Journo, author (The Medal Factory; Glasgow Wheelers: a Scottish Cycling History; How EPO saved cycling) Sarcasm/politics Also: kennypryde@bsky.social
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"-C'est pour quel lycée?
-Pablo Picasso à Fontenay-sous-Bois, Monsieur le Président"
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So much for that AI-driven productivity boom, says Apollo’s Torsten Slok.
Or as he puts it “the AI boom is clearly visible in investment data and in equity valuations, but it is not yet visible in the productivity statistics, which means the productivity payoff from AI remains a forecast rather than an observation.”
This somewhat echoes Robert Solow’s famous quip “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics “.
My personal theory as to why this is the case is that the information economy’s ability to increase productivity is offset (if not surpassed) by its ability to manufacture influencers, hackers and scammers. So it’s a wash.
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Le jeter de vélo sur la ligne d'arrivée le plus célèbre des années 70. Eddy Merckx lève la main au sommet du Mont Revard, mais c'est Cyrille Guimard qui l'emporte ce jour là (Tour de France 1972)
📸 MC
#EddyMerckx #CyrilleGuimard #LeRevard #TDF1972 #cyclisme #cycling #ciclismo #tigerjump @CyrilleGuimard
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🏎️ #F1 | D'un Grand Prix à l'autre... à vélo !
🚴♂️ Valtteri Bottas s'est lancé un défi : parcourir les quelque 350 kilomètres qui séparent le circuit de Sepang à celui de Singapour à vélo de gravel. Depuis dimanche, il a déjà avalé 218 kilomètres.
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Enjoying the increasing desperation of the French TV commentary team in the France v Belgium UEFA Nations League match. The Rode Duivels are leading, but I'd be happier still if they were playing in red. Now, where's my can of Jupiler?
#FRABEL
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The first Lombardia I reported, a great winner and Robert Millar (Z) in fourth, the last time a Scottish rider was anywhere near the win in this great Classic.
Hoping Scot @OscarOnley has the team and the motivation this weekened, because he sure as hell has the form!
Gilles Delion of France, winner of the Giro di Lombardia in 1990. Delion quit cycling in 1996, citing that doping was widespread and he was opposed to it. He had a list of top 5 finishes in races, a rider with true natural talent.
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In 2019, Trump was forced to cancel plans to hold the G7 at his own golf club amid GOP objections to self dealing. In 2026, he will hold the G20 at his own golf club and the critics have gone silent. How Trump has moved the ethical line in his second term. nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/po…
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In 1996, English TV presenter Alain de Cadenet asked legendary New Zealand born fighter pilot Ray Hana, who was 70-years-old, to do a low pass in this Spitfire fighter plane as de Cadenet spoke to the camera
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I don't recall this happening too often in the recent past. It would appear Nairoman was still popular in the 'gruppo.'
💔 𝑵𝒐 𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒃𝒐́, 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒓𝒊́𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒐́.
🫡 El homenaje a Nairo Quintana en la que es su última carrera como profesional
#GirodellEmilia #LaCasadelCiclismo
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“Netanyahu says” is not journalism.
“The IDF says” is not journalism.
“Israel says” is not journalism.
Netanyahu says flight attacker 'underwent Islamist radical indoctrination' bbc.in/4iZrx3M
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There's not a single clear-eyed Scottish football fan watching the North Macedonia game *expecting* Scotland to win.
'Twas ever thus.
#MKDSCO
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Released 49 years ago today
L.A.M.F.,the only studio album by the American band The Heartbreakers, featuring the outstanding track Born to Lose
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Started @Copernicus_AMK academy in 2013, dreaming that one day someone would follow in my footsteps.
Maria Okrucińska🥇 in Montreal. Janek Janckowiak 🥈 today at the Europeans…
And here they are on the picture, years ago at the kindergarden ♥️
It’s just the beginning. But I am already so proud. Janek, you are a beast 🔥
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His (totally made up) material is really, really weak and his delivery is poor and yet -- somehow -- his audience laughs and laps it up.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Trump: The guy in Texas who is a vaygan but now he’s eating meat like a pig. He’s a vaygan. He wears a mask. He likes lettuce. Give him a little piece of lettuce and he's happy. The little guy
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The brass neck of Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice complaining about threats of violence and the scary atmosphere in UK politics. As if he, his backers, Farage and supporters played no part. BBC R4 Today's Simon Jack apologetically suggesting their possible role. Risible.
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I'm not really one for fortune cookie coaching aphorisms, but the final line is great. And it probably has applications beyond sport.
Set the goal. Build the environment. Do the work. Fix the details. Let them fail while it's cheap. Keep going.
It isn't complicated. It's just hard to do for long period of time
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Iran making the rookie error of cooking up the crystal meth in the same place they were enriching their uranium. Just as well there were "air chutes" to unload bombs...
He's such a moron.
Trump on Midnight Hammer strikes on Iran: They unloaded every single bomb—went right down air chutes into this uhhh drug factories, really, that's what they were doing. They were nuclear and drugs. They were doing drugs. These drug factories/nuclear factories were hit so hard
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On souhaite un bon anniversaire à Brian Holm (64) 🎂
📸 @grahamwatson10 / #ParisRoubaix 1994
#BrianHolm #BOTD #cykling #cycling #cyclisme #ciclismo
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Buckie Thistle have thanked famous horror writer Stephen King for his "fantastic" donation towards a fundraising campaign aimed at securing the future of the club.
#BBCFootball
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