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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

8 months

Exciting news (for me)

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

Something inherently funny about the phrase "Disney regrets that it has come to this"

Oliver Darcy

@oliverdarcy

1 year

News: Disney has filed a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis, alleging a "targeted campaign of government retaliation" over "protected speech" that "threatens Disney's business operations" and "violates its constitutional rights." "Disney regrets that it has come to this."

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

5 months

In Tokyo there is a Philadelphia themed bar, which was set up because the guy who runs it loved Philadelphia soul music, and wanted to set up place that only played that. Eagles games on the TV, cheesesteak on the menu.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

There's a joke that's been revived in a bunch of countries along these lines. Man stands on a street in Hamburg, 1918, with a sign that says "the king is an idiot". Police arrest him. He says he meant the British king. "You can't fool us," they reply, "we know who the idiot is"

Kevin Rothrock

@KevinRothrock

2 years

Police in Nizhny Novgorod arrested a demonstrator today for protesting with a blank sign. Welcome to Russia in 2022.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

A reminder that the British government has not at any point even required a negative Covid test for people to fly into the UK. Not in the Spring, not in the Summer, not now. Never.

Steve Hawkes

@steve_hawkes

3 years

Matt Hancock says he’s “incredibly worried” about the South African variant of Covid

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

Never ask a woman her age Never ask a man his salary Never ask Norway what makes up more than two thirds of its total exports

Justin Guay

@Guay_JG

2 years

Nearly every car sold in Norway is now electric The future is here it’s just not evenly distributed 🤯 ⚡️

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

I get a huge amount of enjoyment from the arc of long-running local news stories.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

29 days

A while ago a Singaporean taxi driver asked me what a UK hawker centre lunch might cost. I explained that there aren't any. He asked what office workers ate, and I explained the concept of Meal Deals. And he looked at me with such a powerful combination of pity and revulsion.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

It'll never stop being funny to me that the Malay nickname for a proboscis monkey is orang belanda, meaning Dutch guy. They must have had different names, and then one day the Dutch arrived and everyone was like lol yeah that's them for sure.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

Police have shut down a fake Indian Premier League built to fool Russian gamblers. Labourers paid to pretend to be pro cricketers, games streamed online, crowd noises downloaded and played over the top. Got to the quarter finals before they were caught.

India: How a fake 'IPL' cricket league ran for Russian punters

Police say a gang set up a fake version of the Indian Premier League and fooled Russian gamblers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

5 months

This website needs a cultural translation feature. In America this means you are an alcoholic, in Britain it means you an ordinary drinker, and in parts of Eastern Europe it means you are a temperance campaigner, or pregnant.

Sam 👁️

@SamtheNightOwl

5 months

so, 1 of my coworkers in accounting casually admitted to me that she's probably an alcoholic. i said that if you're not drinking every day, you're probably not an alcoholic. she said she doesn't drink every day, but when she does, she kills almost a whole wine bottle. i said "oh"

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

Pretty cool. Ajinomoto, known best for selling MSG seasoning, has redirected its work with amino acids to become a leading manufacturer of insulation for semiconductors. Stock is up 21% this year to a record high.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

6 months

The last week in OpenAI history

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

8 months

Bro you've got no idea

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

11 months

800 years ago we built things with such impossible detail that you could spend days staring at them. Does modern man have the patience to build something like this today?

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

13 days

Dreadful news. Still, I believe in Britain and I think with a concerted effort we can get this number down to 10 or 11.

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

13 days

🚨 NEW: The UK has the worst rate of child alcohol consumption in the world, with more than half of children having drunk by the age of 13 [ @guardian ]

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

A reminder that Japan, the poster child for demographic issues, now has the highest fertility rate in developed East Asia, above Hong Kong or Macau, China, South Korea or Taiwan. (Data from the Population Reference Bureau)

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

Japan was once known for ultra-low birthrates. Though still low, it now actually has the highest fertility rate in developed E. Asia, and is tied with China, where fertility is still tumbling. Not having a 20x house-price/income may help.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 months

Our modern cathedrals. - extremely expensive - produces something equivalent to magic - something to do with wafers

Joe Weisenthal

@TheStalwart

3 months

This is ASML's new $380 million machine.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

Vietnam’s Minister of Public Security made a pilgrimage to Karl Marx's grave on his trip to London, and then went to Salt Bae's restaurant for the gold leaf steak.

A Communist Delegation Went to Karl Marx’s Grave, Then Were Fed Gold Steak by Salt Bae

There's nothing more 2021 than Salt Bae feeding a communist party official gold-plated steak after a climate change summit.

www.vice.com

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

Shinzo Abe has posted on Insta five times since he left office, four of which were about fruit

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

7 months

Brings a tear to my eyes. I think these bonkers Russian state TV guys are the last people out there who really believe in Britain.

Francis Scarr

@francis_scarr

7 months

This is absolutely wild from commentator Ruslan Kurbanov, even by Russian state TV’s usual standards He says the Hamas attacks on Israel could have been overseen by British intelligence with the ultimate aim of driving the US out of the Middle East

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

6 months

Britain doesn't yet understand that the country has lost its second-strongest export market (twinkish boyfriends for Taylor Swift). We only have questionable university degrees left. Dark times.

shannon 🪶

@holygroundsound

6 months

WHY AM I ACTUALLY CRYING

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

Indian newspapers truly undefeated when it comes to finding the local angle.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

18 days

Are there other examples of this outside of DC? Advertising where it's ostensibly public but actually directed at perhaps a dozen very important policymakers who might walk past it.

James Mayger

@JDMayger

19 days

What a strange town DC is where this is at a bus stop. @SStapczynski

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

So this was just out there the whole time then?

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

US gas prices blow my mind, at $4/gallon that is still cheaper than the least I have ever paid for petrol in the UK, even at the absolute 2009 low in oil prices, even using the weakest sterling/dollar exchange rate on record.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

It's only a recession if it's from the recession region of France, otherwise it's just a sparkling downturn.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if Google's dominance in search is supplanted it will be in no small part because they behaved like they thought they were unchallengeable.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina's visit to Japan is an exciting moment for vexillologists, the near-symmetry of the flags is very satisfying.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

Japanese IT consultant goes on a huge bender, falls asleep in the street, loses a flash drive containing the personal data of the 465,177 residents of the city of Amagasaki, including their dates of birth, addresses, bank account numbers, and tax details.

Japanese Man Lost a USB Drive With Entire City’s Personal Data After a Night Out

An average Tuesday bender turned into an unforgettable night.

www.vice.com

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

8 months

Weird, I wonder what happened to the people who were previously interested in politics?

South China Morning Post

@SCMPNews

8 months

Are Hongkongers less interested in politics? Survey finds apathy abounds

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

5 months

What a wonderful world we live in eh

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

5 months

Always find it funny when we refer to these guys as uncontacted. They are contacted, they just kill the people who contact them.

AlaskanTzar

@AlaskanTzar

5 months

Ok but when are we going to make contact with North Sentinel Island? Are we going to have Mars colonies and trans human cyborgs but just keep a bunch of people in a pre bronze age bubble until the end of time?

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

7 months

It's sort of crazy that Taylor Swift went from garden variety C21st megastardom to a sort of Beatles-level phenomenon, while the general media monoculture is in terminal decline.

Neve

@neveofficiall

7 months

No one should be this famous. Imagine eating a chicken nugget with normal condiments and then the Empire State Building lights up in honor of it

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

We used to be a real country

ITN Archive

@ITNArchive

1 year

"Good God." In June 1994, in the midst of his Labour leadership campaign, John Prescott showed ITN how quickly he could sink his drink.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

5 months

You want to make sure your county has a healthy culture where drunkenness is frowned upon and alcohol is consumed with meals, like the UK and Ireland, not one of reckless bingeing, like France.

Epic Maps 🗺️

@Locati0ns

5 months

Alcohol death rates in Europe. Apparently very low in cultures where drunkenness is frowned upon and where alcohol is only consumed in company of others and served alongside meals. Spain and Italy for example. Source:

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

My favourite joke from last year was Finns saying they were excited for the two metre distance rule to end so they could go back to the customary five metres.

Juhana Brotherus

@JuhanaBrotherus

3 years

Finland is a weird country. Everywhere else life satisfaction declined but here we are MORE happy with our daily lives under restrictions than without them. Who doesn't like a valid excuse not to meet anyone? It seems we sure like isolation as much as the stereotype says. 🤷‍♂️

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Always love to see billionaires who simply can't stop themselves from posting, because it reminds you that no amount of money in the world can buy you the hit you get from posting.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

This is only possible because China is a small island far from the initial outbreak of the pandemic.

Arjun Kharpal

@ArjunKharpal

3 years

Woken up at 7.45am by a helicopter. Looked outside to see what was going on and these were the scenes from the Guangzhou Marathon

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

6 months

The OpenAI board still has a chance to beat Yevgeny Prigozhin and win the title of 2023's shortest coup

The Verge

@verge

6 months

Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

10 months

"And if you stand up next to me on your tiptoes again I'm going to turn this country into a republic mate, you watch pal, just try it"

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

A lot of British political journalism looks really awful from the outside - insincere, focused on largely unimportant gossip, a game for the initiated. But it's important to recognise that when you hear and understand more about how it really works, it's much worse than that.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Moderna next week arguing that their vaccine is actually 120% effective, some people they didn't even give it to are protected. The vaccine group is now hotter and richer than the placebo group, some of the placebo group's wives have left them for the vaccine group participants.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

I'll shortly start @TheEconomist as Asia business & finance editor, covering the region alongside very talented new colleagues. There's quite a bit to write about (big place), and I'm very excited to get going.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

Any time I'm in the US I panic about tipping. Very offensive not to tip waiters, I get that. The barman? Him too I think. Taxi drivers? No idea. I'm wandering round with a clenched fistful of bills offering them to people I bump into. Tried to tip a vending machine last time.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

An inclusive lunch before tomorrow's big game. Remember, there is more that unites us than divides us #ENGITA

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

6 months

Imagine, you're a board member at a non-profit which wants to build safe AI, and you're worried about how serious your CEO is about AI risk... So you sack him and accidentally end up creating a new AI division inside a profit-maximising 2.7 trillion dollar tech company.

𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐞

@EffMktHype

6 months

*ALTMAN, BROCKMAN WILL BE JOINING MICROSOFT: NADELLA

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

For the people who were worried that the sharp decline in Scottish cases was some sort of mirage due to lower testing, or people hiding from testing/tracing - hospitalisations are now moving exactly as you'd expect from the case data.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

The results of seven weeks of lockdown in Sydney (NSW cases)

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

There seem to be three pieces of specific information about Musk in this piece: He was a loner, he was bullied for chiding someone for using an anti-black slur, and he attended the funeral of a black friend when doing so was "unheard of at the time"

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

I think this is poorly understood by in the rest of the developed world too, people often don't seem to be aware just how rich the US is.

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@wanyeburkett

2 years

Look, I used to be poor. When you're poor, like actually poor, it seems unbelievable that anybody actually makes an upper-middle-class salary, but a lot of our discourse is in denial about the fact that ~34% of American households (40 million households) earn $100k per year.

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Mike Bird

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1 year

Lots of people are negative about the condition of the modern world, but we're living in the only era of human history where you can watch villagers in Punjab try an English breakfast for the first time.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Damn, another huge NYT scoop. I thought it was 9 counts of wire fraud and 2 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud that led to the Elizabeth Holmes trial.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

I had the scoop on this at the time. I sort of thought it didn't need writing up, because I heard the government's chief scientific adviser say it explictly, on the public broadcaster's flagship radio news programme.

Tomorrows Papers Today

@TmorrowsPapers

3 years

Sunday Times: Herd immunity was UK policy, says Cummings #TomorrowsPapersToday #SundayTimes #Times

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

Me: We need to bring back the idea of the polymath, the renaissance man. A man of intellectual talent can be an physicist, a financier, a philosopher Me after seeing one tweet by a tech guy about the dollar: as I said, ultimately staying in your lane is an underrated discipline

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

Have any two cartoons ever done more catastrophic damage to online debate

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

4 months

Every radical scheme in UK housing policy

Adam Forrest

@adamtomforrest

4 months

EXC: Government considering a radical scheme to help first-time buyers by backing mortgages which would require just 1% deposits.

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Mike Bird

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1 year

Whether Die Hard is a Christmas film or not is a boring question. What it reflects about Japanese real estate investment overseas during the peak of the '80s land bubble is the real question.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

I will not allow myself to become morose about Covid because of evidence that the transmission reduction from vaccination isn't perfect, a thing that everyone seemed to know and understand up until a couple of months ago.

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Mike Bird

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1 year

It makes it sound like he's about to go on a rampage

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Capitalism is things i don't like, the less I like it the more capitalismy it is.

Pete Wharmby

@commaficionado

3 years

A thing vs a thing once capitalism gets a proper hold of it.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

I know it's slightly parochial but these images (before and after) are genuinely radicalising. Doing something like this to a street where I lived would turn me into a single-issue pro-tree political lunatic. (HT @createstreets )

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

The year is 2287. Hong Kong and Singapore announce the beginning of discussions on a 'travel bubble', though no restrictions on international travel exist. The plans will be ritually withdrawn two months later. Nobody remembers the origin of this strange practice.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

4 months

This year has not been a good one for my usual "boomers struggle with social media but the kids will be fine" heuristic.

Joe Kassabian

@JoeKassabian

4 months

I just saw someone on Twitter claim that Starbucks is giving 20% of its profits to the IDF. Insane Q Anon level shit is going on in some circles.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

6 months

At what point did playing things out loud on your phone in public become something every other person does, and stop being the profoundly antisocial thing it was viewed as 10yrs ago? Was it cheaper data, TikTok or the end of headphone jacks that did it?

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell asked people not to judge the country until the Autumn, when raised immunity levels would mute a second wave. Autumn is here, and Swedish Covid-19 hospitalisations are rising more rapidly than anywhere in Europe.

Surge in Covid cases tests Sweden’s go-it-alone approach

Country’s public health agency admits its prediction for pandemic second wave appears wrong

www.ft.com

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

Real year for the mainstream orthodoxy crowd. Big wins for the guy that thought overdoing stimulus is dangerous, that crypto is mostly just scams, that authoritarianism is bad and inefficient.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Check the dates

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

If the Italians lose they have to add cream to the carbonara recipe until 2024

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Mike Bird

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2 years

To say Hong Kong's current Covid death rate is the highest in the world doesn't quite do justice to how extreme it is. It is markedly higher than any of the countries with the worst overall Covid death rates have ever recorded on a weekly basis.

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Mike Bird

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1 year

Britain: The degrowth success story! "The UK has been remarkably successful in weaning itself off its growth addiction. I’m surprised that supporters of degrowth don’t celebrate these charts more.'

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

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I had a colleague, who will remain nameless, who said that she repeated anything an English person said back to herself in her head to decide whether it was actually clever, or just the accent.

Dirty Texas Hedge

@HedgeDirty

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There is no privilege like British Accent privilege. Americans will grant you 20 IQ points for nothing

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Mike Bird

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3 years

Someone tweeted it a few weeks ago but I struggle to imagine what people did in an office in say, 1985 as much as I do for 1885. Before the internet, office working life is just a black hole to me, I have no real conception of what people were up to. Typing and smoking? IDK.

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Mike Bird

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1 year

The car wash manager here is making three median British salaries (£32.7k, $39.9k).

Jeremy 'adjusted for inflation' Horpedahl 📈

@jmhorp

1 year

$17/hour starting wage for cashiers in Alabama

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Mike Bird

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1 year

I can't wrap my head around what "otherwise strong but in a liquidity crisis" really means when you're talking about crypto. It's all liquidity, that's the game, there's no connection to the real economy so no recovery value that would imply longer-tern solvency.

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@cz_binance

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To reduce further cascading negative effects of FTX, Binance is forming an industry recovery fund, to help projects who are otherwise strong, but in a liquidity crisis. More details to come soon. In the meantime, please contact Binance Labs if you think you qualify. 1/2

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Mike Bird

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8 months

Ah, I'm old enough to remember when China didn't even make it into the top 15 car exporting countries! It was behind Thailand and Sweden and Hungary back in the distant days of, errr, less than three full years ago.

Financial Times

@FinancialTimes

8 months

China set to overtake Japan as world’s biggest car exporter

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Mike Bird

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2 years

Perfect example here of the difference between good polling, by YouGov, and poor/frankly irresponsible polling (and journalism), by Reuters and Ipsos.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

11 months

My briefing this week: None of the world's 15 largest economies now have fertility rates over 2.1. The ageing and shrinking of the world will pose a threat to the most disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship, disproportionately pioneered by the young.

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Mike Bird

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2 years

It is amazing that the idea of escaping volatility by investing in things that are not marked to market regularly has gained such prominence. It's the financial equivalent of infant children believing that the room disappears when their eyes are covered.

Lulu Yilun Chen

@luluyilun

2 years

Wealthy Chinese are exploring bigger investments in private assets to avoid the wild swings in public markets. That dovetails moves of funds like Carlyle and KKR, which are courting Asia's rich as institutional investors recalibrate exposure

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Mike Bird

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3 years

Covid cases now week-on-week negative in every English region, from -14% in London to -38% (!!) in the North East. It's possible that there'll be cases added to the last few days by specimen date, might budge the numbers by a few percentage points, but won't change the picture.

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Mike Bird

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2 years

We're going to have to get Tommy Robinson in to deradicalise Maajid Nawaz

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

AstraZenaca vaccine trial shows 90% efficacy when given as a half dose, followed by a full dose one month later. 62% efficacy in a separate trial with two full doses one month apart. Combined efficacy estimate is 70%, but could presumably be higher

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

I cannot even begin to pretend to know what's going on with the Japanese Prime Minister's public visit today.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

7 months

Common mistake I see around this time every year: the prizes in physics, medicine, literature, peace and chemistry are NOT real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel. They're "Nobel Prizes." They're fine too I guess but people should know the difference.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

1 year

My piece this week explores how a patchwork of Asian economies from Hokkaido to Gujarat stacks up as an alternative to China for global manufacturers. Whether it works in practice is a test of both cross-border business and a nascent geopolitical order.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

I dunno 44% of kids 6mo-6yrs old in Bhutan are anaemic so maybe we shouldn't drop productivity completely

Erik Solheim

@ErikSolheim

3 years

The Gross Happiness Index of Bhutan 🇧🇹. The pursuit of happiness matters more than productivity.

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Mike Bird

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2 years

Crazy that the whole bit in Forrest Gump where investing in Apple made him immensely rich was filmed and released when the company had like a ~$5bn market cap.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Australia will surpass the US on vaccination this week. New South Wales already there.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

4 years

God give me the sort of confidence required to produce research that says the US' response to coronavirus (133k deaths) has been good while South Korea's (285 deaths) has been fair. (HT @SakamotoFumie @GearoidReidy )

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

The ratio of English hospital beds occupied with Covid-19 patients to Covid-19 cases two weeks ago is at its lowest level ever again, just 0.12. Literally a tenth of its peak during the Winter outbreaks.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Alexei Nikolaevich, last Tsarevich of Russia, pictured with his healer, 1916. Colourised.

Ben Pouladian

@benitoz

3 years

$SNAP x $TWTR wow

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

9 months

American cultural power is so overwhelming that you have to pull a slogan when it sounds like it could mean something in the US, even when it's not remotely possible that it could have meant the same thing in context, and also couldn't be offensive to anyone.

Jonathan Cheng

@JChengWSJ

9 months

The Taiwan People's Party (TPP) on Monday decided to remove a controversial "Vote White, Vote Right" slogan from its website after the wording was accused of being similar to that used by an American white supremacist group.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

This is a great cover, but it's made a little bit more special when you know our print edition deadline is Thursday morning.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

My country, which I love very much, has seen better days.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Really funny that 'Alabama' is the only hint in this tweet as to which side of the culture war trenches this is emanating from.

Slate

@Slate

3 years

Yoga will be allowed again in Alabama schools, but parents must sign a permission slip acknowledging “I understand that yoga is part of the Hinduism religion.”

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Love that France pulled its ambassadors from the US and Australia but not the UK, presumably because like the rest of us they can't quite work out how the UK is involved.

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

2 years

These guys have got pretty good PR I'll give them that

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Tugendhat said: “The difficulty is getting people into and out of the airport and we’ve just used a lot of troops to get in 200 dogs, meanwhile my interpreter’s family are likely to be killed."

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

3 years

Please 👏 hire 👏 British 👏 journalists

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Mike Bird

@Birdyword

29 days

@gbrl_dick I like it, but it's my heritage. It's what a piece of dried horse meat is to a steppe nomad, I don't expect the world to understand.

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