Tuffy
@smtuffy.bsky.social
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too. https://www.tuffyinspringfield.com
A bill passed five years ago is why the Dublin metro hasn’t been built in 30 years, apparently
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 18h agoClimate Act curbs could be considered to avert infrastructure ‘paralysis’, Chambers says
Spicy
Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 11h agoSCOOP! Restaurant chain Qdoba has now pulled jalapeños from more than 800 stores following a connection to the ongoing salmonella outbreak. Yesterday, Chipotle said it was pulling the peppers from some MN restaurants @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nothing calms markets like invoking the Asian Financial Crisis of the late 1990s when explaining your attempt to prop up the yen. asia.nikkei.com/editor-s-pic...
I like how Ireland has bizarro purges where we enforce certain laws for one day
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 12h agoOver 160 e-bikes and e-scooters were among the items that have seized during Tuesday's day of action among gardaí in Dublin. jrnl.ie/7122443
central banks are the worst gold traders in the world, part one zillion www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Ghana Made $1.9 Billion Loss on Gold Purchases in 2025, IMF Says
Ghana’s central bank incurred losses of 22 billion cedis ($1.9 billion) in 2025 under a domestic gold purchase program aimed at boosting the country’s foreign-exchange reserves.
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Unbundled research, T+1, decimalized stock prices but sure everything is unequivocally better now. You people are just telling on yourselves
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
At some point, in the not to distant future, we’re gonna look back at the era of content creators holding lav mics and cringe so hard
🚨 Remember when the US Treasury caused that major yen rally in ‘98? Us neither www.ft.com/content/5506...
Remember when the US Treasury caused that major yen rally in ‘98?
Us neither
ft.com
“Investors may stop trusting a trustless system” lol, do you hear yourself? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Invasive species that should be shot on sight to protect and promote the natural ecosystem
Save The Hellfire@savethehellfire.bsky.social · 23h agoSika hind and calf at sunrise #WildlifeWednesday
These look a lot better on actual people and not mannequins. I think I might actually like them? Definitely appreciate the attempt at a throwback (though I would have made it the interpro only jersey)
Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
BREAKING: People tweak their CVs based on changes in the job market and roles they are seeking. More as things develop www.nber.org/papers/w35546
Time Travel on Professional Profiles
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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we have spent more than 5x what China has spent on AI if strategically I wanted to crush a sovereign rival, convincing them to reorient their entire economy so that all growth comes from a technological dead end - or really just does not justify the investment - it would be pretty smart
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · last mo.I can keep two thoughts in my head at the same time: 1) that AI poses serious ethical and social questions that cannot be brushed aside in the name of "progress", and 2) that we can't simply cede leadership in AI development to China. Each can be true without invalidating the other.
On a scale of Bernie Madoff to SBF, what level of fraud do we think this guy is doing off the side of his desk cryptobriefing.com/anthropic-am...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns new hires prioritize money over mission
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says new hires prioritize money over mission, refusing to raise salaries to match rivals at the $300B AI safety
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This is the inevitable conclusion of three decades of increasingly looking at college education as purely a vocational exercise
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v