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Professor in the Sociology of Markets, University of Edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social | sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, architecture, cities | EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics/
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I have been deriving faint hope from the fact that wapo was still reporting, seems they're doing away with that. 😫

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

some of the blame for the current financial crisis can be attributed to the decision to remove borrowing safeguards. Though estates benefited the entry of UK unis into the world of private placements and bonds has left a legacy that will take decades to reckon with wonkhe.com/blogs/we-are...

Last and final hope is with what institutional investors do with their funds.

Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

This is what doing that kind of thing does to my anxiety levels, blood glucose the index of excitation

I have awoken late at the national Badminton centre after a long diversion because Lockerbie slipped on to the tracks. No espresso due to an unfortunate event. I am very disorientated

"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. - James Baldwin

Open and Closes: a brilliant film by Sapphire Goss, produced, written and narrated by Liz McFall, on the role of city region deals and Futures Institutes: youtu.be/AKLey4Ub1wI?... @allartmarkets.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Thorough in Edinburgh today for a talkything in one of the the big shiny buildings on Potterrow. In tenuous honour of the event, here's what the Informatics Forum looked like from the top of Appleton Tower in 1965/66. [Photo: my dad.]

Happy Black History Month

Plenty to think about after the premiere of @allartmarkets.bsky.social + @sapphiregoss.bsky.social excellent film "Opens and Closes: The Future of Edinburgh's Histories" at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social (and anyone who uses Ministry's "N.W.O." as pre-screening music is OK by me 🤘)

What an amazing Premiere of “Opens and Closes: the Future of Edinburgh's Histories” by the one and only @allartmarkets.bsky.social and @sapphiregoss.bsky.social at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. Buzzing w/ visual metaphors, the poetics of accountants, and topographies of pasts & futures!

Jesse Duquette

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

Our inability to imagine big numbers is going to kill us all.

US mid cap equities down since Trump election, different trajectory than tech. Market thinking correctly Trump doesn’t care ab them, contrary to rhetoric

Today we’re going to walk around Arthur Seat, eat haggis pakora and then endure,ahem, enjoy the screening. YouTube premiere youtu.be/AKLey4Ub1wI at 19.00 gmt

Or …. “Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?” Irvine Welsh

Capitalism really has run out of answers when the solution to a mess created largely by private-equity ownership is ... another PE owner

Duh, BlackRock obviously

Apropos of nothing but also something

If you’d asked AI to write a piece of Russian propaganda in the style of Donald Trump, this is what you’d get. Well done America, you’ve elected a Russian asset as your President.

By which I mean tomorrow at 19.00 GMT

🥁🥁🥁 YouTube premiere for @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @sapphiregoss.bsky.social 🎥 Opens & Closes: the future of Edinburgh’s histories tomorrow at 6.45 youtu.be/AKLey4Ub1wI

“‘I am a firestarter.” So sang Keith Flint, the late lead singer of techno-punk band The Prodigy.’ Technically correct but also just wrong on.ft.com/4gSDKCC Innovation and the cult of the firestarter

Happening this Thursday, 20 Feb, 6pm-8:30pm! Join us for the premiere screening of "Opens and Closes: The Future of Edinburgh's Histories" – a film by Sapphire Goss, produced, written and narrated by Liz Mcfall @allartmarkets.bsky.social @sapphiregoss.bsky.social Book 🎟️ edin.ac/3WABmsS

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

Have I mentioned how extraordinary and beautiful our latest with @sapphiregoss.bsky.social is? in which we descend into the dystopia of the moment. Register here efi.ed.ac.uk/event/opens-... for in-person - YouTube link to follow

Fantastic trailer for the film “Opens and Closes: the Future of Edinburgh’s Histories” which will premiere on 20 Feb, 6pm at EFI. Free to attend but ticketed! Book tickets ➡️ edin.ac/3WABmsS @sapphiregoss.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfVU...

my oldest friend has decided to have a ceilidh to celebrate her 25th anniversary. with a caller. and sausage rolls. i am devastated

#C19th #Chartism Owenite and Northern Star journalist Thomas Martin Wheeler died #OTD 16 February 1862. After Chartism’s decline, he built up the Friend in Need Life and Sick Assurance Society, turning it into one of the country’s largest mutual societies. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-marti...

Asset managers, as always, ahead of most leftist analysts, and asking the right questions: "How DeepSeek might dethrone the dollar" ninetyone.com/en/united-ki...