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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Most people think Hades is the ruler of the underworld in Greek myth, but, in actual ancient sources, Persephone holds greater prominence and authority. In this post, I argue that she is the underworld's main ruler. #GreekMyth #Hades #Persephone #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/08/05/i...

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Is Persephone the Main Ruler of the Underworld in Greek Myth? - Tales of Times Forgotten

Most people who know about Greek myth think that Hades is the ruler of the underworld. This is not wrong per se; early Greek poems do describe Hades as “ruler of those beneath the earth.” But, for the...

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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Mark Ham wowed the world with this picture. But then someone wowed me even more by pointing out that the moon always has the same phase when it's in a rainbow! (1/2)

A closeup of a rainbow with the Moon in it. The Moon is not full, it is gibbous. This photo was taken by Mark Ham. In this photo you can work out exactly where the sun is—behind him over his left shoulder—from both the position of the rainbow and from the phase of the moon.

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Charles de Dampierre @charlesdedampierre.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

How can we study human development over two thousand years? For most periods and regions, we lack reliable data on income, health, or education. Before 1800, and outside Europe, historical records are extremely fragmentary. Thread 👇 🧵

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Baptiste Coulmont @coulmont.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

En 1870-1871, c'était pas folichon pour les théâtres, à Paris. (source : heritage.ecoledesponts.fr/ark:/12148/b... )

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Why does the short term always feel so long ?

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Guys, the Italian unemployment rate has just fallen below the UK's.

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Baptiste Coulmont @coulmont.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

🐍📊 #BoustrophedonSnakeWrappedChart Ministère de l’agriculture, Atlas graphique et statistique du commerce de la France avec les pays étrangers 1878 f20 Importation et exportation de fils de lin et de chanvre gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... joeystanley.com/blog/boustro... www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Daltons are way better than Celsius, it's basically the same scale for everyday uses but since Daltons is logarithmic, there is no weird "absolute zero" at -273°. Cold temperatures can instead go to negative infinity in a much more pleasingly symmetric way

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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Are you sick of reading about data centers? If not: In a new paper, we developed a simple method to forecast data center investment using project-level microdata on $1.3 TRILLION in announced plans. www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds...

The stock of plans (data center construction projects that are neither started or abandoned) have increased from $0 to $1.3 trillion in about 18 months!

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 25/05/2025

Good call with POTUS. The EU and US share the world’s most consequential and close trade relationship. Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively. To reach a good deal, we would need the time until July 9.

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Coming from a culture where homework assignments are a clear second rate way of grading compared to sitting tests without notes (latter being much fairer), it's cute to see Americans panicking about AI impact on education

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Often sees that claim but it seems to overlook one obvious counterexample: horse power

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

From “The Year 2000”, published 1967.

This seems to be one of those quite common situations in which early in the innovation period many exaggerated claims are made, then there is disillusionment and a swing to overconservative prediction and a general pessimism and skepticism, then finally when a reasonable degree of development has been obtained and a learning period navigated, many—if not all— of the early "ridiculous" exaggerations and expectations are greatly ex-ceeded. It is particularly clear that if, as suggested in the last section, computers improve by five, ten, or more orders of magnitude over the next thirty-three years this is almost certain to happen.
For the near future, automation and cybernation are likely to create as many jobs as they eliminate, by contributing to the increase of productivity and economic growth. The creation of new jobs is a subtle and undramatic process, and it is difficult to chart how and to what extent increases in productivity causes investment which leads to new jobs, whereas the direct elimination of jobs is both noticeable and dramatic.
The net effects on employment, hours worked, and productivity are difficult to predict, particularly because the rate at which industrial processes are automated may increase and the tradeoff between increased production and leisure that society may choose are both quite uncertain.

Spine of a moldy old hard back book, bound in dark green linen, with the author’s surnames Kain & Weiner and the title: The Year 2000.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.

My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Ok, la justice d'autrefois était un peu plus sévère

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"Profits are arbitrary numbers bounded below by the fear of shareholders and bounded above by fear of the law". Auguste Detoeuf

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Ireland being almost three times bigger than Taiwan is my fact of the day

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The interesting point of the article is the argument that retaliation make sense only if you think there will be negociations

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Huge congratulations @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social on an epic career. And congrats also to Warren, who I guess will now assume the mantle of oldest guy in markets. www.gam.com/en/news-arti...

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Fun fact: there’s an argument to be made Trump may be about to commit fundamental breach of the terms of the Louisiana Purchase. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Ask Jeeves (1999)

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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Steven Kelly @stevenkelly49.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

New paper: "Rushing to Judgement and the Banking Crisis of 2023" At the two-year anniversary of the crisis, Jonathan Rose and I present 7 facts that are overlooked in the standard account of the crisis: www.chicagofed.org/publications...

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Skeptics to Von der Leyen's €150bn announcement this am miss an imp point - & historical context The Commission's initial response to the pandemic was a €100bn facility, on which today's announcement is modelled. The second was €800bn NextGen EU bazooka Today's €150bn is likely only the first step

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Conseil d'analyse économique @caeeco.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Objectif « plein emploi » : pourquoi et comment ? La réponse de @antoine-bozio.bsky.social, J. Ferreira, @camillelandais.bsky.social, @lapeyrealice.bsky.social et M. Modena dans un focus du #CAEeco où ils analysent 55 ans d’évolution du travail en France et ailleurs. ▶️ urlr.me/7Fp8yr Suivez le 🧵

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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🇪🇺VdL has just presented plans for more EU defence spending - Activate exemption from deficit rules - €150bn in loans to member states - Repurposing cohesion funds (if countries want to) - Mobilising capital markets and EIB She encouraged countries to quickly buy equipment to transfer to Ukraine

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Le Parisien @leparisien.fr · 01/03/2025

💬 «C’est un moment de bascule historique» Le ministre de l’Économie Éric Lombard réagit pour la première fois à l’affrontement entre les présidents américain et ukrainien… et à ses conséquences sur les finances françaises Lire l'interview ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/3Bv5

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éconoclaste 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @stephane.econoclaste.eu · 28/02/2025

Hey, les gens... Le CAE est sur Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/caee...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

As Asimov pointed out, the attributes IQ tests measure leave out a whole range of skills and experiences needed to turn knowledge into wisdom www.justinclark.org/blog/the-ant...

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Insee @insee.fr · 26/02/2025

L’Insee est désormais sur Bluesky ! Dorénavant, vous pouvez également retrouver nos publications en suivant notre compte @insee.fr. Abonnez-vous !

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Fabien Bossy @fabienbossy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The world goes round and round

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 24/02/2025

New article by me! It's a common mistake to think the TFR is a prediction of the average number of children women will have over their lifetimes. But it's not. The TFR can decline even when the eventual number of children per woman stays constant or even increases; the opposite can happen too. 🧵

A line graph compares two measures of fertility rates in Sweden over time: the total fertility rate and the completed cohort fertility rate.

The total fertility rate is depicted using a red line, which shows a downward trend starting around the early 1900s, with fluctuations and a gradual decline to about 1.5 in 2022.

The completed cohort fertility rate is illustrated with a blue line, with the time axis showing the women's birth year. It shows an initial decline followed by a stable fertility rate.

A note at the bottom states that the completed cohort fertility rate has been shifted by 30 years to align with the respective birth years of women. The data source is the Human Fertility Database (2024) and the chart is published by Our World in Data.

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jamie powell @ajbpowell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

one of the sharpest points of cognitive dissonance on the wealth tax discussion is that the US effectively has one with annual state taxes based on the value of your house (property tax), but it's rarely mentioned as an effective, or successful even, example in articles or politics

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Echoing this. Senior officials clear public statements by Vance etc don't invalidate the productive European-US discussions on security guarantees that are being had or models under consideration are no longer valid. Array of options on troop presence, weapons, equipment, use of frozen assets etc 1/

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Great piece of speculative history by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social in the FT on the likely effects of the Musk coup that I dearly hope Rachel Reeves is reading this morning on.ft.com/4jHIz4i

But the real extent of the damage became clear only with the tech meltdown of 2030. Economists and historians have now shown that a lot of this was the outcome of institutional failures and growing concentration in the industry. After Trump lifted all roadblocks ahead of AI acceleration and cryptocurrency speculation, there was initially a boom in the tech sector. But within a few years the industry had become even more consolidated than before, and both insiders and outsiders came to realise that only companies favoured by the administration could survive.

By late 2029, many commentators were questioning what was going on in the tech industry, which had invested heavily in Al but had little to show for this in terms of innovation or
productivity growth. There was huge enthusiasm and investment in cryptoassets, which were one by one revealed to be scams costing regular Americans billions of dollars. The AI empire had no clothes by this point, because the competitive energy had been sucked out of it. It took a while longer for the market to realise that, but when it did, a massive stock market crash followed

This is the kind of shock that a dynamic economy can recover from, with new innovators coming in, government experts using fiscal policy and other interventions to prevent the crash from translating into a deep recession, and all sorts of people still believing in their ability to make a difference. But once malaise about US institutions had sunk in and
experts were no longer around in the government, the crash became a recession and then a
depression.

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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 143,000 in January, and the unemployment rate edged down to 4.0% Revisions added net 100,000 jobs in November and December

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