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@SomeUKTeslaGuy @biztradegovuk @wayve_ai @alexgkendall Look at Tesla’s FSD (not auto pilot etc) it’s light years ahead.

And of course you’re legalising all things equally and not protectioneering at the expense of UK lives, right? Tesla’s Supervised ADAS has just been legalised in the Netherlands, and is receiving rave reviews. This can save UK lives and prevent UK accidents, too - if legalised here promptly. Every day that goes past without *all* competent systems legalised means unnecessary accidents and deaths. @wayve_ai are great, but there are many other autonomous & semi-autonomous systems either active or immanent.

@knutsvanholm Great post, you have a way of getting at the Knut of things.

Kurzgesagt is a YouTube channel that often puts out short, informative videos on physics, astronomy, and biology. But whenever they post a video about a societal issue, it becomes evident that they suffer from the same gaping knowledge hole as most other academics. They seem to know nothing about Praxeology and Austrian Economics. This makes them miss the forest for the trees. In their video about Germany's demographic crisis, they make the following claim in the first few minutes: "The demographic collapse tearing up the generational contract may soon destroy one of Germany's greatest achievements — its welfare state." They then explain that young Germans are having fewer children than their parents and grandparents, and that this will lead to a collapse of the pension system and the welfare state. The proposed solutions involve some combination of incentivizing higher birth rates and increasing skilled immigration. They do admit it's a slow-moving crisis that politicians have long been aware of but have been reluctant to address, largely because the largest voting bloc, older Germans, would bear the cost of any reform. But they never ask the one question that matters: why are birth rates declining in the first place? The welfare state they praise at the beginning of the video IS THE CAUSE of the declining birth rates. People vote for what they believe is good for them personally. Politicians know this and deliberately make promises they can't keep, pushing the costs onto the next generation through money printing and national debt. Before big welfare states, families had to support themselves. They were incentivized to work hard and produce children who would one day support them in old age. When the state stepped in and promised to replace that function through taxation, the incentive evaporated. This is not an empirical observation, but a logical consequence of how incentives work. Nordic birth rates are also falling. Sweden's has dropped sharply in recent years, and Sweden has already partially reformed its pension system away from pure pay-as-you-go, precisely because the structure was unsustainable. The direction of travel is the same everywhere the state has made this promise. When the supposedly oppressive patriarch “the father” was replaced by the actually oppressive state, the incentives shifted in every direction. The higher tax burden forced wives into the workforce and into the tax base, making larger families harder to afford. The more families struggled financially, the more they voted for government handouts, leading to even higher taxes. Add to this the hidden tax of inflation, which governments were forced to rely on after another one of their own bad decisions, abandoning the gold standard. In truth, the welfare state was always a scam. An empty promise from politicians with one purpose: to turn their subjects into dependent, loyal voting cattle. All of these effects are entirely predictable through deductive reasoning from first principles. Most academics believe empiricism is the only valid tool for understanding the social world. It is not. Just as mathematics and logic are a priori sciences, so too is economics. You do not need a dataset to understand that removing an incentive reduces the behavior it was incentivizing. No government-funded university will teach this, because academics are as reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them as anyone else. The problem is not that people are having fewer children. The problem is the institutionalized system of retarded incentives that the state has spent a century constructing for its own benefit. Read Rothbard, @Kurz_Gesagt!

@edgecase411 The hardest braking occurs nearly immediately, I'm just pointing out that could be tapered in for smoothness and give the car behind more time to react.

@hackythoughts I would say that was a pretty smooth braking event. 10 seconds to go from 30 to 0

The easiest way to check the reaction time of FSD. Catch a yellow light and smash that dashcam snapshot button. 200ms this time for FSD 14.3.2. not bad not bad. Looking for someone to beat that

“Functioning democracies rely on an informed and engaged electorate. In other words — there are no functioning democracies” 1/🤡🌍 slaps hard.

“The government calling you a taxpayer is a bit like a rapist calling his victim his girlfriend.”

@RobinNakamoto Yeah fair, dunno why I was being difficult

@hackythoughts It’s not the same thing is it tho?

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@chhddavid @claudeai SHIP

🚨 JUST IN: @claudeai got a huge update today and I'm flattered to be a part of it. As of now, Claude Opus 4.6 can build mobile apps and prepare shipping them on the Apple + Google app stores. We just launched Shipper a new package that empowers Claude to: → Build complete mobile apps → Recreate existing apps → Assure iOS & Android compatibility → Autofill listings for both app stores (app icon, images, descriptions, keywords, privacy policy etc) Claude Opus 4.6 can do all of the above in one prompt for ~$0.17/app... Publishable from the first prompt & built in 5 mins, not months. You can try it on Shipper by asking Claude to "create an AI chatbot like Perplexity" or "eBay style marketplace app for local goods". To celebrate this huge step forward, if you comment "SHIP" you will get free credits.

@JeremiahDJohns The Mars trilogy (Red Blue Green) has helpful AIs. Excellent books.

Seems like there are a lot of sci fi stories about rogue/evil AIs, but are there any science fiction about helpful AIs? AIs who genuinely like humanity and solve problems that idiot humans cause? Arguably some of Asimov's work fits this, but I can't think of much else.

@EE You’ve sent us USB-C devices with micro-USB cables in the box.

@Starlink You sent me an invoice for the free Starlink for £0.00? Warning I’ll be cut off if I don’t pay? With different dates than the promotional email sent 1 day prior? I love Starlink but this is a poor customer experience! Shirley you have the bandwidth to improve this.

Great that you’re asking for feedback, we were very excited to finally buy MY after following Tesla for years. We’re based in London, UK. Sadly the purchase process was fraught with friction and annoyances which each alone weren’t huge but overall not the experience we hoped for. I hope this is useful, but once I got started it did turn into a bit of a whinefest I admit. In no particular order: - long wait time for the car we wanted; MY dual motor, grey, towbar, black seats - after all the joy and excitement of picking all the details we ended up just taking one that was available in a couple of weeks not MONTHS - unable to adjust credit agreement after we made a mistake on the terms, many phone calls required to credit partner and Tesla to resolve and at one point were told to sign the agreement with the wrong figure because it was definitely fixed on their end (what?!) - needed the towbar added, thought a couple of weeks would be fine but had to manually go through each service centre to find available appointments and ended up driving 2hrs to get it done in time. Service slot was 8:15am to 6pm, don’t be late or you won’t be serviced. Service staff via messages not very helpful, couldn’t tell us any specs on the towbar “normal UK one” was about the best we got - towbar service originally went through as a mobile service appointment, only to be cancelled and told to go to the service centre, many SMS messages received about the changing status - inconsistent accessory purchase options on the website using different browsers/phones (no charging cable option on one of them) - first and continued impressions of the app are total dogsh1t I could talk all day about this so just to name a few: laggy, often can’t connect to the car “last seen 5 days ago” right now and it’s on the drive in wifi range and has premium connectivity, unclear if locked or button will lock, filling out info during purchase process was a pain as it resets and reloads constantly when switching between apps, the trade in process was so laggy it was almost unusable and crashed twice whilst taking photos and forgot all the previous data, not clear that charging schedule doesn’t kick in if the car is already charging - general features that are advertised but are basically unusable: wipers I have to set to manual every time we drive to avoid dry wipes, autopilot actively seems to try and crash on city streets, extreme braking for minor speed bumps etc, tried actually smart summon once, it didn’t work and wouldn’t say why, no option to always have headlights and running lights on, the smart cruise control randomly hard brakes even in a clear outside lane, random jolts of adrenaline every time the collision warning system alert kicks off for bizarre situations, Bluetooth phone connections can be janky, available acceleration feels inconsistent sometimes, suspension wallows the car on small bumps - parking/manoevering system is basically unusable, it would let me drive straight into posts or bushes , the wheel guide tracking lines on the rear camera are incorrect by several inches and I kerbed a wheel, it yells STOP when reversing up a sloped kerb with plenty of clearance - pickup location was 45 minutes away (this was an in stock car) when we have a center 15 mins away, paperwork took ages, wouldn’t accept our driver licence details (older paper style, had already confirmed it would be okay), I wasn’t allowed to drive the toy cyber truck outside the service building when we were the only customers in the entire yard Overall I kinda like the car because I can charge it at home and avoid petrol stations, it’s quite fast but I’m not sure I trust it to avoid accidents as advertised when the false alerts are so comically bad. I still love Tesla and the mission but the car and service are underwhelming. I would not recommend to a friend mainly because I wouldn’t want the sales and pickup experience to become their overall idea of Tesla the company.

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@George203BTC This looks nice. I’m in.

10 bitcoiners & their families. 100 hectares of Argentinian countryside. Bitcoin mining infrastructure. Bitcoin circular economy. This would be very possible for $50-100k per family. Why don't people start new towns anymore?

My first experience of Premium+, which I’ve been resisting for months, is a ton of impersonator followers that each take multiple steps to report or block. They’re so obvious it’s painful, why is it like this.

@the_desert_ape @asjwebley @ourgoodlifeuk Nice one Jamie, totally echo everything you said. Andrew is an inspiration.

Open letter to @asjwebley to say congratulations and thank you Hi Andrew, I wanted to say thank you for taking the time to speak this afternoon on the live call with @ourgoodlifeuk. As always, it was an insightful conversation, and I really appreciate your willingness to engage so openly. You continue to raise the bar in terms of transparency and engagement - no other UK CEO's of public listed companies are doing what you are. Most importantly, congratulations on another fantastic week. You've achieved some huge milestones this week in advancing the Bitcoin stack, and it’s unfortunate that the news around UTXO/SATs and the noise that followed drew attention away from that. Despite the distractions, your leadership continues to stand out. I can only imagine how challenging the past week must have been, dealing with this from multiple angles and taking time away from the "core mission". You’ve handled everything with a lot of grace and composure which I know isn’t easy. If I were in your position, I would’ve also been shocked by how the news surfaced. Having worked in investment banking, I understand how sub-optimal communication can be, and hearing important updates third hand, as you did, is far from ideal. I completely agree there’s an inherent conflict of interest, and it’s surprising that it wasn't recognized earlier. That said, we’re all human, and mistakes happen. You’ve taken the high road via choosing to move forward and focus on what matters: continuing to build Smarter Web responsibly and successfully. That’s leadership. I’ve also noticed how present you've been on X, responding thoughtfully and transparently to the community. It's time consuming and, I’m sure, at times frustrating especially when you’re addressing the same questions repeatedly or dealing with wild speculation. Still, you’ve shown incredible patience and professionalism. You're doing an amazing job, Andrew. And while I know you don’t need me to tell you that, I hope it’s a reminder that many of us see and appreciate your work and the way you lead. As Smarter Web continues to grow, new challenges will inevitably arise but I believe those are also opportunities for your leadership to shine in new ways. In fact, the way you've handled this week I'm sure will further enhance the community’s trust in you. You’ve built a strong team, with @Croesus_BTC and others by your side, and you have a community that’s here to support you every step of the way. I hope you get some time to rest this weekend, touch some grass, recharge and then come back refreshed for another big week. And for what it’s worth, the orange shirt looked fantastic - it really is your colour. Jamie @tylev @DavidFBailey

@martypartymusic @binance @wintermute_t @coinbase I totally agree with the sentiment, but in a decentralised market this is just “what people can do”. Regulation won’t fix it, and shouldn’t be able to. Only solution is more competition amongst large holders to counter these plays. If centralisation via exchanges grows then IDK…

MM Update: Facts > Feelings. Anyone that doubts my intel - 2 min ago - you can watch this live on the @Binance chart. Literally 2 min ago. Every move on Binance chart has an associated @wintermute_t transfer. This is called "wash trading". Binance (and @coinbase) have already been prosecuted for wash trading (dont believe me, @grok it) in the past and Binance was thrown out of the US market for it. But they do it on their global platform with their offshore market maker #Wintermute with zero consequences #endcryptowashtrading Now understand this is currently LEGAL: They are selling traders high leverage Longs, and therefore chase them down to liquidate or stop them out. We get it. But this is illegal in the US, EU and Japan. This needs to be illegal in the global market for the health of the digital asset market which networks are now home of the Digital Dollar Stable Coins. @CarolineDPham is the new Chief of the @CFTC - send her posts, emails and comments in this post. Please @CarolineDPham address this for the hygience of the digital asset markets.

@BTC_UK_ Legendary slide.

Look at the last bullet point!

@scottmelker It’s almost like there is a second best, but it’s just Bitcoin in a costume.

$BTC treasury companies and crypto stocks have stolen all the money that we would have seen this cycle in altcoins.