This writing business. Overrated if you ask me.

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[This writing business. Overrated if you ask me. @ScouseView]

So as well as plaguing y'all's feed with #transitory materiel (and the occasional music tweet) I write for Bloomberg Opinion and here's a link to get my Opinings directement into y'all's inboxes:
https://t.co/h5LqfOJ9E1

[Woolwich Pigeon @WoolwichPigeon]

Message to the Royal Mint and the Bank of England

You are not Springwatch - don’t snub us again

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@chamiltonbbc I'm willing to bet a three-star jumper featured in his wardrobe at some point

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

This is an actual photo of the first ever $30,000 Bloomberg Terminal:

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@deminimismusic Albums. But then I let Spotify randomly suggest individual tracks, which has turned out to be a not-too-bad way of discovering new tunes.

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Whoops
*UK 30-YEAR YIELD CLIMBS TO 5.76%, HIGHEST SINCE 1998

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@Tim_Burgess James supporting The Smiths on the Meat is Murder tour. Tim Booth was on fire...

[Dow @mark_dow]

Boots on the ground

The boots:

[Lee @deminimismusic]

If tlyou're a football fan & you've never seen this clip of Chuck Norris watching a Brighton & Hove Albion game on the telly then you're in for a treat. #BHAFC #ChuckNorris

*needs sound*

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https://t.co/o6Ne837OF5

[This writing business. Overrated if you ask me. @ScouseView]

In memory of Chuck Norris, bits from a column from 2007:
Chuck Norris doesn't target inflation. He roundhouse-kicks it until it begs for mercy.
Chuck Norris doesn't supply collateral, only collateral damage.
When the yield on a Chuck Norris bond goes up, the price also rises.

[𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐞 @EffMktHype]

You met El Risitas at a very hiking time of his life

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Welcome to Fowler's Sports 🍿🙌

[Clever Hedge @cleverhedge]

Excel skills

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Bloomberg Opinion is seeking a Vertical Video Producer and Editor based in London to join our global team of columnists and editors...
https://t.co/rtQBOYI7YW

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What a time to be alive
*OPENAI TO RAISE $110B IN NEW INVESTMENT AT $730B VALUATION

[Matt Singh @MattSingh_]

Important to underline just how rare it is for turnout to go up in a by-election. In percentage terms, it’s only happened 18 times since the war (15 of which were by a 2.3 points or less) and hasn’t happened at all since 1986

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Interesting rebuttal...

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

https://t.co/zAdYyDTjMV

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This is Worth Reading, particularly for what it says about the intersection of AI infrastructure and disparate databases

[Colossus @colossusmag]

Shyam Sankar is Palantir's chief technology officer and the man most responsible for making its business and technology work.

He joined in 2006 as employee #13, when Palantir was one of Silicon Valley’s freakshows: a small and somewhat demented chickenhawk of a startup with a buggy demo and no customers. For 20 years, largely from the shadows, he has brute forced it into the spearhead of "defense tech" and a $320 billion company.

He embedded with intelligence analysts in Virginia, special operators in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on the factory floors of some of the world’s biggest companies—building and rebuilding software in the field, sometimes with phones taped to his head so he could give and take feedback while keeping his hands free to code. He invented the “Forward Deployed Engineer,” which has since become the object of both skepticism and imitation.

Alex Karp, Palantir's mercurial co-founder and CEO, says the company would not exist without him. The same can be said of the modern defense tech industry, many of whose founders cut their teeth working for Shyam.

In this deeply reported profile, @JeremySternLA tells the story of the most pivotal but hidden figure behind America’s most controversial company. He also gives the clearest explanation you'll read of what Palantir actually does, whether its valuation is justified or absurd, and what any of this has to do with the company’s mission to save Western civilization.

It begins in the Grand Ballroom of The Pierre hotel and winds through Nigeria and India, Florida and California, Iraq and Afghanistan. It ends with a rabbi, a monkey, and a lesson in what it means to buy time in the face of a coming fire.

Only in Colossus:

[Tom Kohn @kohntom]

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