Reposted by Matt CollinMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58854721498
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm a development econ guy and I don't think I'd be that happy losing my job to the AIs! 011
Reposted by Matt CollinBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So true !!! 💻 Check out this great Norwegian video about how shitty the internet has become 😅 37751
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026One thing I've found that Claude Code is good at is very quickly showing me visually something my 42 year old brain strugles to understand from its sometimes challenging prose 010
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026New research out with @jeannebomare.bsky.social and Eva Nappert We examine the impact of Companies Houses's new ID verification rollout, which intends to require all directors and beneficial owners of UK companies to verify their identity either directly with CH or through a third party provider 151
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Look, I am in favour, but I really don't think firms engaged in international trade give a shit about how big a country looks on a map 010
Reposted by Matt CollinKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 502489756
Reposted by Matt CollinBelinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026ICYMI, the new “America First Global Health Strategy” has turned the US approach to global health into a series of transactional, bilateral agreements with potentially devastating consequences for global health security as we write in our Brookings piece here: www.brookings.edu/articles/the...brookings.eduThe new 'America First Global Health Strategy' could erode years of progress under PEPFAR | BrookingsThe authors unpack the impacts the new "America First Global Health Strategy" will have when it comes to HIV/AIDS mitigation in African countries. 141
Reposted by Matt CollinBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r... 49372171666
Reposted by Matt CollinStephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026EU Commission may open new cases against states lagging on beneficial ownership registry access www.amlintelligence.com/2026/08/news... News story by @cgboffa6.bsky.social for AML Intelligence #beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #6AMLDamlintelligence.comNEWS: EU Commission may open new cases against states lagging on registry access - AML IntelligenceThe European Commission said it may open a case against countries that have not yet completed a framework to grant journalists and civil society organisations access to national beneficial ownership r... 034
Reposted by Matt CollinStephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Beneficial ownership information on 480,360 German entities is missing from the country’s national Transparenzregister, according to a risk assessment released by the country’s ministries of finance and justice www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/D... #beneficialownership #UBO #AMLR #6AMLD 154
Reposted by Matt CollinG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 27/07/2026Not sure I’d shit on something that helped me sell half a million copies of my book, personally 6065836
Reposted by Matt CollinChristian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The winning design. 🇪🇺💶 311602507
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Tip to money launderers: if you want to buy a property, maybe don't buy a property that has already been frozen in the past on suspicion of money laundering 042
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Europeans: Beneficial ownership data is a massive privacy risk! We have to make it hard to access UK: We have an public streaming API that will let you see ownership changes in real time 052
Reposted by Matt CollinStephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time as open, standardised data bods.stream #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #UBO #datastandards #interoperability #opensource 173
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I mean, good lord, it's 104 degrees outside right now. No one wants to be outside, air conditioning or not. The worry that occasional air con use is going to destroy the fabric of society is really very silly 050
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Every morning my 18 month old gets up and demands that I put on a vinyl record (by pointing to her ears) She only accepts vinyl music And for the past two weeks, she only accepts this record by Ghanian musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley. Before that it was a Bowie obsession. 5110
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This looks awful. Klara and the Sun is a haunting, strange and very beautiful book which absolutely did not deserve the Taika Waititi twee treatment youtu.be/wixzainceAE?...youtu.beKLARA AND THE SUN – Official Trailer (4K)YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment 200
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Got to love the French university position of "We didn't invest in climate control, so please don't come to work and die of heatstroke, we much prefer that you die of heatstroke at home" 070
Reposted by Matt CollinZachary Tvarozna @shadyshores.bsky.social · 12/06/202618 months in the making! My conclusion forever will be Russia's A7 was never entirely a cryptocurrency network and relied on captured states. Thanks 2 everyone who supported and hugest s/o to the OSC for turning this hypothesis into an investigation. www.opensourcecentre.org/research/the...opensourcecentre.orgThe Big ShorOSC and TRM Labs reveal how the Kremlin-backed A7 Network used the international correspondent banking system and Kyrgyzstan to likely move billions of dollars of Russian payments through the global f... 144
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"We believe these people are circumventing sanctions" and "We are not suggesting any wrongdoing here" in the exact same paragraph is a hell of a way to start a report 010
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I really don't know how the EAs keep convincing other EAs to give them money to... start blogs? 010
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I'm sitting on a (hot!) train waiting to leave at Gare de l'Est and the young man next to me just whipped out a personal powered mini fan. What is this, 1997? 110
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Today was in the unique position of spotting Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame in the toy section of a department store and then having my toddler daughter have an absolutely epic breakdown right next to him and his familystatic.klipy.comJesse Pinkman's Sadness Turns to ShockALT: Jesse Pinkman's Sadness Turns to Shock 010
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Pretty grim stuff from a White House full of people from the central casting of They Live 000
Reposted by Matt CollinAnti-Corruption Data Collective @acdatacollective.bsky.social · 18/05/2026ACDC sat down with @60minutes.bsky.social for last night's episode, explaining that military insiders accused of illegal profiteering on Polymarket are not isolated cases but part of a systemic problem. www.cbsnews.com/news/predict...cbsnews.comOnline prediction market traders make millions betting on U.S. military operationsPrediction market users are profiting from bets on war. Analysts say suspiciously timed bets, and the high win rates of wagers on military outcomes , are likely signs of insider trading. 133
Reposted by Matt CollinSophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Step 1: Run regression of [scary Y] on [trendy X] using observational data Step 2: Magically "adjust" for the 20 bajillion imperfectly-measured confounders Step 3: Wait for a credulous journalist to write it up as causal www.theguardian.com/science/2026...theguardian.comArts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes 1715236
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Video games aren't bad for the average kid, exhibit #21380 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 021
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Purported UFOs on the moon Going to love seeing the conspiracy theorists who think the government was covering up UFO sightings but also think tha the moon landing was faked try to reconcile this 011
Reposted by Matt CollinFT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 30/04/2026Long-shot bets on military action made on Polymarket have a win-rate almost four times higher than the platform average, according to new research, raising fears that wagers placed by insiders could reveal classified information. Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Zqokt5y 55226
Reposted by Matt CollinGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Where are the profits of the war going? With the rise in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies surge—and a significant share ends up funneled through tax havens. But it’s not too late to tax war profiteers effectively. open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/...open.substack.comWhere are the profits of the war going ?With the rise in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies surge—and a significant share ends up funneled through tax havens. But it’s not too late to tax war profiteers effectively. 315862
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026A lot of the world has benefit from more transparency over overseas assets. Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America? Not so much 012
Reposted by Matt CollinInternational Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 27/04/2026🧵 1/9 Global tax transparency has made real progress since 2017. But the same system that works for rich countries leaves many developing nations in the dark. New research note by Sarah Godar & Juan Vergara: taxobservatory.world/publication/... 174
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The presidents family is running a... pig butchering scheme? 010
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 25/04/2026We're in William Gibson's world now www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comMeta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AIThe firm will take data from the way employees work for its artificial intelligence models. 010
Reposted by Matt CollinStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 24/04/2026 853722055
Reposted by Matt CollinEfrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽 151760255
Reposted by Matt CollinCharles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 22/04/2026On April 9th the report is taken down, on the grounds that opening to petrol imports “may run counter to efforts that countries around the world are undertaking to ensure their energy and national security.” 111
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Some people reflect on their mortality on their birthday. For me, it's the semi-annual reminder that if I don't log in to my Gmail for six months, my wife gets access 020
Reposted by Matt CollinMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today. 70076121704
Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Claude research has started citing research papers autonomously generated by Claude, which is bad ape.socialcatalystlab.org/papers/apep_... 120