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Tom Standage

@tomstandage.bsky.social

6.7K followers 118 following 18 posts

Author, deputy editor at The Economist, maker of pizzas, drummer, gamer, history nerd

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I think we missed a trick with the band name

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

'Tis the season

The Economist's in-house jazz ensemble, The Invisible Hands

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Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

(This is the in-house band at The Economist, which is called “The Invisible Hands”)

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Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Amazing analysis of car casting choices, and how they relate to character and plot. (Alas, none of my friends who are movie nerds are also car nerds)

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

No, not Mars. This is Rådhuset subway station, my favourite of several I saw in Stockholm last week

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/01/2025

I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.

Trump dropping his own memecoin means he has the wrong people in his ear re crypto policy.

I’m now getting very concerned about the Trump presidency.

nic carter

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Something that hasn’t been much discussed - creating a bunch of personal memecoins opens the door to secretive foreign buyers trying to curry influence with our leaders. If you hated hunter biden’s anonymous art sales, you should hate this too.
nic carter

@nic__carter
Basically, we used to have an informal rule that presidents wouldn’t start or run businesses that could pose a conflict of interest. Creating a bunch of memecoins and defi protocols opens the possibility to rampant violations of the emoluments clause. Not to mention the obvious COI given the fact that trump can set crypto policy.

Ryan Selkis (d/acc) 🇺🇸
@twobitidiot
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
:

Please fire whoever recommended going forward with the Melania launch today.

1. They don’t know what they’re doing.
2. They cost you a lot of $ and goodwill.
3. They don’t have your interests in mind.

Brent
@Brentsketit
feel bad for anyone trying to build anything serious rn

president just making a complete mockery of this industry

fighting another biden admin prolly would have been better longterm

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Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Fascinating: Nokia’s internal presentation in response to the launch of the iPhone, 18 years ago this month “Nokia impact minimal in terms of financials” aalto.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

aalto.access.preservica.com

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Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

How could I have chosen any other headline?

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Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The next pandemic? H5N1 is the most likely candidate www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

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Opinion | The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary

The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.

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Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Starlink kit contains Mars-related in-jokes from Elon Musk uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...

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Have You Spotted Starlink's 8 Martian Easter Eggs? Here's How to Find Them

Mars-themed secrets are hidden in the Starlink hardware, the app, and even the terms of service of SpaceX's satellite internet service. What do they all mean?

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ten trends to watch in 2025, from my excellent colleague @tomstandage.bsky.social www.economist.com/the-world-ah... from The Economist

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Tom Standage’s ten trends to watch in 2025

Now that the world knows that Donald Trump will return to the White House, here are ten themes to watch in 2025 from Tom Standage, editor of The World Ahead

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Fine explainer by @tomstandage.bsky.social about how computer scientists are slowly beginning to "read" the texts in ancient Pompeii scrolls which were so charred by the volcano that buried the city that the scrolls can't be opened without them falling to bits.

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AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts

Computers could let archaeologists read hundreds of burnt scrolls from a Roman library

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Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social · 06/05/2023

“…and he’s holding a thermal detonator!” #Maythe4thBeWithYou

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