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Dan Davies

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Dan Davies

@dsquareddigest

I definitely picked the wrong week to give up pointing at things and saying 'the purpose of a system is what it does' backofmind.substack.com

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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Apr 1, 2025
US Publication date! See what the Financial Times, New Statesman and other quality British publications thought was so interesting about a new revival of cybernetics for economics and management!
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its...
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Aug 8, 2023
Replying to @ninthhostage
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Dec 29, 2020
All this archaeology is fascinating, but I get the feeling that if I were to ask the question "how are we managing to exhume all these things from the permafrost right now" I might not like the answer
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Jun 20, 2024
as I keep pointing out, if they are serving literal dog shit, you bet I have got questions about the chicken. "has it been cooked in a separate oven", "are you sure the chicken does not also have broken glass", things of that nature
Bradley Whitford
@bradleywhitford
Jun 20, 2024
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Jul 18, 2024
Rachel Reeves
@RachelReevesMP
Jul 18, 2024
With our new fiscal lock, never again can a government play fast and loose with the public finances. ft.com/content/51efed…
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Jul 25, 2023
I just can't stop rereading the Wall Street Journal story which cites numerous witnesses saying Elon Musk is self-medicating with ketamine; surely this fact ought to be mentioned in every other business story about his decision making?
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Jun 21, 2016
If your head says Remain but your heart says Leave, remember that one is specifically designed for thinking and the other is a pump.
Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Aug 4, 2024
when you see a commentator saying that "normal decent people are being slurred as the far right", what you are reading is someone who basically agrees with the rioters but doesn't themselves have the nerve to smash the windows of a phone shop (or who has a nicer job to lose).
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Oct 21, 2018
Guys, I want everyone to remember our core values at McKinsey Middle East - there's no "I" in "team", but there's a "sultan" right in the middle of "consultancy"
Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Apr 23, 2024
guy at the Tortured Poets Department who keeps on calling it the Ministry of Poet Torture even though the reorganisation was nine years ago during the Coalition.
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Feb 22, 2022
Can you imagine - can you imagine - if our current prime minister had been found dead drunk and barely able to walk in an airport, separate from his security detail while Foreign Secretary, after the birthday party for a Russian oligarch who he later appointed to our legislature?
Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
May 24, 2024
time to resurrect this correct tweet now that Google is apparently rollin' the old dice to decide whether it's going to tell you that you can mix chlorine bleach with ammonia or not.
Quantіan
@quantian1
Mar 9, 2023
One very easy way to “press pause” on AI is just to make clear developers are liable for things that happen as a foreseeable result of their model and then let the courts sort it out. Toss a few devs in jail for CP charges and image generator funding will go to 0 real quick.
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
May 21, 2024
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has the opportunity to do something so funny that Tom Lehrer would leap out of the grave to see it.
The Spectator Index
@spectatorindex
May 21, 2024
BREAKING: Norway's foreign minister says 'if there is an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and Gallant from the Hague Court, we will have to arrest them if they arrive in Norway'
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
Nov 4, 2023
Replying to @shaunmmaguire and @mustafa_obeidat
no no not even this. what you said was bad enough but even what you wanted to say is still bad. a 15-year-old boy who grew up in Gaza might be a "militant" on your definition but he is still a 15 year old boy who did not want to die. have some humanity will you.
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