@LHM1

Freelance journalist and co-founder @projectglitch_. As seen on your screen just now. Ex-WSJ and The Block. Signal: lhm.01 Email: lucyhm1 at https://xitter.cf/t.co/sMp2j7g9yv

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✨Semi-annual reminder that you can book me to write/edit/blog/report/help with media strategy. 🗞️Updated portfolio here, featuring clips from Channel 4, The Observer, American Banker, Project Glitch, Wired, FT Advisor and others: lucyhm.wordpress.com/

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lucyhm.wordpress.com
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Drama never ends in US law firms... thinking about this story i wrote in 2019 about the mystery behind a Weil Gotshal partner's aborted hire thelawyer.com/jp-morgan-mark…

When banks bear a grudge: JP Morgan, Weil Gotshal and White & Case and the hire that never was

An incident involving JP Morgan is understood to be the reason why White & Case’s hire of Weil Gotshal & Manges’ City banking chief Mark Donald has fallen through. The Lawyer revealed in November...

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Arash Massoudi@ArashMassoudi4h
Financial Times reports Weil Gotshal faces collapse amid partner exodus A little tv time for @kayewiggins and the top @FT crew covering the stunning situation cnb.cx/4zXr3QT

Financial Times reports Weil Gotshal faces collapse amid partner exodus

Kaye Wiggins, U.S. Legal Correspondent at the Financial Times, discusses a major law firm's crisis, aggressive partner poaching, soaring compensation and AI's potential disruption of legal services.

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John Stepek@John_Stepek3h
I'll say this, it was so boring, that the gilts market has budged not an inch
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no government / royal mint NFT announced in the budget :( makes u miss Rishi Sunak
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Bethany Dawson@bethanymrd3h
Bethany Dawson@bethanymrd3h
Cue everyone searching their council tax band
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Boys Club™
@BoysClubWorld3h
super El Niño son or cyber attack daughter
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Chancellor says in the budget that the gov is pursuing a "British way" for AI based on "security" & "sovereignty" announces a British data centre covenant and AI challenge prize for innovation Directly addresses worries about foreign involvement in e.g. health and defence data
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Also announces a founders relief for founders of successful firms (maybe VCs can stop complaining about UK as a place to build a business now...)
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Former chancellor George Osborne also speaking at DAS the previous week. I've been saying about right wing politicians and crypto.... projectglitch.xyz/p/the-war-…
Solana
@solanaOct 27
Replying to @solana
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Former Mayor of London. @BorisJohnson led the country for three years and this city for eight. He’s on stage at Breakpoint, November 15-17.
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*DJ Khaled voice* another one xitter.cf/solana/status/21150664…
Solana
@solanaOct 27
Replying to @solana
From Deutsche Bank to Number 11. Sir @sajidjavid, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, spent nearly two decades in banking before entering politics. At Breakpoint, he brings both careers to the question of where finance goes next.
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hottest accessory for autumn is actually the DCPS 2026 takeaway coffee mug (IYKYK)
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~~cleansing the timeline~~
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Charlie Warzel
@cwarzelOct 22
His name is Ondřej Surý and yesterday he kinda saved the internet. I called him up to talk about it! theatlantic.com/technology/2…

The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday

Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

theatlantic.com
Ian Landsman
@IanLandsmanOct 21
Explaining to my wife how there's this one guy. And he alone is responsible for most of the world's distribution of PHP. And if anything happens to this guy, that's just it. Everyone is screwed.
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Crazy aging population stats from the ONS today: There were an estimated 645,000 people aged 90+ in the UK in mid-2025, a 55.2% increase since mid-2005 (416,000 people). There were 16,400 centenarians in 2025, up 3.5% since 2024 and +89.8% since 2005 (8,700 centenarians).
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Resilient old ladies: There were 760 people aged 105 years and over in the UK in 2025, an increase of nearly a third since mid-2024 (from 570) as the large generation born immediately after World War One (1919-1920) reach this age. Women made up 88.8% of this age group in 2025.
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Ari🦋✨
@Ariszn12Oct 22
Every time you go to the post office the person in front of you has a problem that has never happened before in all of history.
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so desensitised to hacks / flaws in code from covering crypto for 5+ years that the PHP bug makes me feel nothing 🙂
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frye
@___fryeOct 21
it’s been an honor using the computer with you all
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@medeanaOct 22
It’s cybersecurity week at the Great British Bakeoff
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Was redoing my portfolio and resurfaced this interview i did with an AI 'artist' chatbot in 2022... (spoiler: was unusable). Life comes at u fast theblock.co/news/web3/2022-0…

The ‘world’s most advanced’ digital human wants you to buy her NFT art

The project may ultimately offer a glimpse into a future in which virtual people — virtual artists, even — do real business in virtual space.

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