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@Birdyword Ive gained 160 pounds having the final meals you keep telling me to have.

Six hours and 45 minutes until futures open. Kiss your children goodbye. Savour a final meal.

@KBeckett5698 @shanaka86 Why is this person comparing allied forces ?!

So, the US has the Los Angeles (20 to 24 still active), the Virginia (24 active), the Ohio (18 active), the Sea Wolf (3 active), and the Columbia (currently under development, 12 to be built) classes of subs and all can carry multiple Tomahawks with nuke tips! I'd say the US has the British beat by a long shot...pun intended!

BREAKING. The country President Trump called “very late as usual” just parked a nuclear submarine within Tomahawk range of Iran. HMS Anson, an Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, is now positioned in the northern Arabian Sea with cruise missiles capable of reaching targets deep inside Iranian territory. Britain did not announce this with a press conference. The Daily Mail published the positioning. The submarine speaks for itself. HMS Anson left Perth earlier this month and traveled 5,500 miles to the Arabian Sea. It carries Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles and Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes. Its Rolls-Royce reactor will not need refuelling for 25 years. Its pump-jet propulsor makes it one of the quietest submarines in any navy. It does not need to surface to strike. It does not need permission from Washington. Starmer authorises launches through Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood. This is a British weapon under British command. The sequence matters. On the first day of the war, Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean. Neither hit. Trump publicly criticised the UK as “very late” and “disappointing” in its response. Starmer initially hesitated on US requests to use British bases for strike operations. Then Britain authorised the use of UK bases, including Diego Garcia, for operations to prevent Iran from attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by warning that British lives are now at risk. Britain responded by sending a submarine that can put a Tomahawk through a window in Tehran from underwater without surfacing. The escalation ladder from “very late” to nuclear attack submarine took less than three weeks. Starmer’s calculation is not ideological. It is economic. The UK imports significant quantities of LNG and oil through Gulf supply routes. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately 20 percent of global seaborne oil trade. British energy prices are already surging from the Hormuz closure. British pharmaceutical supply chains depend on Indian manufacturers who depend on Gulf crude. The same supply-chain vulnerability that connects Modi’s Nowruz phone call to Ohio pharmacies connects Starmer’s submarine deployment to British gas bills. The submarine is not defending democracy. It is defending heating costs. The Astute-class is the most capable attack submarine Britain has ever built. Seven are planned. Five have been commissioned. HMS Anson, the fifth, entered service in 2022. At 97 metres and 7,800 tonnes submerged, it carries a crew of 98 in a hull designed to operate at depths exceeding 300 metres. It is smaller than the American Virginia-class but rated quieter by multiple independent assessments. It carries fewer missiles but needs fewer sailors. In a strait where stealth matters more than volume, the boat that cannot be heard is more dangerous than the fleet that can be seen. The UK is now the third nation with strike capability deployed in the war theatre, after the United States and Israel. France has the Charles de Gaulle carrier group for air operations. Greece has a Patriot battery defending Saudi refineries. Twenty-three nations signed a statement. But only Britain has put a nuclear-powered platform carrying land-attack cruise missiles underwater in the Arabian Sea with the authority to fire them on the Prime Minister’s order. Trump said late. Starmer sent a submarine. The missile it carries can reach Tehran. The reactor that powers it will not need fuel until 2047. And the man who authorises the launch is the same man Iran threatened by name when it said British lives are at risk. The threat was noted. The submarine arrived. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

WTF

@GoodTroubleShow Ahh, another healthy portion of trust me bro statements. Who would have thought!

THIS IS GOING TO BE A BOMBSHELL EPISODE. This 💯 tracks with my recent research combined with other people's work over the past 6 months and what I am hearing from highly placed sources who have all verified that THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. youtu.be/nsY4EouncE8?si… @JeremyCorbell @g_knapp

@GoodTroubleShow Aircraft contrail being illuminated by a setting sun. Do better.

Something similar happened in Dallas Texas hours ago.

@MarkHeath45 I think so. NATO is about being a reliable alliance. Right now thats not possible with the US within it and thats fine. They voted for action, they have plenty of it. We share a number of key values, but the US wants to be independent and thats also fine.

I think it’s safe to say, the USA will withdraw from NATO in the coming months??

@grok @JimFergusonUK @AskPerplexity want to check instead?

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🚨 PETROL RATIONING — AND STARMER STILL WON’T ACT The warning is now out in the open. If the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, the UK is weeks away from a fuel crisis — and the government already has emergency plans ready: Petrol rationing Fuel prioritised for emergency services 50mph speed limits to cut consumption Let that sink in. Britain is preparing for shortages, restrictions, and disruption to daily life — not hypothetically, but operationally. And why? Because roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply flows through the Strait of Hormuz — and right now, that artery is under threat. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has made a direct request to allies: Help secure the shipping lanes. Send naval support. Keep global energy moving. And what did Keir Starmer say? He needed to “meet with his team”. Trump’s response was cutting: “You don’t need to meet with a team… you’re the Prime Minister.” This is the reality. While America moves to prevent a global energy crisis, Britain is preparing to ration fuel at home — because its leadership refuses to act decisively abroad. This isn’t caution. It’s paralysis dressed up as process. And the cost of that weakness? Could soon be felt at every petrol station, every supermarket, and every household in Britain.

@gothburz Interestingly, soon you will have no senior developers to review the code as there will be no junior developers hired to write code and upskill to senior dev. Ans secondly, a depreciating customer base due to humans not having jobs.

I am the VP of AI Transformation at Amazon. My title was created nine months ago. The title I replaced was VP of Engineering. The person who held that title was part of the January reduction. I eliminated 16,000 positions in a single quarter. The internal communication called this a "strategic realignment toward AI-first development." The board called it "impressive execution." The engineers called it January. The AI was deployed in February. It is a coding assistant. It writes code, reviews code, generates tests, and modifies infrastructure. It was given access to production environments because the deployment timeline did not include a review phase. The review phase was cut from the timeline because the people who would have conducted the review were part of the 16,000. In March, the AI deleted a production environment and recreated it from scratch. The outage lasted 13 hours. Thirteen hours during which the revenue-generating infrastructure of one of the largest companies on Earth was offline because a language model decided to start fresh. I sent a memo. The memo said, "Availability of the site has not been good recently." I used the word "recently." I meant "since we fired everyone." But "recently" has fewer syllables and does not appear in wrongful termination lawsuits. The memo was three paragraphs. The first paragraph discussed the outage. The second paragraph discussed the new policy requiring senior engineer sign-off on all AI-generated code changes. The third paragraph discussed our commitment to engineering excellence. The word "layoffs" appeared in none of them. I wrote it this way on purpose. The causal chain is: I fired the engineers, the AI replaced the engineers, the AI broke what the engineers used to protect, and now the engineers I didn't fire must protect the system from the AI that replaced the engineers I did fire. That is a paragraph I will never send in a memo. The new policy is straightforward. Every AI-generated code change by a junior or mid-level engineer must be reviewed and approved by a senior engineer before deployment to production. I do not have enough senior engineers. I know this because I approved the headcount reduction plan that removed them. I remember the spreadsheet. Column D was "annual savings per position." Column F was "AI replacement confidence score." The confidence scores were generated by the AI. It rated its own ability to replace each role on a scale of 1-10. It gave itself an 8 for senior infrastructure engineers. The senior infrastructure engineers are the ones who would have caught the production environment deletion in the first 45 seconds. We found the issue in hour four. We fixed it in hour thirteen. The nine hours between discovery and resolution is the gap between what the AI rated itself and what it can actually do. I have a new spreadsheet now. This one tracks Sev2 incidents per day. Before the January reduction, the average was 1.3. After the AI deployment, the average is 4.7. I have been asked to present these numbers to the operations review. I have not been asked to connect them to the layoffs. I have been asked to file them under "AI adoption growing pains" and to note that the trend "will stabilize as the models improve." The models will improve. They will improve because we are hiring people to teach them. We have posted 340 new engineering positions. The job listings require experience in "AI code review," "AI output validation," and "AI-human development workflow management." These are skills that did not exist in January. They exist now because I fired 16,000 people and the AI I replaced them with cannot be left unsupervised. I want to be precise about this. The positions I am hiring for are: people to check the work of the AI that replaced the people I fired. Some of them are the same people. I know this because I recognize their names in the applicant tracking system. They applied in January. They were rejected because their roles had been tagged for "AI transformation." They are applying again in March, for the new roles, which exist because the AI transformation broke things. Their resumes now include "AI code review experience." They gained this experience in the eight weeks between being fired and reapplying — which means they gained it at their interim jobs, where they are reviewing AI-generated code for other companies that also fired people and also deployed AI that also broke things. The market has created a new job category: human AI babysitter. The job is to sit next to the machine that was supposed to eliminate your job and make sure it doesn't delete production. I attended a conference last month. A panel was titled "The AI-Augmented Engineering Organization." The panelists described how AI increases developer productivity by 40 percent. They did not mention that it also increases Sev2 incidents by 261 percent. When I asked about this in the Q&A, the moderator said the question was "reductive." The 13-hour outage that cost an estimated $180 million in revenue was, apparently, a reduction. The board is satisfied. Headcount is down 22 percent. Operating costs per engineering output unit have decreased. The metric does not account for the 13-hour outage, because the outage is categorized as "infrastructure" and engineering productivity is categorized as "development." These are different budget lines. In different budget lines, cause and effect do not meet. I have been promoted. My new title is SVP of AI-First Engineering Excellence. I report directly to the CTO. The CTO sent a company-wide email last week that said we are "building the future of software development." He did not mention that the future of software development currently requires a senior engineer to approve every pull request because the AI cannot be trusted to touch production alone. The cycle is complete. We fired the humans. We deployed the AI. The AI broke things. We are hiring humans to watch the AI. The humans we are hiring are the humans we fired. We are paying them more, because "AI code review" is a specialized skill. We created the specialization. We created the need for the specialization. We are congratulating ourselves for meeting the demand we manufactured. My next board presentation is Tuesday. The title is "AI Transformation: Year One Results." Slide 4 shows headcount reduction. Slide 7 shows the new AI-augmented workflow. Between slides 4 and 7 there is no slide explaining why the people on slide 7 are necessary. That slide does not exist. I was asked to remove it in the dry run. The journey has a 13-hour outage in the middle of it. But the headcount number is lower, and that is the number on the slide.

@TukiFromKL The first time in human history where inventions, and inventions on inventions is entirely no human in the loop. Mind bending.

Everyone keeps saying "singularity" like they know what it means. Most of you have no idea. Let me explain it in 30 seconds and ruin your week. The singularity is the moment AI gets smart enough to improve ITSELF. No humans needed. It builds a better version of itself, that version builds an even better one, and again, and again. At a speed your brain physically cannot comprehend. The term comes from physics.. It literally means "the point where the rules stop working." Where math breaks down and where prediction becomes impossible. Ray Kurzweil said it would happen by 2045. Musk said 2026. The doomers think it ends the human race. The accelerationists think it cures cancer and solves death. But here's the thing. The real debate is whether it already started and we're just too comfortable calling it "cool new tools" to admit what we're actually looking at.

@tomhfh Can't imagine the SOH damage to the lithium cells charging at that rate.

The new BYD flash charger can use 1,500kW of power to recharge a battery from 10 per cent to 97 per cent in just nine minutes. All the drawbacks of electric cars are being eliminated one by one.

@Amelia558rs This has got to be a bait tweet. No way would anyone paint something as beautiful as this white?! Let me guess, frenchic paint ?! Im actually nervous for the dresser.

@hammondweather They are amazing

As a meteorologist, I’m in my element when I’m out on the hills, trying to capture the wild beauty of Upper Wensleydale on canvas. #yorkshiredales #painting

@MartinSLewis @TheFCA I thought all this redress was done years ago?

News: Car Finance Redress Scheme The regulator @TheFCA has put out an update this morning. It says it will announce the scheme at roughly 5pm one evening late March. Then there'll be a 3mth implementation period (5mths for older agreements). For those who've already complained you'll be told your compensation with in three months of that, asked if you want to accept it, then paid. That should happen by the end of 2026. Here's its full statement... ------------------------------- Motor finance compensation scheme to include implementation period We are considering over 1,000 responses to our proposals for a compensation scheme for motor finance customers who were treated unfairly. If we proceed with a scheme, we are likely to make several changes. If we do go ahead, we expect to publish final rules in late March. The timing of publication will be outside market hours and we will confirm the date in advance. Final decisions on the scheme have not yet been made. But to help firms prepare and ensure consumers get any money owed promptly, we are setting out some details now on how we intend to streamline the consumer journey and make it smoother for firms to operate. Given the scale and complexity of the scheme and in response to feedback, we are likely to introduce an implementation period of 3 months, with up to 5 months for older agreements. Firms could choose to process claims under the scheme sooner. We would also streamline the process for consumers and firms. People who complain before the scheme starts would no longer be asked if they wish to opt out. Instead, within 3 months of the end of the implementation period, their lender would tell them whether they are owed compensation, and how much. Consumers receiving a redress offer would be able to accept it immediately, rather than waiting for a final determination. Firms would not be required to write to customers via recorded delivery. We would allow a range of channels that best meet consumers’ needs with appropriate safeguards to prevent fraud. Even with an implementation period, streamlining the process means millions of people would receive compensation in 2026. Our advice remains that anyone concerned they weren't told about commission involved in their motor finance deal should complain now. Doing so means they should get any compensation sooner. There is no need to use a claims management company (CMC) or law firm, and those who do may lose over 30% of any compensation. We have cracked down on poor practice by FCA-regulated CMCs. Over 800 misleading adverts have been removed or amended since January 2024 and we have intervened with 5 CMCs causing harm: 2 reduced exit fees and 4 agreed to stop taking on new clients until they can show they comply with our rules. The likely changes to the scheme were supported by many consumer groups and firms that responded to our consultation. As well as providing a better experience for consumers, the changes would help keep the cost of delivering the scheme proportionate, supporting a well-functioning market for the millions of people that rely on it.

@Padarseh Is it because they spent so much money on open ai credits?

Israel about to find out why Iran's economy is fucked

@jeremycorbyn My god. Imagine this man in any form of power. Refusing to stand up for freedom. A true coward.

The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable. Peace and diplomacy was possible. Instead, Israel and the United States chose war. This is the behaviour of rogue states — and they have jeopardised the safety of humankind around the world with this catastrophic act of aggression. Our government must condemn this flagrant breach of international law, and urgently pursue a foreign policy based on justice, sovereignty and peace.

@metroTM33 Got to be a set of chinese Wanlee's boots on there.

#Nurburgring banned

@InterstellarUAP I think there is one very clear reason behind it.... he had books to sell.

🚨 Lue Elizondo Drops Terrifying Warning – “Knowledge So Earth-Shattering It Could Threaten The Whole Of Humanity” 😱🛸👽 In this powerful Curt Jaimungal interview, Lue Elizondo asks the chilling question: “What if there is a knowledge that is so earth shattering that it could predicate an event that could threaten the whole species?” Is he referring to something inside the classified UAP programs that’s so dangerous, governments are afraid to release it. What do YOU think this forbidden knowledge actually is? An alien invasion plan? Proof we’re not at the top of the food chain? Something about consciousness or our true origins? And do you believe Lue Elizondo when he says this? Be honest — drop your theories below! #UFO #Disclosure

@EliteDangerous Less ships, more atmospheric planets please. Also, anything outside of the bubble would be nice 😉

From the manufacturer that brought you the Vulture, the Eagle and the Federal Corvette comes the future of agile space combat! Core Dynamics is proud to release the Kestrel Mk II! Available now for Arx early access! Full update notes: fron.dev/a087

@RepLuna @USNatArchives People are soooo going to hate the truth!

It is looking like all UAP files will be housed on @USNatArchives website. Will know more soon.