Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social
Malcolm Sparrow in the streets, Stafford Beer in the sheets. Once I wrote about fraud and its detection; currently writing about the industrialisation of decision making in general
(it really winds a lot of Labour people up to be reminded that I agree with them on many of the points they make about ZP, but this just makes it worse for them, in the same way it's more embarrassing to be beaten up by an eleven year old girl than by a Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion)
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
(it really winds a lot of Labour people up to be reminded that I agree with them on many of the points they make about ZP, but this just makes it worse for them, in the same way it's more embarrassing to be beaten up by an eleven year old girl than by a Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion)
I keep saying this - if you're constantly triangulating and trying to second-guess yourself, you need the skills of an Obama or Blair to avoid coming over as insincere and creepy. If you're just saying what you think, you can do a surprisingly good job even if all you have to work with is Hypnotits.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I keep saying this - if you're constantly triangulating and trying to second-guess yourself, you need the skills of an Obama or Blair to avoid coming over as insincere and creepy. If you're just saying what you think, you can do a surprisingly good job even if all you have to work with is Hypnotits.
Idris Elba as Bond, but it's a crossover with Luther, and Luther is played by Tom Holland
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Idris Elba as Bond, but it's a crossover with Luther, and Luther is played by Tom Holland
"I am - dead serious about recovering this warhead
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"I am - dead serious about recovering this warhead
You know what works almost as well as adrenaline?
a close up of a child 's face with a finger in his nose
ALT: a close up of a child 's face with a finger in his nose
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
You know what works almost as well as adrenaline?
Or even better, Moneypenny says "I thought you were dead" and M says "he was"
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Or even better, Moneypenny says "I thought you were dead" and M says "he was"
Bond/Luther crossover, but in a surprise twist of colorblind casting, Luther is played by Tom Huddleston
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Bond/Luther crossover, but in a surprise twist of colorblind casting, Luther is played by Tom Huddleston
"it seems that the American license qualifications are not what they were, Bond. Here's your new colleague, BigBalls"
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"it seems that the American license qualifications are not what they were, Bond. Here's your new colleague, BigBalls"
don't overcomplicate it lads. Idris Elba steps out of the car, says my name's Bondjamesbond, raises an eyebrow, says "were you expecting someone else?", on with the fun.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
don't overcomplicate it lads. Idris Elba steps out of the car, says my name's Bondjamesbond, raises an eyebrow, says "were you expecting someone else?", on with the fun.
If you've got alpha why not leverage it
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If you've got alpha why not leverage it
It always surprised me that when bank CEOs got their retailer fantasy on, they always believed that they were supermarkets (the type of retail where customers show up unprompted and buy commodity products with no advice). Nobody thought they had anything to learn from Gucci or Richer Sounds.
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It always surprised me that when bank CEOs got their retailer fantasy on, they always believed that they were supermarkets (the type of retail where customers show up unprompted and buy commodity products with no advice). Nobody thought they had anything to learn from Gucci or Richer Sounds.
I was in Kilkenny for the Kilkenomics festival last week and they were able to fill a large theatre at 5 p.m. on a rainy Friday for a panel discussion about the future of Australia. The audience absolutely exists and if it doesn't the BBC ought to be creating it, or what is it for?
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I was in Kilkenny for the Kilkenomics festival last week and they were able to fill a large theatre at 5 p.m. on a rainy Friday for a panel discussion about the future of Australia. The audience absolutely exists and if it doesn't the BBC ought to be creating it, or what is it for?
Two main fantasies in the banking industry - thinking you're a tech company and thinking you're a retailer. plus the weird iconoclasts with delusions of being a utility.
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Two main fantasies in the banking industry - thinking you're a tech company and thinking you're a retailer. plus the weird iconoclasts with delusions of being a utility.
Looking at the thread it is definitely the second of those two
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Looking at the thread it is definitely the second of those two
Am I misremembering, or did there used to be some convention in the films (not the books where he is definitely a single human being) that "James Bond" is just the name equivalent of "007" - it's the alias given to whoever currently has the job of naval intelligence's top assassin.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Am I misremembering, or did there used to be some convention in the films (not the books where he is definitely a single human being) that "James Bond" is just the name equivalent of "007" - it's the alias given to whoever currently has the job of naval intelligence's top assassin.
That might be what Musk means but Andreesen talking about books from 1870 to 1930?
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
That might be what Musk means but Andreesen talking about books from 1870 to 1930?
No, I'm pretty sure that it's "outperformance" in context
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
No, I'm pretty sure that it's "outperformance" in context
As I said to Mike over there, if you really want your graduate program to be 27% Reform 15% Tory and 100% open to discussion of transphobia and ethnonationalism, you are going to end up hiring some very odd people.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
As I said to Mike over there, if you really want your graduate program to be 27% Reform 15% Tory and 100% open to discussion of transphobia and ethnonationalism, you are going to end up hiring some very odd people.
How do you even do an index of multiple local currency bond yields? Do they swap them out into dollar before averaging them or something? If they don't then you can't just add them up and if they do then in what sense are they "local currency" yields?
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
How do you even do an index of multiple local currency bond yields? Do they swap them out into dollar before averaging them or something? If they don't then you can't just add them up and if they do then in what sense are they "local currency" yields?
If there was signal overspill, it might be theoretical impossible to convince an Irish court that it was broadcast in Ireland and that this was one of the special cases where justice demanded extending the time bar to two years (which they do, but very rarely)
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
If there was signal overspill, it might be theoretical impossible to convince an Irish court that it was broadcast in Ireland and that this was one of the special cases where justice demanded extending the time bar to two years (which they do, but very rarely)
you look around now and it's all just bloody pizza express
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
you look around now and it's all just bloody pizza express