New @breakingviews.reuters.com: aspiring PM Sanae Takaichi is best known in Japan for her right-wing politics, but her push for stimulus-driven growth and call for a plan to double GDP in 10 years mark a stark challenge for the ruling party's milquetoast mainstream www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Some brave and/or foolhardy Hong Kong cabbie is out there in the typhoon livestreaming his shift. Looks practically balmy right now but it's set to get pretty intense this evening: www.youtube.com/live/A7IgRjs...

A few months ago I pitched @lisatozzi.bsky.social a story about the revival of an ancient Hawaiian board game. She said just go and write it. Before the story was published today she was laid off — so thank you to Lisa for making this happen and everyone involved in the story except Mark Zuckerberg

Openly transgender or nonbinary US adults, among those age 18-29: 5.1% 30-49: 1.6% 50+: 0.3% 44% of US adults personally know someone who is trans. 20% know someone who is nonbinary. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Is it important that the media can report the news without government censorship? In the United States, 92% say it is important. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

It's true, and it's amazing

SoftBank's payments unicorn holds a fintech mystery - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/atxmcutn

Given Kirk's specific role in Trump's orbit, I thought it might be useful to set a quick baseline on where Trump's support among young people stands now to see if it shifts. www.pbump.net/o/tracking-h...

Don’t let this happen to you! Next time, be sure to use Power Moby-Dick for all your Moby-Dick needs (not a joke, real recommendation): powermobydick.com

Meanwhile ProPublica found that three current members of Trump's cabinet actually *did* do the thing it looks like they falsely accused Lisa Cook of doing... www.techdirt.com/2025/09/12/t...

GHAWjuss

I confess to being somewhat taken aback that we've reached the "capital controls" stage of UK budget punditry. Also kinda funny quoting Thatcher on primacy of market forces when she staunchly opposed central bank independence: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/p...

New @breakingviews.reuters.com: Elliott Management is pushing one of Japan's top nuclear power providers to sell $13.6bn in assets unrelated to its energy biz. Being in a sensitive sector might've warded off activist investors before—but no longer. It's a new frontier www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Elliott opens new frontier with Japan nuclear bet - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - lnkd.in/ghZyfwfD

Sweet land it’s like Beijing in the 2010s www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/0...

Seriously. If Apple offered to sell me a svelte little SE-sized iPhone with Touch ID every time my current kit wore out for the rest of my life, I’d probably take them up on it. More secure, less pocket space.

Latest for @breakingviews.reuters.com: Trump's last China trade pact flopped but he's taking another swing at sealing a big, flashy deal. Beijing's got good reason to play it cool, but the chance to axe 20% tariffs tied to fentanyl could bring Xi Jinping to the table www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

My latest Breakingviews column is up on Reuters.com for all to read: Beating inflation is new Japan PM’s top task www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Nidec mess foregrounds dual pressure on Japan Inc - www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea... - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social

Nice, nice nice nice, super cool that the world's most powerful autocrats seem to be putting about as much thought into succession planning as that one Silicon Valley crackpot who figured he could achieve immortality by swapping blood with his own son. Good sign. Totally normal.

Loss of Suntory CEO leaves whisky maker listless - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/3ecxpepa

TIL there is a dedicated Wikipedia page on China's regulatory firestorm of 2020-21 which euphemistically refers to the period as a "reform spree". It's actually a rather good overview! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2...

"Meta originally scrapped the facial recognition feature for the first generation of the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses over ethical concerns." mashable.com/article/meta...

gosh I never thought about this. Google Scholar is the single most important tool for finding research; the best thing Google has ever done for academia. what are we gonna do? going to these separate platforms built by T&F, SAGE, Wiley & Elsevier?

This sounds like the American Protective League, nasty govt-backed vigilantes a century ago (see Hochschild’s “American Midnight”)

BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr

New @breakingviews.reuters.com column: China appears to be hopping on the stablecoin bandwagon and, well, credit where it's due: this looks like a pretty clever way to boost global use of the yuan without compromising the country's exchange rate and capital controls www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Jackson: “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.” @courthousenews.bsky.social

…of 2027.

*also* someone else made this point but consider why they didn't send a black reporter to report out this story

Incredible follow, this account.

it is very common in the mainland to routinely give red envelopes to reporters *because it is a bribe.*

As someone who is--like the author--openly wary of algorithmically managed culture, I've got to say: this is a bog-standard "kids these days" column, replete with complaints about slang. ("Rizz? What's that!?") The manic grin of Labubu holds no more or less meaning than Hello Kitty's mouthless mug.

Helluva view

Japan’s hot buyout market is still a slow burn - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/tna6aaae

An important question not asked in this incident: why is the government still buying bottled water instead of installing filters, which are more eco-friendly and cost-saving?

Can someone quickly explain what is physically preventing her leaving. It's wild I don't see a single person asking this in the comments

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Thrilled to share my latest open-access article for @ijurresearch.bsky.social! I dig into what drives so many people to spend their life savings on informal claims to urban land in places so quiet and remote many municipal officials barely know they exist. Please read and share!

This is a great discussion with @friede.bsky.social and @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social about RPG history, and particularly the online element of it. You need to be supporting @rascal.news with your dollars -- nowhere else on the internet is publishing stuff like this. www.rascal.news/we-cant-let-...

I can’t stop laughing at “NEW JEFSET”

Seven & i standalone revamp enters pivotal phase - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - reut.rs/3HhFJES

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

I find most LLM use cases wanting but it can be a genuinely massive help to ESL writers who need to polish text before getting a first pair of proper (read: human) eyes on a draft. So long as you limit changes to grammar/spelling, track edits and reread to ensure factual content remains unmolested.

I’ve genuinely attempted to read this several times but find my gaze slipping off and away from the excerpt, as if someone sprayed down the text with half a can of Pam. My eyes simply cannot find purchase.

My latest @breakingviews.reuters.com: Nintendo fans carped & moaned about high pricing for Switch 2 and Mario Kart World, then snapped up both without compunction. That gives the $110 bln games maker a green light for hiking prices to offset US tariffs. Free to read: www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.