Flavien
@flavienm.bsky.social
“The rest of the nobility found a cheerful acceptance of slavery the smoothest road to wealth and office”. Tacitus, The Annals. Reposts are not endorsements. Opinions my own.
Just to illustrate the scale of Friday's US currency intervention (very small, relative to daily turnover):
On t'other, it suggests that a lot of what we flatter ourselves as reflecting individual level human thinking is produced by cultural tropes/heuristics and collective structures for coordinating search across large scale information spaces that can now be compressed and maybe radically improved.
Very good @samfr.bsky.social post on the risks around technical specialisation at 14 and why the focus should be on employer behaviour and stopping free riding samf.substack.com/p/burnhams-f...
🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease...
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The clay, the grapes and the politics of Georgian wine ft.trib.al/tE7R2BC | opinion
The clay, the grapes and the politics of Georgian wine
As some producers focus on qvevri, skin contact and indigenous grapes, others are chasing a more polished international style and distance from Russia
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Resilience to market crashes vary substantially across OECD economies
DDavid Wessel@davidmwessel.bsky.social · 2w ago
Chart o the day via @financialtimes.com
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.
Doubling Down - Dissent Magazine
Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
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” It’s an artificial intelligence-powered tool that parses nearly 1,800 documents and transcripts from Warsh, with the goal of helping users understand how he may analyze issues related to the economy or monetary policy. (2/3)
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
US chip and memory stocks slide in fresh bout of Wall Street tumult ft.trib.al/8JNwket
US chip and memory stocks slide in fresh bout of Wall Street tumult
Investors pull away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year
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Elsevier introduces required interactive visualizations written in proprietary language to be placed behind a paywall
The Simpsons Monkey Paw Wish
ALT: The Simpsons Monkey Paw Wish
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John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3w agoIt amazes me that, in the year of our Lord 2026, academic journals still haven’t figured out how to let authors include interactive visualizations.
Aux Etats-Unis, on met des data centers partout. Y compris dans des endroits où il y a régulièrement des tornades. C'est bien sûr un assureur qui a fait le calcul !
D'après un ponte de Mitsubishi, on ne peut pas facilement transformer une usine de production de voitures en usine de production de drones. www.ft.com/content/31de...
Converting car plants to make military drones will fail, warns Japan defence titan
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries chief says tactic risks being ‘enormous waste’ of taxpayers’ money
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Great experiment testing how good AIs are getting at very ambitious end-to-end coding tasks. Opus 4.7, in 14 hours, was able to build a software package that would take 2-17 weeks of human engineering. It cost $251. The models are still not perfect, but are improving fast. epoch.ai/files/Mirror...
(Bloomberg) - SpaceX’s blockbuster bond sale is weakening so quickly in the secondary market that traders say they can’t recall another recent deal that widened this sharply. @bloomberg.com $SPCX www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bond Traders Stunned as Losses on SpaceX’s New Debt Keep Growing
SpaceX’s blockbuster bond sale is weakening so quickly in the secondary market that traders say they can’t recall another recent deal that widened this sharply.
bloomberg.com
Today was hottest day ever recorded in France, breaking yesterday's record! 60,000+ people died suddenly in European heatwaves in 2022. Heat dangerous for elderly ppl living alone (over 70,000 died in 2003!). 21stC state capacity requires cooling & social care phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...
"S’adapter, par avance, à une réalité simplement prévue et analysée par les seules forces de l’esprit, c’est là probablement, pour la plupart des hommes, un exercice mental singulièrement plus difficile que de modeler leur action, au fur et à mesure, sur des faits directement observés"
Balancing the health risks of extreme heat with the environmental impact of mechanical cooling offers a matrix of heat mitigations. What's the answer? Discover the latest eco-cool alternatives to aircon in Francesca Perry's essay: ft.trib.al/vSzNmb5
A case study in why organizations should both incentivized their employees to explore AI uses that help them & have a Lab of dedicated AI builders Here, Cornell's finance & AI teams created a /treasury Claude skill that recovered $100k in back payments. innovationhub.ai.cornell.edu/articles/how...
En juin 2026, le climat des affaires reste maussade et le climat de l’emploi s’assombrit davantage insee.fr/fr/statistiques/9011005
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We have been told that A.I. will take people’s jobs. What no one mentions is that many of those jobs are landing on us,” Carl Frey writes.
Opinion | A.I. Claims to Make Our Lives Easier. Does It?
The A.I. revolution involves a massive transfer of labor — not from worker to machine, but from worker to you.
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Geopolitics playing out in how we use AI in Europe. We will see more of that, i.e. the US government telling US AI companies to withhold certain features from non-domestic users. News report: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
