Baron Fitzwalter

Billionaires aren’t the problem. The Government is.

@Expansao_Astro About 98%. We could destroy civilisation irreparably with a massive nuclear war causing nuclear winter. If we don’t, it happens.

Quais são as chances de nos tornarmos uma verdadeira civilização espacial?

The most accurate futurist in world history is Ray Kurzweil. Amazing prescience.

Martin Shkreli says believing Big Pharma hides cures is a “below 60 IQ take” “If you actually know anything about making medicine, you don’t half-make a medicine. You either make it or you don’t. The idea that companies would hold back a real cure makes no sense, because the first one to solve it wins everything”

@DeanTTraining If your numbers are accurate, then you would be crazy to choose to rest 5 minutes. The diminishing return is huge. Just rest 2 minutes and do more sets. You will spend less time in the gym and make more gains.

Rest 1 minute between sets = subsequent set is 30% as effective as it could be Rest 1.5 minutes between sets = subsequent set is 60% as effective as it could be Rest 2 minutes between sets = subsequent set is 80% as effective as it could be Rest 3 minutes between sets = subsequent set is 90% as effective as it could be Rest 4 minutes between sets = subsequent set is 95% as effective as it could be Rest 5+ minutes between sets = subsequent set is ~100% as effective as it could be Hope this helps!

@BladeoftheS Every country you name has a capitalist economy

Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark.

@JamesBennettUK @HazelAppleyard You would probably need a 3rd week. There is a 3rd dimension due to elevation

Yes. Week 1 - you are given a distance (x), and can draw a circle of radius x around your location at the time, and you know the box lies on that circle. Then move to a different location. Week 2 - you will be given a new distance (y), and can draw a second circle of radius y around your location at the time, and we know the box lies on that circle. Circle 1 and circle 2 will have maximum two points of land intersection, giving 2 possible locations. Check both locations and enjoy your riches!

Absolutely not????

@HazelAppleyard Yes. Triangulation should give you the exact location in 3 weeks

@JohnapIdris1 @MissLauraMarcus That’s a very silly response. He’s undone plenty of things done by the previous conservative government. That doesn’t explain why he wants to do this.

@MissLauraMarcus Because the last Tories government has already set the process for giving away the Chagos Islands long before Labour came to power. FFS LOOK UP THE FACTS

What I don’t understand is why giving away The Chagos Islands was so very important to Keir Starmer. Maybe I’m naive or something. But I don’t get it. It eludes me.

@ZackPolanski Please read some Hayek works on spontaneous order

The economy was designed, and it can be redesigned. Green councils will not hold back in demanding a change in direction from this Government.

Royal Holloway student Brodie Mitchell could face a hate crime charge over a “tea towel” joke. After being called a “wannabe Jew” by the university’s president of the Friends of Palestine Society, Huda El-Jamal, he compared her keffiyeh headscarf to a “tea towel”. The next day, he was handed a nine-week suspension while the university launched an investigation ‘for alleged conduct that could be considered hate speech’. He was barred from campus and given less than 48 hours to vacate his student accommodation. At the same time, Huda El-Jamal was allowed to continue with her studies as normal and faced no disciplinary action. This incident, which occurred at last year’s Freshers’ Fair, was then reported to the police as a hate crime. Officers from Surrey Police have submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which will determine whether any criminal charges will be brought. Thanks to support from the Free Speech Union, Brodie is back on campus but has been subjected to restrictions. He has been warned that if he violates the university code of conduct — even with a minor offence — he risks expulsion. Brodie is now taking Royal Holloway to the High Court. He is expected to tell a three-day trial that the university’s actions resulted in him missing seven weeks of teaching, meaning it is possible he will complete his degree after his peers. As Royal Holloway looks to defend its actions, it is planning to spend nearly a quarter of a million pounds. At a recent costs hearing, it initially indicated costs could reach £734,000. This move clearly shows that the university is trying to scare and deter one of its own students out of litigation. All of this comes at the same time that the Government has published its official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — which is already being used to silence legitimate criticism of Islam. This will sadly not be the last case of its kind, we fear, as universities are set to enforce the definition zealously. We are proud to be backing @BrodieMitchell1. Read more below 👇

@chomakovg Definitely the Oreo’s. It’s about 18,000 calories. Very doable, albeit unpleasant, if I run 50k, walk 50k, gym for a couple hours, and have some naps. Probably get to 13,000 calories used exercising and metabolism. So it’s a 5,000 calorie surplus. Grim, and I’ll feel like shit.

Would you take 100k right now or would you take 5 million but you have to eat 10 Oreo packs (36 oreos in a pack) within 24 hours to get that 5 million? You fail, you walk away with nothing.

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Finally some sense.

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has dropped the Bill to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after Donald Trump withdrew his support [@thetimes]

@SpeechUnion Everyone involved in these decisions - both in Surrey police and royal Holloway - should be fired

A Royal Holloway student could be charged with a hate crime over an incident at Fresher’s Fair, where he told a pro-Palestine student that her keffiyeh looked like a “tea towel”. Brodie Mitchell is facing possible hate crime charges after making the joke in response to being called a “wannabe Jew” by Huda El-Jamal, president of the Friends of Palestine Society, who also questioned why he wasn’t wearing a Jewish yarmulke or kippah. Mr Mitchell was suspended from the university the next day as it launched a nine-week investigation into “alleged conduct that could be considered hate speech”. While Brodie was suspended, barred from campus and forced out of his accommodation, Ms El-Jamal was allowed to carry on with her studies on campus and did not face any disciplinary action. General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton — which is supporting Brodie — has called the case “a deeply shocking story”. “An argument between two students has been blown out of all proportion by Royal Holloway. Brodie should never have been banned from campus and placed under investigation, let alone reported to the police.” “What makes Royal Holloway’s actions particularly reprehensible is that Brodie was put through the wringer, while the student who insulted him got off scot-free.” Reform UK’s @RobertJenrick has told The Telegraph: “There is no law against blasphemy in our country, and the dress codes of terror groups like Hamas are not immune from mockery. “The public is rightly angry that the police never seem to have the time to help with crimes like burglaries or thefts, but waste time on nonsense like this. The CPS must immediately drop this case, and the chief constable needs to explain why he thought a months-long probe was a good use of his officers’ time.” Thanks to the support of the Free Speech Union, Brodie is back on campus but under restrictions. If he violates the university’s code of conduct — even a minor offence — he risks expulsion. Brodie will argue in the High Court in June that the action taken by Royal Holloway has meant he missed seven weeks of teaching, which could see him finish his degree later than expected. Royal Holloway is now preparing to spend nearly a quarter of a million pounds defending its actions. An excessive amount of money — though less than the initially estimated costs of £734,000 — which is clearly designed to scare a young student of theirs out of litigation. All of this comes as the Government has recently published its official definition of “anti-Muslim hostility”, which is already being used to silence legitimate criticism of Islam. We fear that this is just the first of many cases we will see as universities across the country are encouraged by the Government to embed the definition and guidance into their speech codes. Surrey Police have confirmed that they have sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision — meaning Brodie could face prosecution for saying El-Jamal’s headscarf looked like a “tea towel”. This is the reality of free speech on English university campuses. Read more in The Telegraph and watch Brodie on our most recent podcast episode👇

We’re experiencing a shoplifting epidemic and yet the police are wasting time investigating people for mocking the sorts of scarves worn by terrorists. The CPS should drop this ridiculous case immediately.

@Triode_in_situ @pmarca Depends where they sit. If it’s server side and the AI isn’t scanning the code of the server, then no.

@pmarca But can AI detect backdoors added intentionally to code by state actors?

Every single security hole discovered by AI was already there.

@pmarca Yeah, the realistic non-doomer-coded interpretation is these security holes being discovered is a good thing as they can now be patched. Going forward with this tech available every software system can be scanned before release to fix the vulnerabilities in development

More than 350 million vertebrate animals are killed by human driven vehicles every year. In general, autonomous vehicles are much better than humans at dodging animals. A compilation I made of @Tesla’s FSD stopping for animals, and often saving their lives:

I love this. These researchers took participants from two trials, where the people in either trial would have been eligible to be in the other, making it possible to compare tirzepatide to placebo shots for heart attacks. Tirzepatide lowered all-cause mortality *39%*. HUGE!