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Mumbai correspondent at the Economist
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · Nov 6
A starter pack of all the Economist journalists I could find on BlueSky. If there are any more I've missed let me know and I'll add them go.bsky.app/GNQbuoM
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 20h
Traitors is back on telly tonight. Here was my attempt to apply some game theory to the show.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...
“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson
It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game
www.economist.com
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h
Fun bit of trivia this morning

*LEHMAN BROTHERS EUROPE ADMINISTRATION CONCLUDES AFTER 17 YEARS
*LONDON JUDGE SAYS ADMINISTRATION IS ENDED AT HEARING
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 20h
Traitors is back on telly tonight. Here was my attempt to apply some game theory to the show.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...
“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson
It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game
www.economist.com
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d
Apparently they give fake Nobels to disciplines that have to come up with ad hoc explanations for why their mathematical models don’t describe the real world and are unable to reconcile micro and macro. Called “physics”, I hear.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d
Wasn’t it more export promotion than import substitution in SKs case? (I think a lot of net zero stuff is basically import substitution in practice)
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 2d
Invest in your health now to make sure you get the most out of any grandkids. They’re faster than you expect.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 2d
Buy that indulgent mid-life crisis purchase you’ve been considering.
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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 2d
It’s happened again
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d
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UK becomes BYD’s largest international market after sales surge
Chinese carmaker takes market share despite being shut out of subsidy scheme
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 2d
Liz Truss had the lifespan of a lettuce, Lecornu matched steak tartare
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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 2d
Sébastian Lecornu taught me it was okay to be weird
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bisphamgreen.bsky.social @bisphamgreen.bsky.social · 2d
Wow already
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d
FRENCH PM LECORNU RESIGNS
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 2d
The gold of County Tyrone shows Britain’s barriers to development. (Also a lesson for would-be frackers)
economist.com/britain/2025...
The gold of County Tyrone shows Britain’s barriers to development
Despite the central government’s wish to get digging, a potentially lucrative gold mine remains stuck
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 3d
Anyway it’s just the dissonance of hearing this guff about how Britain is on the brink of a race war while going to a church community centre where a load of second generation and mixed heritage toddlers listen to nursery rhymes. Things can get bad quickly but it’s just not the present.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 3d
But even there the question is whether it is possible to assemble a Popular Front of the overwhelming majority of voters opposed to this stuff
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 3d
Continue to be bemused by the gulf between the apocalyptic tone on social media and the experience of what is largely a pleasant country in which most people trust each other and institutions. The liberal version is overstating the impact of the increasingly loud online right
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5d
Nah but the subhed is saying that she’s a virgin because she’s AI. It’s more like saying a cartoon must be a virgin rather than saying that within the fiction the character is a virgin.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5d
If someone wrote that subhed for me I’d get it changed!
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5d
Ceci n’est pas une pipe.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5d
I guess not. We read the image as a girl but that’s not the same thing.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5d
Mocking Tyler! Can the outcome of matrix algebra be a virgin? Isn’t it like calling a table a virgin?
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5d
It’s a mad thing to say
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5d
Read the subhed
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 5d
A virgin on-screen
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