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The real LOLGreece. Greek, Brit, dad of two, onetime economist and policy analyst, recovering startup guy.
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The US obsession with characterising people by generation is not the worst US export, but it frustrates me that the world has not collectively called bullshit on it as with MBTI and horoscopes.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/05... Human Rights Watch spoke to journalists working in print media, electronic media, television, and radio, for public, private, and independent outlets, to foreign correspondents and freelancers. Few journalists were willing to be identified, fearing reprisals.

Ναχαμε έναν υπόψηφιο αρχιεπίσκοπο πχ που να τον λένε ξερωγω Καλλίνικο Μεζεδάκη-Μπαλλίτσα.

If i were called Pierbattista Pizzaballa I'd just live on licensing fees from people wanting to use my name.

As a parent i should not find this funny and yes i know spelling etc but it's hilarious that so many kids' smartwatches have pedometers

Monochrome Mary

“Musk won’t have any involvement with his handpicked DOGE loyalists because he’s going to spent most of his time in Texas” is dumb but surprisingly common idea, apparently

This from openai is just mad. Time was, ai companies would go out of their way to make it clear their products could not offer medical or psychological advice. openai.com/index/evolvi...

I must confess i hate them with a passion. They make it easy to spill drinks and (whisper it) recycling plastic doesn't actually do much for the environment. If there was ever a physical version of the e-privacy directive's cookie banners that everyone swats away like flies, it is this.

Rand Paul (R-KY) going off on his own party.

ngl, this one cuts deep

Hot take: Trump will exempt all sales of Overlord: the Sacred Kingdom out of solidarity with Ainz Ool Gown. "The Wizard King is a very smart man. Women love him. He had promised to buy one million tons of California pistachios as a gesture of goodwill."

The facts on the ground may be grim but "a single bargaining unit that includes The Dodo" is, in this context, objectively funny.

Remove tariffs, fix a movie. The Phantom Menace.

Trump apparently has unfettered power in the US and he’s not merged the SEC & CFTC, what a waste

Anti-AI folks online, idk. It's one thing to say "genAI doesn't do information retrieval and cannot apply judgment", which is true, it's quite another to flat out assert it doesn't work or is just "autocorrect+." I know it works because you're worried for your livelihood. That's why you're so mad.

Happy Sunday!

I also remember when lyman stone was in good standing and I really enjoyed much of his output. The last few years seem to have distilled the worst.

He's the king of Canada, so really by definition not foreign

I loled

When I first saw the phrase "democracy sausage", I assumed it must be a reference to the old saying about laws being like sausages (i.e. nobody wants to know how they're actually made), but nope: as it turns out, it's an actual sausage. God bless Australia. #DemocracySausage

Countercyclical fiscal policy means you run big deficits in bad and surpluses in good times, which Australia does (lhs). In Italy, this is taken to mean you run big deficits in bad and in good times (rhs). This party is going to continue until Northern Europe prevents the ECB from enabling this...

can't remember who I'm quoting here, but: the most disappointing moment of the 90s was hearing the rest of Spaceman by Babylon Zoo

(Britain's liberal democrats, quietly, with a hand half-raised) "Er we'd like want our chart designer back."

It’s deeply funny that the SEC hosted a roundtable on crypto custody that didn’t include any participants from a custody bank www.sec.gov/newsroom/mee...

On the contrary, a lot do hate immigrants and think populists are fun and refreshing and maybe worth a shot since nothing else is working.

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

europe has many wonderful investment research (i love greece and greek research!) but “european unbundled research is uniformly better than american bundled research ” is a crock of shit and only holds if your knowledge of american investment research is what you’ve seen on TV

Honestly this is just incredible content.

I know it's a terrible waste of time but I can't get over how good these AI Harry potter spoofs are. I would listen to this unironically youtu.be/_UIwJPUqlGc?...

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

Terrible case of deja vu today

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.