The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

Term has started and a quiet has settled on the library and the river. Don't forget to take a break and look out of the window. It's too beautiful to miss. #worldmentalhealthday

"Yes, she's Venezuelan. Yes, 'she'."

Bad news there for tankies and Trump enthusiasts. Not that they're not the same fucking people.

So, with luck and determination, we could get to relive the 2007/8 credit crisis and the 2000 dotcom bust at the same time. Don't let the naysayers tell you we can no longer do stuff.

Leftfield Nobel Peace Prize idea: award it to Ghislaine Maxwell, for being the catalyst in encouraging Trump to reignite his interest in a Russia/Ukraine peace deal, if for no other reason than to move the news agenda on…

It's been a long time since I watched the whole sketch, rather than the 2 second meme, but it's very well written youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY?...

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

This is very good

Isnt’t it funny that the same Europe that wants to ban “veggie burgers” because the name is “confusing”, simultaneously has a Council of the EU, a European Council and a Council of Europe?

from Bloomberg. I would like to see the arrow representing the final consumers of the AI product sending money into this tangle

Investor relations, quant research, portfolio manager, risk manager

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

"No increase in taxes means your pint of beer will cost just the same" "So you can promise we'll get the same amount of beer for our money?" "Absolutely!" (h/t @dsquareddigest.bsky.social )

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

FUN FACT: The current population of India is 1,467,229,354 as of Wednesday, October 8, 2025. bsky.app/profile/fint...

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Fun bit of trivia this morning *LEHMAN BROTHERS EUROPE ADMINISTRATION CONCLUDES AFTER 17 YEARS *LONDON JUDGE SAYS ADMINISTRATION IS ENDED AT HEARING

A Few Good Menus

Message from my friend who's been trading crypto since the early 2010s

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk on.ft.com/46EWow2 | opinion

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

This guy needs to be put in team with Danny Kruger.

I’ve bookmarked this one for a great deal of future use bsky.app/profile/tern...

Enjoyed Supremacy by @parmy.bsky.social, about the rivalry between Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis and how this morphed into the rivalry between Google and Microsoft. A bit on the cults of effective altruism and long-termism but i would have liked more. HT @xvrmdf.bsky.social

Good point

Tory party conference got you down? Far-right rhetoric left you feeling scared for the future? Then why not take a minute to enjoy eighteen (18) pictures of Ed Davey on a pumpkin farm with young carers 🎃🚜 www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

Percy Jeeves pictured in August 1914. He made his Warwickshire debut in 1912 and in 50 first-class matches took 199 wickets at 20.03. He joined the army soon after the outbreak of war and was killed during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. PG Wodehouse named his character Jeeves after him

Brian Josephson has a method for rotating his mattress according to the principles of symmetry group theory: physicsworld.com/a/how-to-rot...

Having worked around very smart people all my life, Brian Josephson is one of the very few I would call a genius (and a complete nutter)

it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years

Okay, today is physics #NobelPrize day, so there's just enough time for another instalment of... PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2 In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️

*Britain's largest electric car manufacturer

Just checked and Rishi Sunak is still an MP. Respect for that, I thought he would be off to Silicon Valley faster than you can say "Nick Clegg".

The Bluesky anti-semitism problem is a little bit more serious than the “getting into fights with the CEO” problem.

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist & Nobel Laureate, born #OTD 1885; pioneered research on atomic structure & quantum theory; admired for moral leadership in support of other refugee scientists in 1930’s & of founding CERN 1954; commemorated at Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen University @cern.bsky.social

"Well, that's the perverse thing. All of this frenzied investment in AI is driven by people who seem unaware that much of the eco-system will be quickly commoditized, whether it's large language models, hyperscaler services or the underlying hardware, like CPUs and GPUs."

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A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

Remember that the Prize in Physiology and Medicine is not a true Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It’s a vanity thing that Nobel started himself.

Same disease which killed Doddie Weir and Rob Burrow. Looking increasingly like a correlation with contact sports / head injuries. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Sorry I’m late for work. I was briefly the prime minister of France…

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Can’t remember which 19th-c. figure had as his last words: Nurse to grieving family around the deathbed: He’s still with us: his feet are warm & nobody ever died with warm feet. 19th-c. fig *opens eyes*: Joan of Arc did. *dies*

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

Never had a Facebook account

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt