@federicacocco.bsky.social
Reporter, business and economic data at the Washington Post. Formerly at the Financial Times. Hic manebimus optime.
@sarahobolt.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialSuper excited to see this article in print in the APSR:
📚 “Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England’s National Health Service”
- with the brilliant @zachdickson.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @simonecremaschi.bsky.social
@federicacocco.bsky.social@kateallen.ft.com Min Jin Lee is writing a novel about... remittances! www.instagram.com/p/Deb3qc5D10A/
@wpdatateam.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialHi y’all! I’m Ence, and I cover political data at the Post. I've spent this year tracking megadonors & dark money. Let's do an AMA! Want to know what's up with all that AI money? What Elon Musk's super PAC is doing? How to find a candidate's donors yourself? Reply here & I'll answer til 4 PM ET.
@ence.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialunreal piece by @federicacocco.bsky.social @teoarmus.bsky.social. look at those job numbers falling off a cliff!
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialI'd like to read a full-length thought, this mind's the only mind I've got, I do not like this textual spam, I do not like them Sam Alt-man,
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialI would not like an AI summary, I would not like it on a boat, I would not like the email bloat, I do not like it on a chair, I would not like it anywhere! I do not like them on a phone, I do not like them in my home, I do not want them on a search, I do not like them in a church
@wpdatateam.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialSince President Trump took over the Kennedy Center, the institution has borrowed everything its bank would lend it, dipped into money donors had given on the condition it never be spent and written off pledges from supporters who stopped paying. By @federicacocco.bsky.social & @naemas.bsky.social:
@dlknowles.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialSome unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.
@federicacocco.bsky.socialVery much not the point of the (great) story (in fact, scoop) but could've sworn this was THE SAME PERSON giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
@federicacocco.bsky.socialThe urinary incident reminded me of the bit in The Shipping News when the aunt puts her brother's ashes down the outhouse toilet
@alanbeattie.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialSomething about Harry and Meghan and a school; something about Ed Sheeran and a rapper; something about Sydney Sweeney, I think her name is. Having discovered Cabin Pressure, decades late, I've been listening to episodes of that instead and I commend the experience.
@laurenkaorigurley.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialNearly 1 in 6 Americans ages 16 to 29 is neither working nor in school. @federicacocco.bsky.social & I are trying to understand why, but we need your help reaching young adults and teens who fall into this category.
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www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
@federicacocco.bsky.social*Not in education, employment or training*. A bit of a Britishism I guess, but the OECD also uses it to track youth disengagement and labour market health www.oecd.org/en/data/indi...
@federicacocco.bsky.socialDo you have a “NEET” in your life? Or maybe you’re young and feeling like you have no prospects ahead of you? @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social and I want to talk to Americans under 30 who are neither in school nor working: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... Help us understand what is going on.
@wpdatateam.bsky.socialReposted by @federicacocco.bsky.socialICE is arresting more and more immigrants with no criminal record www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...