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well we all knew these glorious utopian years we've had couldn't last forever
"Painful" years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall
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Nintendo is like “Let’s highlight and take an even closer look at the extremely PHYSICAL nature of our PHYSICAL video game. Let’s appreciate how incredible it will be when you OWN it and can HOLD IT in your hands.”
I love it. I love it so much I want to eat it.
Behold! 🙌 Here’s a closer look at a physical copy of The Legend of #Zelda: #OcarinaOfTime special textured foil packaging, available at launch while supplies last.
Pre-order to get yours now: ninten.do/6011asyNh
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A Projeção Equal Earth que passará a ser adotada pela ONU é essa aqui:
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It's been interesting and puzzling to witness the problems with accuracy in UK economic statistics over the past few years. (See the links in the next tweet for more.) It seems that the Office for National Statistics, ONS, now struggles to effectively measure basic figures such as employment, trade, and inflation. This resulted in a quite scathing government report published last summer, where Robert Devereux, a former permanent secretary, concluded that "most of the well-publicised problems with core economic statistics are the consequence of ONS’s own performance."
There's a lot of discussion about the travails facing the UK these days (including this big piece in The Atlantic a few weeks ago[1]), and the problems with the ONS feel like an unsettling microcosm of diffuse decline in broader institutional competence.
Anyhow: at Stripe, we became curious about the UK's published entrepreneurship data. While we observe a boom in many parts of the world, official figures don't show a similar increase in the UK. In the latest Stripe Economics post, we dug into the data, and, as far as we can tell, the official figures are probably misleading. The good and the bad news (mostly good, I think!) is that the UK is almost certainly witnessing an unmeasured boom in entrepreneurship: stripeeconomics.com/p/is-the…
UK-specific issues aside, I suspect that this measurement question is illustrative of forthcoming econometric challenges. Keeping the world's macro indicators up-to-date in response to the faster-than-usual changes wrought by AI will be both increasingly difficult and increasingly important in the coming years.
[1] theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
Amazing essay on the world cup, London, cities, culture, and being alive. Also, somehow more 'Will Self' than Will Self himself.
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This Man entered Amsterdam airport In 2016 and technically never stopped working till now. The man is a recording. Dutch designer Maarten Baas filmed a performer for 12 full hours behind a translucent screen, erasing and repainting the minute hand with a roller every minute.
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2 weeks before every World Cup: Thousands of slaves have died building these stadiums, tickets are £10,000 and fans of marginalised groups cannot guarantee safety
2 weeks into every World Cup: All men are brothers and there is nothing the indomitable human spirit can’t overcome
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American football tends to be a test of two highly functional organizations to see which is even more efficient, like Walmart vs. Costco.
Soccer tends to be a tragic struggle against the malignity of random fate, like Serbia vs. the Ottoman Empire.
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JUST IN: After two people climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a banner on top of its spire Wednesday afternoon, one of the climbers appeared to propose to the other. abcnews.link/G4bdme1
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The issue isn't Starmer, per se, it's the fact that we all now know, whoever is PM, unless it's some far right leader with friendly tax policies for the ultra wealthy, they will be met by a barage of misinformation and relentless online attacks: accusations they support p**dophiles & r*pists, that they jail 12,000 innocent people every year for tweeting; and all the usual misleading, manipulative BS designed to exploit people's emotions.
This won't stop until they have installed the party they want. A party that will be focussed purely on optimising the affairs of its wealthy backers, and not on the working people and families of Britain.
