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FT: Economics 2025 Nobel Prize Philippe Aghion is son of Gaby Aghion, who found the fashion house Cholé and had its chief designer, Karl Lagerfeld, helping Philippe with German homework. Aghion spent holidays with Paul Éluard and Tristan Tzara when he was a child — his father was a gallerist.
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.”

This is the first line of Ruth Rendell’s “A Judgement in Stone.”

#booksky
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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What’s up, babe? You’ve hardly touched your Sausagehenge.
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I can access Bluesky, but not Deck.Blue this morning.

Internal server error Error code 500
Visit cloudflare.com for more information.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“No one falls so swiftly and so helplessly as the one who imagines himself invulnerable.”

John Banville, ‘Venetian Vespers’

#booksky
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
And the Christmas music too.
Criminalise Christmans advertisements before Thanksgiving.
We dont have to live like this.
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finally, a sunny day in Montréal after nearly a month of damp, cold weather, early darkness, and endlessly cloudy skies.
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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A 50 year mortgage minimizes your monthly payment by $200/month but adds $390K in interest over the life of the loan
a young man wearing glasses and a purple shirt is making a face .
ALT: a young man wearing glasses and a purple shirt is making a face .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Ok I'd like a dislike button, would you?

@bsky.app announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and others

techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/b...
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
techcrunch.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Just found out there's a "Scream 7".

I stopped at 3.
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Podcasts are now illegal in China
October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Who's solving the Louvre robbery?
October 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Financial Times: the ex-president of Madagascar, Andrey Rajoelina, ousted from power this week, in the wave of popularity of the movie "Madagascar" wanted to import zebras, giraffes and elephants to the country to boost tourism.
October 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Repostin' The Autumnal. Manifesting my seasonal mood.
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Wall Street Journal: US wine exports to Canada dropped 96% in the second quarter of 2025, from nearly $111 million to under $4 million, and the trade surplus has flipped to a deficit for the first time ever.
October 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The new Literature Nobel Prize winner, Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, had one of his books, "Sátántangó", turned into a movie by also Hungarian director Béla Tarr ("The Turin Horse") in a seven-hour long adaptation.

Susan Sontag called the writer "the contemporary master of the apocalypse".
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Valentin Vacherot +112 —> #92, career high, with SF in Shanghai from qualifying.

He studied at Texas A&M University like Arthur Rinderknech, Yannick Hanfmann, Yannick Maden and Carlson Branstine.
October 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Wine consumption in 2024 was the lowest since 1961, said the International Wine Association.

The main problem is champagne, that sold -11% after prices were pushed to record highs from major producers in France.

Economic uncertainty and tariffs in 2025 won't help.
September 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe

Wild Strawberries
La notte
The Burmese Harp
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Ugetsu
Casablanca
Tokyo Monogatari
Le boucher
It's a Wonderful Life
El (This Strange Passion)
Unfaithfully Yours
Strangers on a Train
The Big Heat
Senso
La collectionneuse
August 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Bots surpassed human activity in 2024 and are now 50% of the internet (75% in other platform). Swollen by artificial intelligence, bots generate fake pageviews, clicks, impressions, and user sessions, all of which inflate top-line web analytics data.

fortune.com/2025/07/22/i...
The AI boom is now bigger than the '90s dotcom bubble—and it's built on the backs of bots, maybe more than real users
Automated bots now make up more than half of global internet traffic, surpassing human-generated activity for the first time in 2024.
fortune.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This is technical but important. Investment in AI does not exceed consumer spending. The contribution to the change in GDP from AI capex now exceeds the contribution from change in consumer spending to the growth of GDP.
Investments in AI now exceed consumer spending
August 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Candace Owens not only said that Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's president Emmanuel Macron, "is in fact a man", born male under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux, but also the couple were blood relatives and he was a product of a CIA human experiment "similar government mind control programme".
July 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM