I'm truly not sure which is worse. If Keir Starmer was informed and is lying about it or that he is so absent as PM that important decisions are taken for him by officials. At least lying about what he knew, while intolerable, would show there is someone in charge and taking an interest.
The 10-session surge in AI stocks off the March 30 lows is a smidge off their best performance ever during this boom
Westwood produced a “high case” production forecast in 2025 which it said would depend on a “long-term commitment to ongoing licensing”.
That’s shown by the dotted gold line - it still makes only a marginal difference to projected production...10/17 www.westwoodenergy.com/news/westwoo...
I believe the phrase is "Hang it in the Louvre"
2010: massive Orbán win
2014: massive Orban win
2018: massive Orban win
2022: massive Orban win
2024: Goodwin visits, starts promoting Orban regime
2026:
I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad
as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...
Stocks soar on 2-week postponement of Armageddon.
🚨 In Light Of Global Events, The Official Correct Amount Of Pints Has Been Revised To Five (5) Pints
In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president
The rationale seems to be, "if we don't put AI in our search, we'll lose use to AI-powered search engines; we can't afford to run a full-fat Gemini query for every single search, though, so we'll offer cheaper and faster responses." But the end result is a wide perception that Google's AI is bad
An economically “self sufficient” Britain is a poorer and more miserable Britain.
It’s also a less secure one.
ok if we just shut up and give them this one then play the long game, it opens up a lot of poetic irony come 2028
With this and Polanski's rubbish today the Greens really are leaning into the easy populism stuff arent they.
It's rubbish that corrodes our politics, but they don't care. Its just a game for them
TBF the man needs to find a use for all the farm land he bought to avoid IHT…
Median earnings for crypto, politics, sports are sometimes 30 times lower than mean earnings, which top accounts inflate
Fascinating chart: huge gap between median and mean winnings on Polymarket, possibly suggesting insiders/AIs are reaping the richest rewards as.ft.com/r/520f0be6-3...
They do for everyone under 60…
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Librarian here. It's because library books eat old people.
absolutely wild that M&S, of all the brands, is the one telling TERFs to get rekt and also has by far the best spicy margarita tin on the market
It's a small venue but a gig's a gig
Prediction market fanboys will need to explain why the implied odds of the Italy referendum passing crept up to 75% before standing now at 6%.
It's kind of fascinating how markets still react so strongly to everything Trump says despite it being contradictory and often quickly disproven.
Let's see...
Just don’t see global central banks going full Trichet.
My sons, Aryann and Grokulus, love to visit local establishments and shoot at the feet of service employees, causing them to "dance." Do you like this. Is this relatable
Great. A Sinclair C5, but with AI. Just what nobody wanted.
A “TEP solicitor” would be a member of @stepsociety.bsky.social so if they ever give you a name please do report them to STEP
not the biggest thing but just an FYI: the most likely place we wind up from here, in my view, is that if you the client feed documents to e.g. Claude you’ve blown attorney-client privilege on those documents
Les Halles is more Leicester Square and Las Marais is more Soho nowadays. Good bars and restaurants in Rue des Archives and Cafes on Rue Vielle du Temple
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
CNN: Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.
The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density.
Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.