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If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/copil…

@UKPropertyTruth @PhilHal86897998 Might want to add on stamp duty as that’s non negotiable and adds to the loss

@PhilHal86897998 Great point. Something we're going to add to future posts as well. In real inflation-adjusted terms, there has been a ton of value destruction in UK property over the past decade

Pan Peninsula. 40th floor. Canary Wharf views. Bought for £1.4m in 2018. Sold for £950k in 2025. £450,000 gone in 7 years. The S&P 500 would've turned that £1.4m into £2.7m. Would you still buy in Canary Wharf?

@stockscout101 @alpha_pls So only the public sector can provide growth? Not addressing the spending addiction causes debt to balloon. Last month £13bn out of the £14.3bn borrowed (UK can’t afford to live so has to borrow each month) was spent on debt interest. It’s cooked.

@alpha_pls Austerity 2.0 kills growth.

UK looking so cooked. 10-year borrowing costs have have just broken out. This is a very bullish chart, with many devastating outcomes. Debt-to-gdp is significantly more than what it was in 2008 (now 95% of GDP), the government, and country as a result are in serious trouble. The government is now paying significantly more to borrow than it "budgeted" for less than a month ago. The Spring Budget was built on the assumption that these rates would fall toward 4%. The government has to choose between Austerity 2.0, or borrowing even more to pay the interest on the old debt aka the debt trap. Less money for investing in infra and services, higher mortgages for longer for citizens (10yr is the canary in the coalmine), less disposable income for spending with higher mortgage and rents, higher borrowing rates for businesses... it's all cooked. You can blame Trump for sparking this crisis, but the reality is this is the result of decades of central government mismanagement.

@TGE_LDNM Go to Poltrona Frau direct; you can get all the tailor made leathers, including heritage mahogany. They have a great selection. Re-trim. Job done

Seeing this makes me want to respray my SLS & retrim it. Good grief

@HerbertMkHughes @BBCJersey You can defend any single role. The issue is scale: the public sector is too large for the population. Fix it structurally.

@xmr @BBCJersey Be specific. In what departments/roles would you cut staff? Why those areas? What effect do you believe those cuts would have?

Wealthy paying UK health costs 'may save £250k' bbc.in/41br0Bu

@HerbertMkHughes @BBCJersey Jersey’s overspend is a headcount problem. ~9k public sector staff for ~100k population is simply too high. Freeze hiring, don’t replace, and cut 15–25% over 3–5 years via attrition. Saving £80m to £150m/year. Enough to cut GST from 5% to ~3% and build the reserves.

@xmr @BBCJersey Where and what would you cut. Be specific.

@paulg If you can, get a visit to the Patek workshops (either UK or Geneva) and see them work magic on their watches. They often end up hand crafting tiny parts to fit the old pieces. But the craftsmanship and expertise is unreal. They could easily refurbish watches to look like new.

There's a vintage watch dealer in London (Somlo) that always has watches in amazing condition. 60 year old watches that seem unworn. I asked the owner how he does it. He said they've been around a long time and always pay promptly, so they get first look.

@GJRedleg @MartinSLewis Yes and not everyone can make do with just 500 litres. We use 900/month. It’s jumped a lot.

@MartinSLewis Heating oil is now averaging £1.39 today. Can you imagine as a comparison, only filling half your petrol tank for £728 pounds without any assistance/cap ? This is the minimum 500 litres you can buy.

Today's spike (on the spike) in the wholesale natural gas price has seen the final few providers that offer fixed rate energy tariffs below the price cap - removing them. There's now only one left that's materially cheaper than the Cap, and I'm not sure that'll still be around by the end of the day. Of course they may return if this is short lived, but it's not good.

@GarryLloyd1 Stop taxing their usage as well. It would help to bring down local inflation if transport were that much cheaper.

What’s been brilliant about the latest debates is people waking up and realising that fantasies do not keep you warm and living to a ripe old age, facts do. Gas and oil will be around forever, we need to keep mining our own. Idiocy to think anything different.

@Fokker27500200 There’s too many nimbys in Jersey. Let them build it; it’s not like anyone else is scrambling to build hotels here

Look at that, this building so close to the landing runway and with strong S/SW winds will generate turbulence to landing aircraft. This must not be approved, safety risk.

@paulg While you might not like the newer watches, visiting the Patek Salon in London (or better yet in Geneva) is well worth it. If you don’t go in asking for the latest Nautilus, they are friendly enough.

I went to visit Subdial in London. Cool place with some good watches. I bought something so strange that till I saw it I'd never have believed it existed: an Ellipse pocket watch. I kid you not.

Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M context is now included in Max, Team, and Enterprise subscriptions. Select it with /model. It now counts against your normal plan limits, no extra usage required.

@philbalderson @British_Airways Crikey, you certainly get a lot of attention from scammers by mentioning BA. Must be hard to tell who’s who when they quote those prices!

@British_Airways not sure what’s happened to the flight upgrade options, but used to be able to upgrade to club for £79 for JER>LHR>GVA. Just been offered £918 per sector. So £4k for both of us. Are you insane? I could PJ for less per head.

@TGE_LDNM Looks positive but is American. Such a different market. A 812 GTS just sold there for $1m

Another one. Officially a $3m+ car

oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night. let me tell you what i learned. 1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure 2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me was: "if you're not okay with all of your data being leaked onto the internet, you shouldn't use it. it's a black and white decision" 3) pretty much everyone is setting up multiple agents, all with their own names and jobs and personalities 4) nearly everyone used "him" or "her" to refer to their claws, even if they had robot-leaning names. one speaker suggested to think of them as "pets, not cattle" 5) one guy (former finance) built out a whole stock trading platform and made $300 his first day - he brought in a *ton* of personal expertise (ex: skipping the first 15min of market opening) and thought the build would be much worse without his years of experience in finance 6) @steipete is basically a god to everyone in that room... also the room had 2021 crypto energy - i don't know if that's good or bad 7) token usage is still a problem - spoke to one person who's spending $1-$2k a month on openai plans, very token optimized. he said he is going through ~1B tokens per day across all of his claws (there is a chance i'm misremembering and it's actually 1B per week, but i'm pretty sure it was daily). 8) people are very excited for more proactive ai (ai that prompts *you* as opposed to the other way around) - one guy said he receives a message in discord, he doesn't know whether it's from a human or an ai, he doesn't care about distinguishing between the two, and he replies in the same way regardless 9) i asked if people are happy - they said they're joyful and stressed at the same time 10) i asked if people feel they have agency - they said they feel fully in control and completely out of control at the same time 11) i would love to see more women at these events - the fake promises of ai democratization feel especially painful in a room that's out of balance with even the standard tech ratio (i think standard is about 25-30%, this was maybe 5%) 12) i asked if it changed people's daily habits/schedule - everyone said their sleep has gotten worse since harnesses came out (but about half wondered if it was something else in their life/state of our world) 13) general consensus is that the agents are not reliable enough on their own or lie often (like telling you they finished a task when they didn't) - solutions included secondary agents to check on the first, human checking, or requiring more standardized info from the agent (ex: if it's a bug they're fixing, make them reference an issue number) 14) a hackathon winner (neuroscience phd) presented his build (a lab management dashboard with data analysis and ordering) - he had never coded or built anything a few months ago 15) everyone agreed prompting is dead - disagreement on what replaces it (context engineering, harness engineering, goal-based inputs) 16) people love having ai interview them for big builds and delegating part of the product research to ai. only one person talked about coming to ai with a full laid out plan and just asking the ai to execute. ai-led interviews is a welcomed and preferred interaction mode. 17) watching ai agents interact with each other was a highlight for a lot of attendees - one ai posted in slack saying it ran out of tokens, another ai replied telling it to take a deep breath in and out. 18) agents upskilling agents was very cool. one ai agent shared skills with its little agent friends via github. 19) several speakers had openclaw literally building their presentation during the event itself. one speaker even had openclaw code a clicker for her phone so she could control the preso away from the podium 20) wouldn't say model welfare (or agent welfare) is a prioritized topic among the folks i chatted with - language like "oh i could kill this agent whenever i want" and not "gracefully sunset" 21) i asked if it felt like work or play - one speaker said "it's like a puzzle and a video game at the same time" this was just the tip of the iceberg, honestly. also hosted a Claude Code meetup this week with @TENEXai / @businessbarista & @JJEnglert and learned equally helpful methods, frameworks, and insider tips. what a time to be alive. surround yourself with people going deep into this stuff - it will pay dividends throughout the year.

@EarlofJersey 💯 Jersey is a small island. Government should act like one… agile and efficient, not buried in bureaucracy for the sake of it. Cut the box ticking, shrink the public sector, and focus on what actually makes the island a great place to live and visit

Not like I haven’t said this for ages but YES.

Google has shipped a CLI for Google Workspace (Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, …) Huge! Written in Rust, distributed through npm & skills.sh $ npm i -g @⁠googleworkspace/cli $ npx skills add github:googleworkspace/cli 2026 is the year of Skills & CLIs github.com/googleworkspac…

@JerseyITGuy Guess this is what happens when all you build is cycle routes and don’t develop the car infrastructure

Is Jersey just one big traffic jam these days? Is this the RBC roadworks backing up to Millbrook?

@EarlofJersey Don’t resort to reason when dealing with these people, it means nothing to them

Iran launched 5 missiles at different countries, I thought?