Interesting discussion, serious: The nuclear and biological weapons threat. The Rachman Review #FT Gideon Rachman interview with Jason Matheny, President of the Rand Corporation, former director for technology policy on Joe Biden's National Security Council.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rachman-review/id1504048545?i=1000627033588 #taiwan #nationalsecurity #rachmanreview #technology #ai

#uk #localgovernment #finance

#september #2024
#deadline

In Friday's #ft it was reported that #accounts and #audits of #localgovernment bodies are to be brought up to date by #september next year. There have been problems since the #conservatives abolished the #auditcommission in 2015 - and it makes sense to find out as soon as possible if there are any more #localauthorities in the position of among others #croydon, #slough , #thurrock and #woking . However there are some snags to this.

"Careful reform is needed to end the practice of unelectable legislators"

https://on.ft.com/45ZzcWd

#FT #FinancialTimes #HouseOfLords #PayWall #UKPolitics #UKPol

Foreign firms that invested in Angola were required to "partner" with Isabel's businesses.

Isabel claimed to be a "self-made woman" - a claim credulously parroted by the western press, including the #FT. She used her homegrown fortune to become a major player abroad, especially in Portugal, where she was represented by the leading Portuguese law-firm #PLMJ.

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Inflated #shipping costs are enabling #Russian companies to earn far more from crude #oil sales to #India than prev. recognized, acc. to a #FT analysis the charges may have raised more than $1bn in a single quarter, chart @FT https://tinyurl.com/4p759b8k

Got the idea for this post while listening to the #FT #TechTonic podcast (via #PodcastAddict).

Episode:
https://www.ft.com/content/40ce24ee-46d4-44c0-bedc-8b81f0f451de

FT’s 404 page is fun. #FT #404

@hollowleviathan Thanks for posting that, a remarkable summary by @mmasnick on this bizarrely incompetent episode from the normally-sensible #FT. Hoping the #BBC can find better paths!

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/01/financial-times-sets-up-mastodon-server-realizes-laws-exist-which-it-was-already-subject-to-pulls-down-mastodon-server/

Oh how I have learned to detest Gillian Tett. Again I am re watching

Can we Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian Tett

1:20 min video

On multiple levels she is an ill informed b* . When I first watched this I had been working through Yanis' various talks, so had some idea of his own viewpoints. 🧵

https://youtu.be/Gv6130kSzEY

#FT

If you push something hard enough it will fall over.

#ihavealwaysjustassumedthat
#HashtagGames #FT #FuddsFirstLawOfOpposition

I really like this radio. The only thing I wish it had was profiles. I'd love it if radios could store their active settings into a quick recall profile. This would speed switching settings for different operators or between different modes of operation.

#FT-891 #RadioFeatures

👏👏
#FT #UNICAMP

https://www.ft.unicamp.br/pt-br/noticias/profa-dra-gisela-de-arag%C3%A3o-umbuzeiro-integra-o-ranking-dos-melhores-cientistas-do-mundo

#Olympus hat mal tolle Kameras & Objektive gebaut. Nach dem Verkauf sah es eigentlich so aus, als würde #OMDS die Tradition fortsetzen.

Aber was jetzt dort passiert ist mir unverständlich! Trauriger Höhepunkt: ein Blogger, der seit vielen Jahren das #FT/#mFT-System hochgehalten & gefördert hat, wird mit juristischen Drohungen mundtot gemacht. Weil er über Missstände, wie durch automatische Übersetzung inhaltlich völlig idiotische Newsletter, berichtet hat.
https://pen-and-tell.de/
#PenAndTell

UK Commandos breaching barbed wire during WW2. I like Avis style of thinking.

“Experts want to maintain their stature. And the way to maintain your stature as an expert is by arguing that everything can be explained by past knowledge,” replies Loeb. There is little direct evidence of dark matter either, he points out, yet that concept is readily accepted. “I’m trying to put my body on the barbed wire, so that the next generation will be able to pass through,” Loeb says.”

#HenryMance / #ft / #uap / #AviLoeb

“The UFO whistleblower and the search for extraterrestrial life”

“For those who think we may have been visited, #Grusch’s emergence has been the best news in years. He seemed credible. “I thought at first I was being deceived,” he told Australian journalist #RossCoulthart in an earlier interview. “[But] we’re definitely not alone.” Attendees at the annual UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico — where activities include an alien bar crawl — were jubilant. Coulthart says that unidentified anomalous phenomena (as UFOs are now politely called) are “the subject that can no longer be ridiculed or stigmatised”.

#HenryMance / #ft / #uap <https://www.ft.com/content/5235af64-9646-4c50-8d7c-93f7f04f7bb6#comments-anchor>

Brave1 „Ukraine tech sector goes to war“ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=voPCPhzmL10 /via #ft #fckptn

Financial Times Fails To TEll The Whole Story

#FT #FinancialTimes "...the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index—a measure that combines income, education and life expectancy, and accounts for how these are distributed among the population. Every nation in the top 10 is European. The United States doesn’t appear until No. 25—tied with Cyprus. It comes in below even Malta and Estonia" https://fair.org/home/twisting-statistics-to-fake-the-collapse-of-europe/

Addenda : Selon le #FT, on ferait fausse route avec la police Monotype. L’origine du logo serait plus simplement le caractère Unicode correspondant au symbole mathématique du X avec double barre, U+1D54F, donc « 𝕏 », qui peut être édité avec ou sans empattement selon la police employée.

https://www.ft.com/content/da262b2a-f39a-466b-9b2f-2f8fa84f0117

Excellent podcast from the #FT
"About 30 years ago, an Australian investment company called Macquarie figured out how to turn public utilities into lucrative assets"
https://www.ft.com/content/c5b92d03-1853-498a-8417-56d8b4ae1a7b?emailId=bfc26b18-96e5-43f1-abd8-7a9095280026&segmentId=c393f5a6-b640-bff3-cc14-234d058790ed

@ericdq Sí, la parte de notificaciones (menú>notificaciones) no nos ha presentado ningún problema. No al menos con #VoiceOver, desconocemos su comportamiento con #TalkBack. #FT