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Evan Hensleigh
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I look after interactive charts and things at the Economist. Not quite sure what I'm doing here yet. @futuraprime.net on Bluesky
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Information Is BeautifulIf you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
Truly, who among us has not had days like the parents of Aaaaaaaah, legendary goatfolk qlippoth.
Baldur BjarnasonSo Ed Zitron has been digging into the numbers behind the AI Bubble and coming away pessimistic and, unusually, I actually think he’s downplaying the risks a bit because much of them are hard to quantify as hard numbers
https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/
- The only plausible growth story today for the stock market as a whole is magical “AI” productivity growth. What happens to the market when that story fails?
There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmentally-damaging and mediocre cloud
lisa cthis was such a great read:
The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
I was today years old when I learned that the Hudson’s Bay Company, which was chartered by Charles II (the one who hid up an oak tree to evade Oliver Cromwell’s army) and once owned about half of Canada, now manages department stores. They own Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.
Ada PalmerMeet one of my favorite Renaissance friends: Galeazzo Sanseverino, a mercenary whom contemporary sources describe as the sexiest thing in pants in Italy, part of the badass polycule threesome that ruled Milan in the early 1490s. Thread 1/?
(#HistoryPix Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" day 3)
dagNew, by me at FT
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
