@aadetugbo.bsky.social
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I know many people with a lot of wealth who are not very bright. I know a lot of people with no money who are brilliant. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Lutnick: "We should be bringing in the best and brightest, and that's what Donald Trump is changing about our immigration system. Let's expedite the best and brightest who are gonna give a million dollars to the US to prove they're at the top of the list."
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I know many people with a lot of wealth who are not very bright. I know a lot of people with no money who are brilliant. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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the moment to prevent on Musk's "data centers in space" bullshit with basic math was 2012, when he claimed Tesla's Supercharger network would be 100% solar powered and generate more energy than the cars consumed
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the moment to prevent on Musk's "data centers in space" bullshit with basic math was 2012, when he claimed Tesla's Supercharger network would be 100% solar powered and generate more energy than the cars consumed
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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Pitch perfect
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Pitch perfect
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The state of corruption in America’s first family set out in detail by this comprehensive article in @guardian by @tomburgis bit.ly/3KvAmn6 this is the corruption the Rutger Bergman referred to in the sentence in his first Reith Lecture, now deleted “for legal reasons”
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The state of corruption in America’s first family set out in detail by this comprehensive article in @guardian by @tomburgis bit.ly/3KvAmn6 this is the corruption the Rutger Bergman referred to in the sentence in his first Reith Lecture, now deleted “for legal reasons”
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My very dull position on language AI is that it has no moat or network effects and so is destined to end up as just another local feature, like spellcheck.
Except developed at astonishing cost.
Except developed at astonishing cost.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My very dull position on language AI is that it has no moat or network effects and so is destined to end up as just another local feature, like spellcheck.
Except developed at astonishing cost.
Except developed at astonishing cost.
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
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My phone calling my car an accessory when I plug it in is a power move
November 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My phone calling my car an accessory when I plug it in is a power move
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People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.
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Absolutely right. As we noted in FAULT LINES, Watergate is key to understanding Cheney’s politics
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Absolutely right. As we noted in FAULT LINES, Watergate is key to understanding Cheney’s politics
The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," #pathetic and #shameful cowardice
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
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Cleaning out some old magazines, I came across an article I wrote for "The Accountant" about #artificialintelligence dated 19 July 1984 - a mere 41 years ago.
It concluded: "as it progressively makes machines more like humans, it could well shape the acceptable face of computers and computing" #ai
It concluded: "as it progressively makes machines more like humans, it could well shape the acceptable face of computers and computing" #ai
October 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Cleaning out some old magazines, I came across an article I wrote for "The Accountant" about #artificialintelligence dated 19 July 1984 - a mere 41 years ago.
It concluded: "as it progressively makes machines more like humans, it could well shape the acceptable face of computers and computing" #ai
It concluded: "as it progressively makes machines more like humans, it could well shape the acceptable face of computers and computing" #ai
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The Surete's elite Flaneur squad is now on the case.
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The Surete's elite Flaneur squad is now on the case.
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I loved my epidural. if I had another kid, I would ask for it in the parking lot. I would get one right now tbh.
Epidurals are rare in Japan, where some believe that women who endure childbirth without pain-relief enjoy closer bonds with their children. Hoping to nudge up the number of babies being born, Tokyo govt has begun rolling out subsidies to help women pay for epidurals and chip away at that stigma
To Tackle a Baby Shortage, Tokyo Tries Easing the Pain of Childbirth
The Japanese capital is rolling out subsidies for epidurals in a country where cost is a barrier and women are often encouraged to endure the pain of delivery.
www.wsj.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I loved my epidural. if I had another kid, I would ask for it in the parking lot. I would get one right now tbh.
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NEW Prominent Italian businessman among the targets of Paragon spyware
🧵 Francesco Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31. He has been at the center of a major banking operation involving the government.
@faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu
irpimedia.irpi.eu/prominent-it...
🧵 Francesco Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31. He has been at the center of a major banking operation involving the government.
@faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu
irpimedia.irpi.eu/prominent-it...
Prominent Italian businessman also among the targets of Paragon spyware
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31, along with 90 other users around the world. Since the end of 2024, he has been at the center of a major banking operation invol...
irpimedia.irpi.eu
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
NEW Prominent Italian businessman among the targets of Paragon spyware
🧵 Francesco Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31. He has been at the center of a major banking operation involving the government.
@faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu
irpimedia.irpi.eu/prominent-it...
🧵 Francesco Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31. He has been at the center of a major banking operation involving the government.
@faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu
irpimedia.irpi.eu/prominent-it...
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1. In the US, law abiding citizens have the right to own a firearm. This is considered one of the most fundamental rights that Americans have.
2. In the US, being a law-abiding citizen who is both Black and owns a firearm, gives cops permission to summarily execute by shooting you in the face.
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2. In the US, being a law-abiding citizen who is both Black and owns a firearm, gives cops permission to summarily execute by shooting you in the face.
🙂🙃
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
1. In the US, law abiding citizens have the right to own a firearm. This is considered one of the most fundamental rights that Americans have.
2. In the US, being a law-abiding citizen who is both Black and owns a firearm, gives cops permission to summarily execute by shooting you in the face.
🙂🙃
2. In the US, being a law-abiding citizen who is both Black and owns a firearm, gives cops permission to summarily execute by shooting you in the face.
🙂🙃
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👴🏻"Why are you being so divisive?! We only complain about people being pulled out of their car by cops pointing guns at them if the cops are ICE! It's not like ICE did this to Canelo Alvarez! If it's regular cops doing this and worse to Black people like Bud, then it's OK! Vote Blue, no matter who!"🤡
Bud Crawford being pulled over and held at gunpoint by the police in his hometown the night he’s celebrating beating Canelo is way too on the nose for the US.
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
👴🏻"Why are you being so divisive?! We only complain about people being pulled out of their car by cops pointing guns at them if the cops are ICE! It's not like ICE did this to Canelo Alvarez! If it's regular cops doing this and worse to Black people like Bud, then it's OK! Vote Blue, no matter who!"🤡
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Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again