JoshGD

Writer, audio producer @FT joshua.gabertdoyon at ft dot com
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[JoshGD @JoshGD]

Looking great guys

[Gordon Brown @GordonBrown]

Great to join with Jimmy, better known as @MrBeast, to highlight efforts to provide school meals to 100 million more children worldwide by 2030.

School meals are among the best investments we can ever make.

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

God want to go here so bad

[Barred in DC @BarredinDC]

Interesting NYT story about the most popular Uber Eats delivery restaurant in the world - an Indian restaurant in a Houston strip mall. Some of the drivers only deliver from there,

[Valida Pau @validapau]

Rumble, the media company backed by Peter Thiel and JD Vance that hosts Trump's Truth Social, turned itself into a neocloud after acquiring Germany's Northern Data.

A few months after it relaunched as Rum, it signed a $13.7B with an unnamed AI customer. That customer is Anthropic.

Anthropic is also getting a warrant to buy Rum's shares, tied to how much computing power it eventually buys.

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

Had fun writing about the university sector's struggles over how to lobby Reform. https://t.co/XRWuQ0RNXo

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

mrbeast creating a generation of borrowers whose only hope at solvency is to luck into a competition hosted by mrbeast....brilliant

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

@TalkinTynie Hey - I'm a journalist with the Financial Times, would you mind following me so I can send a DM?

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

Have had to take on extra shifts at the red tape factory to pay for the chain's deposit🤦‍♂️

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

My cousin in the UK is moving house tomorrow, six people in the "chain". One of them this morning just sent an email saying he's £20,000 short and asking everyone else to jointly make up the difference or the entire deal folds.

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

The debate over a blocked Peckham regeneration scheme has pitted YIMBYs against local Labour politicians and raised questions about London's affordable housing crisis.

Piece with @Smyth_Chris @JBSteins https://t.co/6U7XQETdcm

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

Alternative history where Ozempic takeup coincides with dot-com bubble and is official sponsor of Woodstock 99

[Max Marchione @maxmarchione]

In some very real sense, Ozempic was invented in 1990. Pfizer ran the human trials and just never published them.

They showed it lowered blood glucose in diabetics, slowed gastric emptying, and killed hunger; the same 3 things that make Ozempic work today.

The joint venture agreement said internal data stayed internal, and that was that. Pfizer killed the program in 1991. The reasoning, as far as I can tell, was that nobody would ever want an injectable diabetes drug besides insulin.

So, the license went back to the hospital in Boston that held the patents.

Novo picked it up in 1992 and spent the next two decades building liraglutide, then semaglutide.

It's insane that data sat in a filing cabinet for 30+ years.

I only know this because Jeffrey Flier, one of the Harvard scientists in the room, finally wrote it up. He's in his late 70s and didn't want the history to die with him.

This makes you wonder what else is in those filing cabinets.

Ozempic could've existed 27 years ago.

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

Striking stat from @Smyth_Chris story on decline in primary school enrolment: Islington will see more than 1/5th of its primary pupils disappear by 2029-30.

Wrote about what happens to closing schools last summer https://t.co/dGI39qQAz2

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

Was very fortunate to be able to work on the latest series of the FT's investigative podcast, on the Catholic group Opus Dei, w/ @antoniacundy

The series looks at Opus Dei's expansion across the United States - including its think tanks and DC networks.
https://t.co/L0bZkkCYPK

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

It’s not just new, it’s newspeak

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

New venture from the Enhanced Games founder, who helped run the Peter Thiel-backed Gawker case...

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Ghislaine Maxwell's nephew Ted is standing against Lutfur Rahman's Aspire as an independent in Bethnal Green

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

Wrote about how the Renters Rights Act is reshaping the UK's rental sector: a spike in evictions in the run-up to the bill, the implications for small-time landlords (and potential corporate consolidation) + a new tribunal pathways for renters.
https://t.co/ZlqoarQIc0

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Inside the Jeff Koons bubble with @milesellingham

@JeffKoons, the man who holds the record for the highest price paid at auction for work by a living artist unveils a shiny new Venus in Athens – and answers questions about balloon animals, porn stars and dinner with Jeffrey Epstein
https://t.co/4AQFnq3kyT

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

“Dune, a crypto data platform, found that 58% of user wallets on Polymarket were in the red. Among those who wagered money on Polymarket, the median loss was -$94.”

https://t.co/CIYo9pyV28

[JoshGD @JoshGD]

Not enough discourse about how genuinely weird this guy's disposition is because of this stack

[Kai @kai_xbt]

Clavicular reveals his current daily drug protocol

"Adderall 30mg a day dosed 10, 10 and 10. Last dose is variable depending on whether I'm streaming or want to go to bed early. Selegiline which is an MAO-B inhibitor, basically blocks your body from breaking down dopamine, that's a transdermal patch. Pregabalin to block excitatory neurotransmitters so I'm less anxious and can handle crowded spaces. And Baclofen which is a GABA-B agonist similar to the receptor alcohol hits since I'm quitting drinking."

[FT Press Office @FTPressOffice]

The first episode of Untold: Opus Dei is out now. Listen here: https://t.co/HsFROjva7B