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Brent Crude hits $100 a barrel for the first time in two months www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Brent Crude Hits $100 a Barrel on Red Sea, Iran Supply ThreatsBrent crude hit $100 a barrel for the first time in two months after Iran-backed Houthi militants said they attacked two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea, escalating the Middle East conflict and t...www.bloomberg.comCan't stop laughing at ChatGPT's attempts at rapping and beatboxing www.tiktok.com/@huskistaken...
Maybe it’s a new genreTikTok video by Huskwww.tiktok.comFirst PM for nearly 10 years to start with a favourable rating, according to this metric
YouGovHow does Andy Burnham's first net favourability as prime minister compare to his recent predecessors'? Theresa May: +12 Andy Burnham: +3 Keir Starmer: -3 Boris Johnson: -18 Rishi Sunak: -19 Liz Truss: -31 yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
"the president is trying to hurt other countries by punching Americans in the face" www.ft.com/content/7b53...
Is Trump winning the tariff wars?Time to tot up the scoreswww.ft.comReached £98 in the last half hour, edging towards $100
Patrick SmithBrent Crude now over $95 a barrel for the first time in 6 weeks, up 30% this month. Will it reach $100 again? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Special guest at Bloomberg UK this morning
UK Chancellor Healey Pledges Fiscal Buffer in Pitch to the CityChancellor of the Exchequer John Healey committed to disciplined control of Britain’s public finances to protect against economic shocks, as he made a pro-business pitch to the City of London on his t...www.bloomberg.comHomer is not an *entirely* reliable source for the 7th/8th century Hellenic world. Sure you can learn a lot from it. But I mean, it has a cyclops in it.
The GuardianElon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey
"There's always a pelican angle"
ReutersIn Peru hungry pelicans signal broader economic risks from El Niño reut.rs/4yuyVtb
Very interesting on US higher education Grad Schools Face Crisis Under Trump's Higher Education Overhaul www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
How Trump’s Policies Are Hurting Graduate Schools and UniversitiesTrump’s visa, loan and research policies are putting the $100 billion graduate school market under pressurewww.bloomberg.comI've seen people get seriously angry about spoilers in a review of Romeo + Juliet.
MꙬse AllainI feel it’s ok to post spoilers about a story that’s been around for nearly three thousand years.
Brent Crude now over $95 a barrel for the first time in 6 weeks, up 30% this month. Will it reach $100 again? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
My mum was a community worker and activist in Manchester. She had a weekly bus pass - word got around about this on the estate and before long people would ask to borrow it. That ticket went through four or five people a day and unfailingly found its way back to her desk at 5pm.
Zachary LeatherToday Burnham announced the return of the £2 bus fare cap, a much loved policy of previous Governments that was raised to £3 by Reeves two years ago. But who will benefit? [THREAD]
Indeed - you can't arbitrarily start an ongoing trend at 0 whenever you like
Tom FreemanNot a huge fan of the way the BBC does this chart - as if the start of a new calendar year has any significance for this. It's true that there are seasonal effects to take into account, but I'd prefer to handle that by showing a rolling year total.
Feels significant that MAGA figures are now saying things like this, particularly the last line
Ron FilipkowskiUpdate from Ukraine.
This is a terrifying headline on several levels OpenAI Says Its Models Accidentally Hacked Hugging Face www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
OpenAI Says Its Models Accidentally Hacked Hugging FaceOpenAI said its advanced artificial intelligence models inadvertently hacked Hugging Face Inc. in an “unprecedented” incident that prompted fresh calls for curbs on the technology.www.bloomberg.comBloomberg scoop: Russia is no longer willing to return some occupied territories to Ukraine as part of any deal to end the war and plans to retain them as buffer zones, according to people close to the Kremlin.
Kremlin Hardens Demands on Occupied Land in Ukraine, Blaming USRussia is no longer willing to return some occupied territories to Ukraine as part of any deal to end the war and plans to retain them as buffer zones, according to people close to the Kremlin.www.bloomberg.com"If we left tomorrow, we had a big, we had a big success,” Trump said. “But we’re not leaving tomorrow.” This war has been ongoing now for four months and three weeks.
Trump Plays Down Prospects for Iran Talks Amid Red Sea ThreatUS President Donald Trump minimized the prospect of immediate talks with Iran as the two sides exchanged strikes and Houthi militants in Yemen threatened shipping in the Red Sea.www.bloomberg.com