Robert Smith
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Robert Smith
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Corporate Finance Editor at the Financial Times.

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January 11, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Reposted by Robert Smith
A pub, a vape-shop, a William Hill, and a barbers all in one where you can also get your phone repaired.
Multi-use attractive retail is the future.
January 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Meet FT Alphaville, sir, the FT’s more shitposty sibling. You may also enjoy this other recent post www.ft.com/content/6d1e...
Person of Interest 2025: the longlist
A 12th annual celebration of cancellation
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
It’s all going well so far tbf
January 5, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Yeah I get it. I think it was a little much to accuse me of a "disenguous answer" though. I can only speak to my own approach as I'm not in charge of the FT's social media policy.
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Fear not Jim, they’re aware of the situation! bsky.app/profile/lizz...
Ofcom, which enforces the UK's Online Safety Act, says it is aware of "serious concerns" about Grok undressing people including children on X

“We have made urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK," it says
January 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
(and tagging @paultassi.bsky.social, who I hadn't realised was also on here)
January 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I stopped posting there quite a while back. bsky.app/profile/bond...
I stopped posting on there mid-2024 (save for a post flagging a scam impersonator and another post reminding people I no longer post there when I was receiving a lot of messages on there about a big story). Lots of other FT journalists are either solely or primarily on Bluesky too.
January 5, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I stopped posting on there mid-2024 (save for a post flagging a scam impersonator and another post reminding people I no longer post there when I was receiving a lot of messages on there about a big story). Lots of other FT journalists are either solely or primarily on Bluesky too.
January 5, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Reposted by Robert Smith
Turning to the public markets, we see more evidence of enshittification. CoreWeave is utterly rotten and debt-ridden - OpenAI has negotiated *net 360 payment terms*, and NVIDIA in its earnings admitted it's had to backstop an entity that's very likely CoreWeave.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
December 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Never tire of watching this.

youtu.be/dqSR8zQnFpA?...
Norm Macdonald — Rob Schneider Joke
YouTube video by I’m not Norm’s son
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Glad you saw this, it was an amazing piece of work.
December 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM