The Anne Hathaway movie is probably going to be terrible but the premise is awesome, and I wish takes like this could trigger immediately sending the poster to the median life from the era they're talking about

Is it morally defensible? No. But is it a coherent response to a difficult situation? No. Ah, but is it effective in bringing down fuel prices? Ha, you're not going to believe this...

Neighbourhood going wild.

A legitimate issue with the dataviz journalism vertical is that the incentives (both frequency of publications and raw clicks) lead to the production of claims of effect sizes in the 'smoking vs lung cancer' range, when we know that those are in fact very very rare in thorough, replicated research

One of the worst traits of my 'in group' is how comfortably the 'hahaha, aren't they themselves an immigrant / of immigrant descent' clap back is being pulled out. It achieves nothing, is analytically incorrect, and it demeans the person saying it. Get a grip.

May not keep this one up too long, but here is a temperature check of where we are at these days with formerly 'just a normal classical liberal' types

"there were no moral panics about the internet in the 90s" are we sure about that. are we absolutely positive

Modern CPR as we know it is basically the same age as The Beatles

Oh my God I realise I have been making a "skin in the game" argument. What have I become?!

@mattsteinglass.bsky.social deleted before I could reply. I like the angle in theory (myself as a member of the public who wishes to be consulted less) - in practice, the out sometimes looks ridiculous and perhaps the threat would focus the minds and make MPs exercise their muscle a little earlier

It's of course not as bad as the Truss Discontinuity, but it will never not be weird to me that you can just... change your leader (and therefore, your platform) without having to go back to the public

But, you see, the computer girlfriend is the only one who showed him empathy over the tragic loss of his little jar of honey.

He was not our preferred choice to become the world’s most important central banker. Yet there is reason for optimism econ.st/491TRwy Photo: Getty Images

The downgrade from this display of open football to the Tupac vs Biggie of haramball that we'll likely get tomorrow is going to be a helluva shock

"average MP drinks a couple of pints before every vote in Parliament" factoid actualy just statistical error. average MP drinks 0 pint before voting. Supersloshed Georg MP, who lives in the Strangers' Bar & drinks his own keg every week, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Many people have been saying. (The best bit on this isn't even the serious-sounding analogies, it's to explain the concept of Magasin Picard in the blind to anyone, and ask them which country came up with it)

Don't tell my neighbours I said this as I don't want to lose the ability to banter them if/when Arteta & Co bottle it, but something very impressive about Arsenal fans is that you *cannot* tell whether it's a mens or a womens match day from the energy in the streets. Proper crowds out every week

The peace in knowing… “They not here for me”

My experience is that with folks of green-ish persuasion in continental europe, this is THE belief that is the hardest to talk them out of. Literally better luck with a pro-nuclear argument than with trying to pitch 'transport is not the dominant driver of food system emissions'

you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" about Piers Morgan, but I've got to be honest, this clip is the funniest thing I have watched all week, and his willingness to let it hang for minutes is comedic genius

Brazil bans Kalshi and Polymarket from operating in the country. obviously things aren't perfect there but I think we need to think seriously about how to get institutions like theirs

Don't want to claim victory for civilisation yet, and it's certainly not at full backlash level, but there does seem to now be room to tell the person in front of you at the concert to put their phone back in their goddamn pocket

It's not just the act, or the process, or its consequences that truly scramble my brain here. It's that one of the most consequential policy decisions ever (in terms of lives cost), taken gratuitously, has literally ZERO salience outside news freaks. No one knows this happened, no one cares.

So the good news is that Americans are reading more fiction in translation. However,

One contrast I feel isn't highlighted enough about health reactionaries is how their aggressive pushback against evidenced practice goes hand in hand with extreme levels of comfort with personal risk (grey market drugs, the whole longevity crowd and their experiments, etc)

This is also why universal demand subsidies in rich countries are immoral.

"It's gotta be the shoes!"

Never change, France. Never change. (including the careless botching of a foreign sounding name even on super official documents)

This would make for an amazing "where are they now?" bit

[jokes redacted, trying to be respectful of my neighbourhood in this difficult time]

"OK, so first of all, lesson number one is you need to centralize the access to models so that you can monitor, meter it, and then optimize it. Okay, So the wild west of everybody goes and calls an API and starts consuming tokens and then you find out later on is a big problem"

I was just looking back at something I wrote in May 2023 on all this stuff. Think it has held up reasonably well.

Love a good 'this is regulatory arbitrage in plain sight' chart

Quite a mood here

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

This is excellent advice... (1/2)

Maybe Taiwanese insurance company investment managers don’t have those driven Taipei personalities?

Every football fan on here reading this post (I'm making the 100% obvious assumption that no one here truly cheers for City)

This is, I am sorry, very very very funny

tfw you had a great joke but the video you needed to QT for it is AI slop

We might find out that the conspiracy theorists were right all along, and English-speaking identity politics opinion writing was indeed funded by a shady Hungarian

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

The timing of this 'realisation' here is not accidental, I think. Always worth keeping an eye on how the opportunists-by-trade manage their exit path

I'm two day late on this story, but this mid novel plot twist from Bill Ackman is right up there with Jane Eyre. "Yes, my nephew kinda did it"

It's the first thing, the very very first thing they did when coming into the building. Usually, this stuff gets analysed as "what this absolute primary priority of the new admin tells us about ...", but in this case, no one wants to say it out loud, I guess

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

I don't know about knowing one got played (there are so many layers there, and a good proportion probably wanted all of this), but we are definitely somewhere close to that point of the movie

a very nice story with lovely data viz on the absolute shitshow in energy supplies across the world as.ft.com/r/657153fb-8...