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@WONGthink Peer pressure exists. Even with these controls the child without access is ostracised socially. Better to ban it and protect all kids from themselves until they have the adult faculties to deal with it. Social media is poisonous and exists to enrich its owners.

You know every operating system has in-built parental control to lockdown the device? Google Family Link on Android Microsoft Family Safety on PC Family Sharing on Apple It's so tiresome watching technocrats without an ounce of technological literacy implement digital tyranny.

@AaronBastani The architect of the 2010 and onwards austerity that did such damage to this country when interest rates were at 0%.

Speaking to Adrian Wooldridge, who wrote for the Economist for 3 decades, and now Bloomberg, he said Osborne gave centrism a bad name - and helped poison it. A bloomberg columnist said that. Why is a Labour government (?!) so eager to elevate such people?

@TMTLongShort I’ve seen these robots and they can’t pick up an apple.

While the boomers are slowly realizing that AI isn’t a bubble you should be focusing on thinking through which names beyond the semis complex and hyperscalers benefit in a world where robotics is solved and office workers can be gutted. You have 18 months tops. Probably much less. Waiting for Citrini to spoon feed it to you is too late if you think you deserve to run other people’s money post singularity. 😉

@AaronBastani @unherd Bit of a bold statement to say it’s more significant than Scotland. Labour was founded by a Scot and Scotland was as staunch a Labour base as anywhere, including Wales.

A Plaid-Reform 1-2, in whatever order, augurs an extinction level event for Labour. It’s much bigger than Scotland in 2015. Prefiguring the next GE, we are about to see a controlled demolition of Britain’s 2 party system. Me for @unherd unherd.com/2026/04/why-la…

@RhonddaBryant @JamesFl So ruddy bloody brave.

The Falklands are British. 🇬🇧

@timothy_stanley Source?

A) why are we run by people called Cat and Olly? I ask as a Tim. and B) I cannot follow a word this woman says. Bureaucratic jargon, almost a foreign language. Dentistry more pleasant. It only serves as an insight in to why nothing gets done.

@xevekiah Why would she go into the men’s on her own?

I was in an airport restroom when a man knocked and said, “Dad with a 4 year old coming in!” He sounded mortified. He kept his back to everyone, stared at the ceiling like it personally offended him, and speed-walked his daughter into a stall. A woman whispered, “Unbelievable.” What’s unbelievable is expecting a preschooler to brave the men’s restroom alone in a crowded airport. He did the respectful thing: he warned us, kept it brief, and focused on his child. Sometimes the safest choice isn’t the most traditional one.

@TomCrown @machine10101 @JamesWynnReal You’re*

@machine10101 @JamesWynnReal your a bot

Close it or keep it?

@StealthTax @allenf32 Agree, apples and oranges though.

@Cubeh67385 @allenf32 There are improvements you could make to the current volume of spending to facilitate growth without spending more. UK govt spends insane amounts on achieving nothing like HS2. I don’t think UK could outgrow its debt burden by public works at this stage.

it's so over

@StealthTax @allenf32 Surely it’d be wise if it facilitates stronger economic growth and reduces debt to gdp in the long term? Appreciate the civility btw.

@Cubeh67385 @allenf32 Splurging on borrowing when interest rates are being held at zero by QE isn’t that wise. We’re now suffering that debt burden as rates go up. I don’t see Scotland going through a growth miracle.

@StealthTax @allenf32 But interest rates were at zero, even Nicola Sturgeon knew at the time that the government should have been investing in infrastructure through those years.

@Cubeh67385 @allenf32 The use of the term for the Osborne years is inaccurate. He cut growth rates of spending. It never went below pre-GFC levels. There will come a time where real spending either falls bc of borrowing rates or inflation. Spending is up 46% since 19/20!

@StealthTax @allenf32 Is your use the term ‘once in a millennia’ an attempt to downplay the economic and social damage the austerity years did?

@allenf32 The same people think we lived through a once in a millennia austerity event under the tories. It’s been clear how ngmi it is for a long time now.

@John_Stepek I’ve really tried to get into your podcast but there is really very little insight to be gained from any of it. Merryn smacks of someone parachuted into various institutions throughout her life on the basis that she happens to be very posh and went to the right school.

I'm old enough and humble enough (or at least bear sufficient scars) to be very cautious about arguing with the market. But sometimes you have to wonder what everyone's seeing that you're not... Are markets just plain wrong on the Iran war? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/are…

@shanaka86 You think a basic misunderstanding of the system is their ‘best FUD’?

On April 15, a Yale-educated Chinese commentator named Jiang Xueqin went hyper-viral across TikTok, X, and YouTube asking the question he wanted billions of people to hear: “Where are the blockchain servers physically located?” On the same day, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps collected cryptocurrency transit tolls from oil tankers passing through a maritime chokepoint that carries one-fifth of the world’s seaborne oil. One controllable-tier power is telling the world Bitcoin runs on CIA servers. The other controllable-tier power is using Bitcoin at gunpoint because it does not. The answer to Jiang’s question, as of 01:55 UTC this morning per Bitnodes.io: 22,174 independently operated reachable full nodes across 164 countries, 63.29% routing through Tor, secured by 1.09 zettahashes per second of computing power distributed across the United States at 37.4%, Russia at 16.9%, and China itself at approximately 12% despite its own ban. No servers. No central point of failure. No kill switch. Seventeen years of continuous adversarial operation without a single consensus breach. Jiang is not a computer scientist. He holds a Yale BA in English Literature and teaches high-school philosophy at Moonshot Academy in Beijing. He has floated the identical “Bitcoin is a CIA/deep state/Pentagon operation” framing at least three times in 2026 alone, including a March appearance with SNEAKO, without professional consequence from a state that imprisoned citizens for less. As @bitcoinwell noted on April 16 in a post exceeding ten thousand likes: “A credentialed academic pretending not to grasp this is not ignorance. It is a red flag.” Whether Jiang is a genuine non-technical commentator or a state-tolerated narrative asset is, for the purpose of this analysis, secondary. The effect is identical. The “servers” question is rhetorically engineered to sound plausible to non-technical audiences while raising maximum adoption friction in Chinese-speaking and BRICS-adjacent jurisdictions. It is the controllable tier’s final weapon: not sanctions, not freezes, not naval blockades, but manufactured confusion about the protocol’s architecture deployed at the precise moment the architecture proves its value under live fire. The timing is the tell. On January 30, OFAC designated Iran’s preferred stablecoin exchanges. Sixty days later, Iran’s parliament codified the Hormuz Management Plan. On April 8, the Financial Times quoted Iranian officials announcing Bitcoin as an acceptable toll currency. On April 14, BIP-361 was formally published proposing the first consensus-level freeze in Bitcoin’s history. On April 15, Jiang’s “servers” clip went nuclear across Chinese-language internet. On April 16, Adam Back took the Paris Blockchain Week stage to oppose BIP-361’s forced-freeze architecture. Six events across seventeen days. The controllable tier attacking the uncontrollable tier through enforcement, narrative, and now protocol governance, simultaneously. The uncontrollable tier responding with 22,174 nodes, armed toll collection, and an internal constitutional debate about whether to compromise the very property that makes it valuable. The IRGC does not care where the servers are. It knows there are no servers. That is why it is collecting two million dollars per supertanker in an asset no court order can freeze. Iran’s paramilitary force has become a structural Bitcoin long at the same moment a credentialed voice from Beijing is telling the world the whole thing is a honeypot. The narrative war is the final confirmation. When the controllable tier deploys its best FUD at the exact moment the uncontrollable tier proves utility under fire, the two-tier architecture is no longer a thesis. It is an observed equilibrium. Full institutional analysis below. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@AaronBastani Aren’t these SMRs still in fairly early development?

The government has doubled down on the most sensible strategy for British energy long term. Renewables and nuclear energy. The most competent centre-right government the country has had since Harold MacMillan.

@NathanpmYoung Get really stoned.

I find it hard to rest and basically any time I have dead time I fill it with tasks or pick arguments. Any suggested psychoanalysis or practice?

@JohnCarreyrou Back has become a bit ego-centric recently, your article was just bad timing.

If you’re not Satoshi and you know The New York Times is going to publish a big story identifying you as Satoshi, do you agree to participate in a photo shoot for that story?

@StealthTax @maxtempers What examples do you know of this? I’m in public sector and this isn’t a thing in my industry.

@maxtempers Wonder what he’d think about the common practice among UK firms of old vs new payscale for same job, where by dint of age, former get union protected superior terms+scale (+pension) to younger colleagues, and also manage to continue getting % raises diverging the groups further.

Yes, Stalin was against the British state’s present-day policy of wage compression, understanding that it destroyed worker incentives.

@The_Real_Fly ‘Perfictly’ lol what?

‘YOU WILL MOST CERTAINLY DIE A SLAVE’ — Candace Owens

@WOLF_Bitcoin_ Price prediction is the absolute bottom of the barrel hack question and should be avoided by all.

BILLIONAIRE Arthur Hayes predicts, "By the end of 2026, I think Bitcoin is at $500k - $750k"