Same, but for bog roll.
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Robin Wigglesworth
Профиль VivelyEditor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
FT scoop: Citadel buys Situational Awareness equity holdings after steep AI losses www.ft.com/content/5fb4...
Citadel buys Situational Awareness equity holdings after steep AI lossesDeal comes after Leopold Aschenbrenner’s investment firm held overnight crunch talks with investorswww.ft.comThe Erie Canal was one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in history, and arguably made New York what it is today. But its most influential legacy is not the 19th century waterway itself, it’s how it was paid for… youtu.be/x_8-5RJVnLM
How New York paid for the canal that brought America together | The Story of MoneyYouTube video by The Story of Money Podcast | Financial Timesyoutu.beAwful news. He loved Forest, cycling, Pabst and bonds. But most importantly he was a genuinely lovely human being.
FT Alphavillewww.ft.com/content/882e...
I think the enshittification of Google Search is hugely exaggerated, but the enshittification of Gmail is weirdly under-appreciated.
Alex Selby-BoothroydImpossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!
Warning: may contain shameful bragging. open.substack.com/pub/btfd/p/a...
A fabulous updateWarning: may contain gleeful braggingopen.substack.comI also laughed hollowly when I got to this part.
Hetan ShahAnyway don’t worry you’ll be protected from AI generated slop as Amazon limits the number of titles authors can create to 10 BOOKS PER FORMAT PER WEEK
In Search of Lost Time was actually mostly written in a cork-lined room opposite the building where Eurodollars were later born (the Soviet-controlled Banque Commerciale pour l’Europe du Nord). Somehow Josh left off this important fact in his otherwise amazing piece.
Josh SperoHaving spent a very happy 18 months sinking into its 3,000 pages, I have written about why reading Proust is essential in the 21st century as.ft.com/r/32995bbf-8...
Well I guess I’m a fan of Die Mannschaft now. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Jürgen Klopp vows to change Germany but threatens to quit if family hounded by mediaJürgen Klopp was optimistic after being confirmed as Germany’s new head coach but warned the media to ‘leave my family in peace’www.theguardian.comHold up hold up, have we found something that @bryce.lol earnestly loves? www.ft.com/content/21d1...
The Connaught bar is in a class of its own‘Landmark hotels often run their bars similarly to how couture houses use fragrance ranges’www.ft.comRe-upping this as there are now only a few more days left of the pre-order discount at Waterstones, which I'd heavily recommend taking advantage of (if i lived there I'd also be buying several of the other upcoming books included in the campaign).
Robin WigglesworthThrilled to say that Waterstones has picked A FABULOUS DEBT to be one of the books for its summer pre-order campaign discount (alongside some obscure authors like Joe Biden). If you enter the code SUMMER26 at the Waterstones checkout you get a 25% discount on the retail price for the next week.