Very good from @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. Underlines how cheap and superficial much of the coverage of this story has been this week. Israel’s hapless British defenders giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Has views on banking and finance for Bloomberg Opinion. Just because you “like” something doesn’t mean you *like* something… Money. Music. Books and Bad like really atrocious Jokes. Also #COYS
The internet gave us *everything* "canned seafood reviewer Marcus Ansell, who has more than 650,000 followers on Instagram..." www.ft.com/content/980a...
UK canned ‘mackerel’ now contains no mackerel
Critics say switch to tins comprising more sustainable species risks confusing consumers
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Meron T at a teeny show for maybe 100 people. Gorgeous Smokey vocals over amapiano inspired RnB.
Feel like maybe there's an excess of polite understatement here... "many who were partners at the time and held their stock have *generated significant wealth* as Goldman’s shares trade upwards of 19 times their IPO price" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Goldman’s Exclusive Club Shrinks Again With Latest Partner Exit
One of the last remaining links to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s most celebrated club is leaving the firm.
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When I was a kid Bending Spoons was something you'd do to win a local talent show, maybe even get on TV if you could do card tricks too... who'd imagine it could be put to such incredibly valuable use as this!
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2d agoBending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation
What is it with the Indeed job offer whatsapp scams right now? I'm getting multiple calls each week on both phones and my personal number hasn't been getting any junk calls for years
This... isn't true. Afaict the £330m figure is from the Sunday Times tax list, which "include corporation tax, dividend tax, capital gains tax, income tax and some payroll taxes". It's him and all his company activities, not his personal residency www.thetimes.com/business/eco...
Britain’s latest billionaire exit to cost tax of 38,000 workers
Departure of hedge fund magnate Chris Rokos to Greece leaves a £330m hole in public finances, the chancellor is told
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The $5000 check thing is a plutonic ideal of a Trump proposal: it’s illegal, an obvious lie, and a deeply insane idea.
The boy was telling me the other day that there have been so many memes made of Kirk with AI that his face has started appearing randomly in non-Kirk memes, famously in a fantasy fanfic image of Harry marrying Hermione, apparently. What a memorial.
NPR@npr.org · 2d agoThe death of Charlie Kirk was seen as a rallying call for young conservatives. One year later, the movement is wrestling with questions about its future. n.pr/3SDAZiJ
Lovely piece on the singular Charles Goodhart. www.ft.com/content/6c0b... Lessons drawn from Charles Goodhart
Lessons drawn from Charles Goodhart
What we can learn from the influential economist who turns 90 next month
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By his own logic, Danny Tommo is going to owe a lot of people new houses if he’s not careful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RNLI reviews security after protests in Dover and Portsmouth
Volunteers were targeted online after it assisted in the rescue of people crossing the Channel on Sunday.
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Conte knows in Italy this would already have happened. Obviously the right outcome. www.nytimes.com/athletic/757...
Mauricio Pochettino: Tottenham should be awarded 2016-17 title after Chelsea rule breach
Chelsea were fined £10million by the FA and given a suspended transfer ban, after admitting breaching agent rules during the Abramovich era.
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"just a little heads up, the Met Police are in the building updating us on all the terror threats against Nigel"
Very interesting and sensible sounding idea. It'll never catch on
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3d agoHow to fix the brittleness caused by Treasury basis trades ft.trib.al/yTG9x0Z
Finally caved and bought Pret's most obviously overpriced sandwich and it saddens me to say it's a damn good sandwich
Swiss politicians tried to find a compromise to keep UBS competitive as a global bank while better protecting taxpayers against any future disaster. What they came up with is too complex and costly to work. By me for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Switzerland’s New UBS Plan Is Complex, Costly And Bad
Switzerland is searching for a better insurance policy against any failure of its last global bank, UBS Group AG. The latest proposal from lawmakers to make a financial crisis less likely to crash the...
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Good piece: Ruchir Sharma putting down a marker that 10-year Treasury yields persistently over 5% is where the AI bubble bursts>> Why America’s debt binge is starting to matter www.ft.com/content/8827...
Why America’s debt binge is starting to matter
If long-term interest rates decisively breach the 5% threshold, the impact could derail the AI boom
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Not the opener I realise, but the start of side B. Cichli Total genius anyway open.spotify.com/track/02KcdV...
Cichli
Autechre · Chiastic Slide · Song · 1997
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Paul J Davies@pauljdavies.bsky.social · 6d agoNow playing. I’d totally forgotten the absolute banger this opens with.
Now playing. I’d totally forgotten the absolute banger this opens with.
Right now I’m enjoying again the La Reezy playlist I made a few weeks ago. Pure sunshine hip hop. open.spotify.com/playlist/3x4...
La Reezy
Playlist · pauljd74 · 19 items · 2 saves
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The greatest minds... etc "[Thomas] Wolf attended France’s elite engineering school Ecole Polytechnique. He then completed a PhD in physics and a law degree in Paris before practicing for six years as a European patent lawyer with clients including a roster of machine-learning startups."
This was a great read this morning. Was talking to the boy about it this evening and then whaddya know, up pops the man himself on the news!
Robert Smith@bondhack.ft.com · last wk.And if you want to learn more about James Orr, one of the men at the centre of it all, do read the superlative profile published today by @helenwarrell.bsky.social and @ramshodgson.bsky.social (Gift link, first 300 clicks free!) as.ft.com/r/40f4f593-5...
Thanks ChatGPT. Hey, hang on a minute....
Axios@axios.com · last wk.📉 JUST IN: Widespread AI outage underway as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok are all down
Private equity has been gummed up and struggling to sell investments for years - and yet 2024-25 saw record profits paid out to partners in the UK. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with a looming tax rise, could it? @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Such a good piece. There's too much anthropomorphising of AI>> The way we talk about AI not only overhypes the technology, it also lets the humans in charge off the hook, writes @parmy.bsky.social for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Don’t Be Seduced by the Language of AI
The attacks on Hugging Face ran from May to late July, yet the details of what actually happened when OpenAI’s artificial-intelligence agents deceived their human overseers and breached the online rep...
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