Reposted by hal👾The Economist @economist.com · 01/04/2026We spoke to diplomats, advisers, scholars, experts and current and former officials in China. Almost all of them see the war in Iran as a grave American error. Register for free to read why: econ.st/4tloDIy 1229889
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 20/01/2026"EXCLUSIVE" @theglobeandmail.com except for when The Economist wrote about it two weeks ago 050
Reposted by hal👾Natasha Loder @natashaloder.bsky.social · 20/01/2026EXCLUSIVE: A quiet revolution happened at Great Ormond Street Hospital last week. A girl with a rare fatal condition received a custom drug under a new MHRA protcol that is 1st step towards process approval, a shift that could one day save millions of lives. www.economist.com/science-and-...economist.comTreatment of a teenager with an ultra-rare condition is a medical milestoneIt will change regulators’ rule books 1189
Reposted by hal👾James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 15/01/2026it's worth noting that the shift from Wikipedia to AI for factual summaries also removes our ability to audit the information trail and reveal systematic manipulation like this. AI can offer sources, but nothing like the timestamped/IP address-linked edit history of wikis bsky.app/profile/timb... 17833
Reposted by hal👾Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Punting Greenland's security to a working group and sending a symbolic troop deployment is probably the best Europe can do, for now. But in time a more considered strategy may be needed to counter Trump's covetousness. My take on Europe's Greenland options www.economist.com/europe/2026/...economist.comEurope has three options for defending GreenlandFending off Donald Trump may yet prove agonisingly difficult 1198
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 15/01/2026wild that Trump calls Delcy a "terrific person" when she's been running cover for a brutal regime for years here she is with Al Jazeera in Sept 2017, right after the most vicious crackdowns in chavismo history none of this was true. and she wasn't even asked about the torture 130
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 13/01/2026After kidnapping Maduro, Trump is as about as popular in Venezuela as the opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado. This according to our new polling www.economist.com/graphic-deta... 000
Reposted by hal👾Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Photovoltaics fed about 16.9% of German-generated electricity into the grid in 2025, according to the Bundesnetzagentur (this excludes selfconsumption). Renewables at 58.8% overall. www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/P...bundesnetzagentur.deBundesnetzagentur - Presse - Bundesnetzagentur veröffentlicht Daten zum Strommarkt 2025 15514
Reposted by hal👾The Economist @economist.com · 08/01/2026In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can. That will be bad for America—and everyone else: econ.st/4qcajRx 310146
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The worst-case scenarios that Canada's military planners must account for now include incursions on Canadian territory by the Donald Trump's America www.economist.com/the-americas...economist.comCanada’s armed forces are now planning for threats from AmericaThey started rebuilding in 2025, before Donald Trump’s most recent bid for hemispheric dominance 023
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 01/10/2025love this story by Tom Graham on Die Mennonitische Post, the newspaper printed in Canada and distributed to conservative Mennonites across Latin America www.economist.com/the-americas...economist.comA German newspaper for Bolivian blondesFor Mennonites from Bolivia to Belize, Die Mennonitische Post is often the only connection to the outside world 010
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Diana Salazar on dealing with gangs www.economist.com/by-invitatio...economist.comEcuador’s crime wave demands a more sophisticated response, says its former attorney-generalDiana Salazar explains why investigators need more help from abroad—as well as more Kevlar-clad protectors at home 031
Reposted by hal👾Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025My take on England’s daftest sport: Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage? economist.com/britain/2025...economist.comShould cheese rolling be protected as British heritage?The government mulls making England’s daftest sport official 9208
Reposted by hal👾Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Middle class consciousness is on the rise: Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite! economist.com/britain/2025...economist.comDoctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!The rise of middle-class consciousness 1910920
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Trump is wrong about almost everything But he's right to pursue deep-sea mining, even though he *probably* isn't motivated by the real reasons it's a good idea (a supply of essential metals with lower emissions and ecological harms than the largest sources today)economist.comDonald Trump is right to go after metals in the deep seaEnvironmentalists should push the UN body that governs deep-sea mining to pass regulations to allow it 021
Reposted by hal👾Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Heroically spent this week at The Crucible. Please reward my shoeleather reporting with a click. The strange success of snooker: immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going economist.com/britain/2025...economist.comThe strange success of snookerImmigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going 8347
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 25/04/2025enjoyed this enormously lemonslice.com/replay?id=95... (video call with LLM-driven Baron Harkonnen)lemonslice.comLemon Slice (formerly Infinity AI) - Create expressive talking charactersLemon Slice (formerly Infinity AI) is the leading platform for creating talking head videos with AI. Free AI character generation. 1M+ videos. 30+ languages and unlimited styles. 000
Reposted by hal👾Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Angus Reid shows the Liberals with a 5pt lead. LPC 42 (+26 vs December) CPC 37 (-8) NDP 9 (-12) BQ 8 (-3) GPC 1 (-2) Gives them a 2pt lead in our tracker: www.economist.com/interactive/... 🇨🇦 510724
Reposted by hal👾Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025First (highly respected) Abacus poll post-Carney shows the Conservatives down 3, Liberals up 5 0151
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025this is a really good point. one way of thinking about Apple's failure to ship genAI products is that the features inherent to genAI tech don't fit well with Apple's brand 030
Reposted by hal👾Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸 293180905393
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Trump fentanyl riffs are just not credible the CBP seized 13 grams (grams!!!) of fentanyl at the Canadian border in January. That is down by a factor of 180x since Trump was elected The CBP seized 16x more fentanyl at interior ports in 2024 than it did at the Canadian border 132
Reposted by hal👾Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 09/02/2025This is beautiful (love the arcing) cc @halhod.bsky.social 010125
Reposted by hal👾Sue-Lin Wong @suelinwong.bsky.social · 31/01/2025For the past year, I've been investigating the global rise of online scams - a predatory, multi-billion dollar industry that rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. Scam Inc, a new 8-part podcast from The Economist and hosted by me, is out in February: econ.st/3CoAdxJecon.stScam Inc from The Economist: Trailer: Scam IncA sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It is already more lucrative than the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerf... 34711
Reposted by hal👾Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Shock: Greenlanders are 85% to 6% against joining Team America. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comNew opinion poll shows 85% of Greenlanders do not want to join USDespite Donald Trump claiming the island’s population ‘want to be with us’, Greenlanders overwhelmingly rejected the idea 1124
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I've been following Brad Zamft's thinking and work ever since we met at an ARPA-e over a decade ago. Enjoyed every bit of it. There isn't too much journalism ten years in the making, but this story is just that www.economist.com/science-and-...economist.comHeritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breedingBy reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops 021
Reposted by hal👾Will Douglas Heaven @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social · 27/01/2025And yet there's more to the DeepSeek story. Building a very efficient model that uses few chips probably requires building one (or more) inefficient models that use a lot of chips first. TLDR don't bet against Big Chip yet This is good blog.heim.xyz/deepseek-wha... 052
Reposted by hal👾Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025The launch of Sputnik in October 1957 knocked about 10% off US equities in three weeks. 3224
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Deepseek's training-compute economy seems to me like a deeply bearish signal for Nvidia, and yet... what am I missing? 430
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 16/01/2025i somehow think this study will receive dramatically less attention that studies analysing the possible opposite outcomes 020
Reposted by hal👾Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Denmark's king has added a polar bear for Greenland (and a ram for the Faeroes) to the coat of arms as Trump sends Don Jr. off to try to buy Greenland. www.kongehuset.dk/nyheder/fast...kongehuset.dkFastsættelse af nyt kongevåbenH.M. Kongen har ved kongelig resolution af den 20. december 2024 fastsat et nyt kongevåben. Kongen ønsker med ændringer til det kongelige våben, der blev fastsat i 1972, at skabe et nutid... 0142
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 01/01/2025seems like a bad bet to me. buying and installing GPUs in racks to build and flog software is MUCH more scaleable than buying them to stick into or support robots. trying out a chatbot is so much easier than trying out a robot www.ft.com/content/7c3d...ft.comNvidia bets on robotics to drive future growthUS chipmaker looks to new industries amid rising competition in core AI business 230
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 01/01/2025a lovely thread from Ol, in which i am lucky enough to feature 010
Reposted by hal👾Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Where did Santa get his name? How did St Nicholas become the children's patron? What do the Dutch have to do with it? How about early New York patriots? The Civil War? Is Father Christmas the same guy? I learned quite a lot researching this. www.economist.com/the-economis... 174
Reposted by hal👾Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Lots going on in France but a lovely piece by @sophiepedder.bsky.social on the reconstruction of Notre Dame. Until his death last year it was led by Jean-Louis Georgelin, my old prof at Sciences Po & the most patriotic man I ever met (he insisted we call him “mon général”). He would've been proud!economist.comEmmanuel Macron shows off the gloriously restored Notre DameFive years after it was gutted by fire, the cathedral is more beautiful than ever 2273
Reposted by hal👾Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Love how this guy takes the mickey out of The Economist's obsession with airships. And that they printed it 88314
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 29/11/2024El presidente de Argentina habló con The Economist el lunes en Buenos Aires. Aquí está la transcripción en español de nuestra conversación con Javier Milei www.economist.com/the-americas...economist.comEntrevista con Javier Milei, presidente de ArgentinaTranscripción de su encuentro con nuestro corresponsal 010
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Here is the English transcript of Kinley Salmon's remarkable interview with Javier Milei www.economist.com/the-americas... Many jaw-dropping moments, including 6100
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 28/11/2024On Monday Kinley Salmon, our Latin America correspondent, interviewed Javier Milei in Buenos Aires Our cover story examines his dramatic reform programme in Argentina, one year after he took office, and the lessons it holds for the rest of the world 176914
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 27/11/2024please can more people put me in a starter pack. i want more followers. i barely "skeet" and have no intention of "skeeting" more, but i am human and so enjoy my number going pointlessly up 0302
Reposted by hal👾MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Took this this morning especially for the guy who thought I should edit the pylon out of my Exe/tree/mist photo the other day. I always love elements of landscape that look like line drawings (and I know I Im not alone). 3343024
Reposted by hal👾Alice Su @aliceysu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024This year I spent months reporting in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vTt...open.spotify.comClimbers (part one): A way out of ChinaDrum Tower · Episode 88429
Reposted by hal👾Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 24/11/2024My underwhelmed & unenthused wrap of #COP29: www.economist.com/internationa...economist.comHalf a loaf, at best, from the climate talksThis year’s negotiations made very modest progress 0115
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 14/11/2024this is a good resource blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/blueskydirectory.comAll - Bluesky DirectoryA curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform. 061
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 01/11/2024Fascinating piece by our Southern Cone correspondent on a vanishingly rare phenomenon: that of the sensible referendum result www.economist.com/the-americas...economist.comWhy Uruguayans rejected a government splurgeThank strong parties, sensible leadership and a scary neighbour 000
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 28/10/2024this story by Mat Youkee is gruesome and fascinating, an ecological phenomenon at the intersection of migration, deforestation and climate change www.economist.com/the-americas... 011
