🇮🇱 had accepted a proposal that sets out an initial six-week pause in the fighting during which Hamas would release 33 hostages…That would be followed by a second phase that calls for “restoring a sustainable calm”, wording proposed by 🇺🇸”
🤞🤞🤞
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‘Students chanted “Columbia, go to hell”’

If that’s their attitude to Columbia they shouldn’t be there.

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“I wish them good luck, but I sometimes wonder if they might be underestimating how challenging it is to gather flows into active funds in the current environment.” Quite!
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This might be the most serious tweet I have ever sent:

Last night at the @WHCA dinner, I spoke privately with 4 members of Congress: 2 Dems and 2 GOPers. All 4 are big foreign policy players and all 4 are strongly pro-Israel in every way.

However… All 4 spoke with significant…

“For 🇳🇱 [Porthos] will go a long way to helping…meet its climate goals.
🇳🇱 government has promised to reduce GHG emissions by 49% by 2030 from 1990 levels, and 95% by 2050.”

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It’s far more serious to lose tech than to be dented in mining. Mining firms have <1% of their turnover in the UK, whereas we’re a major hub of tech innovation.
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Pop at the #Proms (h/t Kenneth Woods)

VG by @matthewSyed. Democracy is about far more than “the will of the people” giving politicians with a majority carte blanche.

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HMG were given a clear plan to boost UK private sector investment in innovative scaleups by £10bnpa at zero cost to HMG. They turned it down. Let’s hope we soon have a new government serious about investment.
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Not only does he spell his name 18 ways…
“Since 2017, Boogers has signed over 700 public company audit opinions, another record…the second-most prolific auditor has signed about 500 over the same period, and many of those were for Spacs.”

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“But where are the Customers’ Yachts?”🙂
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“None of this is simple. Let the games begin.”
More will be spent on bankers, lawyers & other advisors than most FTSE100s spend on R&D.
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He’s quite right about this. AstraZeneca is one of the very few UK listed companies that is truly global and has grown substantially faster than their industry. They have to be able to attract & retain the best global talent.
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Only a few thousand miles to go...

My morning run with @HardestGeezer, congrats on Project Africa hitting £1 million.

Railway passenger numbers in the UK, 1829–2016.

Dennett was a philosophical Dawkins - greatly lauded & capturing Zeitgeist but v little real substance & a staggering arrogance.

In a telling experiment a few years ago, an AI bot could answer questions in ways largely indistinguishable from his.
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⁦The Economist⁩ highlights Boeing’s challenges. A focus on finance rather than Engineering & quality, unsustainable cash payouts. “Too big to fail but not too big to be mediocre”.
Can Embraer scale up at all to fill the gap??

“To bring in revenue, Meta could scale business messaging, introduce advertising into user interactions with AI chatbots, and charge groups to use its bigger AI models, [Zuckerberg] said.”
Hmm. Ad-biased AI???
#LMEthicalAI

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Over-reliance on AI, and esp on a single system, is extremely dangerous for firms & for society.

Hilke Schellmann: “One biased human hiring manager can harm a lot of people in a year…but an algorithm…could harm thousands of applicants.”👏👏
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