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Andrew Rummer

@AJRummer

Freelance writer. Bylines in WIRED, The Economist, Bloomberg, etc.

 London
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Joined February 2009
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📻 Paul Beaumont was just a boy when he heard his first number station... 1/6
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London Bridge is undergoing an early structural review My fair lady
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Farewell A16Z Crypto 👋 (From @theinformation)
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This price of US diesel and Democrats’ odds of taking the Senate in November, charted. (Via @opinion)
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Revenue is king
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AI needs to make $6 trillion a year to justify all the spending

AI needs to make $6 trillion a year to justify all the spending

In a fresh report, Bain sees existing AI services generating $1.8 trillion per year – but that leaves another $4.2 trillion to come out of (currently) thin air.

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RIP the internet
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Axios Media Trends: 🔗 Link economy breaks

Axios Media Trends: 🔗 Link economy breaks

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My hot take on the Swedish elections: this party logo is really quite something
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Lots of amazingly mad ideas floating around at today’s Creative Intelligence Summit at the @southbankcentre
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Eeek 📉
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Source: economist.com/international/…
Are teenagers growing dimmer?

Are teenagers growing dimmer?

The latest global school tests reveal shocking new declines

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The modern media ecosystem: ✅ Quirky video produced by mainstream media (BBC) in 2019 ✅ Tweeted without attribution by anon blue check with 120k+ followers and avatar that whiffs of genAI ✅ Retweeted by Elon Musk
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My debut for Bloomberg Weekend examines the mystery of number stations, why intelligence agencies still use this century-old technology to communicate with spies in the field, and why some people enjoy spending many hours a week listening in. 5/6
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Full story on @business here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 6/6
‘Number Stations’ Send Messages to Spies. Hobbyists Can’t Stop Listening

‘Number Stations’ Send Messages to Spies. Hobbyists Can’t Stop Listening

Mysterious shortwave broadcasts remain one of espionage’s oldest tools. A small group of aging enthusiasts is following every transmission.

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Nothing like starting the day with a poem
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A surprising stat: C-section births are now much more common in England than America
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Source: One in four births in England is now emergency caesarean, BBC analysis shows bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxp…
One in four births in England are now emergency caesareans, BBC analysis shows

One in four births in England are now emergency caesareans, BBC analysis shows

The shift marks a significant rise over the last five years, but experts say there is no single, clear explanation for the increase.

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