I've noted this before, but Londoncentric is great reading if you have any interest in urban life, culture, crime, etc, even if you're a convinced London hater like me.

Excellent thread.

Good luck, Palace…

Of all the red flags raised over OpenAI on the internet yesterday, this one appears to have been overlooked: the CFO of this cash furnace no longer reports to the CEO. And yet it's planning to launch a trillion-dollar IPO later this year? www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’.

Result of some excellent journalism from the Tribune. Absolutely brilliant

Sounds like a great AI tool from the IMF

Why is CBS focusing on this (in the N. American app)? There’s not even a terrorism link.

Use of the term “knob” clearly marks out @dankaszeta.bsky.social as British. How more obvious can it be?

Excellent interview with Mark Carney by @gideonrachman.bsky.social

@gideonrachman.bsky.social Excellent article mapping out why Europe needs a strong response. (It’s game theory - make a credible threat to a bullying threat). www.ft.com/content/2642... Europe must not appease Trump on Greenland

Very interesting thread on how EU official attitudes to Trump have changed significantly with the Greenland issue.

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This is super

Interesting thread on the “liberal international order” structure and IR theory(ish)

Gosh, this is excellent and punchy from from @stephenkb.bsky.social. The odd thing about the Labour strategist’s comments is that looking after UK citizens abroad is pretty much “the #1 activity a diplomatic service is there to do* - i.e. the consular staff. It’s not, as Stephen Bush says, a joke.

Good article by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on research on older men’s hobbyist friendships.

Good comments

This is a badly worded polling question (wrapping together angry and disappointed). And frankly a fairly poor repost below (this says nothing about hate!). Shows how BlueSky can whip up moral outrage.

This candle is going to be a hard secret Santa to beat

Interesting political science analysis.

Great book by a top UK economist on how ordinary people should invest. (Buy a set of index funds, basically).

Love this. I was similarly screaming.

Amazing. Incredible goals.

Excellent column @stephenkb.bsky.social. on.ft.com/3JyX9hy Brain-dead Labour retreats to its comfort zone: campaigning It’s amazing how little preparation the government appear to have done in opposition (eg on the economy, how to run government)

Sad to see Rachel Cooke has passed away. Super journalist.

Amazing

Very useful thread on the Nobel economist winners’ work.

We need more BSky sports discussions. Amazing final day.

This is very good. Though these points have been made for 15+ years now (eg Andy Haldane at BoE, Paul Romer, etc.). Have things changed much in academic economics? My guess is: a bit, but it’s hard to reinvent the (hierarchical) profession.

Love this LLM hallucination

Surprising outcome in this pensions abstract. I’ll read the paper.

A great perspective

Great short thread on why certain sectors likely have rising prices when there are productivity gains in other sectors.

@stephenkb.bsky.social Great column on “magical thinking” by politicians (we can avoid climate mitigation and adaptation costs). Amazing to think the 2006 UK Stern Review estimated total mitigation costs at around 1% of GDP. And Nordhaus in 1970s estimated a climate tax of 0.1% GDP would work.

Excellent article

🚨 It's completely normal to lose 85% on your favourite stock. And we've got the charts to prove it! on.ft.com/3ZlyvFJ

this is a very strange message from Starmer. First, you're boosting the far right which is, uh, risky. Second, your government was elected LAST YEAR why are you talking like the election campaign is under way?!?!! *STARMER: TORIES SLIDING INTO ABYSS, CHOICE IS LABOUR OR REFORM

thank you Private Eye for taking apart this flakey headline-grabbing research

As I was saying, technical analysis clearly has something to it

I very much enjoyed this many years ago. Highly recommended.

I find @listifications.app (which DM’s you when you’re added to a list or if you get blocked) very useful, both as a “you’re being an ass, stop” sense-check but also as a hilarious “some people really don’t like jokes about Starmer and alpacas”’gauge.

A love poem for spreadsheet junkies… Love it.

The restored Notre Dame, after five years, is utterly beautiful.

I love these poems

Not all heroes wear capes. *full disclosure: I have been unable to check whether these guys wear capes

A beautiful chart from @gavinjackson.bsky.social's excellent Briefing on why the energy transition will be cheaper than you think www.economist.com/briefing/

Today’s poem is called ‘Monetisation’.

Oh, and this isn’t just the first time since WW2 that all incumbent parties in developed countries lost vote share. It’s the first time since this data was first recorded in 1905. Essentially the first time in the history of democracy (universal suffrage began in 1894).