Peter Gumbel

Writing and editing in Paris. Check my website (link below) for my 2020 book, Citizens of Everywhere, an essay on identity and belonging in the age of Brexit.

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

saying #goodbye.
deleting this network, whatever it calls itself
the idiot wrecked it

@karaswisher

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

@ACraigInParis Thanks old boy, but this should be your last reference to me. I’m quitting this network, deleting the app. Had enough of @elonmusk increasingly grotesque narcissism - the neo-fascist X symbol being the final straw. It was fun while it lasted- pity he wrecked it

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

I asked #ChatGPT what it knows about me, and among other glaring errors, I am pleased to announce that it thinks I wrote a book in 2001 called "In the Name of Education: How Weird Ideologies Corrupt our Public Schools, Politics, the Media, Higher Institutions, and History" 🤣

[Thierry Breton @ThierryBreton]

Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation.

But obligations remain. You can run but you can’t hide.

Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25.

Our teams will be ready for enforcement.

[BookAuthority @bookauthority]

Well done @petergumbel! Your book "Citizens of Everywhere" has been featured in our list of best Brexit books of all time! https://t.co/ruoEzWYU8v

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

This is a thread about what was right and what was wrong in the recent Senate hearings on AI harms featuring @OpenAI CEO @sama, as well as @IBM's @_ChristinaMont and @GaryMarcus (one of the researchers in this field I respect most).

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

@jdportes the added twist being that Jenrick's own wife is from a family of Holocaust survivors who fled Poland and Ukraine to find refuge in the UK

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

This whole blue tick fiasco is going to be a treasure trove for behavioral psychologists and students of consumer marketing. How to turn a status symbol into something derisory overnight.

[Neil Gaiman @neilhimself]

I woke up to find I'm now blue ticked again. I haven't paid for Twitter or given anyone my phone number. Mr Musk, if you're paying for people who don't want blue ticks to have them, @StephenKing's suggestion that you donate the money to charity is excellent. To Refugees, perhaps?

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

Understatement of the century. He’s wrecked it.

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

incredible but true that the bank stress tests didn't test for rate increases.

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

I don’t see how anybody last spring could have thought that the major risk was anything other than a spike in interest rates. So a process that didn’t consider it as a risk seems to me to be a profoundly problematic process.

What Happened to Our Banks? https://t.co/5Nel7TSwKS

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

Love reading @kupersimon on France but really don't agree that constitutional reform is a priority; it risks being a huge distraction that will exacerbate the "millefeuille" state https://t.co/jVAlKGbaf6 #macron #retraites

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

This is brilliant: star costumes on #Oscars night and their resemblance to charts from the French national statistics office #Insee

[Clara Dealberto @claradealberto]

👗📊✨ LES TENUES DES OSCARS AS GRAPHIQUES DE L'INSEE

✨ Le thread dont vous aviez besoin sans le savoir ✨

Je commence avec Cate Blanchett as "Investissements financés par crédit-bail immobilier : principaux usages"

⬇️📈⬇️

[Steven Shorrock @StevenShorrock]

Talking to friends about French schooling and one thing often comes up: Homework is wrecking childhoods and family relationships.

If interested in how schooling can comprehensively fail children’s well-being, read @petergumbel’s “They Shoot School Kids…”
https://t.co/DUEYpPxEMV

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

22 February 1943 | Sophie and Hans Scholl & Christoph Probs were executed in Germany for their public resistance against the Nazi regime. They were members of White Rose movement called for active opposition to the Nazi party. https://t.co/4AMOXwj209

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

"whereas chimpanzees make completely random choices, there is a pattern to humanity’s collective ignorance: people routinely show a more pessimistic view of the world than the one described by our statistics" - great stuff in @ft @theboysmithy
https://t.co/4JYxBADbSm

[UK in a Changing Europe @UKandEU]

🗣️ "I think that Brexit is a failure for the EU. And we have to think about this failure".

📺 Watch @MichelBarnier in conversation with @anandMenon1 this afternoon, as he reflects on the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU.

[Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA @GRDecter]

From 2017 through the end of 2022, Meta spent about $97 billion buying back its own stock at an average price of $242/share.

That's a $24.25 billion total loss (-25%) over the last 6 years.

[Anand Menon @anandMenon1]

This is quite a remarkable map from @unherd and @focaldataHQ

[Peter Gumbel @petergumbel]

Great reporting by @maryseburgot on the grim reality of life in #Bakhmut for the ~5000 civilians (including children) still there

[Maryse Burgot @MaryseBurgot]

Nous avons passé une nuit avec des enfants à Bakhmout. 5000 civils sont encore dans cette ville bombardée en permanence. Notre reportage.

#Ukraine #UkraineWar
@infofrance2 @franceinfo @stef_guillemot