Rhidian Davis
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Rhidian Davis
@rhidiandavis
@rhidiandavis.bsky.social 🌈
Folkestone, England Katılım Haziran 2009
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@TheEmperorSon @SuellaBraverman What next? ‘We didn’t have disease before vaccines came along!’ Ignorant Son of the Emperor of Idiocy.
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Global warming?!?
Just over a week to go until Easter and we need to get our big coats back out!
I wouldn’t mind a bit more global warming to be honest, right now.
Met Office@metoffice
Time to get the 'big coat' back out 🧥 Temperatures are dropping widely below average but in brisk northerly winds, it will be feeling closer to freezing for many of us 🥶
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Just caught up with @Channel4 #DirtyBusiness and honestly Margaret Thatcher’s body should be exhumed and put in the dock to face trial along with the execs from water companies and so-called regulators who have profited from poisoning our beaches & waterways.
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@FIREDUpWealth Odd seeing $ONDS bracketed here with some of these just because it’s not at its apex ATH. The stock is trading 982% higher than 12 months ago right now.
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Brutal pullbacks across a lot of the Fintwit favorites from their 52-week highs:
• $BMNR -87%
• $DUOL -82%
• $RGTI -73%
• $OKLO -71%
• $HIMS -68%
• $IONQ -61%
• $CRWV -56%
• $ORCL -55%
• $OSCR -49%
• $IREN -45%
• $CIFR -42%
• $UUUU -36%
• $ASTS -32%
• $ONDS -29%
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@BenGrahamUK It is not in their interests to use the word Easter, because their commercial ‘season’ begins immediately after Christmas with chocolate eggs in shops for January, and using the word Easter would only serve to highlight how cravenly premature their start of their season is.
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Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years.
Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated.
Yet now, Cadbury won’t even use the word ‘Easter’ on their eggs.
When did celebrating British traditions become controversial?
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@RupertLowe10 In the UK, belonging is legal and civic: citizenship confers equal membership. A passport isn’t “just paper” but the basis of rights and duties. Turning nationality into an ethnic test creates tiers of citizenship and contradicts the common-law tradition of equal subjecthood.
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If I moved to Japan, and lived in Japan for decades, speaking the language, integrating into society, contributing to the economy. Would I be ethnically Japanese? No. No I would not. I would never pretend to be. Nor would that apply to India, Thailand, Mexico, Denmark or anywhere else.
So why is England different? Of course there is an English ethnicity. I am entirely bemused by how so many argue against that. It’s just a fact. Politicians who say otherwise are cowards. This is painfully obvious.
Restore Britain’s position is clear.
English ethnicity exists - it’s the only sodding data point that the Government collects on anything.
Of course someone who is not of that ethnicity can be British, obviously. But it equally does not mean that the English ethnicity is imaginary. Those two things can be true at the same time.
I got in trouble years ago for suggesting that the footballer Paul Pogba was French, but not ethnically French. It’s insanity. That is just a factual position. Common sense, clearly.
Separately, Restore Britain has said from the very start - owning a British passport does not make you British.
We have seen how lazily those documents have been frittered away. Holding that piece of paper does not automatically make you British, we are very clear on that.
Is the Egyptian lunatic Alaa Abd El-Fattah British? He has a passport. Restore Britain says NO. No, he is not and he should be stripped of that paper and deported.
Being British encompasses so much more than that, it means so much more than that. It is not simply a piece of paper. It is culture, shared beliefs, patriotism, language, a common understanding of what is right and wrong. That has nothing to do with ethnicity, obviously.
But for even daring to suggest that English ethnicity exists I’ll be roundly attacked.
It is just a fact.
Every other country in the world manages to acknowledge ethnicities exist without descending into hysteria.
England should be able to do the same.
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@elonmusk @RupertLowe10 English identity began as an early medieval ethnos but, by the late Middle Ages, was defined by language, law and allegiance, not ancestry. Modern historians treat it as a civic-cultural identity. “Bloodline Englishness” is a 19th-century racial theory, not a historical fact.
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If ethnicity exists at all, which it obviously does, then English is an ethnicity.
This is a simple statement of fact. It is possible to be culturally English or French or Japanese, etc, but ethnically be different. The first is “software”, the other is “hardware”.
This should not be license to be cruel or unfair to people of a different ethnicity. I believe we should be fair to all ethnicities, but not pretend that one or another does not exist.
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
If I moved to Japan, and lived in Japan for decades, speaking the language, integrating into society, contributing to the economy. Would I be ethnically Japanese? No. No I would not. I would never pretend to be. Nor would that apply to India, Thailand, Mexico, Denmark or anywhere else. So why is England different? Of course there is an English ethnicity. I am entirely bemused by how so many argue against that. It’s just a fact. Politicians who say otherwise are cowards. This is painfully obvious. Restore Britain’s position is clear. English ethnicity exists - it’s the only sodding data point that the Government collects on anything. Of course someone who is not of that ethnicity can be British, obviously. But it equally does not mean that the English ethnicity is imaginary. Those two things can be true at the same time. I got in trouble years ago for suggesting that the footballer Paul Pogba was French, but not ethnically French. It’s insanity. That is just a factual position. Common sense, clearly. Separately, Restore Britain has said from the very start - owning a British passport does not make you British. We have seen how lazily those documents have been frittered away. Holding that piece of paper does not automatically make you British, we are very clear on that. Is the Egyptian lunatic Alaa Abd El-Fattah British? He has a passport. Restore Britain says NO. No, he is not and he should be stripped of that paper and deported. Being British encompasses so much more than that, it means so much more than that. It is not simply a piece of paper. It is culture, shared beliefs, patriotism, language, a common understanding of what is right and wrong. That has nothing to do with ethnicity, obviously. But for even daring to suggest that English ethnicity exists I’ll be roundly attacked. It is just a fact. Every other country in the world manages to acknowledge ethnicities exist without descending into hysteria. England should be able to do the same.
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👀 Institutions are buying these stocks!
10 stocks with institutional ownership at all time highs:
1) $IREN - Iren Limited
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@PostTruthEra @dilleyik @well_lit_movies @joshuarolson @grok It’s called the United Kingdom of Great Britain Britain AND Northern Ireland because NI is not Britain and is not British .. While this can feel like splitting hairs it’s an important distinction given NI has its own legislative assembly and is moving towards reunification ..
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@FromValue Because in the future there will be no Saas so no need data for Saas data protection and because AI represents no threat to cybersecurity whatsoever.
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@StockMarketNerd How much anxiety are we going to have to stomach though? If this happens every time an agentic AI feature gets launched it’ll be unbearable.
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Panic selling great firms at a fair price when 💩 hits the fan is routinely an awful decision over the long haul.
Staying the course w/those firms when doing so feels most anxiety-provoking is routinely a good decision.
Fundamentally healthy? Now cheaper? That’s a good thing.
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@oguzerkan @Stockfins What’s to stop the ‘infinite fragmentation’ of the market for pretty much every software or platform out there? Just brand, product, community adoption, expertise ..
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@Stockfins What makes those defensible?
This is the case a market it was dominating almost to winner-takes-all extend can now become infinitely fragmented.
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$DUOL itself is proof that disruption is a real threat.
They said that they more than doubled the number of courses last year thanks to AI.
If they did it, other relatively competent developers can do it as well.
The app itself is already replicable, and they've admitted that AI is highly useful in creating curricula.
What protects it now?
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Mark Carney making an impressive bid for the vacant post of Leader of the Free World
𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰@politicsusa46
For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like. Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRBDT4mB/
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Trump intimates a threat of war with Europe and appoints Putin to his ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza. US citizens and their elected representatives have to find a way to end this madness.
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@aleabitoreddit Yeah, but .. nah - openai.com/index/the-trut…
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Breaking: Elon Musk has sued OpenAI for $134 Billion.
Prediction markets have priced the odds of Elon winning at 59% as of today.
This may be alarming.
If OpenAI loses this:
Markets may trigger a contagion across the AI ecosystem tied to OpenAI.
$AMD or $CRWV and companies like $ORCL (Stargate) to $MSFT are massive losers as they're heavily levered to OpenAI.
Then there's third order effects on companies as $APLD and $CORZ involved to Coreweave.
Same goes with $AMD partners, such as $RIOT.
For example:
1. Microsoft / Oracle -> Write down billions in investment, buildout + GPU utilization lag would cost billions
2. CoreWeave -> Massive risk to backlog revenue, utilization lag + already at risk due to massive debt interest
3. APLD / CORZ -> Depend on Coreweave for revenue, if the tenant goes down, so does their near term revenue.
If OpenAI are forced to pay massive damages, return to a strict non-profit status, or declare bankruptcy due to liquidity crises (and cannot fulfill its contractual obligations):
This might trigger a contagion event across many AI sector names tied to OpenAI.
Of course this is the worst case scenario.
My expectation is middle ground:
-> Musk wins the trial (or forces a settlement just before the verdict).
-> OpenAI is forced to pay a massive fine (e.g., $10B–$20B) and possibly open-source its older models
-> $MSFT likely steps in to pay the fine or restructure the debt since there's too much at stake.
Or in the 41% chance Musk loses: nothing happens, and companies tied to OpenAI will be fine.
However it looks markets already priced in a lot of that uncertainty with OpenAI contagion risk with Oracle ($330 -> $195) and Coreweave ($150 -> $101).
This lawsuit is definitely one of the biggest events markets are watching.
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It turns out the biggest set of testicles in DC is on the 74 year old math geek.
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