Simon Johnson🇺🇦
Risk manager, quant, physicist, Bayesian. I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦Ooh, just saw “without Asimov there would be no science fiction,” and no, you stale crouton, you waterlogged saltine, without Mary Shelley—harassed by her husband and Lord Byron—there would be no science fiction. You’re confusing fandom for canon.
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦‘Can cork man stay afloat?’ was right there.
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- Skill issue
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦Chris Rokos’s hedge fund ends talks with Mandelson over advisory role ft.trib.al/Qo39j30
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦I feel such a relief that we are at The End of Elon Musk. He is not going to pull off the biggest cap raise in history for the double black hole of a money hemorrhaging space company and agentic twitter for racists. And just about the time the market loses confidence in him, Tesla comes crashing.
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦There's a Cézanne in the Epstein files. @joshspero.ft.com explains why it's there. as.ft.com/r/01fe04cd-e...

- I'm amused that Japanese opinion polls include "none of the above" as an option. ("None" just slipped into second place) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦ok this is pretty good
- Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- Bloody hell
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
- Did he eat the opposition party ?
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- BBC hire at least one good lawyer challenge (impossible)
- It's bonus announcement day and I always get the same earworm youtu.be/AN_R4pR1hck?...
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦TIL about the most awesome and surely incredibly dangerous airplane concept en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborn...
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
- First thing I'm going to do when Waymo launch in London is to get one to the Savoy Hotel to see if they know about one road in the UK where traffic drives on the right.
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦The Green party. Cosying up to the very worst people in politics. Quelle suprise.
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦Director: You de-age those actors for the Jurassic Park bit? CGI guy: Sure did boss, gave ‘em real different sized eyes just like you asked Director: what
- Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. bit.ly/4rmRhrK
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- 2011
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- Sounds bad, you should write to your senator about it
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦NEW: Who was John Pond? This August 2009 email exchange which was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein included Mandelson, the PM's PPS Jeremy Heywood, the minister/adviser Shriti Vadera and... John Pond. Two sources have told the BBC that John Pond was in fact Gordon Brown, then the PM
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦Don't jump to conclusions. Keep an open mind whether Peter Mandelson leaked one or two Number 10 emails to Epstein. It could just be coincidence that the length of the redacted name in the first email is identical to the length of the redacted name in the second email.
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦It’s not a real metals scandal if it doesn’t involve a fugitive Chinese trader known as « The Hat »
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- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for ?
- Yes it's him
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦oh my god
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦Amazon has placed a VERY specific product warning on the published edition of the Kenneth Williams diaries. The incident that prompted this surely deserved more media attention.
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦...they told her no, didn't they
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- Tired: pension linked to CPI Wired: pension linked to CPIH Inspired: pension linked to the fee for the M6 Toll Road
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
- BBC hire at least one good lawyer challenge (impossible)
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...
- The Producers (2026). Timid accountant Leo Bezos realises he can bribe the mafia for free by making a disastrous film and claiming the losses against tax, but unfortunately so many journalists come to see it that the film is wildly successful.
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
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- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
- "Hang in there, sisters"
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- You people, you complain when the doors dont open, you complain when the doors do open /s
- Radacanu's next coach and Prince Harry's next publicist should start a tontine www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis...
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- Rocks > Tech > Humans > Magic Internet Crime Money
- Reposted by Simon Johnson🇺🇦Find Out Now is a member of the British Polling Council. There is no excuse at all for publishing meaningless drivel like this. findoutnow.co.uk/blog/gorton-...
