Simon Johnson🇺🇦

Just crossed the Arctic Circle lads

Big news for Popbitch subscribers of the last decade.

Well now look, this is something I want.

Race Across The World but it's Flávio and Bibi on the run from Lula and the ICC

Long time since they sent a bill for over $400m for their work on the Lehman estate

Patrick O'Brian 🧐

The French for "Imaginary Friend" is "Ami Imaginaire" or "Amie Imaginaire". #AI

I also did not know who Harry Kane was, and the ai summary left me with more questions

The first Brent futures contract trading below pre U.S.-Iran war levels expires in April ... of 2030.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

To all my American brothers and sisters, I just read this line in a UK government report: “Home Office data shows that in the ten years ending 31 March 2025, shootings involving legally held firearms led to the murder of at least 39 people”

Really looking forward to seeing how he gets on in Israel

A nice touch in this illuminating article on reclusive hedge fund manager Peter de Putron. One minute he says his father provided him ‘with an education and nothing more’. The next it turns out he launched his first fund with the help of ‘a series of loans from his father’ as.ft.com/r/f0f8c810-3...

Talking about Rejoin certainly flushes out all of the people who must be allowed nowhere near any Rejoin campaign that intends to win.

he won the September elections to the Russian Duma? So it's not all L's

Trump has now lost elections in Australia, Canada, Hungary, Brazil, Serbia

Starlink

The Council of Elrond is such a tour-de-force of writing. Tolkien showing that he can make *anything* engaging, even a five hour committee meeting.

None of these was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Elon Musk was. Odd, that.

You need a new constitution dude. Nothing short of that is going to cut it.

“a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence”

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

"There's never been a better time to go into math". Passionate manifesto from @3blue1brown.com youtu.be/LKrwhjOI8Nc?...

Neural networks

I don't think it was: "Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as 'one day the bridge fell down and no-one came to fix it'” I think it was more likely: "Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as 'one year I stopped paying taxes and no-one came to collect them'”

A bot which every time someone posts "America's allies" replies "former allies"

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon oped here on how AI companies should manage risk. Here are two of the measures he proposes. More in the piece. as.ft.com/r/2ef8918d-e...

There’s this good new TV show and the New Yorker is ON IT

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

I can’t believe it’s been TEN YEARS (this week!) since I visited the world’s largest radio telescope, FAST in southern China, to film an episode of Impossible Engineering. It’s genuinely one of the most awesome (in the original sense) things I’ve ever seen.

IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem

is this good

"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability" #OneForTheKidsThere