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There seems to be an important cultural reset underway around ambition which feels important. YouTuber Nathan Zed did “How Trying Became Cool Again” 2 weeks ago: youtu.be/o2jzKo1RqWU?... Then Chalamet openly yearned for greatness: youtu.be/4P50UQeIL4o?...

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www.abundanceagenda.eu/p/microsoft-...

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This is a very good piece by Noah Smith on Elon Musk. It is incredibly important not to underestimate your rivals. The “Trump is an idiot” narrative wasn’t useful in 2016 and “Elon is incompetent” isn’t a useful lens for analysis now. www.noahpinion.blog/p/only-fools...

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Mario Draghi barrels into European politicians and leaders for their inaction: "You say no to public debt. You say no to the single market. You say no to create a capital market union. You can't say no to everything...You ask me what's best to do…I don’t know, but do something"

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Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit? That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather. Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...

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OECD’s new recommendations for Ireland on housing: -Reforming the tax system -increase the supply of serviced land, -improving the planning and permitting process, -increasing density, -improving productivity in the construction sector www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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They are committing too many crimes not to follow all the way through. It would be genuinely unsafe for them to show restraint or stop half way.

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In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day

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2015: Your commute will become productive because AI will drive and you can work 2025: Your commute will become productive because you can drive while the AI works

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Worth reading.

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It’s amazing to see so many fresh bodies turn up to commit crimes on Trump’s behalf, after so many in his first administration ended up in jail. It reminds me of the John Milton quote that bad men don’t see tyrants as a source freedom, but rather licence

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I’ve always been astounded by History’s self-owns, like the the burning of the Library of Alexandria or when the Tokugawa shogunate closed Japan off from the world. I think I can understand how they happened a little bit better these days

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📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

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Odd seeing the US tech giants taking such a large stock price hit from Deepseek. “Getting to the future will require dramatically lower CAPEX” feels like an optimistic story for me. Offset by a little less lock-in for the cloud providers, but great for the aggregators.

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So if I (a foreigner) own bitcoin, the US Govt will use taxpayer dollars to buy it from me at a high price? Art of the deal indeed

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I see people assessing Trump’s wealth from his meme coin by assessing the value of the 80% he still owns, rather than the 20% he sold. The grift isn’t in value of the pile of magic beans you still own, but in the price of the ones you sold.

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This is exactly the kind of private sector development you’d hope to see as soon as a new land value tax comes into effect 👏 www.businesspost.ie/article/deve...

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My favourite piece of writing this week was from @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social about the 1 million US teenagers joining RedNote open.substack.com/pub/infinite...

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Another interesting proof point that we have capacity problems in Ireland which we can’t solve by throwing money at. Vacancy rates in public sector jobs (via PWC great quarterly digest www.pwc.ie/issues/the-l...)

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“We wouldn’t be so polarized if those other people weren’t such idiots” has a sad irony to it.

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A cool proposal for an ARPA style agency in Ireland tasked with solving big collective problems in Agriculture open.substack.com/pub/progress...

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Singapore’s “Land Betterment Charge” is a tax to ensure that the value from social changes (re-zoning) are captured socially, not individually. A good way to keep the incentives in their land/property market pro-social. www.ura.gov.sg/Corporate/Gu...

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“We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life?” Found that quote in a 1941 radio piece by Keynes gandalf.fee.urv.cat/professors/A...

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This is a great post about discerning between beliefs and empty signalling open.substack.com/pub/infinite...

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This is a nice little framework for describing two different sources of motivation people have at work blog.sbensu.com/posts/team-o...

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In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

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A remarkable outcome from #GE24 is that the Social Democrats have continued their run of (approximately) doubling seats in every Dáil and Local elections since forming

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How does Ireland even begin any sort of sensible, long-term fiscal planning when you’re looking at such a wide spread of potential outcomes, mostly outside of our control? (Graph via @lizcarolan.bsky.social )

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I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

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Hello from a misty Cavan

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