on my Niemeyer arc

Does any of my followers happen to be in Brasilia?

OASI = Old-Age and Survivors Insurance

Re: midwit magnet’s point, I think there’s a foundation that collects money to pay the Swiss pension insurance contributions for them, to sweeten the deal.

Sheryl Sandberg I want to learn settlers of catan too so we can play Mark Zuckerberg I can definitely teach you Settlers of Catan. It's very easy to learn.

Sheryl Sandberg messages Mark Zuckerberg

November 8, 2012

Based French communists:

so to the extent that there's a market for commentary about "La trahison des clercs" it is probably corresponding to the unresolved sense of grievance over simply seeing so many things fail

Money is credit is trust

young men need to rediscover quiet confidence and reflective contemplation

Visualising modern digital government Learn more about the process of creating the blueprint for a modern digital government including the collaboration involved, open working, and user-centered design.

Blog post from @timpaul.co.uk and Helena Trippe at GDS, exploring what the ideas in the 'Blueprint for modern digital government' might look and behave like "when they inevitably bump up against the rough edges of the real world"...

gds.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/07/v...

Another victim of pig butchering scam

They're scammed and trafficked to Cambodia or Myanmar under the pretense of a job offer, imprisoned in a compound to perform internet romance scams for the mob boss

Sometimes they let you leave if you find a replacement. This is likely what happened here.

The “cover” of today’s Globe & Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. #StrongAndFree

excellent example of "accounting system as mental prison" - if you cut the social care budget and put the responsibility onto families, it looks like you have more money to spend on military investment, but the actual amount of labour hours available has probably shrunk

There is a huge infrastructure that works pretty darn well and thus has faded into the background and become invisible and unknown to the public.

Current mood:

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...

We made it. Foreign Affairs says we’re Western Europe.

I like this place, it's chill, but the reason I became addicted to Twitter in the first place is I could watch major breaking news events happen in real time, and trying to use this site to track what's happening in NW Syria now is utterly hopeless.

100%

Makes sense. Should probably update my handle to my domain!

Is there a bluecheck/brand verification service on Bluesky? @jay.bsky.team

I wanted to check the status of Office 365 outages, but there’s a lot of accounts that may or may not be Microsoft’s. Verification would come handy!

Why I’m bearish on liberalism

Most of the stuff I have written myself were meant for an audience of no more than 20-30 people!

It looks pretty embarrassing, but a large share of those were written with a particular audience in mind (most often a government agency in a particular country), who consented to them being publicly disclosed—think of them as McKinsey-style slide decks presented to their clients.

Great read from Scott Bessent on the legacy of Abenomics www.international-economy.com/TIE_F22_Bess...

Is there any Ukraine starter pack?

love this format

study NACHA and stop being a snowflake

study real-time gross settlement with liquidity saving features and stop being a snowflake