Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

How this 31-year-old made $250mn in 30 months on.ft.com/4hLDwzg

Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

The UK government is reconsidering whether to routinely test children for lead exposure following a two-year @financialtimes.com investigation that revealed millions may be unknowingly at risk from the toxic metal. 🎧Full series here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

"Who benefits most from reinforcing attitudes that “rules = bad” or tech is just one sector to be traded off against others? Not anyone with Europe’s democracy or prosperity at heart", escriu @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/01e7...

Excellent piece by @martinsandbu.ft.com today. Democracy and markets depend on regulation. The indiscriminate bonfire of ‘red tape’ is not the answer. Some of that tape may be holding functioning democracies together.

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

Trump & his entourage know that they'll spend the rest of their lives in jail if they ever relinquish power. So they won't. It's only difficult to understand if you don't want to understand it - for instance because understanding it makes you feel as helpless as I am feeling about all this.

Does the rise of populism have economic roots, and more protectionist and anti-immigration policies help? Quick thread on my latest piece here buff.ly/O2SoUok

Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"

Misunderstandings continue to abound in this debate. www.politico.eu/article/russ... /

"– Jeg kan ikke fatte og begripe at politikerne nekter å høre på sikkerhetsmyndighetenes gjentatte, årlige advarsler, sa Ståle Ulriksen [i juni]" www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/ru...

What's in a name?

Positively critical over EU accounting games... @martinsandbu.ft.com on.ft.com/3WeqW1I

Make Putin pay now! EU must act as well as G7 including U.S. If Trump won’t act under his current authority, then Congress must pass the pending legislation to force his hand and amend as necessary to mandate seizure and transfer of frozen Russian sovereign assets to benefit Ukraine. All legal. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

On Russian assets, Europe fights with one hand tied behind its back www.ft.com/content/c48d... via financialtimes.com

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Some good questions from our wonderful readers here. And hopefully some good answers too.

Can you be a monetary dove in a trade war? on.ft.com/42zD0y5

We want your questions! And hopefully you want our answers. Ask anything. www.ft.com/content/b355...

Nineteen years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated by Putin's hitmen. She was the first to tell the truth about Russia's mass crimes in Chechnya, which foreshadowed those in Syria, Ukraine, Africa and elsewhere. They could have been prevented. Almost no one listened to her.

Why China's surplus might be ok, by @martinsandbu.ft.com Tho- "China has failed to persuade trade partners that its surpluses are good for their growth, largely because it has not shown enough interest in making those surpluses contribute to the importers’ growth potential." tinyurl.com/4cn5ecp5

Useful and true heresy from @martinsandbu.ft.com How I learnt to stop worrying about China’s surplus - on.ft.com/4o5DGnd

Outstanding Piece!

Der Schluss zu Europa ist sehr spannend 👇

Very interesting piece.

You worry too much about China's overcapacity. on.ft.com/4hbvCPD

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

on.ft.com/4nS47ww What we get wrong about China @martinsandbu.ft.com

Weekend listen: Insightful discussion of China’s dynamic economic environment & the complications it has created for the rest of the world, with @michaelpettis.bsky.social & @martinsandbu.ft.com. Particularly interesting on involution in specific sectors. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Fantastic interview by @martinsandbu.ft.com with @michaelpettis.bsky.social Arguably Pettis's understanding of the impact of Chinese industrial policy through trade is the single most important thing in economics you need to get to understand the world right now podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Hang on, aren't you supposed to *welcome* the coming of the Antichrist, bc of rapture etc?

I very much enjoyed my conversation with @michaelpettis.bsky.social, and so, I have no doubt, will you. www.ft.com/content/8ee5...

Every time I talk with @mclem.org about the economics of immigration, I come away a whole lot smarter. You can enjoy the same experience: He's written a fantastic primer on what the data reveals about the effect of slashing H-1B visas. It's a banger. Read it. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

I like the @resfoundation.bsky.social's idea. But why not go the whole way and merge the two at the combined rate?

Most of what is happening in today’s transatlantic relationship is part of the culture war. But the time has come for Europeans to leave this artificial reality and become protagonists—not props—in their own show, writes @pawelzerka.bsky.social @ecfrpower.bsky.social @euroculture.bsky.social

“What isn’t being said clearly enough is that Europe is doing what it is doing under duress. When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.” Another great column from @martinsandbu.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/11b9...

'When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.' Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity. After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ www.ft.com/content/11b9...

The EU’s secret weapon for economic success on.ft.com/3IvylX1 | opinion

This is very very bad.

Unsurprising yet still somewhat shocking.

One of the houses was a glass house.

Is Europe finding its principles?

The feline ability to stretch the space-time continuum - usually to take up more space on beds and less space in cardboard boxes than should be possible under conventional laws of physics - is well-known to human servants of cats.

The most succinct statement I have seen of what is at stake. "In the digital arena, the EU is still playing a rules-based version of nobody-gets-hurt judo, whereas the other major players have shifted to something more like mixed martial arts." big-europe.eu/publications...

Good point this. (I suppose the new Greek CA deficits reflect NextGenEU subsidies.)