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Jos Gallacher 🕊️

@jos.gallacher.be
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Scot, European citizen, economic policy aficionado, green tinged democratic socialist, social democrat, book lover, coffee addict and pedant. In that order.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 28/09/2026
What is x divided by zero? It is not, as Micheal Gove said on C4 news, “infinity”.🤦‍♂️ x times infinity is infinity x times zero is zero so infinity times zero is zero, infinity or x. Which it’s why mathematics says x divided by zero is “undefined”.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 29/09/2026
If there is a 10% chance AI will kill 100% of people what is the chance that AI will kill 10% of people?
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 29/09/2026
Good news
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 28/09/2026
What is x divided by zero? It is not, as Micheal Gove said on C4 news, “infinity”.🤦‍♂️ x times infinity is infinity x times zero is zero so infinity times zero is zero, infinity or x. Which it’s why mathematics says x divided by zero is “undefined”.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 28/09/2026
Nostalgie
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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
scuba is the chillest activity and unironically this is a big reason why
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 26/09/2026
A Bond villain: www.ft.com/content/4acb... Bond ructions point to new danger zone in markets
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Bond ructions point to new danger zone in markets
Sell-offs of this scale and speed have the potential to light fires in other parts of the financial system
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This chart published by the Economics Laboratory, shows that the UK social spending is 23% of GDP, covers NHS, social security and support services. It is a useful rebutal to neoliberals calling for cuts to the NHS, state pension and other benefits. www.linkedin.com/posts/charto...
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
btw, I am serious. If an Open AI model does serious harm that results in major damage or possible death, Altman doesn't get off with saying he was too stupid to know what it was doing. It's like drunk driving.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 23/09/2026
This is shocking.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 22/09/2026
Here’s a clever idea. Multiply the number of chips being made by the amount of electricity they each use to discover how unlikely it is that all those chips will ever be run in any data centre. Thanks #FTAlphaville. www.ft.com/content/f29d... US data centres ‘are short six NYCs of electricity’
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US data centres ‘are short six NYCs of electricity’
With great power comes great implausibility
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 22/09/2026
“everyone knows” is a red flag that someone is not prepared to think beyond conventional wisdom. Cliched thought is often wrong; for example, the defence vs welfare spending meme is not supported by the facts. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 22/09/2026
Watch this space.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Deep in Scotland's Pentland Firth, a grid scale tidal turbine at the MeyGen site just set a massive milestone: over 6.5 years of continuous operation without a single unplanned maintenance stop. ​Operating 40 meters underwater in one of the fastest tidal currents on Earth.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A much better thread than @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social's original article
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 20/09/2026
Spend more for the sake of the economy!
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
3 panel comic titled “Logging into Bluesky”

Panel 1: 
A Pink Guy bursts into Bluesky wearing a t-shirt that says “Fun”. His little face looks so happy.

Panel 2: 
Six Bluesky users turn to look at the Pink Guy. They all look dour and angry because they have been overdosing on the discourse. Having the current state of the world mainlined into their veins for 22 hours a day has left them real grumpy.

Panel 3:
Pink Guy slowly removes his t-shirt and quietly says “sorry”. He won’t soon forget that Bluesky is the home of Serious Discussion. If he wants “Fun” maybe he should log into the Barney the Dinosaur forums.
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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Who doesn't love a listicle? Here are the top 25 must-read science fiction books of all time, ranked. Spanning 150 years of writing, from earth-bound intrigue, through planetary colonisation to interstellar space opera, this is the best of the best. www.edrith.co.uk/p/the-25-sci...
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The 25 Science-Fiction Books You Must Read, Ranked
And five short story collections
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 19/09/2026
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 16/09/2026
This kind of piece it’s why Alphaville it’s essential reading. www.ft.com/content/3401... The BoE’s three balance sheet problem
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The BoE’s three balance sheet problem
Issues with the Issue Department
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Neoliberals have neutered direct state investment in infrastructure. Everything is privatised, state guarantees profits. UK languishes at or near the bottom of the OECD league for investment in productive assets. China invests over 41% of its GDP in productive assets, India 34.3%, UK 17.9%.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They are telling us they are producing a dangerous product. Okay, let's believe them and tell them to stop producing it. Now we can all enjoy the rest of our weekend!
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 13/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: dogs street gangs football supporters.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026
I love how a week ago, the rogue AI agents were like whatever and now suddenly we're scrambling back from the brink of human extinction. The Very Special Tech Boys either didn't care a week ago, or they didn't realise what they'd done, or the whole thing is bollocks.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 13/09/2026
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Almost fell into the trap of positing about the monthly GDP figures. Honestly though: life is better if you just pretend that the ONS doesn’t publish a monthly random number generator.
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Ignacio Regulez Trenado @ignacioregulez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Que le dejamos a nuestr@s hij@s: Calor y nazismo.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 10/09/2026
“I should get something out of it.” A radical approach to public service.
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REDWatch @redwatch.fr · 09/09/2026
RACISTE. PUTSCHISTE. TOUJOURS EN POSTE. Un chef d'équipe de la police municipale de Carcassonne filmé en train d'appeler à un coup d'État et de défendre la torture en Algérie. Proche du RN, protecteur de Bardella. L'extrême droite infiltre l'institution, l'institution la couvre.
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In which I name the guilty men & their determination to use 'blackshirts' & the far right to destroy democratic demands for wealth taxes and other forms of financial regulation. annpettifor.substack.com/p/the-guilty...
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The Guilty Men Driving Britons into ‘End Times Fascism’
While politicians pretend to be powerless. Ignore them. Change IS possible.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 31/08/2026
Whenever I hear the expression “wealth creators” I think of Adam Smith.
“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.”
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 06/09/2026
What if we just banned algorithmic feeds on social media?
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 06/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/a413... The ultranationalists remaking Israel’s armed forces
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The ultranationalists remaking Israel’s armed forces
The country’s religious Zionist community has for years campaigned to take control of the traditionally secular military
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A nuclear summer. #nuclear intermittent #climate casualty ? renewextraweekly.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-nu...
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A nuclear summer
This summer has seen nuclear power facing some big climate problems. Six of the seventeen reactors that have been out of service due to the ...
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 04/09/2026
This is very good.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 04/09/2026
Listening to Rare Earth on #R4 about survival of the fittest. Not heard any mention of Kropotkin or Mutual Aid , a book about cooperation in nature.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 04/09/2026
Even more weird that Reform conference “coincidentally” started at the same time.
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 02/09/2026
🏝️Many people think of tax havens as small islands. ❌ But some of the biggest tax havens are among the world’s largest economies.🌎 The Corporate Tax Haven Index ranks countries whose laws and financial systems enable multinationals to underpay tax. 🔎Learn more: cthi.taxjustice.net/
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Corporate Tax Haven Index
The Corporate Tax Haven Index thoroughly evaluates each jurisdiction's tax and financial systems to create a clear picture of the world's greatest enablers of global corporate tax abuse, and to highlight the laws and policies that policymakers can amend to reduce their jurisdiction's enabling of corporate tax abuse.
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 01/09/2026
Listening to Bart De Wever talk about how constitutional reform is needed to "save Belgium" from its fiscal problems, and struggling to work out how a policy rooted in duplication or triplication of gvt agencies and a confederalism that increases deadlock can possibly have positive fiscal effects.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 31/08/2026
Whenever I hear the expression “wealth creators” I think of Adam Smith.
“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.”
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 30/08/2026
The #edbookfest is not quite over. Javier Cercas was both hugely entertaining and fascinating speaking about literature and his non-fiction novels.
Javier Cercas sitting on stage speaking about his book The Anatomy of a Moment.
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 30/08/2026
More people for the sake of the economy! Scottish edition: Minister calls for 'Scottish Visa' and more immigration to prevent workforce loss www.heraldscotland.com/politics/wes...
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Minister calls for 'Scottish Visa' and more immigration to prevent workforce loss
The new visas would target different sectors of the economy
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 29/08/2026
The Edinburgh festivals are drawing to a close. Time left for one of those little fringe dramas.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Excellent letter in @financialtimes.com from my colleague @ninajorden.bsky.social pointing out the need to be careful how public sector productivity is defined www.ft.com/content/a10c... Letter: What Baumol’s disease tells us about the productivity puzzle
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Letter: What Baumol’s disease tells us about the productivity puzzle
From Nina Jörden, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge, UK
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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 29/08/2026
Risk? www.ft.com/content/ba4b... Risk of a new age of financial repression is rising
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Risk of a new age of financial repression is rising
The idea of pushing US government bonds down the throats of investors is being taken increasingly seriously
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