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Watching AllBirds stock be +430% after announcing a pivot from being a shoe company to a GPU as a service AI company
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Neil Simpson
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London Katılım Ocak 2011
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No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit paid for by current taxpayers.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into the system"
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An absolute marmalade-dropper of an interview with Richard Keys in the Telegraph today. This is magnificent.
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I've been working on a long article about British elites and the role classics played in their education.
I am an edu-trad and believe in the best that has been known & thought.
But you can have too much of a good thing, and in the 19th C I think Britain overdosed on Classics!
EG, in 1900, a donor offered to found a school of naval architecture at Cambridge University, but withdrew the offer when the university insisted the students would all have to qualify in Greek.
Boris is a hangover from that era, when elegant translations of the Melian dialogue were seen as the best preparation for anything life would throw at you.
In lockdown I think some leaked WhatsApps showed him struggling with basic percentages.
It's a throwback to big educational debates in the early 20th C, when reformers wanted more maths and science on the curriculum, and the trad public schools wanted to stick with Greek & Latin.
Christopher Kratovil@chris_kratovil
It’s not every day that one gets to listen to a former British Prime Minister recite from memory the opening passages of The Iliad in Ancient Greek, with no notes, in response to a random question from an undergraduate—and all while wearing what appear to be Thomas The Tank Engine socks. But today was one such day. My thanks to my good friend Brad LaMorgese for the opportunity to see the colorful and comic Boris Johnson speak tonight at the University of Dallas.
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5/ Maslow’s hierarchy was designed as a model of individual motivation, but it maps onto collective political behaviour with uncomfortable precision. A society that has secured abundant energy, industrial production, and physical safety creates the conditions in which political attention can migrate upward into questions of identity, moral positioning, and self-actualization.
The pathology arrives when those governing from the upper floors lose the ability to perceive the importance of the foundations beneath them, and begin making decisions that erode that base in the service of ideological commitments the foundations had made affordable.
By the mid-1990s, Europe had secured its ground floor thoroughly enough that its political class could afford to stop thinking about it. The first Conference of the Parties (COP) climate meeting opened in Berlin in 1995, the same year that marked Europe’s high-water point of energy self-sufficiency. That coincidence is not the whole explanation for what followed, but it is too precise to ignore.
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Happy Solar Pessimism Chart Update Day to all who celebrate
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum
NEW | The world installed a record 814 GW of solar and wind capacity in 2025 ☀️⚡️ That's over 1,000 TWh of electricity generation per year... ...enough to displace nearly twice Qatar's annual LNG export volume in gas generation 🔥❌ Fossil fuels crisis? Wind and solar deliver.
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This tweet got over 1M views so we made it a video:
How much money does Meta make by enabling crimes?
"Internal docs leaked to Reuters show:
• 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year)
• Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US
• That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year
• Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone..."
Rob Wiblin@robertwiblin
Latest podcast from @Gregory_C_Allen has an insane section on criminal activity at Meta. Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US • That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year • Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone The China case study: • In 2024, Meta made $18B+ from Chinese companies advertising to foreign consumers • Internal teams found ~19% was scams/banned content • An anti-fraud team successfully cut these ads in half • When Zuckerberg saw the revenue impact, he told them to "pause" and the team was disbanded • By mid-2025, banned ads climbed back to 16% of China revenue • This results in money being stolen and going directly from ordinary Americans to Chinese criminals The deliberate enabling: • Fraud earns 10% of all revenue, but anti-fraud teams were blocked from any action costing >0.15%, so they couldn't effectively do anything • Meta charged higher rates for suspected fraudulent ads — a "scam tax" • Their algorithm naturally identifies people vulnerable to frauds and feeds them more and more The cold calculation: • Meta anticipated up to $1B in regulatory fines for this • But they make $3.5B every 6 months from high-risk ads • They view these fines as just "cost of doing business" Senators Blumenthal & Hawley now calling for FTC/SEC investigations in a blistering letter, noting that all this happened while Meta cut safety staff and moved billions over to VR and AI. WTF.
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I don't agree with this, but if we let the public design the banknotes this is what they would look like:
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast
British wildlife will replace historical figures on the next series of Bank of England banknotes - and the public will get their say on which animals and birds will appear. On #BBCBreakfast Peter Ruddick explained why it's the end people such as Winston Churchill, Jane Austen and Alan Turing on new £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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John and Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system. (1969)
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Doing the soy ameribrained war porn for a conflict you simultaneously insist we're totally neutral in is pretty emblematic of Starmerism. Confused, unconvincing to either side and contemptuous to the public's intelligence
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer posts an Iran edit on TikTok
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I’m dying over this email newsletter from The @spectator that mistakenly recycled this subhed from the day before (for an article that was actually about Iran)
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Kate Forbes is quitting politics aged 36: I've just done an event with her in Glasgow Uni.
Her parting warning? The real crisis isn't immigration - it's depopulation.
A notebook from Glasgow on her point (and the painting that makes her point):-
comment.press/clan2
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The man in the latest Guardian 'Blind Date' column looks like he's trying to confuse U-boat commanders re the speed, size and direction of his trousers.
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I'll never tire of tech and VC folk thinking ads are pretty moving images and plausible generic words .
Few things are more expensive that ruining what you've built. Gets even more expensive when media costs a fortune.
Deedy@deedydas
Claude Code is one of the worst named products. It's not just for code. Watch this Hermès ad. 30 seconds. 8 shots. Voice. Music. Even text branding burned in with ffmpeg. Clopus 4.5 wrote a script, orchestrated ElevenLabs, Google Veo 3, downloaded music and made this from scratch.
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impressive. very nice. now let's see their parents' occupations.
Channel 4 News@Channel4News
A brother and sister duo from London are already selling out venues before their debut album even comes out. The Gen Z Mod band The Molotovs grew up surrounded by musical influences from The Jam to the Libertines, and now they’ve got some powerful backers in their corner.
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As the water problems reach their fifth day in Tunbridge Wells, our political reporter, Michael Keohan, has gone to put your questions to the CEO of South East Water.
More here: bbc.in/440Jw1C
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