LinkedIn histories aren’t fixed; 19 percent of users edit past jobs. These “time-travel” edits track job moves and reveal rising AI language after 2022, and fading DEI mentions after 2025, from @nickbloom.bsky.social, @gideonmoore.bsky.social, Simon, and Wilkie-Rogers www.nber.org/papers/w35546

I once heard a journalist say that they could paper a room with articles they had written about the decline of Las Vegas. San Francisco, which attracts even gloomier coverage, is coming back (again). A nice piece by my colleagues. www.economist.com/united-state...

The tide turns for a Florida darling and California loser

Miami faces new problems as San Francisco makes a comeback

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Intriguing stuff here, from an economist who is always interesting

Yale Economic Growth Center@yaleegc.bsky.social · last wk.

Affiliate @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social on how one of the deadliest disasters in history led to independence for Bangladesh, and what leaders can learn about responding to climate-caused crises. (Paper link in replies)

I like this piece, but the whole Nolan / Wilson interaction illustrates the imbalance in skill between the inhabitants of Hollywood and US academia, when it comes to maintaining relationships under public scrutiny. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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JICYMI #Clacton by-election ballot paper

For most of the past 30 years, the person in charge of The Economist’s covers has been Graeme James. We remember our dear friend and colleague

The Economist’s cover designer, Graeme James, has died, aged 65

His more than 2,500 covers cleverly captured, mocked and ridiculed the world

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The Odyssey film is pretty good, but there isn't enough emphasis on bedding materials, especially fleeces and furs. Homer's story reads much like a trip to Dunelm Mill.

New Swingometer! A preview of next week's Greater Manchester by-election - the largest by-election Britain has ever seen: open.substack.com/pub/swingome...

The Greater Manchester Mayoral by-election

What if you called the biggest by-election ever and no one noticed?

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When it comes to the oil price, it looks increasingly like The Economist was wrong about being wrong: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Is The Economist always wrong?

We used artificial intelligence to test the accuracy of our forecasts

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I went to CPAC GB for The Economist. It was... interesting

Lovely piece by @matthewholehouse.bsky.social about the appeal of modernist walking tours. Even the buildings that haven’t worked as places to live can be great to look at. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Tours of British post-war housing are a quiet hit

Perambulations of the anti-Instagram kind

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On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

Someone has to say it: this is poor technique. You shouldn't use this much detergent--it will dry the baby's skin. And the sitting position is daft. Kneel, not because it's Lamine Yamal, but because it gives you more stability.

Simon Kuper@simonkuper.bsky.social · 3w ago

My @financialtimes.com profile of Lamine Yamal, most successful young footballer in history, the star who's just a cog in this Spain side - and not even the biggest star in his family. On Sunday he may put poor Donald Trump in a terrible situation. Free link as.ft.com/r/0f5c15b0-9...

Notice the people who said "1976". One of the lesser, but still irksome, effects of climate change is that it has become impossible to believe that the hot, dry summer one is experiencing is going be an all-time hot, dry summer.

Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 3w ago

As we come to the end of the latest burst of warm weather what do Britons think about heatwaves? Asked at the end of the June heatwaves and climate, people's unsurprising top reaction was 'Hot' but that was followed by unbeatable, uncomfortable, worried, concerned and exhausted

This is just outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/s...

‘Welcome to West Village’? The ‘the’ Is Not Optional, Say Some New Yorkers.

Some newcomers in the city say they are meeting in Bronx, or living in East Village.

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I disagree with the runner-up-game cynics. England v France is the final I wanted. I’m going to skip the actual final and pretend it is.

This is the research about Chinese teenagers and AI use that Daron Acemoglu was talking about a few weeks ago. The estimated effect size on exam grades is absolutely enormous. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Love this. Wonderful detail about E P Thompson getting into a fight over the game. www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

What normal Brits were doing the day England won the World Cup

The historian David Kynaston raids memoirs and diaries to retell key moments in British life. This is his account of July 30, 1966 — by the people who were at Wembley, the people who weren’t and the p...

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Men’s World Cup stages: — Last Sub Saharan African team knocked out — Last Asian team knocked out — Last plucky minnow knocked out — Last African team knocked out — England knocked out — Last non-Romance-language team knocked out

[Norman Rockwell freedom-of-speech painting] The Aeneid is a better poem than The Odyssey

It is now almost 100% of the time that when I do vox pops in rural America I get asked about Britain supposedly being taken over by Muslims and crushed under the boot of Sharia law. I was just asked suspiciously if I am a Muslim myself when I pushed back

If you say so, mate

I have not been impressed so far, but I will admit that it feels hot today. Those who cannot believe how poorly British people cope with heat should look up the sunrise and sunset times.

Excellent piece about smartphones and AI in Indian villages. I especially like the appearance of a young man’s mother at the end. www.economist.com/asia/2026/06...

Smartphones and AI are remaking rural India

Villages have fallen in love with short-form videos and chatbots

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A favourite Brexit research paper, on the 10th anniversary. Nice first-person account by the man himself: casereports.bmj.com/content/12/1...

Today's Belfast Telegraph front page: The Prime Minister's resignation doesn't even get a mention. We've 15 pages of reports, analysis and background which we couldn't report during Donaldson's trial - with much more to come over the coming days.

Thing Person Saying Seems To Call For Sad Face

I suppose it was a rush job but I can't believe how bad Starmer's resignation speech was (stylistically)

Aberdeen South has been overshadowed by Makerfield drama but it is a remarkable result for Cons: First Con by-election gain in Scotland since 1967. I think it may be first Con by-election gain from SNP ever too. Huge vote share, huge vote gain, huge majority. Despite terrible national polling.

On Farage's decision to turn to 'anti-white discrimination' I looked at this in a post last year. Here's what I found "every single group of Reform voters not only thinks white Brits are more discriminated against than ethnic minorities but they do so by over two points on the ten point scale."