Steve Moore

@connor_mc_d I wish there was a www common watermark enforced on the whole internet for any A.I. generated by text, picture or video. It might stop the racism and hated

The most common phrase I see in my social media feed on just about any platform nowadays is: "This video is generated by AI" 😡

@MerrynSW Is there a relationship between parents having children later in life and higher autism births? Perhaps these schools are symptom of developed world and we might need to pay younger generation more wages so they can " do it for king and country "

Up 60% in real terms in six years. Ridiculous. And unsustainable. Obviously.

@jhansonradio Brilliant salary with an amazing dB gold plated pension that take lessthan 20year to get a £35k a year... While a DC pension with 4% rule would need to be £875000. That a lot more than 8% from your company.

Here’s Rory Stewart describing MPs as being on “low incomes”. Their basic annual salary is £93,904, putting them in the top 5% of earners. There’s a nuanced debate to be had about MPs’ pay, but describing them as “low income” is an insult to those who really are.

@hellotimbennett It's been a few days it back down to 4950. Tim , Will they be any safe harbour in 2026?

As gold passes $5,500oz, largely thanks to Trump, the deep irony is that an asset which has traditionally been a safe haven against boom and bust, might be the trigger for it. Newly converted gold bugs should be careful. #financialeducation #gold #investing #trump

@diogenes2dope @WildGCTweets @NoContextBrits I am bored of your chat...

@diogenes2dope @WildGCTweets @NoContextBrits Wikipedia? "The Epoch Media Group's news sites and YouTube channels have promoted conspiracy theories such as QAnon, the Great Replacement, anti-vaccine misinformation and false claims of fraud in the 2020 USA presidential election. Bill Guan,was indicted for money laundering

British optimism. Best in the world.

@diogenes2dope @NoContextBrits dig it up once and recycle?

@steve69moore @NoContextBrits You certainly will. Also never paying back the carbon released to make these panels for you, making it pointless from an environmental & economical perspective.

@MerrynSW @melody_player Are you suggesting that rich parents can game the education system. By doing weekly mock exams thus learning by rote is a desirable feature for future employment

@melody_player That is what these exams are designed for. If you want a different type of exam, fine. But you can't have kids with diff times in exams designed to see what you can do in a set time frame.

One day...exam results will come with a code that tells employers if there was extra time involved or not. Or the exams will become entirely useless. Watered down with kindness until they mean nothing.. which isn't kind.

@grimblgrumbl @MerrynSW I thought that's what companies do.. I suspect a graduate from a redbrick university is a better choice because you can mine their friend group for future job roles .

@MerrynSW Should they also state whether the individual went to private school and how much the fees were?

@MerrynSW Google AI says a shipping billionaire with GPB wealth of £13,254,222,000 at 4% interest will earn the lost on his home of £34million in 24days. While Londoner just bought a home for a bargain.

Sold for a mere £34.4m.

@DanNeidle The £50k seams to be a feature of Salary sacrifice. If I was a real high earner (like a Dr) then cutting hours also makes sense

NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:

@vldbb I would love to upgrade from AWS-RDS While looking at your blog feed, I found blogs.oracle.com/optimizer/post… My second question is this monitor feature you mention in “example E” *FREE* on the newest Exadata cloud Oracle 26

@vldbb Your Las Vegas Oracleworld slides were most interesting. We are on 19.28.0.0 AWS-RDS version but Today I tried the back ported dbms_sqldiag.report_sql and it raised ORA-20900: RDS restricted DDL found: CREATE TABLE SYS.SQLR_FACT_TAB i guess i am forced to wait for XMAS release

At DOAG I was asked an interesting question about real-time SPM and runaway/terminated SQL. I didn't know the answer for sure, but I do now. Scroll to the bottom of blogs.oracle.com/optimizer/post… for a new ADB demo.

@ThompsonRollo @DanNeidle I prefer Damian interviewing Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz open.spotify.com/episode/1IKtVh…

@DanNeidle podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mer… - words of wisdom - 44mins of utter common sense that is like tumble weed to UK chancellors for the last 30yrs

The FT reported a "Budget tax raid on the owners of expensive homes", expected to raise around £4bn. But 80% of that comes from the homes in the *second* highest council tax band. As with many tax increases, most of the burden falls on the not-so-rich. Here's why:

@DanNeidle 3/3 This is simply wrong, that millionaires are getting a free ride with taxes and the added advantages of London on their doorsteps means there assets grow exponentially faster than the rest of the country. Local tax is poorly implemented in rich areas

@DanNeidle 2/3 what really annoys me is people in Portland Dorset, that same island with Bibby Stockholm, Band H pay £5500 tax. yes in the UK a poorer area pays £20% morethan st Alban's. When 34 years ago they were the same tax band. I doubt Portland homes have increased 3 times.

@izakaminska In July Tether dipped their toes into a gold royalty company called Elemental Altus. Isabella is this tether going long ?

I was at Tether’s Lugano conference last week. I returned with a new appreciation for the scale of their footprint. It’s really not just about stablecoins. Arguably, if you still think of them as a stablecoin company you’re missing the story. And if you’re not aware of the bigger story, you’ll arguably miss the bigger stablecoin agenda. Tether is focusing on allocating the group’s mega windfalls into what might be described as “effective investment” strategies. Especially in emerging markets, deep tech and resilience initiatives. Even energy and commodities finance. Not to mention its commitment to funding decentralized AI and media. All this is easier said than done, for sure, but it’s a fascinating twist on the classic billionaire foundation mentality. What they’re doing is not charity. It’s high risk lending of the variety most banks won’t do in some quarters, hedged by investments in extreme safe assets elsewhere (notably gold, bitcoin and land). Was also fascinated to discover that one of CEO Paolo Ardoino’s favourite books is Asimov’s Foundation series. No coincidence then that their entire Lugano op is called the “Plan B” Foundation. Fans of the books will get what I mean. (Especially if you think of Elon Musk and the Mars mission as Plan A). An often repeated phrase throughout was: “‘Number go up’ is the Trojan Horse. ‘Freedom go up’ is the mission”. Tether, it was also frequently said, aims to be a “stable company” rather than just a stablecoin. You could think of it as a type of private sector-led stabilization program for the world. Deeply ironic, given how much central banks fret about the instability potentially stemming from stablecoins. Sticking to the Asimov theme, I was also struck by how many times Ardoino described Tether as a hedge against the “darkness” rising in the world. Many will be deeply cynical about all these developments due to Tether’s shadowy beginnings in the world of crypto and beyond. There’s also the fact Tether has recently made headlines for cozying up to the Trump administration, and even for donating to Trump’s new ballroom. Scepticism is as ever warranted. But if you’re betting the Genius Act will unleash the sort of competition that will eat Tether’s lunch, it’s important to understand just how substantial their first mover moat is. I have written up my wider thoughts at the Blind Spot’s stablecoin pop up 👇 thepeg.co/p/the-weekly-p…

@NinjaKitchen URL youtu.be/0TuhfmrX3a0?si…

@NinjaKitchen W.T.A.F have you seen your 11 month old advert at 24seconds on YouTube "Meet the Ninja Luxe" Café Premier Series. Your showing the espresso glass that cannot be used with this machine.

@NinjaKitchen the "raise the tray" has this one slightly annoying design flaw on the Ninja Luxe Cafe Pro espresso machine finally for sale in the UK. youtu.be/epzlTJBMRoU?si… I guess the USA design engineers only made milk based coffee which IMHO taste delicious.