Katie Martin

Katie Martin

@katie0martin.ft.com

#TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser. I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc. FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks. *Stop the pervert glasses*

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Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

Can you be a massive idiot without having at least one parent who is also a massive idiot and also ancestors who are listed as massive idiots in the Domesday Book?

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Charlie Beckett
@charliebeckett.bsky.social

Fantastic detailed interactive graphic from the @financialtimes.com on the UK economy by postcode - lost myself in this - so much interesting detail Eg On household income, how come west London is falling? How come Cornwall is up? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.comGrowth in every postcode? What the UK economy really looks likeInteractive maps give a picture of how economic fortunes in Britain have varied wildly over a stagnant decade
Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

"personnel shortage"

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

Russia is stepping up the number of Africans it recruits to counter a personnel shortage in its military and is targeting some of the continent’s most dysfunctional states for manpower. Read more: bloom.bg/4AeYSxd 📷: AFP/Getty Images

Katie Martin
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The Guardian@theguardian.com

‘Zero-energy companionship’: bizarre hobby takes seed among China’s stressed young adults

theguardian.com‘Zero-energy companionship’: bizarre hobby takes seed among China’s stressed young adultsFaced with a stagnant jobs market, many are spurning children or pets in favour of ‘raising bricks’ Chinese young adults looking for a cheaper, low-maintenance alternative to having pets or children have found an answer: raising bricks. Bricks may not be as cuddly as cats or as life-affirming as human offspring, but they also cost next to nothing. “No cats, no dating, I started raising a brick,” wrote one brick parent on social media. Continue reading...
Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

👀 Max Kettner @ HSBC, the most reliably upbeat analyst I can think of, is spooked "We've been max OW stocks and max UW sovereign bonds since mid-March. Given the constant narrative bingo we just can't have the same level of conviction any longer. Tactically neutral equities and OW DM sovs"

Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

Since normie non-dweebs are asking for a translation, this is someone who has made a name being startlingly upbeat on markets (and generally right) taking some precautions against a setback and going like

Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

Opinion - audio - commercial - news

John Andrews@jkaconductor.bsky.social

Happy World Opera Day from the cast of THE BEAR (2021); Live-filmed during the pandemic by the amazing team at Opera Holland Park.

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone. After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River. Continue reading...

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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social

BOOM! Finally somebody takes down those arrogant little preschoolers and their so-called art: "Adults outperformed children on externally rated creativity, particularly in structured tasks."

journals.plos.orgAre children really more creative than adults? A mixed-methods examination of creative performance and experienceIt is widely believed that children are more creative than adults, yet direct empirical tests of this assumption are scarce. A qualitative pre-study indicated that creativity is commonly attributed to...
Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

bluesky users who are triggered by finance people posting charts and going 'oof' might want to look away now. French 10ys - eeshhhh mon dieu zut alors, etc

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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

Obviously it would be really childish if loads of Oxford students booked out this event and then didn't attend it. I might ping my kids to see if they have friends at Oxford who would agree with that sentiment. It's important not to be childish, even though it's a form of free speech.

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social

Offered without comment. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

eventbrite.comAn Evening with Nathan Cofnas: Is DEI Undermining Higher Education?Nathan Cofnas will discuss DEI and its impact on higher education and academic freedom.

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Robin Wigglesworth
@robinwigglesworth.ft.com

Fwiw this includes me (a British citizen but born abroad), my Norwegian midwife partner, and two of my three children. Nice to know that The Times thinks we are undesirable but has watched “helplessly” as we lived in London.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social

Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

Interesting that he's chill about the AI trade because “the smartest people in the world — who have 99 per cent of their net worth in these companies and have built the most profitable companies in the world — they believe in it.”

Kate Duguid@kateduguid.bsky.social

"As the secretary noted during the event, the media has become so inaccurate that he will never be able to read a newspaper again.” www.ft.com/content/5b7c...

ft.comScott Bessent shrugs off ‘systemic’ AI risks at closed-door investor conferenceTreasury secretary spoke to financiers at charity event where tickets cost $7,500