Europeans: Beneficial ownership data is a massive privacy risk! We have to make it hard to access UK: We have an public streaming API that will let you see ownership changes in real time

Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time  as open, standardised data bods.stream #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #UBO #datastandards #interoperability #opensource

I mean, good lord, it's 104 degrees outside right now. No one wants to be outside, air conditioning or not. The worry that occasional air con use is going to destroy the fabric of society is really very silly

Reporting live from Paris right now

Every morning my 18 month old gets up and demands that I put on a vinyl record (by pointing to her ears) She only accepts vinyl music And for the past two weeks, she only accepts this record by Ghanian musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley. Before that it was a Bowie obsession.

This looks awful. Klara and the Sun is a haunting, strange and very beautiful book which absolutely did not deserve the Taika Waititi twee treatment youtu.be/wixzainceAE?...

Got to love the French university position of "We didn't invest in climate control, so please don't come to work and die of heatstroke, we much prefer that you die of heatstroke at home"

18 months in the making! My conclusion forever will be Russia's A7 was never entirely a cryptocurrency network and relied on captured states. Thanks 2 everyone who supported and hugest s/o to the OSC for turning this hypothesis into an investigation. www.opensourcecentre.org/research/the...

"We believe these people are circumventing sanctions" and "We are not suggesting any wrongdoing here" in the exact same paragraph is a hell of a way to start a report

I really don't know how the EAs keep convincing other EAs to give them money to... start blogs?

I'm sitting on a (hot!) train waiting to leave at Gare de l'Est and the young man next to me just whipped out a personal powered mini fan. What is this, 1997?

Today was in the unique position of spotting Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame in the toy section of a department store and then having my toddler daughter have an absolutely epic breakdown right next to him and his family

Pretty grim stuff from a White House full of people from the central casting of They Live

ACDC sat down with @60minutes.bsky.social for last night's episode, explaining that military insiders accused of illegal profiteering on Polymarket are not isolated cases but part of a systemic problem. www.cbsnews.com/news/predict...

Step 1: Run regression of [scary Y] on [trendy X] using observational data Step 2: Magically "adjust" for the 20 bajillion imperfectly-measured confounders Step 3: Wait for a credulous journalist to write it up as causal www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Video games aren't bad for the average kid, exhibit #21380 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

LET ME GUESS, IS IT NUDGING? IS IT NUDGING?

Purported UFOs on the moon Going to love seeing the conspiracy theorists who think the government was covering up UFO sightings but also think tha the moon landing was faked try to reconcile this

Long-shot bets on military action made on Polymarket have a win-rate almost four times higher than the platform average, according to new research, raising fears that wagers placed by insiders could reveal classified information. Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Zqokt5y

Where are the profits of the war going? With the rise in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies surge—and a significant share ends up funneled through tax havens. But it’s not too late to tax war profiteers effectively. open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/...

A lot of the world has benefit from more transparency over overseas assets. Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America? Not so much

🧵 1/9 Global tax transparency has made real progress since 2017. But the same system that works for rich countries leaves many developing nations in the dark. New research note by Sarah Godar & Juan Vergara: taxobservatory.world/publication/...

The presidents family is running a... pig butchering scheme?

We're in William Gibson's world now www.bbc.com/news/article...

Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽

On April 9th the report is taken down, on the grounds that opening to petrol imports “may run counter to efforts that countries around the world are undertaking to ensure their energy and national security.”

Some people reflect on their mortality on their birthday. For me, it's the semi-annual reminder that if I don't log in to my Gmail for six months, my wife gets access

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

Claude research has started citing research papers autonomously generated by Claude, which is bad ape.socialcatalystlab.org/papers/apep_...

Have these people been around babies?

Looks like a great conference, but really they could should have worked harder to squeeze most of the sessions into the first day

In my latest post on Through Data Darkly, I argue the fight against financial crime, money laundering and illicit finance needs more red team thinking, and more experiments aimed at exposing the weak points in the system datadarkly.substack.com/p/bring-on-t...

Hey, I realize you're all busy with other stuff right now but I wanted to just take a minute to make it very clear that I am not and have never been close friends with the Boston Strangler

Last day to apply!

Thrilled to announce my new book, coming Fall 2026.

My new essay for @aeon.co explores the little understood world of underground banking. Despite intense state pressure, these ancient networks have retained their independence. It is a story that holds critical lessons for our fracturing global financial order. #polisky aeon.co/essays/the-u...

In which investigators can't investigate someone unless they are already being investigated, and must alert the person that they will be investigated This is the BVI's kafkaesque approach to beneficial ownership access, designed on purpose to protect the interests of illicit actors

I have a theory that there is no optimal visual presentation of information, because visual diversity is necessary to attract human attention I worry about a new form of "AI slop" in that lots of very smart people are vibe coding data dashboards using Claude.... and they all look exactly the same

I know the striking down of the rule is bad, but it is also a warning for governments and civil society: if you are going to protect anti-money laundering policy X, you had better have high quality evidence to bring to the legal fight www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

Next up at the #LunchSeminar: Jeanne Bomare (LSE) “Death and Taxes: Inheritance Tax Planning and Unexpected Mortality” 🗓️ April 3 | 12:00 📍 @pse.bsky.social or via Zoom More info about the seminar ⤵️ taxobservatory.eu/event/eu-tax...

I'm somewhat biased as a coauthor, but @jeannebomare.bsky.social is a stellar researcher in the space of tax evasion and avoidance - this shouldn't be missed!

Oh snap, another Aidan Toner-Rodgers related retraction

It won't last very long, but nothing is quite as satisfying as having my 15 month old daughter sleeping against me

I'm not sure this article made me that hopeful: while there is evidence of AI uptake in work, do we have any evidence that AI is replacing social media use in any meaningful way? Perhaps more content will be AI written, but I suspect the net impact on polarization will be very small

Robert E. Lee was one of the greatest traitors America ever produced. He freely chose to join a group of treasonous, slave-owning oligarchs bent on slaughtering Americans and decimating the US.

Hmmmmmmmmm. www.ft.com/content/1171...

The Financial Times more interested in causal inference around access to political power than 90% of academics working on corruption www.ft.com/content/70c2...

Not now, millions of scorpions. www.newsweek.com/millions-of-...