Jonathan Eppers

This is a ballsy power play by Trump. Lloyd's of London was the gold standard for maritime insurance policies until just a day or two ago when they started cancelling policies or jacking them up 3-5X. Others insurers followed. That collapsed commercial shipping traffic through Hormuz, which choked oil shipments out of the Middle East. Trump doing this means the DFC has the chance to displace Lloyd's as the big dog in this game, when they have been the lock-in player for many years. It also frees up all the oil that was getting trapped there, heading off shortages and keeping the energy market alive. And why not? It's the American navy that sunk the Iranian ships that were harassing tankers. And the American Navy -- at least for now -- will keep those tankers safe. It's a huge reassurance to allies -- both oil producers and oil consumers -- that our campaign in Iran isn't going to sink their economies. And it allows America to be choosy about traffic in the Strait. It also potentially means billions of dollars in insurance premiums at wartime rates going to America instead of the UK. And those rates are STILL going to be cheaper than what shippers were getting.

I’m tired of living in a society where we constantly cater to the lowest common denominator to the near total exclusion of normal people.

You didn’t give a shit about the President of the United States of America posting an ape video of President Obama or calling African nations shitholes — but you’re going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia? Spare me your fake fucking outrage, Sean.

If you stop moving for long enough, you will be forced to confront the essential emptiness of life.

NEW: Skiers engulfed by "snow clouds" as a large avalanche descends towards them at Courmayeur ski resort in north-west Italy. According to Fox News, two skiers lost their lives on the Italian side of Mont Blanc due to an avalanche on Sunday. "Search and rescue operations involved 15 rescuers, three canine units and two helicopters. One victim was transported to a hospital in serious condition but later died," the outlet reported. Video: jean_chiementin / ig.

Go to Luton. Go to Rochdale. Go to Bradford. Go to Tower Hamlets. Jim Ratcliffe is right - it has been colonised by immigrants. That’s just a fact. No point pussyfooting around it. Streets and streets of entire families unable to speak in English, not working, not contributing - living under parallel legal systems. It’s not even multiculturalism in some of these areas. There is one culture - Islam. They do not want to live by the same rules as the rest of us. They choose not to be policed as the rest of us. So they’re not. What has that led to? We all know. Britain increasingly resembles the third world. And with demographic changes, birthrates and immigration transforming our country as they are? That is a process which will only accelerate unless drastic action is taken. I speak to MPs, plenty agree with me in private. They are, however, unwilling to say so publicly. That needs to change, urgently. The backlash for stating these obvious facts is aggressive, so MPs don’t do it. The intimidation works, it’s effective. But I don’t need the job, I don’t need the money. I’m just going to carry on telling the truth. Let's continue to kick the shit out of the Overton window - that is step one. Ratcliffe is right. And I respect him for having the balls to say it.

Zuck out Page out Brin out Thiel out Elon out The most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California. You shouldn’t move there for tech. And if you are there, you should leave. The future is the decentralized Internet.

What you ski with that flag on your arm and run your mouth on the world stage?? Some of us wore that flag on our arm and buried our friends under it. STFU AND GO PLAY IN THE SNOW

It's wild that basic governance in America's second largest city has almost completely broken down in recent years, yet there's no discussion at all about broader governance reforms or even a single serious challenger to the incumbent mayor.

The math behind this is actually really fascinating, and it explains why the Left has to rely so much on institutional capture and mass migration to remain alive. The children of Liberals adopt their worldview 89% of the time, while Conservatives see their kids adopt theirs 81% of the time. But this advantage on the Left is dwarfed by the fact that they’re essentially an anti-catalyst movement. We know that women have kids at a higher rate than men across the board, but Conservative men have kids at a higher rate than even Liberal women. This means that ~59% of Conservatives become parents, while just ~31% of Liberals do. That’s almost a 2X fertility advantage. And when you multiply those numbers by the ideological detainment rate on both sides, you see that: 59% x .81 = 47.8 31% x .89 = 27.6 So that rounds to a minimum of 48 Conservative-aligned children per 100 Conservative adults, compared to a minimum of just 28 Liberal-aligned children per 100 Liberal adults. Conservatives are reproducing their worldview at ~70% higher rate per adult than liberals. And this is a minimum estimate because all our math here assumes that both the Conservable and Liberal families had only one kid, but we know Conservatives on average have much larger families. The Left can’t compete with this organically, so they have to essentially steal the children of Conservatives through the education and media system (which they’ve all ideologically hijacked) and import new voters who will make up for their own collapsing birthrates. If you ended all immigration and dismantled their dominance over education, the Left would be extinct in 20 years.

I truly believe that every single person has to go through something that absolutely destroys them. So they can figure out who they really are.

so just to recap this week (so far) - musk industries is real (spacex, tesla, xai merger) - clawdbot explosion leading to a bankrun on mac minis but then anthropic released their own version - tesla dropped the bomb they’re halting production on model s and x to scale 1M optimus humanoid robots this year instead - china dropped the mother of all open source models kimi k2.5 that turn video into production-ready apps but then google dropped a gemini update ON THE SAME DAY that does the same thing gg - google said fuck it and also launched the worlds greatest world model genie and switched on gemini for 3.8B chrome browser users AND released alpha genome model that one-shots 1M dna base pairs for 3000 researchers across 160 countries AND teased new veo model - microsoft crushed earnings, launched a new ai chip but stock still tanked 10% because they *only* grew rev 39% - anthropic round 2X oversubbed raised to 20B 🏌️ - openai raising another $100B, 750B val 🏌️ - intel leaked they’re gonna help produce nvidias next gen feynman gpus - hello americas tsmc - a robot (built by figure) washed the dishes with zero human interaction - apple acquired stealth startup for $2B that can lip read - integrating their tech for new ai consumer airpods with cameras and mics - demis confirms google glass 2.0 coming this summer fckin hell