Ian Richards

UN Economist, Finance, Govtech, Pension Fund Administration, Sri Lankan, British, Swiss. Likes and retweets aren’t endorsements, all views my own.

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A letter to staff unions from economists working in the resident coordinator system, blows the whistle on a restructuring that could damage the development pillar and downgrade support to middle income countries, writes Mohammed Chiraz Baly https://t.co/1NS8sbwvDz

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@KenRoth The OIOS report is confidential. If he releases it he’s fired

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@HackedOffHugh The decision to depart without all luggage loaded was that of the captain, possibly under orders from the company. So it wasn’t a surprise on landing

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@USAmbUN @AmbUNReform @GM Today UN regulations authorised fully self driving cars. A win for Tesla

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@FT Good clickbait for FT readers

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@rorysutherland @john_r_collins They don’t want to lure people away - they still want to fill that plane. However the opportunity cost of losing that seat is not selling a 4k transatlantic ticket from EDI of which there is maybe a 25% chance. Hence the 1k price. Blame slot shortages at LHR for these distortions

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@rorysutherland @john_r_collins The curtain might already be quite far back

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@geoffdporter Yes and no. It’s cheaper to visit home than spend the summer in Europe with all the costs of kids activities, beach holidays etc

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@JewishNewsUK Under the Chatham House rule anyone can repeat what was said. They just can’t say who said it. But given there was one speaker it wouldn’t take a genius to figure it out.

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@SCProcedure @pass_blue She has been on leave since Monday

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@izakaminska Not sure French kids grow up wanting to be cleaners. This is mostly a migrant sector. But all work should be well paid regardless

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@usmissiongeneva Almost all UN travel is economy, like the US. Most staff get no housing assistance while US officials in Geneva receive $85,000 a year minimum. UN staff abroad only receive partial reimbursement of education costs unlike US staff abroad.

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@tunezmagazinetn My guess is that photo was more likely taken around 23 kilometres from Bizerte

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@elonmusk When is it coming to Tunisia?🇹🇳

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@Thinkwert Microsoft Word - since 1995

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I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying “please” and “thank you” to their models.

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@Ryanair So mean

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@CollinRugg Fact-checked this. The US federal employee retirement system has been digital for some time now and all works fine. No-one has to go down a mine to process a retirement. The mine contains old archives (which hopefully will be digitalised).

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@RoryStewartUK Not sure how widely held that view is. The markets adjusted but not by much. Deepseek is still dependent on US hardware and built on open source.

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@GerardAraud On Tunisair announcements are only in Arabic and French. No English