They’re charging more to watch Qatar play in Seattle than they were charging to watch the actual World Cup Final in Qatar

Good god that is a local radio quiz I would have got wrong

Not a single minute of federal investigation should be wasted on this. Unlike the stock market there is no public policy reason to encourage widespread participation in Polymarket, it should be caveat emptor. I would even consider preventing them from banning people in the terms of service.

Like I say: you can tell what type of fox each one is, by looking at which henhouse it’s been asked to guard.

This is a fundamentally horrific story, and the police probably could have reacted quicker, but it's also just extremely clear that the Reform narrative is opportunistic fear mongering entirely disconnected from the facts of the case in pursuit of a wider racist agenda.

I've just realised that things have come full circle because Anthropic is the Amazon of our day, and its valuation case is based on extremely strong accounting profit which should make us ignore the negative cashflow.

Sellner is the person so far on the right that AfD members were sanctioned for meeting with him.

also hit wage growth fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1WKde

How have house and flat values changed over the last 20yrs across different parts of the UK? Not great The north east has had the toughest experience. More here www.schroders.com/en-gb/uk/intermediary/insights/what-s-better-property-or-pension-/

Wisdom (of course!) from @chrisdillow.bsky.social chrisdillow.substack.com/p/fetishisin...

What did you think “anti-woke” meant? Vibes and essays?

New substack: why Rachel Reeves is behaving like an old Soviet nail factory: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/fetishisin...

Origen starts adding the names of MEPs to the list of UK Home Secretaries and other unregenerates who will see Heaven some time after Satan does.

omg, Charlie Forelle, he used to do euro crisis stuff at the Wall Street Journal didn't he? Never go in to management lads

"exchange" in context meaning "unregulated crypto exchange"

Fascinating growth of quant funds in Paris leveraging the ecosystem around the French engineering schools open.substack.com/pub/rupakgho...

Spanish language Bluesky is full of tedious Mexican leftists making the same boring joke about Spanish food.

Finished this over the weekend; great stuff @jwmason.bsky.social! I think you will enjoy my paper on money (if I ever get to wrap it up if you people stop writing books on money!)

💯. There might be some future version of LLM technology where complex and difficult ethical questions were raised, but the versions that are available today it's not even a question.

probly Radio 6

The same administration that has enriched itself off crypto and prediction markets is now hollowing out the agency meant to oversee them. The CFTC has shrunk and pulled back enforcement just as these industries explode in size. The result is more room for grift, corruption, and consumer abuse.

finally, the "laws which do not explicitly mention coins" subplot from season 2 get resolved

Great to speak to the NYT.. “Howard was a hustler, an opportunist and someone who was willing to push the boundaries,” said Mr. Ghose, who now writes and advises on financial technology. “He’s an entrepreneur who will find a way to make some money somewhere, right?” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/n...

As well as having excellent weather, wonderful food, some of the world's best art, a welcoming and fun-loving population only marred by a stagnant economy and chaotic governance, the Italy Of The Atlantic is famous for its defensive but effective "door-bolt" style of football.

It's possible the much-traduced "Boriswave" ends up doing very well - by comparison to British-born workers and earlier waves of migration.

This would actually have been considerably less cynical than actual Amazon workers, who used a few more tokens to vibe code the script in order to ensure they stayed at the top of the AI leaderboard

Apart from anything else, Vanilla Ice has got a max 10 minutes of recognizable material, and that's counting the theme from a ninja turtles movie

C+C Music Factory were never part of this mess either.

have we considered that flo rida and vanilla ice might be locked in a deadly game of chicken where both performers have their entire net worth tied up in elaborate parallel kalshi bets that they will be the last act to drop out? I am asking us to consider it

Surely nobody in this deal thought they were going to get through the whole thing without receiving an email from compliance titled "Recent Tweets"

this week's Friday 'stack is a bit longer and has a book recommendation! backofmind.substack.com/p/stochastic...

“If you look just below the surface, the picture is bleak: the number of visas being issued each year to science, research, engineering, and technology professionals has been slashed by 63% since 2022. At the same time, a quarter of STEM employers saw talent leave for roles overseas last year.”

"Last time I wrote to you was to complain about your dreadful work on Lower Road destroying the traffic flow on Rotherhithe peninsula" is an impressively unhinged opening of a letter than only proceeds to get worse.

ICE ICE baby.

Things that make you go hmm

A lasting memory of Bilton is his stolen-valor coverage of Theranos, months after the WSJ’s John Carreyrou broke the story

I have a strong suspicion this has been written to win a bet along the lines of "bet you can't write an article about European football without mentioning Ajax" www.ft.com/content/d3d5...

The combination of index entry and quite lax lockups means that it is impossible to know the actual size of the planned issue, since as far as I can see all of the secondary sale is going to go into the aftermarket

oh. mein. gott. as.ft.com/r/62f36c5b-8...

The annoying thing is that this is *exactly* the kind of thing I’ve written about (many times) before in terms of economic warfare. There are rarely “strategic commodities” - substitution effects matter, stockpiles exist, economies adapt. Lesson: economies are more resilient than you think. 3/3

Why Did the British Museum Remove References to Palestine? Experts have been surprised by a lack of open engagement on the issue, which has been raised with the UK Foreign Office by the Palestinian ambassador newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...

I'm hearing reports that when the Labour Party plays silly games, it wins silly prizes, more on this as it comes in,

tell me more about this "ethics shield"

Interestingly, they have clearly introduced a tool to stop being embarrassed by these, but it doesn't always turn on (I have reproduced both the mistake and the correct answer with small tweaks to the prompt)

"industry figures", I feel nostalgic for the days when they at least tried to cover it up

As ever we have A) the null hypothesis means that BBC journalists are on the whole a bit crap and just may not have found out this fact B) it's funny that their mistakes seem to run 90% in one direction

Being a Jew in modern Britain latest British Museum intimidated into cancelling an event about Jews, because Jews. It's not 'regrettable'. If this happened with any other community, it would lead to outrage. But it's just the Jews www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/pre...

I think voters across the western world increasingly see this clearly, even if some of their governments are still tying themselves in knots trying to explain why it’s appalling when Russia does it but not when Israel does it.

at Alphaville, I grumble about silly numbers created by multiplying something trivial by the size of the banking system www.ft.com/content/002d...