Reposted by Ethan PlotkinEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026GEFILTE PHISHING 10568961208 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinEmma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Paddington becoming chief executioner was not something I could have imagined 2183 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026"Claude sounds friendly, vaguely French, cultivated — even trustworthy. How would we react if the same model was called ‘Xi,’ ‘Vladimir,’ or ‘Algorithmic Model Unit 72'?" On the perils of anthropomorphized AI 010 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinAtlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with 359159393253 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026spot-on as usual from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2205...giftarticle.ft.comWhat if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?New evidence suggests the rise of working from home has made entry-level hires a less attractive proposition 010 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.” 223149932811 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026A (mostly) happy reader, writes www.ft.com/inside-polit... 192669 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This makes it sound like the cast of Mormon Wives harbor grave doubts about Bahrain’s offensive capabilities 352068262 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026We have come full circle, people. 516328 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026BBC viewers can access Mark Rutte's inner monologue by pressing the red button. 1134337 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinNahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026theonion.com/if-the-found...theonion.comIf The Founding Fathers Were Alive Today, They’d Be Too Fascinated By A Garbage Disposal To Do AnythingNowadays, it seems like our country is more divided than ever. It’s tougher and tougher to find something all Americans can agree on, and amid all this acrimony and infighting, one can’t help but wond... 151 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/01/2026Robert Jenrick sacked from Tory shadow cabinet over ‘plotting’ to defect ft.trib.al/ckcMCLift.trib.alRobert Jenrick sacked from Tory shadow cabinet over ‘plotting’ to defectConservative leader Kemi Badenoch has removed figure seen as possible successor from the shadow cabinet 2303 0
Reposted by Ethan Plotkinphylan @phylan.website · 11/01/2026[Al Michaels calling the kick return from Dark Knight Rises] would you look at that. meanwhile you got uh. Ward. how do you figure 192477331 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinChristian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 31/12/2025"Voters want contradictory things: low #prices when they shop, high #wages for themselves; not many immigrants but lots of cheap labour; rising house prices when they own and lower ones when their children want to buy." www.economist.com/leaders/2025... 411339 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinMelissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou” 952291424755 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/20252025 Headline of the Year nominee (July) 51470169 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinAlison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 06/11/2025NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...ig.ft.comEnd of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelledMohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance 56734217 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025My column this week: on a world in which your lifeboat seems ever more necessary- but ever more unappealing:ft.comIsrael seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British JewsAmid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive 1110018 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/08/2025It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing. 484030838 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinMichela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · 05/08/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe west ignores Rwanda’s dark side – and political prisoners like my mother pay the price | Rémy AmahirwaShe was arrested after planning to run against Paul Kagame. It’s time democracies woke up to the true nature of his regime, says Rémy Amahirwa 12514 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinArieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 17/06/2025It's also just not true. Cyrus the Great is so revered in Jewish history that some considered him to the the messiah. The authors of the Talmud lived under the Sassanians and often had good relations with them (the Talmud loves king Shappur I). Israel was an ally of pre-Revolution Iran. 832688 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025“Special thanks to our sponsor: Coinbase” 48055971050 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinGeorge Parker @georgewparker.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Starmer v Farage and Reeves’s fiscal fix, dissected by the brilliant @stephenkb.bsky.social @chrisgiles.ft.com and @annasophiegross.bsky.social - plus hot @lucyfisher.ft.com baby news www.ft.com/content/c005...ft.comWho’s afraid of Nigel Farage?Plus: Rachel Reeves’ problems are piling up ahead of the autumn budget 2207 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinReuters @reuters.com · 28/05/2025Trust in European Union at highest since 2007, poll shows reut.rs/4k9VQ5zreut.rsTrust in European Union at highest since 2007, poll showsTrust in the European Union and its institutions has risen to an almost two-decade high, a report released on Wednesday shows, as U.S. President Donald Trump upends global trade and foreign policy. 310632 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025(Not about any of my bosses at the FT, to be clear!) 000 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025The end of this passage, from the @ftweekend.com essay, really hit home on.ft.com/3Za27pe 140 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP. 595517855 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 09/05/2025Good morning why not have lunch with Sam Altman. He's cooking on.ft.com/44qGt3Jon.ft.comOpenAI chief Sam Altman: ‘This is genius-level intelligence’[FREE TO READ] The tech entrepreneur on the risks and opportunities of AI, his dispute with Elon Musk and why he has the ‘most important job maybe in history’ 365 0
Reposted by Ethan Plotkinkevbo9 @kevbo9.bsky.social · 07/05/2025watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social 161167211 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Kept trying to press the second button but it wouldn’t work 010 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025FT commenter 'grrrf' asking the important questions on.ft.com/3RwFiIn 0102 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinGregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 23/04/2025A good piece from two Israeli analysts on Israel's overreach in Syria: "Its approach resembles its efforts to create a security zone in southern Lebanon in the '80s and '90s—which resulted in a war of attrition that deepened Lebanese resentment." www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...foreignaffairs.comIsrael’s Dangerous Overreach in SyriaMaking an enemy of a potential new ally. 27615 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 21/04/2025To be continued... www.economist.com/graphic-deta... 310816 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 17/04/2025To try to stave of tariffs, Vietnam is expediting approvals of a $1.5 billion Trump Organization resort www.wsj.com/economy/trad...wsj.comAnxious Trading Partners Promise to Buy American to Stave Off Trump’s TariffsCountries are offering to buy more American goods in a bid to eliminate their trade deficits with the U.S., but not everyone is splurging. 108655371 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025No trade deficit with these guys. So I guess the US will just go for the simple 10% baseline tariff? 1311118 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinJamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism 20550147 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinJeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx 289233104874 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinJoe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Not every stock is down today 3128445 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinFinbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Stunning news on the wires just now: CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS I suspected the world was upside down before today. Now I know it's true 🙃 47219 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Confirmed: Abraham Lincoln read Michael Sandel 000 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025This chyron is the ultimate hotdogman.gif meme 913447518 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025NDP vote share has fallen by almost half since the end of last year The story here seems to be less about a Conservative collapse (though still down ~7 percentage points from peak) than it is about the left-of-center consolidating around Liberals 020 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinSte Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Genuinely historically accurate version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_D... 322789 0
Ethan Plotkin @ethanplotkin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025This is... remarkable. But the kicker seems key: "Waltz set some of the messages in the Signal group to disappear after one week, and some after four. That... may have violated federal records law: Text messages about official acts are considered records that should be preserved." 000 0
Reposted by Ethan PlotkinPOLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/03/2025Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.politico.euMusk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrestSuspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations. 1531722991 0
