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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 12h

Manchester City's auditor BDO who signed off the accounts during the years in which an Independent Panel found the club cheated the Premier League rules on -- what can only be described as -- an industrial scale: "We remain bound by confidentiality so cannot comment on this occasion."

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Somehow, we’ve made the industrial equivalent of a Fabergé egg the linchpin of our civilization.“

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/ Ukraine has taken a reported 250 Russian prisoners and claims to have killed 2,000 more Russians in its ongoing Operation Vivaldi near Lyman. A Russian warblogger says that Ukraine has overturned Russian assumptions about its capabilities. ⬇️

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 26/09/2026

Can confirm. The Scottish version (Rangers getting caught tax-dodging, going into administration to welch on the bill, being blocked from transferring the club to a new company before liquidation, so having to start as an entirely new club at the bottom of the pyramid) was glorious entertainment.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A fun weekend daydream is considering the essentially unlimited sanctions that can be applied to a Premier League that cheated for years and scorched the earth trying to hide it.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A modest proposal to move Heathrow's runways 3Km to the left, and add two more.

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This American Life @thisamericanlife.org · 23/09/2026

Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code. Hear the story: link.podtrac.com/78g1b584

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of the lobbying has talked about how important it is for Heathrow to be a hub aiport, and it has never been adequately explained to me why this should matter to anyone who does not own Heathrow

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New story from me begs a pretty big question - why does the world's largest issuer of stablecoins Tether still struggle to open basic bank accounts? Tether's CIO Zachary Lyons enlisted the help of a tiny Caribbean bank to approach Singapore's DBS for an account, but then the FBI stepped in...

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US seizes bank accounts of payments group linked to Tether

Prosecutors allege Capstone illegally moved hundreds of millions of dollars for the crypto companies at the direction of a Caribbean bank

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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ChatGPT "advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems. “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”"

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Macronin @macronin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Correct take.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.

"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That the Dems are odds on to win Alaska and have a 30% chance of winning in Kansas indicates quite how much trouble the GOP are in...

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Interesting chart, and check out perma-crisis Man U top right. The second-oldest team is packed with players culpable for the last few years of woe/hilarity, depending on your POV.

Chart showing showing average years with first first team on vertical axis, against average age of starting eleven on the horizontal. Spurs have one of he youngest and least experienced, while Man U are top right - old and culpable

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"One man told of hacking into the phone of a 12-year old girl to learn when her father arrived home, and then ordering a bombing in which she was killed."

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨Reverse takeover klaxxon🚨

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 17/09/2026

The FT Alphaville internship programme — elsewhere sometimes referred to as Lex — is hiring job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

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Lex Columnist

New York

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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

High valuations are sustained by trust; trust is built on accountabulity; but AI companies won't hold themselves accountable as.ft.com/r/b63376a8-1...

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Never one to shy away for the complex moral questions, I have gone and watched all of this summers blockbusters and decided to address the big one: When is it okay to kill people? chrisfarnell.com/when-is-it-o...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The "culture" of accident reporting came about through regulation, in the face of massive opposition from airlines. The companies are forced to share their data and have their failures investigated independently.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When was the last time the US lost 60 aircraft in a conflict?

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Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My new book; out on October 22nd

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 16/09/2026

“Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares.” Charles Dickens eviscerating the investment class, from Our Mutual Friend (1865):

The mature young lady is a lady of property. The mature young gentleman is a gentleman of property. He invests his property. He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares.? As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares. Have Shares enough to be on Boards of Direction in capital letters, oscillate on mysterious business between London and Paris, and be great. Where does he come from? Shares. Where is he going to? Shares. What are his tastes? Shares. Has he any principles?
Shares. What squeezes him into Parliament? Shares. Perhaps he never of himself achieved success in anything, never originated anything, never produced anything? Sufficient answer to all; Shares. O mighty Shares! To set those blaring images so high, and to cause us smaller vermin, as under the influence of henbane or opium, to cry out, night and day, "Relieve us of our money, scatter it for us, buy us and sell us, ruin us, only we beseech ye take rank among the powers of the earth, and fatten on us!”

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 16/09/2026

superb trolling, no notes

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 15/09/2026

A boat party off Abu Dhabi, USB sticks loaded with crypto, three supertankers sitting empty: Poland’s largest energy group thought it had spotted a lucrative opening in Venezuelan oil. Instead, it lost $230mn. How did it all go so wrong? Read our FT investigation on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/0rs77vZ

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Damn, this goes hard. Great way to start a book

The beginning of Alice Oswald's new book "Rhapsody: A Manifesto"

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Au yes - bear in mind this guy was the son of a small village miller so not the absolute bottom of the income scale

My mother used the grain-barley, oats and rye-to make soups and also 'mash', a nutritious porridge made from milk and flour. For the morning and evening meals there was either mash or a very thin Brennsuppe (flour soup): because it was so thin, we called it Wosserschnoll (water lumps). For lunch there was either potatoes, polenta, dumplings or barley soup.
People usually ate from a pan that was placed in the middle of the table and from which everyone spooned out their food following a prayer. The pig was slaughtered just before Christmas. The main part of it was smoked, and thus preserved in this way. Throughout the winter there was mostly cabbage and some meat, and only at Christmas even doughnuts filled with chestnuts and baked in pork fat.
Unfortunately the portions were always too sparse for the whole family. By July or August the last bit of bacon was gone and we had to console ourselves with the thought of next...
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Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front: A
German Soldier's Memoir of War and Captivity
#kindlequotes

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

This project is so cool and they’ve added a 3D navigation function (and you can download the 3D assets).

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E.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 15/09/2026

NYT/Sienna found exactly the same thing: Dems do 3 points better than the generic ballot when they name Senators rather than asking the question with just parties. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The Tilt: New Times/Siena poll points to blue wave

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Amazing statement from the bride that this was just "an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend". "it's unfortunate that something so personal and happy can be recast as something political or sinister simply because of who someone is."

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In other words - your desired level of public spending and how you think the fiscal stance should look are not the same thing.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do worry that a lot (not all, a lot) of the left somehow lost the ability to talk about the non-macro policy benefits of public spending at some point in the 2010s. The case for the NHS doing more knee replacements or paying teachers more isn’t that it is part of an expansionary fiscal policy.

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Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know things are really, really bad when the Saudis balk.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Who would like to lunch the editor? Other characters also available

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An alternative take on AI doomerism which fits a standard model incompetence theory of humanity

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Slowing down," then, doesn't necessarily mean literally slowing down AI production. It means making sure your testing environments are actually secure, that your agents have fail safes built in, and that admin access to critical systems isn't guarded by a plain text 4 letter password.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In one instance, a Claude bot apparently tried to abort its mission numerous times when the bot "realized" it met an unstable condition. But it didn't have a fail safe built in, so it proceeded by taking advantage of unsecured access credentials. Again, this is bush league.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Asks a pertinent question: "how to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place."

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 14/09/2026

my pet theory about all this AI doom stuff is that they are individually spiraling after getting their crypto stolen by some dumb exploit

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great point here from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com - it will be harder to track the effects of AI on the gig economy as our data is much weaker than for those who are employed www.ft.com/content/a2c3...

So what happens if the shock absorber gets hit with a shock of its own? Because nobody employs gig workers, there is nobody to fire them either. Instead, the impact is likely to unfold under the radar in the form of fewer
tasks and lower incomes, rather than the sort of job losses that economists usually
trace.

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