Matt Collin
@mattcollin.bsky.social
Development economist working at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris. Illicit finance, tax evasion, and foreign aid. Techno DJ when no one is looking. www.matthewcollin.com https://datadarkly.substack.com/
Beneficial ownership information on 480,360 German entities is missing from the country’s national Transparenzregister, according to a risk assessment released by the country’s ministries of finance and justice www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/D... #beneficialownership #UBO #AMLR #6AMLD
Not sure I’d shit on something that helped me sell half a million copies of my book, personally
Tip to money launderers: if you want to buy a property, maybe don't buy a property that has already been frozen in the past on suspicion of money laundering
Europeans: Beneficial ownership data is a massive privacy risk! We have to make it hard to access UK: We have an public streaming API that will let you see ownership changes in real time
Stephen Abbott Pugh@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · last mo.Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time as open, standardised data bods.stream #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #UBO #datastandards #interoperability #opensource
Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time as open, standardised data bods.stream #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #UBO #datastandards #interoperability #opensource
I mean, good lord, it's 104 degrees outside right now. No one wants to be outside, air conditioning or not. The worry that occasional air con use is going to destroy the fabric of society is really very silly
The Debate - France 24 @f24debate.france24.com · last mo.The ‘big worry’ of universal air conditioning: As people rely more on constant indoor cooling, @lloydalter.bsky.social advocates for finding a middle ground to ease the thermal shock between indoor and outdoor temperatures. More on #F24Debate ➡️https://go.france24.com/4V2Q
Every morning my 18 month old gets up and demands that I put on a vinyl record (by pointing to her ears) She only accepts vinyl music And for the past two weeks, she only accepts this record by Ghanian musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley. Before that it was a Bowie obsession.
This looks awful. Klara and the Sun is a haunting, strange and very beautiful book which absolutely did not deserve the Taika Waititi twee treatment youtu.be/wixzainceAE?...
KLARA AND THE SUN – Official Trailer (4K)
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Got to love the French university position of "We didn't invest in climate control, so please don't come to work and die of heatstroke, we much prefer that you die of heatstroke at home"
18 months in the making! My conclusion forever will be Russia's A7 was never entirely a cryptocurrency network and relied on captured states. Thanks 2 everyone who supported and hugest s/o to the OSC for turning this hypothesis into an investigation. www.opensourcecentre.org/research/the...
The Big Shor
OSC and TRM Labs reveal how the Kremlin-backed A7 Network used the international correspondent banking system and Kyrgyzstan to likely move billions of dollars of Russian payments through the global f...
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"We believe these people are circumventing sanctions" and "We are not suggesting any wrongdoing here" in the exact same paragraph is a hell of a way to start a report
I really don't know how the EAs keep convincing other EAs to give them money to... start blogs?
I'm sitting on a (hot!) train waiting to leave at Gare de l'Est and the young man next to me just whipped out a personal powered mini fan. What is this, 1997?
Today was in the unique position of spotting Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame in the toy section of a department store and then having my toddler daughter have an absolutely epic breakdown right next to him and his family
Jesse Pinkman's Sadness Turns to Shock
ALT: Jesse Pinkman's Sadness Turns to Shock
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Pretty grim stuff from a White House full of people from the central casting of They Live
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo agoThis is real. www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/
ACDC sat down with @60minutes.bsky.social for last night's episode, explaining that military insiders accused of illegal profiteering on Polymarket are not isolated cases but part of a systemic problem. www.cbsnews.com/news/predict...
Online prediction market traders make millions betting on U.S. military operations
Prediction market users are profiting from bets on war. Analysts say suspiciously timed bets, and the high win rates of wagers on military outcomes , are likely signs of insider trading.
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Anti-Corruption Data Collective@acdatacollective.bsky.social · 3mo agoGreat to see insider trading on military event prediction markets getting the primetime treatment from @60minutes.bsky.social. Last month we revealed that 52% of long shot bets on military outcomes on Polymarket are successful, way over the platform average. acdatacollective.org/work/insider...
Step 1: Run regression of [scary Y] on [trendy X] using observational data Step 2: Magically "adjust" for the 20 bajillion imperfectly-measured confounders Step 3: Wait for a credulous journalist to write it up as causal www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’
Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes
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Purported UFOs on the moon Going to love seeing the conspiracy theorists who think the government was covering up UFO sightings but also think tha the moon landing was faked try to reconcile this
Long-shot bets on military action made on Polymarket have a win-rate almost four times higher than the platform average, according to new research, raising fears that wagers placed by insiders could reveal classified information. Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Zqokt5y
Where are the profits of the war going? With the rise in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies surge—and a significant share ends up funneled through tax havens. But it’s not too late to tax war profiteers effectively. open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/...
Where are the profits of the war going ?
With the rise in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies surge—and a significant share ends up funneled through tax havens. But it’s not too late to tax war profiteers effectively.
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A lot of the world has benefit from more transparency over overseas assets. Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America? Not so much
International Tax Observatory@taxobservatory.bsky.social · 3mo ago🧵 1/9 Global tax transparency has made real progress since 2017. But the same system that works for rich countries leaves many developing nations in the dark. New research note by Sarah Godar & Juan Vergara: taxobservatory.world/publication/...
🧵 1/9 Global tax transparency has made real progress since 2017. But the same system that works for rich countries leaves many developing nations in the dark. New research note by Sarah Godar & Juan Vergara: taxobservatory.world/publication/...
The presidents family is running a... pig butchering scheme?
