On October 24, 1975, 90% of the women in Iceland staged a strike for equal rights and pay. They ceased working, cooking, cleaning, and tending to their children, effectively bringing the nation to a standstill. The men faced significant challenges. Supermarkets quickly sold out

‘Impossible to live’: Italy’s Po Valley blighted air among worst in Europe theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

ESG ratings: whose interests do they serve? ft.com/content/fbe108… via Financial Times

This 228 year old painting shows St Paul's Cathedral in London... on a canal in Venice. It's a "capriccio" — an art genre where painters simply made up impossible architectural fantasies. And they're some of the most interesting paintings you'll ever see...

The uninsurable world: what climate change is costing homeowners ft.com/content/ed3a1b… via Financial Times

Notti magiche 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵 1. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa

The 404 page on the Financial Times is a work of genius

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner testifies to the US Senate that many people at top AI companies believe AI "could lead to literal human extinction."

Comparing the second May 2023 flood with the current ONGOING event shows a grim, catastrophic picture. From ARPAE data this event’s even worse than that one. The above average SSTs of the Adriatic Sea are fueling a developing disaster. I fear the daytime images we’ll see tomorrow

Some favorite posts about OpenAI o1, as selected by researchers who worked on the model 🧵

The Intelligence Age: ia.samaltman.com

It begins.

This article is full of bombshells. Excellent reporting by Deepa Seetharaman. The biggest one: OpenAI rushed testing of GPT-4o (already reported), released the model and then subsequently determined the model was too risky to release! I had a scenario like this in a forthcoming...

Commercial real estate lending is one of the biggest risks to the banking sector (hello, NYCB ?) – so it’s crucial that banks have an accurate assessment of the value of the collateral they have. The ECB did an inspection on this recently, and the results are hilarious. Thread.

Breaching and entering a UN position is a further flagrant violation of international law and Security Council resolution 1701 (2006). Any deliberate attack on peacekeepers is a grave violation of international humanitarian law and resolution 1701.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November "Remember, remember, the 5th of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot." This line from a traditional English rhyme encapsulates one of the most infamous events in British history, known as the Gunpowder Plot. The event took place on

BREAKING: The Bank of England will hide the identities of any pension funds, insurers or hedge funds bailed out under a new financial stability tool to prevent a wider crisis engulfing the economy, per Bloomberg.

Why is this fancy mall in Ukraine completely lit up during a city-wide blackout? I tried to answer this question in a recent seminar I held at the University of Bologna, titled "Ukraine: a Late Capitalism War? I thought it was interesting to share its main points with you 👇🧵

Jamie Vardy is about to sign for Cremonese. Yes, really. So what exactly is he walking into? theguardian.com/football/2025/…