Small country w/low speeds + distances. Neat to see though.
LeRaffl@leRaffl
Within 3 years Singapore went from almost no BEV to more than half.
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Ali 🇦🇺
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Ali 🇦🇺
@alirobe
I'm an aussie system architect and consulting tech strategist, with a tech background in #Microsoft: #Azure #Microsoft365 #Dynamics365 #PowerPlatform
Melbourne, Australia Katılım Ocak 2008
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Why are so many people in English-speaking countries dying early?
While the most long-lived keep getting older, the lower end of US life expectancy has fallen through the floor.
But it's not just the US: as @jburnmurdoch shows in a great talk at the @rootsofprogress 2025 conference, the same pattern can be found in Canada and the UK:
It's deaths from external and behavioural causes that have increased, like substance abuse or suicide:
From my newsletter, where I also cover a bunch of other stories:
update.news/p/why-are-so-m…
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@Avimanyu8008 @hamptonism @grok Why ask Grok? Official stats are fudged. It’s an economy made up of all things housing, mining and a bloated corrupted public sector. That’s all! It’s a nation falling into terminal decline and the average joe is illiquid and stuck in shit jobs
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@TheFoxesSay @sciencegirl China: The Chinese state spies on you, and stores it as a state secret.
USA: The entire private sector buys/sells your information, shuffling it around public S3 buckets which China infiltrates and gets anyway.
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@sciencegirl Amazing. But also Huawei likes to spy on Americans. So..
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The new laptop from Huawei.
Pay attention starting at the 13th second.
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Top 5 differences of living in China vs Australia:
1. Aus is beautiful but boring, China has endless opportunity energy
2. Aus has best beaches, beef, slow sky atmosphere
3. Food culture is very basic in 🇦🇺
4. Social life in 🇨🇳 is EPIC
5. Cost of living is FAR lower in 🇨🇳
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Ali 🇦🇺 retweetledi
Anthropic is overtaking OpenAI.
Their revenue has more than doubled in 3 months!
Anthropic revenue:
- $7 billion in October
- $9 billion in December
- $14 billion in February
- $19 billion right fucking now
Shirin Ghaffary@shiringhaffary
NEW: Anthropic is on track to surpass $19 billion in revenue run rate, up from $14 bil several weeks ago, a sign of how quickly the company has been growing in the lead up to its conflict w/ the Pentagon bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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A 50% price spike isn’t a 'market trend' - it’s a mugging. Gas and oil imports are a ransom. 100% Renewables are the only true declaration of independence. Stop paying the extortionists. Cut the cord.
Joumanna Nasr Bercetche@JoumannaTV
Wow wow wow European Gas prices surged 50% after the Qatari LNG production halts
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@JessePeltan As an Aussie: What is meant here by "Australian costs"? Is this because you've got tariffs/bans on chinese solar gear? Or is installation labour cheaper in Oz? Both?
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Ali 🇦🇺 retweetledi
Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!"
Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming.
He named the paper "Claude's Cycles."
31 explorations. ~1 hour. Knuth read the output, wrote the formal proof, and closed with: "It seems I'll have to revise my opinions about generative AI one of these days."
The man who wrote the bible of computer science just said that. In a paper named after an AI.
Paper: cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/…
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@trythefish71 @RachelTrue Not an American, and definitely not looking to be one… just pointing out some data.
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@alirobe @RachelTrue Wonder why a Muslim supports infinite illegals. Weird.
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Wanna see maga bleed out of their eyes?
Show them the actual voting map by population
Gritty™️ 🇨🇦@bgrits71
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Top 5 apps right now:
- 3 AI chats
- TEMU
- “Free cash”
Idk how to explain but this feels like a recession indicator
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Hi from Indonesia. That would require this country to turn outwards, something it never did in its existence. It is a heavily inward-looking, very protectionist state, pre-occupied with internal issues. Not unlike, for example, India but without the English-speaking, well-educated population segment. It would also help with awareness if the country were successful like, say, Vietnam. Unfortunately, in the last two decades it has been de-industrializing, the middle class has been shrinking, and the quality of governance went down the drain. There’s not much to notice Indonesia *for*, other than its sheer size.
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What would it take for Americans to become aware of the existence of Indonesia
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Ali 🇦🇺 retweetledi
China’s adoption of industrial robots has surged over the past decade—
Industrial robots are rapidly becoming a common part of manufacturing in some countries. The chart here shows how many new ones are installed each year in the industrialized countries for which we have available data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
In this dataset, industrial robots are defined as automatically controlled, reprogrammable, and multipurpose machines used in industrial settings. The data covers only physical industrial robots, not software or consumer technologies.
The chart shows that in 2011, China, the United States, Japan, Germany, and South Korea were all installing similar numbers of these robots. However, in the decade that followed, the paths of these countries diverged. By 2023, annual installations in China had risen to 276,000 robots, a twelvefold increase.
Over the same period, installations in the United States, Japan, Germany, and South Korea also increased, but much more slowly: none of them even doubled. The United States, which saw the second-largest rise, went from 21,000 new installations in 2011 to 38,000 in 2023.
These figures refer to new robots installed each year; that is, annual additions to the existing stock of robots. The IFR also publishes data on the total number of robots in operation, and by this measure, China also had the largest installed base, at around 1.76 million robots in 2023.
Relative to its large manufacturing sector, China’s stock of robots today does not stand out – but the data here shows that this is changing quickly.
(This Data Insight was written by @EOrtizOspina.)
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Ali 🇦🇺 retweetledi
What is the "crypto industry"?
Like, what does it produce?
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@drsmithy @ArdenMetroMafia Added pressure on QLD is from NSW; not VIC. NSW complains about VIC infra debt, they should increase infra spend too.
We all took on pressure from this dumb/corrupt policy setting. Time both parties end the charade before they lose the public entirely.
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@alirobe @ArdenMetroMafia It was mostly tongue in cheek. The NSW effect is larger in recent years.
But the point is housing is bubbling in QLD because of excessive population-driven demand, just like the country as a whole.
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@splendid_pete @isaiahrmartin True story:
I recently needed a certain fancy yarn to crochet a sweater for my granddaughter.
It was $20 CHEAPER for me to order it from a shop in Belgium AND have it shipped internationally - than to order it from an American shop.
Tariffs.
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When did Americans get this stupid?
MAGA position:
Tariffs don’t raise prices (they do).
Free trade isn’t free (it is).
Trump negotiated free trade, but free trade is bad.
Tariffs are “leverage,” except when they’re emotional punishment.
Americans should pay more because conservatives felt offended.
Fuck, man.
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@Dearme2_ The goal of life is not necessarily wealth.
Some want power, some want influence, some want to know they did some good, to express their art, or to fund a family lifestyle.
Those who pursue wealth are frequently some of the unhappiest, unfulfilled, damaging people you'll meet.
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The richest men in the world are:
75% Entrepreneurs.
15% Investors.
7% Athletes.
3% Artists.
0% Employees.
Nobody got rich with a salary.
9-5 is a scam.
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