chuckling at all the lame tech folks who have never heard of MARC REBILLET and think him playing i/o is somehow cringe/some kind signal in openai's favour. just the dumbest takes

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Fossil fuels provided a stay of execution to whales in the 19th century but provided a more efficient method to hunt them, helping drive them closer to extinction. Today ship strikes (from fossil fuel powered ships) are a threat to right whales. economist.com/christmas-spec…

Last year, I went to Tolima in Colombia and discovered a really disturbing practice: “social cleansing” where gangs use grisly methods to enforce their own sense of law and order.
My story in The Economist today:
economist.com/the-americas/2…
#latinamerica #colombia #mexico #crime

Some personal news: After six wonderful years at The Economist, I have taken a new role at AFP News Agency as a Seoul Correspondent. All news tips are welcome!👍

what I take from this (Apple putting out a near-clone of a 16-year-old advert) is that touchscreen devices have become deeply boring and uninspiring

very hard to understand where people like this are coming from. London is delightful

this is the exact opposite of what needs to be happening

delightful paper on a proposal for maintaining physiological health on a moon base: build a horizontal hamster wheel and walk around it while it spins royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Probability of a crewed Starship flight in 2024
(Retweet if you want more respondents)

*sighs, taps the sign*

one of most disturbing charts I’ve ever worked on. part of this week’s package on the terrible rise of dengue in Latin America, and around the world, a rise driven in part by a warming climate

Leader -
economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

Piece -
economist.com/the-americas/2…

New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

kind of a weird Lloyds Bank ad tbh

so this was the scene this morning outside the Economist's London offices

If Trump beats Biden in all these states into which IRA money has poured, it's surely going to be one of the greatest political failures of industrial policy ever

(via Jack Conness jackconness.com/ira-chips-inve…)

New Scientist is recruiting for an experienced health reporter to join our London news team. This is a fantastic role for someone who will help shape our health coverage across the magazine, website and more newscientist.com/nsj/job/140198…

Lads! if anybody has a cousin who left Ireland for Queens, who's in sales, went to college and reads the Daily Mail - he's the foreperson in the #TrumpTrial in NY!

how dare they juxtapose this with Ted Chiang

lol