James Gillespie
Technology, geopolitics, films / affil. @adamsmith.org @rusi.bsky.social / ex HM Treasury policy wonk / Swiftie
"Liberal cultist"/"MAGA intelligentsia"
"Smug provocateur drunk on his own arguments"
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- El Erian's comment is absolutely bonkers. The point of legislation giving the Fed independence is to allow it to do the job legislators set for it and not what the President wants to do on a day to day basis to ease his political difficulties.
- Conflict with the President does not undermine the Fed's 'integrity'. It is directly foreseen in the strands of legislation limiting Presidential power. What other point would such limits have?
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- Home…but getting up the porch stair was a real mind fuck given it’s rainy and three weeks ago today I fell down those very steps after the ice storm
- Look, obviously my emotional reaction to that press conference is to punch a wall so hard either it or my knuckles break. But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly: What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?
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- AF1 to NAS JRB NOLA a short while ago so Trump can attend Superb Owl. Repositioning of backup. VC-25A 92-9000 #ADFDF9 C-32A 19-0018 #AE4AEC
- EU courts, tech law Upcoming hearing in EU General Court, March 6th: Zalando is challenging its designation as a "very large online platform" under the Digital Services Act Main arguments of Zalando: eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L...
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- It was not banned lol. Every other social media suddenly had Vine's primary feature, reels. Twitter didn't see Vine and Twitter working as one app so they let it die only to revive as fleets. Snapchat and Vine at the time would've made sense to merge.
- In the vast majority of cases, the use of the term "populism" is either incorrect or incomplete. Let's hope this will improve in 2025.
- [sigh] found a new cap
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- Really hate suggestions that things be added to the curriculum as it’s such a cheap thing to say. What’s the trade-off? What should be removed? Or where should extra teaching resources come from? There is a zero-sum element to this.
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- The post wasn't exactly in the Xmas spirit, but are we seriously saying that if you aren't put up in a hotel and don't get your sheets laundered daily then you're not being treated like a human being? The social contract is broken when illegal immigrants get better support than Americans in need.
- Do homeless/poor NYers get the same treatment?
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- @jamesgillespie.bsky.social Why are your fellow Brits so square?
- Nigel Farage forgot that Kemi Badenoch is an expert at looking into websites.
- People on this dreadful app are such jerks. The sociopathy boggles the mind.
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- Dreadful news. I am going to have to offset by eating more animals than I had planned
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- Granted this a cranky old man take, and also granted that the iPhone is in every respect a superior technology, BUT kids these days will never know the Christmas glee of getting a good gadget (Walkmen, Gameboy, pocket translator, etc…)
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- Asma al-Assad is reportedly London bound, if a Russian court approves her request to leave the country
- I think the Metropolitan Police and the UK Foreign Secretary will have something to say. If she does land in England, I’m pretty sure she’ll be arrested as soon as she gets off the plane. She and her husband have a lot to explain: war crimes, human rights abuses, and Captagon manufacturing. Etc
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- Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Sir Christopher Nolan
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- In 2024, I spent 10,165 minutes, which is exactly 7 days, listening to Taylor Swift
- What shocks me even more is your jump between classical and pop.
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- Real "Merry Xmas from everyone at Topps Tiles" energy on Harry & Meg's card
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