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On Bible Chat, a chatbot trained on the teachings of the Bible, some of the most common conversation topics include, “Is getting tattoos a sin?” or “How do I overcome lust?” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...

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When history is written 10, 20 years from now, one thing will be blindingly clear to everyone, everywhere: two men, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, could have prevented this by ordering Israel to stop, or else. Pretending otherwise will be a new negationism. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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One of a kind #RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

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Many presidents have been led astray by trigger-happy aides and generals but at least Trump knows when to cut his losses. Credit where credit's due www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

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"Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke recently told employees that the e-commerce company won’t make new hires unless managers can prove AI isn’t capable of doing the job." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

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Cardinal Tagle, who sat next to Cardinal Prevost, noticed him taking deep breaths as votes amassed in his favor. “I asked him, ‘Do you want a candy?’ and he said ‘Yes’” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/w...

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"Tous les ans, plus de 350 milliards d’euros sont transmis au sein des familles. Sur ce montant colossal, seulement 20 milliards reviennent à l’Etat" www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

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Working from home www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...

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Chinese woman makes a huge fuss because her 3-year-old son was mistakenly served a glass of white wine, of which he took a single sip, on board a Cathay Pacific flight. She worries about "long-term health issues" 🤦‍♂️ French doctor on board says it's all fine 😂 open.substack.com/pub/tripperh...

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People have focused on Trump's rather desultory "never say never" but the real masterstroke was Carney's "as you know from real estate," deftly highlighting Trump's only area of competence and frame of reference

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How sick can they get? The State Department warns against traveling to Libya “due to crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

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Nineteen households, a one-year increase in wealth, bigger than the world's 20th largest economy 🤯

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I rarely use the word inspiring but this is 👏 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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"As someone who has never hidden that his worldview is transactional, it clearly amuses [Trump] that the gussied-up moral pretensions of Establishment poobahs are proving so easy to take down." open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...

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Great essay, if only to learn about Vannevar Bush, who convinced Roosevelt that government has a duty to fund fundamental scientific research, even in peacetime on.ft.com/4lPZToS

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Harry settled. Gordon Brown picks up the fight www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"Mixing religion with politics is unacceptable in Singapore" 👏 www.instagram.com/reel/DI591wN...

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Electric cars, renewable energy, industrial robots. The speed and scale of innovation in China is breathtaking. Maybe it's the CCP that will finally deliver Keynes' long overdue 15-hour workweek www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...

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I moved to New York in April 1995 at the time of the 20th anniversary, having travelled for a month in Vietnam the previous year. Even then it was striking how Vietnam had moved on and the US was struggling to do the same. Fast forward 30 years... ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...

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Queen Elizabeth met Liz Truss the day before she died. Pope Francis met JD Vance the day before he died. Eerie.

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"La démocratie est une anomalie. La liberté est une anomalie. L'individu est une anomalie. Ce qui est permanent dans l'histoire humaine, c'est la barbarie, c'est la brutalité, c'est l'esprit de la tribu, c'est pas l'individu, c'est la masse, c'est la collectivité." open.spotify.com/episode/4xBB...

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Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m. #richkid #amateur

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This is very sobering. The assault on the rule of law, academia, etc, is not registering at all with these people. They give Trump huge credit for doing something (and blame Musk for the bits they don't like). None would change their vote. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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As a person, Navarro is a lot more simpatico than Musk. Pity his concern for blue collar jobs (already mentioned in his fresh-faced speech at the 1996 Democratic convention) and early intuition about the risks of globalisation have turned into a mad obsession www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/b...

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This strategy is deluded. Tell the media you want to do deals with allies that would force them to cut China out of supply chains... just so you can do a big deal with China. So they expect others to sabotage their own trade policies, just so Trump can cut a grand bargain with Xi

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Starmer: I too can rule by executive orders 🍺

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"The FT Weekend, alternated with a good novel, may be the perfect information diet for the age of Trump." on.ft.com/4lT7Vxo

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Something that often gets lost in the age of 24-hour news channels: "it is not true that a capitalist system has to imply a preponderant role for the stock market" open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...

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"For the past decade, American government and business alike have slowly begun to adopt the kleptocratic model pioneered by countries such as Russia and China, where the rulers’ conflicts of interest are simply part of the fabric of the system." open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...

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Every quote by Trump, Bukele, Rubio, Miller and Bondi in this story makes you want to 🤮 Wanton, gloating cruelty www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Yet another study backs UBI edition.cnn.com/2025/04/11/h...

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"As a matter of policy, I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts.” (Sharing my personal view would be undiplomatic. Let's just say I find this highly amusing.) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

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"The essence of Hockney’s work is the attempt to capture the animating force of life — in the faces of friends and loved ones, or in a blossoming tree, changing season or night sky." 🤍 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/a...

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Inexplicable blind spot www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/m...

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Meanwhile, two of Trump’s best friends keep slaughtering children

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Saved by Switzerland ⌚️ 🍫 wapo.st/4jLoABd

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So Trump choked, to use one of his favourite derogatory terms. Question now, which anthill is he going to kick to make headlines for the next 90 days?

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Smaller pension pot, but better annuity rates 🤷‍♂️

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“Don’t call it Black Monday, it’s Orange Monday.” 😂 on.ft.com/3FWZLUf

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The biggest difference is that Truss was a lone wolf, with very few acolytes, even in her own (parliamentary) party. Whereas the entire Republican establishment has signed up for MAGA and the business community backed Trump until April 2 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/w...

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