deno desktop is INSANELY thorough. I assumed it would be super basic but it's actually a real electron killer. Notifications, DMGs, support for bundled CEF (Electron style) and native WebView (Tauri style), Auto-updater, multi-window support, and on and on. @deno.land cooked so hard with this one.
this is great news, electron needs more competition
Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg@knotbin.com · last mo.deno desktop is INSANELY thorough. I assumed it would be super basic but it's actually a real electron killer. Notifications, DMGs, support for bundled CEF (Electron style) and native WebView (Tauri style), Auto-updater, multi-window support, and on and on. @deno.land cooked so hard with this one.
A strong and balanced column from Mathijs Bouman, picking up on my paper with Brad Setser. As a fellow Dutchman, I appreciate the nautical title: “Second China shock strikes European industry amidships”. Some reactions. fd.nl/politiek/159... 1/
Tweede China-schok raakt Europese industrie midscheeps
Een nieuw rapport pleit ervoor om hard terug te slaan. Kan het ook anders? Ja, schrijft FD-columnist Mathijs Bouman. Vernieuwing en versterking van de Europese industrie.
fd.nl
Currently, one reason we're not doing this at an Australian scale is that rooftop solar and batteries are much more expensive in the US than they are in Australia. That is a solvable problem. More in this pod:
How to make rooftop solar power as cheap in the US as it is in Australia
Nick Josefowitz and Andrew Birch join me to explain how slashing red tape can bring Australian solar prices to the US.
volts.wtf
NEW🚨Our take on the European Commission's Iran crisis energy emergency plan - AccelerateEU www.bruegel.org/first-glance...
How to read the European Commission’s Iran crisis energy emergency plan
EU countries should coordinate measures to offset rising energy prices from the Iran conflict, while using the crisis to drive longer-term change
bruegel.org
German firms are running out of chip supply as the AI memory demand spike creates scarcity. German firms have few stockpiles and resupply wait time surges to 1y. Why are German firms always the first to run into supply chain crunches? hbapp.handelsblatt.com/cmsid/100201...
hbapp.handelsblatt.com
This is making the simple obvious point that some tasks are Leontief. As I keep saying: we all become validators/arbitrators providing such services. But: task expansion happens, firm boundaries evolve, expect an SME revolution -- more diversity, more "brands", more variety. Context:
some thoughts on the death of saas 1) i don't think saas as a category is dying. but i think incumbent saas companies are going to have a very hard time over the next 5-7 years.
Once you learn to move your hips to a Latin dance you realize that nobody else knows how to walk. (and your former self didn't know either.)
Luckily, economists have a way around this, which adjusts for purchasing-power (ie how many baguettes can you buy with that €1). Do this and the EU looks all of a sudden much better. It's in effect keeping up with America rather well in fact.
Trump’s ambassador to the EU is accidentally—and unwittingly—saying the US economy is losing ground to the EU, even if he doesn’t seem to realise it. By comparing the wrong GDP metrics, Andrew Puzder is arguing the EU is currently trouncing the US. And it’s all because of Trump! Let me explain🧵
My favorite line from the EU agreement on FDI screening today: "The new rules will start applying 18 months after the entry into force of the regulation" www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
Foreign direct investment: Council and Parliament reached political agreement to improve FDI screening
Council and Parliament reached a deal to reinforce EU foreign investment screening, improving coordination and safeguarding key technologies and infrastructure.
consilium.europa.eu
Yesterday, the Oxford Dictionary said that 'rage bait' was the word of the year. In early October, @katiehicks.bsky.social and @kristinam.bsky.social wrote about how marketers are in to rage bait. A view is a view is a view. www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2025...
Ragebait is everywhere. Should marketers lean in?
Whether brands intentionally rile up audiences or unintentionally get caught up in the culture wars, experts say they should be prepared for the consequences of short-term, bad-faith engagement.
marketingbrew.com
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
nytimes.com
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
Sabrina Imbler@sabs.bsky.social · 8mo agothis might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time. defector.com/why-wont-nor...
BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
Russia's latest budget figures (January–October) are out, and it's becoming increasingly clear that the budget deficit will be higher than expected. After 10 months, 80% of the budget has already been spent — compared to the normal rate of 74%.
Must-read 👉🏻 A new CSIS report by @maxbergmann.bsky.social & Otto Hastrup Svendsen outlines 5 key tasks #Europeans should undertake to defend themselves with less #America & deter further #Russian aggression www.csis.org/analysis/how...
How Europe Can Defend Itself with Less America
A potential U.S. force posture reduction in Europe will leave the continent vulnerable to further Russian aggression. Europe needs a bold action plan to mitigate capability gaps and ensure deterrence ...
csis.org
Europeans should be clear-eyed about the world we actually live in. And be lucid about the fact that the transatlantic relationship in its old guise is gone for good. Once you do that, then watch Max lay out the implications.
CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program@erep.csis.org · 9mo agoWhat will it take for Europe to defend itself with reduced American support? @maxbergmann.bsky.social outlines key vulnerabilities that would be created from a withdrawal of US forces––and how Europe can work cohesively to guarantee its own security. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQj...
The exportweltmeister has been dethroned. Can anything halt the decline of German industry? Rarmament won’t turn things around. As the FT's Storbeck notes, Germany employs fewer people building tanks than making toys. Macroeconomic and civilian industrial policies will be vital. Some thoughts 1/
Finished reading Fishman’s Chokepoints over the weekend. Strongly recommend as a companion piece to what's unfolding in real time with Nexperia, rare earths etc. But a sometimes depressing reminder of how little Europe has done to become competitive or resilient in the meantime.
AI does chess puzzles now. www.chess.com/news/view/ai...
DeepMind's AI Learns To Create Original Chess Puzzles, Praised By GMs
In a new study, researchers from Google DeepMind have created an AI system that is capable of generating creative chess puzzles, some of which impressed experts in chess compositions.
chess.com
Sick and tired of YouTubers pretending I didn't read all of Cerebus when I lived with @normative.bsky.social
Who today is influencing science a la Big Tobacco or Oil and Gas? In our new preprint we show how tech companies like Meta are capturing research on their product, using mechanisms that subtly (or not so subtly) shape what science gets produced
Section Opportunity: We are looking for volunteers to help organize the Theory Section reception in NYC for ASA 2026! 🎉 If you are interested, please reach out to Rebecca Emigh (Emigh@soc.ucla.edu).
Ukridge? Psmith? Wooster? Hard disagree, stick to football
Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social · 10mo agoWith few exceptions (eg the plot of Macbeth and the character of Jeeves), all Shakespeare and Wodehouse plots and characters are forgettable or contrived, which only underlines how astonishingly brilliant their language has to be to make them the greatest playwright and comic novelist in English.
I know someone who wanted to be more rational, so they created an Eliezer Yudkowsky subprocess in their head. But Simulated Eliezer immediately realized this was a bad idea and deleted himself
