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 1179
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... 17933
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 · 15/01/2026and if you are watching (I am), why on earth would you want to see this video?? 000
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 15/01/2026the whole interview is worth watching aljazeera.com/video/talk-t... especially, if you can stand it, in the context of this report on the rape, torture and murder carried out by the regime ohchr.org/sites/defaul...aljazeera.comDelcy Rodriguez: No humanitarian crisis in VenezuelaThe president of the new Constituent Assembly on allegations of abuse of power and Venezuela's economic crisis. 011
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 · 08/01/2026here you go You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Canada’s armed forces are planning for threats from America economist.com/the-americas...economist.comCanada’s armed forces are planning for threats from AmericaThey started rebuilding in 2025, before Donald Trump’s most recent bid for hemispheric dominance 041
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 · 07/01/2026www.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 1148
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 · 28/05/2025but there's not likely to be much volume here tbh, you're right. it's more that these bots are out in the real world now and that opens up opportunities to gather data and train software which can take deeper control of the bots. no? 000
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 28/05/2025well they can already balance autonomously right? I'd be surprised if the operators are controlling that. i meant more that intent and action is encoded in fight data, as well as how the bots perform in real physical environment 100
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 28/05/2025the big deal is that this environment can generate bootstrap training data for that autonomous controller 110
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 06/05/2025its writers appear to be american fwiw, as were 2/3 on original. and in general I'd say the whole story/theme is fairly heavily americanised 110
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 02/05/2025if/when a tool like this gets rolled out by gov.uk, do we have to keep PDFs in the backend forever, or can we eventually swap them out for a more sensible structured databasegov.uk 210
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 · 02/05/2025lol the replies. do these people all enjoy shopping in places that are being robbed simultaneously? 020
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
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025you're both looking at the wrong thing. CBC just does a "nowcast" ie what would happen were the election held today, based on the polls. a newspaper you might have heard of publishes the only actual forecast of the result of the election www.economist.com/interactive/... 050
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 02/04/2025i just couldn't get along with Trek, idk why. have tried several times, with some success each time, but each time i peter out 000
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I have not but "Kirk convinces [the miners] that the Horta are peaceful and could collaborate with the miners by tunneling for them" sounds pretty decent to me 101
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
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 15/03/2025the Carney bump lands in!!! www.economist.com/interactive/... 030
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 · 13/03/2025Note: @owenwntr.bsky.social is the brain behind our poll trackers and should be your follow for the Canadian (and all other big) election(s) 161
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
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 12/03/2025yeah i have a bit of a dodge feel about N26 too, but obvs better than Revolut if you like HSBC why not open a euro account and use that? 110
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social · 12/03/2025monzo coming to ireland soon iirc. until then n26. and if you just want them to handle UK details, then AIB can do this (They do it for me) 110
Reposted by hal👾Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸 293180865393
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
