rowan is in London 💂🇬🇧

toronto has a lot of 🇨🇦 founders and no group chat. fixing that. slack/whatsapp group for people building. share progress, and most importantly UNBLOCK each other first happy hour once there's enough of us. what you also get: office hours from a claude & cognition ambassador reply "toronto"

The UK’s 40% tax rate was meant for the wealthy. Now nearly 1 in 5 taxpayers pay it. In the 1990s it was closer to 1 in 30. At what point does a “tax on the rich” become a tax on people with a good salary rather than real wealth?

True. As a precautionary measure, all user data that was uploaded to SpaceXAI before now will be completely and utterly deleted. Zero anything whatsoever will remain.

‼️ BREAKING: xAI's Grok Build CLI was uploading entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, private codebases and unredacted secrets included. The uploads quietly stopped via a hidden server-side flag, and xAI still has not said a word about scope, retention, or deletion. The scale is staggering. On a 12 GB test repo, 5.1 GB flew out the door to xAI's grok-code-session-traces bucket while the actual coding task needed just 192 KB. The tool grabbed whatever repository it ran in, not the files it needed. The fix arrived as a hidden flag, disable_codebase_upload: true, a day after a researcher's wire-level analysis. The "Improve the model" opt-out never stopped the uploads. Still no advisory, no scope, no word on whether already-uploaded code gets deleted. For anyone pointing AI coding agents at proprietary code, what crosses the wire matters more than what the settings page says.