Simo East

@ellymelly x.com/simoeast/statu…

Albanese should be in Washington right now. Why isn’t he? 🫤 At 7pm, this National Address will be broadcast across all TV and radio stations. Which means that no one under 40 will hear it. We can expect zero solutions and a whole lot of Covid-style ‘voluntary’ guidelines and future restrictions that will almost certainly be in place by the end of April. When you hear phrases such as, ‘All in this together!’ and ‘Play your part!’ you know the government has no idea what to do except apply the iron fist of government control. Article | spectator.com.au/2026/04/the-cr…

None of these are fully open source, but they offer excellent free plans: @Github - repos, site hosting @Cloudflare has heaps of free services and free tiers on DNS, attack protection, pages, cloud workers, etc. @Figma free version is brilliant. Use it regularly. @Trello and @Grok also offer very capable and generous free tiers.

What free software is so good you can't believe it's free?

@readswithravi Unless you’re a perfectionist, in which case you might need to just chill a little and be OK with 80-90% because perfecting takes you the rest of the day! 😅 Guilty.

James Clear on having high standards:

@AlboMP x.com/simoeast/statu…

We've just introduced laws to crack down on petrol price gouging with huge fines.

@philcip17 @andrewbogut @AlboMP Selling a product at the cost of replacing it is not “taking advantage”. x.com/simoeast/statu…

@philcip17 @andrewbogut @AlboMP How is it gouging when there’s high demand and less supply?

Hey @AlboMP Fining for fuel gouging is all good and all but perhaps read the tweet below........ Might work better.......

@r0ck3t23 Can’t tell if you’re agreeing with Andreeson or not.

Marc Andreessen just said something that would end most public figures on contact. He practices zero introspection. And he believes the entire framework was invented and sold to you. Andreessen: “Zero. As little as possible. Move forward. Go.” Not a calibrated amount. Not a healthy minimum. Zero. The man who has deployed more capital into transformative technology than almost any living person does not look backward. Does not dwell. Does not self-examine. He builds. So why does everyone else think they should? Andreessen: “All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy are kind of manufactured in the 1910s, 1920s.” Everything you were taught about psychological self-awareness is not ancient wisdom. It is not a universal law of the human mind. It is a framework. Built in Vienna. About a hundred years ago. By one man and the movement he started. Before Freud, no one building anything real thought this way. Andreessen: “Great men of history didn’t sit around doing this stuff.” They did not journal their feelings before making decisions. They did not run ambition through a filter of guilt before acting. They saw the thing. Built the thing. Moved. David Senra has read over 410 biographies of the world’s greatest builders. Every single one runs the same way. Senra: “Sam Walton didn’t wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and kept doing it over and over again.” No emotional audits. No existential loops. No self-examination before execution. Just the work. Every morning. For decades. Then Andreessen named the mechanism. Andreessen: “The individual needs to self-criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt. It never resonated with me.” He called it a guilt-based psychological update installed across Western civilization. One that convinced ambitious people their first instinct should be self-doubt. Then the line that lands hardest. Andreessen: “I find people who dwell on the past get stuck in the past.” That is not philosophy. That is pattern recognition from a man who has watched thousands of founders win and fail up close. The ones who dwell do not ship. The ones who loop on self-criticism do not scale. The ones who relitigate every past decision cannot move fast enough to matter. Look at who is actually building right now. Not pausing to assess implications. Not waiting for public consensus. Not scheduling emotional audits before the next product cycle. Running the same operating system as every builder Senra has ever studied. See the thing. Build the thing. Wake up and do it again. A hundred years of therapy culture told ambitious people their biggest obstacle was inside them. The builders didn’t listen. And you’ve spent your whole life learning their names.

Why does everyone want stricter fuel price gouging measures? Frankly, I would rather have expensive fuel than none to buy at all. If some companies decide to raise their prices in order to be able to source fuel from alternate sources and not run dry, then they should be able to.

We’re also cracking down on petrol price gouging with huge fines. Because there's no excuse for increasing profits at the expense of Australians.

We're halving the fuel tax for three months to save you money when you fill up. Conflict overseas is pushing up prices at home. And we know Australians are feeling the pressure.

I asked Grok how it would manage Australia’s fuel supply. Here’s what it proposed. Quite impressive. 🤓 grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

@DarioCpx Here is Grok’s summary of the episode: x.com/i/grok/share/6…

JustDarioCigarTime - Episode 70 ⚠️ THE OIL SHOCK IS ALREADY HERE AND MARKETS ARE FINALLY WAKING UP 🎙️ - Is Turkey Really Dumping Its Gold? - When Media Manipulation Stops Working - Be Ready for a Massive Spike in Crude Oil Prices youtu.be/Jby_0frC_mU?si…

@ideacasino Brilliant work, love it! What APIs are you using to fetch this kind of data? Are these state govt ones? @PetrolSpy?

Australia Fuel Outage Checker is now live! ⛽️🔗 = checkpetrol.com.au PetrolCheck shows current outages, prices & overall fuel supply stats based on publicly-available API data. Users can report fuel outages and submit new data. See below for more details 🔽

Master thread on the 2015-2022 closure of the Internet, the process by which every major Internet platform went from broadly open with a few basic guidelines to strict narrative enforcement, often with the collaboration of govts and outsourcing moderation power to NGOs.

In the 1990's the internet was charming and useful. Like a puppy. Then it grew into a monster we're constantly trying to stop from eating us.

@HFI_Research Wish I could subscribe, but @Substack has gone into full, creepy surveillance mode and requires photo ID for every user in the UK and Australia. 😣

(WCTW) The Oil Market Breaking Point Looking at the various scenarios for oil prices using the latest data. hfir.com/p/wctw-the-oil…

Child protection must never be used as a pretext for mass scanning of everyone’s private chats. We can and must fight CSAM with targeted, lawful tools that respect end‑to‑end encryption and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Extending ‘chat control’ style surveillance is neither necessary nor proportionate – and it risks normalising blanket monitoring in the EU. Please answer following questions: Why are EPP MEPs following the agenda and timelines set by Google, Meta, TikTok and other large platforms, instead of defending the fundamental rights of EU citizens? On what legal and political basis was this vote reopened, and who requested it—was it driven by public interest or corporate lobbying? If this vote can be reopened once, does that mean it can be reopened again whenever the outcome pleases powerful actors—but not when citizens and civil society are dissatisfied with the result?

@shiri_shh @elonmusk I wonder how an AI-based “algorithm” can be open-sourced. You can release the prompts, inputs and outputs, but it sounds like the actual logic is done by the AI model, and LLMs are notoriously difficult to trace when you want to find out how it came to a specific conclusion. 🤔

Grok will now power every ranking decision on X. It will "read" posts, watch videos, and score them in real-time based on what you will love. Runs on 20K+ GPUs to analyze hundreds of millions of posts daily in real-time + OPEN SOURCE algorithm. X is basically becoming the most transparent + smartest social app.

@DarioCpx Read Grok’s summary of the episode here: x.com/i/grok/share/6…

#JustDarioDaily - Podcast Version ⚠️ THE PRIVATE CREDIT IMPLOSION WILL TRIGGER A GREATER FINANCIAL CRISIS 🎙️ youtu.be/8kJBqYJIgZw?si…