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AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
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Til Death Do Us Blart 2025 gonna be spicy

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Don’t like current events

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it happened

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Netflix just emailed to tell me that shrek 1 and 2 are the 6th and 7th most-viewed shows in the UK

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Great job opening at The Economist: we're looking for an economics correspondent to cover Britain. No journalistic experience necessary. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Mad that this worked

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After the Salisbury murder Jeremy Corbyn, Labour’s leader at the time, at first refused to countenance that Russia was behind it. When a Labour adviser heard this he kicked a bin, shouting: “That’s fucking going to cost us the election!”

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Annoying side effect of climate change is a growing sense that electrification of transport solves the problems with cars rather than leaving all the other problems with cars unchanged

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It’s is _not_ cute. Planes only lie on their backs when they’re extremely distressed

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

fantastic essay

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in awe of this promotional stunt for detergent that involved deliberately staining people's clothes in ways that the detergent could not remove www.polygon.com/movies/52434...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

www.theverge.com/news/612898/... glad I switched to kobo this month

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I think the world is ready for a landfill indie jukebox musical

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

@janinegibson.ft.com sinkhole news japantoday.com/category/nat...

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One of the key points of superforecasting is assessing the flaws in your reasoning that led you to make incorrect predictions so I’d love to read what Cummings thinks he misunderstood when he superforecasted that boris johnson would be a good prime minister

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