Dan McCrum
@mccrum.bsky.social
Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
Just leaving the previous guidance here for anyone interested... bsky.app/profile/sexa...
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 6h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
"return on capital is an intrinsically political quantity"
TED 🇺🇸@epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 2h ago“For nearly all questions of business analysis, ‘who owns the real estate?’ is almost never a stupid question to ask, and that it’s often a huge time saver to understand early on in the project who is paying rent to who.” By @dsquareddigest.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/rent-alway...?
To make what? With what? On what legal basis given there is no property on the moon (its a commons)?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Gosh, its almost as if YouTube is a broadcaster that should be regulated
QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 5h agoit’s kind of crazy that YouTube, which might as well be the biggest television station in the world, is just nonstop scammy ads—and it’s gotten worse since the advent of generative AI
1. Probably a Pratchett, having rediscovered a pile of them 5. World of Books, the online second hand book shop 19. Throw anything by David Walliams into the sea
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Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔
"appallingly racist" and "indefensible". See also the doctoring photos to create racist and sexualised images.
KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 9h agoThe sentencing remarks for someone Kemi Badenoch is allowing to stand as a Conservative candidate.
OG $TSLA bear Mark Spiegel has warnings for everyone jumping into a $SPCX short. He thinks it best to wait until it's all unlocked. Mark has been around the block a few times, and been burned on seemingly obvious short candidates. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tke14...
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Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
In conclusion: a very good stockpicker and a very bad portfolio manager, and the latter was sufficiently disastrous he wound up destroying most of his assets and probably causing the largest trading loss of all time. If the reported numbers are true, going $45bn -> $10bn is 3x the size of Archegos.
Infantino's proposal to sell of part of the World Cup raises a qn discussed by Zingales in this classic paper: josephmahoney.web.illinois.edu/BA549_Fall%2... What does ownership really mean when power in an organization is held by human capital rather than by formal owners?
josephmahoney.web.illinois.edu
seems pretty big that the guy in the middle has resigned from Fifa over Infantino's sell-off deal!
Bit late to this but saw that Senegal's parliamentary speaker (and former PM) has endorsed a committee to investigate the total return swaps (details of which everyone first saw in the FT). It still needs input from the president. Who is now the former PM's rival... www.assemblee.sn/fr/actualite...
Assemblée nationale du Sénégal
assemblee.sn
1/ With rumours of a new mobilisation in the fall sweeping the Russian blogosphere, one warblogger wonders: what's the point? He points out that the land that Russia has seized is essentially worthless, having been destroyed, depopulated, and strewn with mines. ⬇️
It's no secret that Tesla's market cap still eclipses all other automakers. But when you lay out the major players' sales and revenue in chart form, the story is quite telling: www.wsj.com/business/aut...
See How Tesla’s Market Value Eclipses All the Other Automakers
The company ranks low in car sales among the top-10 automakers, but its valuation is greater than the next 37 combined.
wsj.com
You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
"the farming conglomerate missed a regulator-imposed deadline to take action. At some point Taylor Farms directly spoke to the White House, and later the FDA and [CDC] were asked to defend their evidence. The back-and-forth ultimately kept the public in the dark an additional 60 hours"
As Parasite Spawned Chaos, Taylor Farms Slow-Walked Its Response
The US Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’s worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in decades was a false posit...
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"kokushobi" - a new word added to Japan's Met Office lexicon in April this year meaning “cruelly hot day”. From this FT piece about cold noodles for a hot world:
Japan’s cup noodle pioneer gives cold shoulder to boiling water
Nissin launches two instant Cup Noodle varieties in Japan that do not require putting the kettle on
ft.com
I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:
My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines
The sister of a defendant in the Prairieland case, which targeted Texas ICE protesters, speaks out.
newrepublic.com
“The mental prison of accounting”
Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is ... silly? The fact that the program was "unfunded" doesn't mean it was free or that cancelling it doesn't save money. It's a real insight into how some people in government have locked themselves in a mental prison of accounting
