Henry Taylor

"A naturally gifted broadcaster, he was a reassuringly authoritative presence who never pushed his own personality into the foreground, even though he felt deeply about the fate of the Ukrainian people." You can read @Telegraph's beautiful obituary here: telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

these are so easy to make lol

Much has been written about why No won the Voice referendum but a lot of this is opinion to provide some data Octopus Group & Accent Research ran a survey on how/why Australians voted incl their attitudes towards racial discrimination (pictured below) this is what we found 🧵

This video from @NorwichCityFC is the best bit of Mental Health Awareness I’ve ever seen… watch until the end.

Well, this will be the last time the BBC tries to interview a highly competent professional.

The adoption of cellphones by Keralan fishermen is, I believe, the most stunning example of the contribution of information technology to market performance. Take a look at this graph for background: in three different regions of Kerala, phones were adopted at different times. Kozhikode got cellphones before Kannur, who got them before Kasaragod. Adoption by fishermen was fast when phones were finally introduced: Now look at what happened to the price of fish after phones entered the scene: The dispersion in prices virtually disappeared! The author of the study wrote about this that: "Before any region had mobile phones, the degree of price dispersion across markets within a region on any given day is high, and there are many cases where the price is zero (i.e., waste). However, within a few weeks of mobile phones being introduced in Region I, there is a sharp and striking reduction in price dispersion. Prices across markets in the region rarely differ by more than a few rupees per kilogram on any day, compared to cases of as much as 10 Rs/kg prior to the introduction of mobile phones. In addition, the prices in the various markets rise and fall together and the week-to-week variability within each market is much smaller, since catchment zone-specific quantity shocks are now spread across markets via arbitrage. Further, there are no cases of waste in this region after phones are introduced. "By contrast, price behavior in regions II and III appears largely unchanged after phones are introduced in region I. However, after mobile phones are introduced in region II, prices again become much less dispersed across markets on any given day, less variable within markets over time, and waste is ultimately eliminated, whereas region III again remains unchanged. Finally, the same pattern holds once region III adds phones." Efficient information transmission enables efficient markets. It's amazing what technology can do. Read the study here: jstor.org/stable/25098864

If she subpoenas Colada, she'll be caught and arraigned.

Rianna Cleary was 18 years old when she gave birth alone in Europe's largest women's prison. She cried out for help multiple times and her pleas for help were actively ignored. She bit thru the umbilical cord to free her baby who was found bloodied and dead 12hrs later.

I just can't get over this poem.

Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵

Good thread on search purpose and differing expectations around discovery v validation

Retention data for The Other App just dropped - it's brutal D1: 37% D7: 16% Attached screenshot compares with Twitter, Insta, BeReal+Clubhouse. It's by far the lowest Was always gonna be some early churn but this looks pretty bad *all SensorTower estimates (on app opens)

The funniest, most accurate explanation of why a blue checkmark is Elon's mark of death.

A Brief History of Parents Today Are Controlled By Their Kids 🧵

@mcdermott @Charliemagne I drink, and probably always will, but increasingly less and less. When I’m doing a dry period it becomes clear how often we are conditioned to drink

@Charliemagne @henryctaylor No, I drink water. Or a Pellegrino if I’m feeling like a fancy bitch.

Mocktails, alcohol-free beer, 0% wine (awful) and 0% spirits (also awful) - all predicated on the idea that people wanting to avoid or reduce alcohol intake want to have drinks with the taste, smell, branding, and cost of...alcohol. Have a diet coke ffs

Something wild is happening on the Midjourney subreddit. People are telling stories and sharing photos of historic events - like the “Great Cascadia” earthquake that devastated Oregon in 2001. The kicker? It never happened. The images are AI-generated.

@georg_schmitt We used to have a very complex and little-understood way of describing this. I think it was something like “part-time”