Susan Owens
@susanowens.bsky.social
Writer | Reporter | Former correspondent London 🇬🇧Paris 🇫🇷 I follow people with full names. 🔹 Book in the works - modernist architect Roy Simpson (1914-1997) Profile illustration: Thierry Perez
Follow the money to Silicon Valley, its massive concentration of tech titans and millionaires and an obvious market for Porche - guess what? The bros can’t drive a car and don’t want to…
Reuters@reuters.com · 4d agoPorsche braces for lower sales era, seeks lifeline from luxury reut.rs/47Crrbl
Greensill gives a masterclass in how to make the right footwear look wrong.” Financial Times on Lex Greensill’s choice of wearing Savile Row suits with R.M.Williams boots. Snippet in Paul Barry’s (@TheRealPBarry on Xitter) riveting book #TheBigSteal on titans of corruption, Sanjeev Gupta & Greensill
Dario Amodei, one of the brightest minds, reaching out for over $2trn in the world’s most highly valued IPO warns investors of AI’s “existential risk to humanity”. Come, invest in the biggest threat to mankind.
Australia’s Department of Defence is Palantir's largest client Aus - more than $31 million in cumulative contracts…#auspol Thiel IS Palantir. Axel Springer is Germany’s major publisher, recent owner of The Telegraph UK…
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2w agowtf. Axel Springer is throwing a big award ceremony for… Peter Thiel. Do they understand which business they’re in? What their employees do? www.status.news/p/axel-sprin...
The goose that laid the $75 billion golden egg for Elon’s SpaceX IPO does not look like it’s helping achieve his life mission: “securing the future of human civilization”. Now the A.I. bros warn of the opposite - an extinction threat, a cyber catastrophe. Help me here Elon…
AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
Jack Clark says "most labs have different ways of being able to pull the plug", but says this may need to be a requirement.
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Bravo Kakapo you’ve hit the headlines in France @liberation.fr
Libération@liberation.fr · last mo.🦜 «Il faut sauver le kakapo» : comment des scientifiques néo-zélandais ont préservé le plus gros perroquet du monde, menacé d’extinction On compte désormais 325 individus de cette espèce qui en comptait à peine 50 il y a trente ans ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/gSL
Patrick Wintour, diplomatic editor @theguardian.com shares (on X) exceptional words by Ezio Mauro writing in La Repubblica. #Trump “As if plunged into a South American novel, Donald Trump is now a prisoner in his own labyrinth. The most powerful man on the planet, who has transformed American…
Sydney makes world-wide headlines but it’s not a shark attack. Medals for runners who complete the August 30 Marathon feature a German football stadium. Piffle seems to be the organisers attitude, saying it’s an; “unfortunate error”. Via @lemonde.fr
Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 2mo agoLe marathon de Sydney dévoile sa médaille, sur laquelle figure l’Allianz Arena de Munich : une « erreur regrettable » selon les organisateurs
Dreaming of a vast swimming pool in Melbourne’s Yarra for hot summers. Paris can, can you Lord Mayor? @nicholasreece.bsky.social
Parisians take the plunge after €1.4bn Seine clean-up
City’s new designated open-air swimming sites offer respite amid heatwaves
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Australian government’s Space Agency assisting recovery of #Elon’s SpaceX junk -*marine vandalism* in other words. Near Christmas Island.
SpaceX Starship the talk of remote Australian island as Elon Musk’s engineers sent to retrieve it
Christmas Island locals who woke to see the spacecraft floating off the coast hope global attention will encourage tourists
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Our beautiful planet… while we sleep Earth heals, resets and renews. All we have to do is take care of it. But the American president chooses vandalism. Via @nytimes.com #paywall
Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
nytimes.com
Thrilling day in Clacton as UK 🇬🇧 votes in snap by-election. Love André Carrilho’s @andrecarrilho.bsky.social illustration of @countbinface.bsky.social and @NigelFarage.bsky.social for The New Statesman ⬇️
‘Twiggy’ has spent over $60M in US legal fees against Meta which carried scam ads using his image, duping innocent investors of millions. He talked about it at length in illuminating Betoota Talks #podcast June 7
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2mo agoUS court rules Meta failed to preserve key evidence in Andrew Forrest legal dispute
Silent Night #SpringStreet. Rather wonder if our politicians can bring some dignity to this wondrous building tomorrow. #auspol
Emily Wilson anticipated her 2017 translation of The Odyssey might achieve sales of around 1,000. But driven by Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation, sales have now topped 1 million. Aside: Her dad is writer & critic AN Wilson; her late mother was Katherine Duncan-Jones, an Oxford English prof.
What The Odyssey gets right and wrong: the scholar’s verdict
Professor Emily Wilson has dedicated decades (and much tattoo space) to Homer. This is what she thinks of the film her translation inspired
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Pauline’s on brand - she just won’t know it. In 2018 a Dolce & Gabbana ad was slammed as “racist and culturally insulting”- it showed an Asian model eating pizza with chopsticks. Chinese celebs boycotted D&G Shanghai show, e-com sites dropped the label, the ad was pulled & the founders apologised
Paris: July 14 military parade Champs Élysées - ‘Coalition of Volunteers’ (also known as ‘Coalition of the Willing) is led by Australia 🇦🇺 Around 500 allied troops from the coalition marched alongside 25 Ukrainian soldiers. Via @bfmtv.com
Love European newspapers grappling for translation of Count Binface: French 🇫🇷: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) Italian 🇮🇹: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone
Jennifer Crawford@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 3mo agoCount bin face has Ned Kelly vibes. Maybe that’s why Aussies love him. Vote @countbinface.bsky.social
What does it mean for Anthropic, OpenAI and related AI companies preparing their stock market debuts? Graph: @data.ft.com
12 apartments for the elderly sit empty at Glenloch. So HousingFirst forgoes significant rental income while claiming rent rises for others are; "necessary to maintain properties." In a housing crisis.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 4mo agoEviction notice for elderly Melbourne renter who disputed rent increase struck out
Lululemon adds icing to slow growth, falling stocks and boardroom turmoil with a tin ear on China. Must be the only western brand to show in 🇨🇳 and not embrace a cultural advisor via @financialtimes.com
Lululemon apologises after Japanese drum controversy at Great Wall yoga event
Canadian athleisure company says it ‘should have been more cautious and thorough’
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Petite pop sensation Kylie Minogue’s Signature Rosé is the #1 selling rose in the UK. She reached a massive milestone last month, notching up sales of 27 million bottles worldwide since launching in 2020. via @thetimes.com
Rosé left on the shelf as chilled red wine has its time in the sun
No longer the preferred summer drink, rosé has been pushed aside by Gen Z drinkers inspired by Europe to pop light-bodied reds in the fridge
thetimes.com
Evening at The White House. Photo: Evan Vucci. Pulitzer Prize winner.
A fringe spectacle, banned in 36 states, branded “human cockfighting”by Senator John McCain. Great piece by Bryan Armen Graham @theguardian.com on 2 failing entrepreneurs who, to mutual benefit, fired up both #UFC & Trump’s failing casino…
From ‘human cockfighting’ to the White House lawn: the stratospheric rise of the UFC’s Dana White
Strange things are afoot at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, giving rise to an obvious question: how did we get here?
theguardian.com
I’d never heard of a UFC fight. Turns out it will be two fellas normalising violence on the White House lawns in a ‘sport’ where the path to victory is to beat your opponent’s head to the point of incapacitation. 🔹#UFC just confirmed ERIKA KIRK will host the White House Fight Night on June 14. 🔹
