There needs to be a special recognition for Musk being pwnd by Chess.com.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d ago

lol

It’s a great time to be a worker in the picks and shovels industry. The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here economist.com/finance-and-...

The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here

Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive

economist.com

There was one earlier story where the premise was that he expected them to tow the party line, show up in formal dress on time, and be able to answer questions. And ive never felt more sympathetic to a PM

it's not actually an honor to end up on the cover of Viziers Monthly. it shows your machinations aren't subtle enough

Wife out of town for the weekend, time to do all the things I don't get to do while she's here! Stare wistfully out the window. Walk from room to room like a sim

London’s approach to knife crime is working (an example of devolution working, it learned from Scotland) economist.com/britain/2026...

London’s approach to knife crime is working

Sadiq Khan has mainstreamed a public-health approach that was previously fringe

economist.com

India is losing prawn market share to Ecuador economist.com/the-americas...

Social-media curbs for kids are not working in Asia economist.com/asia/2026/09...

Social-media curbs for kids are not working in Asia

They are widely ignored, flouted and sidestepped

economist.com

The Belgian Prime Minister was unable to deliver a chocolate replica of the India Gate as a gift to Modi due to the heat—it melted en route. He assured that he would find a way to deliver another replica of the arch. -REPORTS

Indian regulators' attempts to protect retail investors are backfiring www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Indian regulators’ attempts to protect retail traders are backfiring

The unintended consequences of curbs on options trading

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I have long thought that the term "economist" should be reserved for those outside the academy while academics should be known as "economic researchers" www.ft.com/content/89f0...

When is an economist not an economist?

A fraught question that warrants reflection on who gets to be a member of the influential informal guild

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I reckon it isn't true.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 4d ago

Can this really be true? "67 per cent of parents in the UK track the location of their university-age children, according to a survey by Unite Students." (Source: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...)

Amazingly, nowhere in this article is the obvious answer: Israel has committed countless war crimes

Watched the Odyssey on bank holiday Monday that it was a missed opportunity for the reactionaries that they got so hung up on representation. The film is concerned with how a society should react to "strangers" but is quite ambivalent about the answer.

Remember reading that "ancient woodland" just means that we have a record that it was around in the 1600s.

Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 5d ago

One of the more interesting graphs I've seen, something that seems really counter-intuitive until you think about it. England only having about 15 percent forest coverage at the time of the Doomsday book (about half of what France and Germany have today) is wild, isn't it?

Lots of dry, back-to-school stories in British newspapers this morning. The challenges facing Andy Burnham, etc. Can I suggest a piece on how forests are growing and changing? www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Trees are spreading in one of Europe’s least forested countries

Britain now needs to learn to cut them down

economist.com

VIEW India's GDP grows better-than-expected at 7.8% in April-June reut.rs/4ddnY6e

VIEW India's GDP grows better-than-expected at 7.8% in April-June

India's economy grew 7.8% in the April-June quarter, government data showed on Monday, comfortably beating expectations as a surge in investment and manufacturing activity offset weakness in mining and consumer-facing services.

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And what do you call this act…? The British Labour Party

“The economic policies in the US are more heterodox compared to the policies in India. Quite obviously so” Hard to disagree with this assessment from Gita Gopinath giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Former IMF deputy Gita Gopinath: ‘It’s straight-out protectionism’

The economist on Trump’s tariffs, looming threats to the dollar — and why we’re living through a ‘great gamble’

giftarticle.ft.com

How India’s central bank subsidised the diaspora economist.com/finance-and-...

How India’s central bank subsidised the diaspora

The scheme has helped to stabilise the rupee

economist.com

LRB review of seeing like a state is great www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Paul Seabright · The Aestheticising Vice: systematic knowledge

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Seeing Like a State is one of the worst books ever written.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2w ago

The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible

Just heard @rory-stewart.bsky.social on @therestpolitics.bsky.social say that "we [the UK] still consume more carbon than we have ever done—we just have the t-shirts made in China". I've heard this point being made elsewhere recently too. And it is simply not true.

If you want to know what it's like to live in a city where people do not drive themselves and drivers have to be as aggressive as possible to get space on the road... come to Mumbai!

This reminds me of something that BlueSky will hate. One of the largest Indian cinema chains has done a deal with the Indian version of Deliveroo to let you scan a QR code and order a meal to your seat.

Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 2w ago

And frankly we shouldn't stop at gigs - desperate for this in the 'inema too!

😫 ~10TWh of curtailed Rs in GB 2025. High 90s% of curtailed volume is Sco. So far as practical you want DCs in Sco as it reduces system costs

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond

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Ambani’s Succession Plan Confronts a Wildlife Problem www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Ambani’s Succession Plan Confronts a Wildlife Problem

Asia’s second-richest business clan just made a highly public commitment to rein in its youngest scion’s passion project, a controversial wildlife sanctuary. In doing so, tycoon Mukesh Ambani is cutti...

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A can of Fanta sold in London contains 63 calories. In India, the same drink contains three times as much sugar. It also has artificial dye — requiring prominent health warnings in Europe — but in India, the colorant’s presence is noted merely in small print on the back of the can reut.rs/4zACBKD

If you were president of France what beloved children’s media would you make a theme park about

When will China's oil demand peak? Chinese government: Before 2030 Sinopec: By 2027 Reality: it may have happened last year! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China’s Oil Demand ‘Very Likely’ Peaked Last Year, Sinopec Says

China’s oil demand probably peaked last year, earlier than previous estimates, according to the head of the nation’s top refiner.

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