A cautionary tale for my editor friends (and probably many others in this new world.)
Why Policy Options removed an article published under the name Daniel Robson policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/09/dani...
US actress Sydney Sweeney appears in an advert for sports betting app Novig in Times Square in New York City.
“A kick in the face”: leading women athletes accuse Sweeney of sexualising women's sport. Sweeney has an equity stake in Novig
📸 Angela Weiss
worth remembering that today is also the anniversary of the US backed coup in Chile that overthrew democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende and replaced him with the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, who murdered thousands of communists and leftists and jailed tens of thousands
It's Labor Day, which as you know is the day where we pay our respects to all the hard work it took for the Shinra Electric Power Company to build and shape our fair city of Midgar. Even the locals are spending the day reading up on the historic (and true!) 1,000 year legacy of Shinra!
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
I ran into Satya at QFC in Bellevue. He was driving a black C8 Audi A6. I will not be lectured by someone who is richer than God but chooses to drive a German taxicab.
People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds?
Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
SESAME STREET EXEC 1: kids love bright colours, so how about a bunch of humanoid puppets in red, green, blue, orange, yellow
SESAME STREET EXEC 2: ooh what if the yellow one had a head like a banana?
SESAME STREET EXEC 1: I love it, yes. banana head
DIVERSITY HIRE GOTH: there should be a vampire
www.ft.com/content/4f09...
Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.
just discovered "roaming" whereby my telephone can go on an adventure like a man. i dont care that it costs me money, it's the right thing to do. this little computer is my son
My favorite far side story is how this one got pulled from a bunnnnnch of papers cause ppl thought the dog was fuckin the car and Larson was like “idgi oh wait I guess I didn’t have to draw the gearbox yeah I see it now pretty funny”
"A new study out of Cornell Universit found workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders."
“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention.
“It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”
I still remember the joy I felt, as a bespectacled young man, seeing Michael Caine in glasses in The Ipcress File, getting into fights and winning them: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Moscow has so far earned an estimated $1.3bn-$1.9bn windfall from taxes on oil exports, making it the biggest winner from the conflict in the Middle East.
What does this mean for energy markets and the Russian economy? ft.trib.al/E4zE2us
A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to life in prison, after finding him guilty of masterminding an insurrection, stemming from his December 2024 attempt to impose martial law.