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Ciao @saintmoritz.bsky.social until next time 🌞 ❄️ ⛰️

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Great insight into shifting demographic trends in Japan that influence new needs, new products, new revenue streams on.ft.com/3QJHsE3 Steak mousse and other things avoid though the impending economic difficulties that may be ahead

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Skype is officially shutting down on May 5, 2025

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Americans planning travel to Europe are enrolling in a crash course to learn Canadian accents, a Canadian accent instructor revealed. “I’m only accepting clients willing to put in the work,” he said. “If you think you can speak 🍁 just by ending every sentence w/ ‘eh,’ you’re wasting your time.” 🤣

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Wow almost 50% of consumer spending comes from the top 10% of earners, in the US, according to @npr.org / @wsj.com

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Some good news thanks to the FT ✈️

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I’m sorry, but we’re doing a piss poor job with the ~phases of physical existence~ we have. I’m not sure I have the bandwidth for a new one right now.

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Most people don't know this but Ancient Rome was fully remote until Julius Caesar implemented a return to office program and well you know what happened next

submitted 15 days ago • 140 comments

"We are at the post-democracy transition." - @americalabs.org

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Checking my bank account every day for a deposit from the government since I've been hearing about all the money they've been saving lately. Nothing yet but it's probably coming soon

submitted 15 days ago • 640 comments

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 15 days ago • 2395 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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I do think we should be happy that under terrible circumstances, assisted dying is legitimate and legal www.economist.com/the-americas... Opponents say often people haven’t given palliative care a go first but data show this is incorrect; they say it reflects a poor health service, which is true

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Oh well that was a devastating read www.economist.com/united-state... From foreign affairs to politicising the courts to investments in fossil fuels and egging on culture wars that turn off the majority; Biden carried on many of Trump’s “policies”, and in many ways enabled his return

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Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim. Me, 20 years later: fuck

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"U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump administration, in the sense that it will cease to meet standard criteria for liberal democracy: full adult suffrage, free and fair elections, and broad protection of civil liberties."

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Microsoft found in its own AI research that it encourages less critical thinking. Unfortunately, this isn't poised to stop the mass AI integration into all levels of schooling, including early childhood education, where critical thinking skills should be formed. www.404media.co/email/9d5175...

submitted 23 days ago • 22 comments

Great evidence that sanctions can work, via leaked documents from Russia on.ft.com/416yN4A “Russia’s fears over ex-Soviet nations laid bare in leaked paper”

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Just reading about this piece commissioned by Clinton, composer by John Williams, to mark the turning of the millennium and the unfulfilled promise of America en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America... We have fallen so far from grace since then. Very disheartening

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$1/4bn has been spent on One Seaport, but not looking very likely it will ever be lived in www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Building without adequate foundations and seemingly with poor safety precautions

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“Stranger than fiction” as people in LA corkscrew themselves into uncomfortable positions to accommodate a new administration. H/t @variety.com

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Barnes & Noble is adding 60 new stores in 2025 📕 A major factor in the bookstore revival has been TikTok

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Don’t let anyone tell you this guy is popular or that the country is trending his way. Just isn’t true. Never was.

submitted 35 days ago • 188 comments

If you are considering downloading DeepSeek, please read this first and share with others You don’t owner your data. They keep it even if you delete and worse ..

submitted 35 days ago • 1754 comments

#frasier still keeping me laughing out loud after so many decades and a lot of challenges already this year

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Why Nvidia investors are spooked by Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek on.ft.com/4hwh2ku When perhaps they should be the opposite

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Fascinating: How small Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek shocked Silicon Valley on.ft.com/40U5Ys8

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Genuinely sad to hear that Eurosport will cease to exist after next month in the UK. As if there wasn’t enough going on to feel sad about

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agree that the headline findings are disturbing, but what is even more wild is the stat that a third of middle aged Britons apparently want a revolution

submitted 38 days ago • 135 comments

This sounded like such a wonderful Met exhibition www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... And its only through my own laziness that I missed it 😞 Love they have been so well kept for 7 centuries, and so much of the purpose of Mandalas remains unclear

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Was curious to see if Blue Sky would also be similar to Twitter in terms of me engaging and trying to ask Qs only to be quickly met with ad hominem attacks (and then also blocked). Makes me feel attacked, and feel sad for general state of discourse

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David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” seeming like a premonition again

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I noted this when it was announced. The Bidens were informed and could have hosted

submitted 39 days ago • 154 comments

Indictment of how Democrats surrendered ground on being the party of the working class to the Republicans www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Preferring to castigate Trump, talk about benefits & taxes rather than jobs, failing to acknowledge Rust Belt’s aversion to voting for a Californian woman

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CIA says - with low confidence - that Covid-19 probably leaked from Chinese laboratory on.ft.com/40tHmVz Now what?

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🗽 🌞 ❄️ First thing this morn in my wonderful city

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“If the middle class looks upwards, the rich are pulling further away… But look down, and the floor is coming up fast. This simultaneous rise of resentment and precarity is a dangerous cocktail and could certainly have fed into recent political undercurrents” #inequality on.ft.com/42pPkS7

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Contrasting tales for theatre in London vs NY on.ft.com/3E2KTCB Latter’s audiences have yet to fully return post-Covid (and down from 22-23), and productions hugely more expensive than London thanks to unionised labour costs, and relatively high rent

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“The fight between Republicans and Democrats for the working class is going to be the defining political battle of the next four years and beyond” on.ft.com/40EWJM8 Interesting to read about Trump’s idea for an online learning platform American Academy

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Trump has - completely contrary to his aims - already helped accelerate a shift toward the “world’s largest trade union”, with so many countries making multilateral agreements to conduct trade in local currencies, rather than the dollar

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#Draper v #Vukic at #australianopen was just a sensational match. Unreal the consistency of their shotmaking throughout. So impressive, and sorry there had to be a loser. At 4 hours it came down to one good serve. Crazy. Awesome. 🎾

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I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

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