Timothy Monteath

@twm.bsky.social

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Assistant professor at Warwick University in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Data, visualisations, finance, housing and maps among other things: timothymonteath.space

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FT headline, which reads: two uk water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks.
It’s a meta quest 3 headset in a pawn shop window
Screenshot from the FT that reads: Nominative determinism is not a characteristic of snack foods: calling a snack food “Hula Hoops” does not mean that one could twirl that product around one’s midriff, nor is “Monster Munch” generally reserved as a food for monsters.
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A screenshot of the abstract: The global food system is in crisis. Climate change, ecological degradation, and economic and military conflict have exposed significant vulnerabilities in how the world produces, distributes, and consumes food. While governments aim to address these intersecting crises, they typically overlook another critical factor - the unprecedented concentration of corporate control in the global food system driven by contemporary processes of financialization. The incursion of new financial actors and imperatives have encouraged food firms to implement mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to improve financial performance, generate shareholder value, and capture market share. This has resulted in record levels of concentration, with more power controlled by fewer firms. Surprisingly, there is little empirical detail concerning the uneven pace, scale, and geographies of this concentration. Our article develops a novel M&A-based approach to investigate the concentration of
A diagram of OpenAI's corporate structure. From the FT: https://www.ft.com/content/6dd292c0-a551-4609-8649-f6b69b20f846#comments-anchor
An image from the FT that reads: Moakes warned: “You need to be with the absolutely top-tier partners because the broad venture capital industry has done generally speaking a pretty poor job of delivering any illiquidity premium. If you invest in the median venture capital manager, you’re probably better off investing in an index fund.”
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A screenshot of the FT which reads: As a general principle: the bigger a number, the more that number is underpinned by assumptions. We see this all the time in macro statistics, which are typically an informed guess based on extrapolations, guesswork, adjustment and a sprinkling of vibes. Swift’s Eras tour — currently 49 shows deep into a 146-date run — is within this mushy territory.