Michael Broom Smith 🇺🇦

Current holdings 01/03/24. Little activity. $SLP.L & $AAZ.L continue to damage pf. Sold 15% of each. 29% in my version of #MAG7 + $BRK (proxy for $AAPL) & $VUSA PF down 2.6% YTD. Horrible YTD decline in SLP/AAZ. $BVXP.L now overweight. Trim? but gain in BVXP represents 22% of pf.

@OlenaRohoza Yes

Would you support President 🇺🇦 Zelensky receiving the Nobel Peace Prize? YES or NO? buymeacoffee.com/OlenaRohoza

⁦@Revolut⁩ please don’t pump Crypto. Two things. It devalues enormously your brand and two remember what Charlie Munger said about the pile of 🐕 💩 that Crypto “assets” are. Loyal customer.

@Mylovanov @Billbrowder Possibly the 🍊 one’s idea behind the whole fiasco. Help his friend Putin out?

Bill Browder: Putin is definitely licking his lips, feeling like a real gift has come out of left field. The extra money he'll be getting will be about $10B. That goes to pay for soldiers, ammunition, and whatever else he needs to carry on his war in Ukraine. 1/

@TheEconomist He is an irrelevance.

@TheEconomist Why @TheEconomist do you give this A-hole the oxygen of publicity? Geez.

“I’m not giggling, I’m mad at your politicians.” Speaking to Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Tucker Carlson says European leaders are “liars” trying to “divert attention” from the “disasters” in their own countries. Click the link to watch the full interview: econ.st/3PwcHoC

@blyskavka_ua What an awful human being. 👹

⚡️Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever stated that the EU should "negotiate" with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, writes Le Monde. According to him, Europe cannot force Russia to give in without the full support of the USA, so, in his opinion, the option of negotiations remains. He also noted that the EU should obtain a mandate from member countries for possible negotiations with Moscow. 👉 @blyskavka_ua

@PaulAndreola Orange turnip.

Who caused this?

@sama Too late. Ship has sailed.

Here is re-post of an internal post: We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear. 1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else: "• Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals. • For the avoidance of doubt, the Department understands this limitation to prohibit deliberate tracking, surveillance, or monitoring of U.S. persons or nationals, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information." It’s critical to protect the civil liberties of Americans, and there was so much focus on this, that we wanted to make this point especially clear, including around commercially acquired information. Just like everything we do with iterative deployment, we will continue to learn and refine as we go. I think this is an important change; our team and the DoW team did a great job working on it. 2. The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies (for example, the NSA). Any services to those agencies would require a follow-on modification to our contract. 3. For extreme clarity: we want to work through democratic processes. It should be the government making the key decisions about society. We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty. But we are clear on how the system works (because a lot of people have asked, if I received what I believed was an unconstitutional order, of course I would rather go to jail than follow it). But 4. There are many things the technology just isn’t ready for, and many areas we don’t yet understand the tradeoffs required for safety. We will work through these, slowly, with the DoW, with technical safeguards and other methods. 5. One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday. The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication. We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy. Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future. In my conversations over the weekend, I reiterated that Anthropic should not be designated as a SCR, and that we hope the DoW offers them the same terms we’ve agreed to. We will host an All Hands tomorrow morning to answer more questions.

@sama Oh pleeeeaase. 😂

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

@earthcurated No. Venice

Is Rome the most beautiful city on Earth ?

@QuickFile Hi is there a problem with the server I get 505 The service behind this page isn’t responding to Azure Front Door. Thank you.

@ML3democrats Yes

The Churchill of our time 🇺🇦 do you agree?

@FT I disagree. I’m “in my 60’s”. I’m with Buffett’s philosophy: The best time to be born is tomorrow, the next best is today. Those “in their 60’s” lived under the threat of nuclear war. Medical advances over the past 20 years & to come make now the most exciting time 2 b alive

‘[Those in their sixties] are the luckiest generation. . . partly because house prices went up . . . we still got defined benefit pension[s]. . . and [went to university] before student loans,’ said former Conservative leader Lord William Hague. ft.trib.al/XPxvmD9

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA She shouldn’t have been competing in the first place.

⛷️ Russian skier takes German skis during marathon at Olympics. Daria Nepryaeva took someone else's skis during a pit stop, leaving the German athlete without equipment. She initially finished 11th, but after reviewing the incident, the judges annulled her result.

@OlenaRohoza YES 🇺🇦

Would you support President 🇺🇦 Zelensky receiving the Nobel Peace Prize? YES or NO?

@Barchart Per capita U.K. on a par.

China has 38 nuclear reactors under construction right now, the U.S. has 0 🚨🤔

I continue to receive an email every minute and have called to be told nothing can be done until Monday because back office don't work weekends. You couldn't make it up and I suspect if your server went down they would suddenly be working. A really pissed of person.

@lettingshub I don't know whether senior management read their X feed but anyway. You have serious issues with your systems. I received roughly 4,000 emails last night, this after having called three times last week while on holiday and told the issue would be sorted.

@DonaldPond6 @dosh100 “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. The U.K. (and other nations) regularly elect socialist governments every 10 or 15 years and keep expecting different outcomes. Madness. Will we ever learn that socialism never works.

The plan to grow the UK economy by providing expensive energy and raising the cost of employing people is still failing to work. Who would have thought it?

The @Olympics committee disgusts me.