead to unexpected or inconsistent responses, while in the case of implausible speed limits, they could cause unwanted harsh braking”

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

Russia's diesel production is dropping amid Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries • Oil-products output plunged by 13.5% year on year in May after 9.1% decline in April • Two-thirds of regions report shortages or fuel rationing, lifting gasoline prices and inflation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

📍Qui paie vraiment les cotisations sociales ?, par Antoine Bozio @antoine-bozio.bsky.social Thomas Breda, Julien Grenet et Arthur Guillouzouic | Billet de blog AFSE (spoiler : ça dépend) www.blog-afse.fr/billet/qui-p...

« “Ne me tuez pas !”, criait-il à son commandant » : une faille de sécurité a permis d'accéder à des milliers de lettres de soldats russes. Ils décrivent les violences exercées contre eux par leur propre armée : humiliations, menaces, corruption, exécutions #Russie www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Un livre intéressant.

SCMP: "A record 156 new models are expected to hit the Chinese automotive market in the second half of 2026, intensifying concerns about small players’ profitability as a new price war looms." Hard to believe that a banking system would willingly fund this much capacity. sc.mp/jocqi?utm_so...

Bon, vous aviez raison, il est vraiment bien le film de Gaulle. Et ces temps ci 3h dans une salle de cinéma ça fair du bien.

This week 5 years ago, 619 people died here in British Columbia due to a similar heat dome. Mostly because apartments weren't built with AC. Because, as in Europe, it wasn't needed before. This is one of the impacts of climate change. #ClimateCrisis #EU #heatdome #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli

Délivrance ! Nous vous avons entendus, et avant que vous ne fondiez nous vous apportons...de la glace ! Des centaines, des milliers de tonnes de glace. L'histoire du Roi de la Glace, et de l'inventeur de la réfrigération. Profitez, et abonnez-vous ! histoiresenmarge.kessel.media/posts/pst_3a...

39 degrés en Belgique, il est grand temps d’aller sur la Côte d’Azur chercher un peu de fraîcheur