Starmer just confirmed UK aid cut from 0.5% to 0.3% GNI to fund increased defence spending

This is so bleak - thousands in low income countries will die.

I get (and support) that we need to increase defence spending/capabilities in europe, but surely better ways to fund it 🧵

4) weak state capacity and insecurity still a massive problem - see implications for displaced people and food security below

3) mixed results in elections across Africa, but disillusionment with democracy is growing (figure below is alarming!)

More details in the pics below and link to apply here:
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To my veg*n UK people: you can make a genuinely good “salmon + cream cheese” bagel these days

Caveat: I’m too far gone [ethical humble brag] to remember the real thing and have notoriously low standards for food (I happily let my children feed me like a bird) but I think these are tasty!

Agree, this narrative is very dumb!

People (inc managers, apparently) should look at opta sims: 15 or 16 points to make top 8, but every point counts because of seeding!

Hopefully people understand better next year, it’s a good format IMO (apart from 2 extra games which is mad)

Seems a cool approach: using stock price volatility to identify big deal AI developments (and I think implicitly giving a sense of how big a deal they are).

Could potentially roll this forward to measure future shocks

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