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@nickreeves9876 Get the vote out. Get the *youth* vote out. Vote!

Covid thought for the day. NoPos (never had a positive test) does not mean NoVid (never had Covid). LFTs especially, had low false +ve and high false -ve. If you got a positive, you had Covid. But if you got a negative, you don't really know for sure.

These 4 months are the long days. April 21 to August 21, Two months before the summer solstice and 2 months after. >14 hour days with Greenwich sunrise before 6am (05:51) and sunset after 8pm (20:06). Make the most of them.

@bruces I blame 2002 SciFi Dystopia comics for peer to peer, decentralised, drone swarms in war zones. electricsheepcomix.com/spiders/3.5/03… Combine that with a citizen wiki-army amazon.co.uk/New-Model-Army…

@antic2000 Maybe this "Two American Popes" thing is a repeat of the Western Schism (1378–1417) of Two French Popes.

Lol. Happens every now and again.

Will Harlow and Gilston Garden town be designed along "15-Min-City" principles? By moped, yes. By electric bicycle, probably. On foot, probably not. Despite Sustainable Travel Corridors, Circular Bus Routes and general car barriers.

Our generation's "Manhattan Project" is the "Grand Electrification of Everything". theguardian.com/commentisfree/… > Governments should seek the electrification of everything that can be electrified, and the retirement of much that cannot.

The insider trading on the "Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Eight Week War" is just wild! theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…

Ceasefire means "You Cease - We fire". Misleading posts from all sides mean the "Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Eight Week War" is probably on again. Hormuz strait has a dual blockade again. S Lebanon continues to suffer. Meanwhile, POTUS is on the golf course.

UK Local, Mayor and devolved elections 7-May-26. Two deadlines this week. Monday - voter registration Tuesday - new and changed postal vote changes Get the Vote out. Get the youth vote out. Vote!

So that about wraps it up for the Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Seven Week War. Iran opens the Hormuz Strait. Iterated Games Theory stage 3 1. Never strike first 2. Tit for tat escalation 3. Immediately back down when the opponent backs down 4. Offer negotiation at every stage

this is exactly why I moved back to china and I genuinely think most people reading this from the west have no idea what it actually feels like to build here the thing about shenzhen that changed everything for me is the access, makerspaces everywhere open to anyone, components available in any quantity at any hour, hardware meetups and deeptech demo nights happening every single day where founders show up with actual physical prototypes & get torn apart by engineers who’ve been shipping products for 20y +++ investor sessions where VCs ask about your thermal dissipation strategy before they ask about yourt revenue, the density of ambitious people building physical things in one city is something I’ve never experienced anywhere else on earth and the education pipeline feeding all of this is staggering, chinese kids start building robots & programming microcontrollers in middle school as part of the national curriculum by high school they’re doing projects in machine vision& embedded systems tsinghua, USTC & zhejiang these universities produce researchers who go from publishing a paper to founding a startup with gov backed seed funding in a matter of months… the pipeline from fundamental research to applied engineering to company creation is seamless here in a way that would make any european researcher cry and what most people in the west completely miss is the role of the tech giants as ecosystem builders, juawei alibaba, tencent & baidu are operating as deeptech accelerators at a scale that has 0 equivalent in the west huawei alone runs the ascend AI ecosystem where they give hardware startups access to their custom AI chips their toolchains& their cloud infrastructure for free or near free so founders can build on top of chinese silicon instead of depending on NVIDIA alibaba’s academy funds and incubates in quantum computing chip design and autonomous driving then plugs them directly into alibaba cloud’s customer base & tencent invests in robotics companies and connects them to its manufacturing partners these aren’t passive financial investors writing checks from SF, they’re active ecosystem architects who provide silicon compute distribution channels & manufacturing access in a single integrated package Q1 numbers that just dropped tell the whole story, 5% GDP growth driven almost entirely by hightech manufacturing, integrated circuit production up 49.4% in a single quarter under maximum US sanctions, electronic materials up 32.5%, lithium battery output up 40.8%… the 4 AI chip startups they call the « four dragons» moore threads, metaX, biren & enflame all going public simultaneously valued at billions, huawei rolling out a 3y roadmap to overtake NVIDIA & the deeptech VCs here write checks with a technical depth I’ve rarely seen anywhere these are people who read your papers who understand your architecture at the gate level who challenge your engineering choices on EMI coupling & power stage layout before they even look at your market I genuinely think think the sanctions have been the greatest unintentional R&D program in history, they forced China to build in 5y what would have taken 20 without them, and now the country is sitting on a self sufficient semiconductor ecosystem, a dominant position in clean energy tech, a manufacturing base that operates like a collective intelligence network and an education system that produces millions of engineers who see building physical things as the highest form of ambition meanwhile the west is spending trillions on a war in the middle east and debating whether AI needs another ethics committee I know where I want to be and it’s here​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ft.com/content/f2b53a…

@bruces Where's the Forbes 30 over 60?

@covidactionuk A "Vax Only" policy. With no vax.

analysis of the number of patients in ICU and is a false economy as millions continue to suffer from #Longcovid and the benefits of the vaccine are obvious. This has to change #Vaccines now! With a summer wave likely Wes Streeting needs to act! 💉😷

The report today on #vaccines from #Covidinquiry said The Government needs a serious long-term plan for vaccines, alongside therapeutics, antivirals and prophylactics. It needs the capacity, funding and resilience to move quickly in a crisis, and to protect those most at risk.

@clashreport What? Say, "what", again motherfucker.

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

FFS Facebook! Not today. Some of the structure, zero content.

@marcowenjones So there are two US Popes, one in Rome and one in Florida. Is this like the Two French Popes of the Western Schism of 1378?

Really surprised by Trump posting an image of himself as Jesus...

@madeofmistak3 Did the same astronauts come back, or were they different? And what about the extra one?

is there any way to check that the astronauts that return are really the same entities that we sent initially?

@mikebutcher @monnett_social Phone app only. No Web I/F. How droll.

Wow, I just tried to use the @monnett_social app and good grief it’s bad. It insisted I put a post into a “category” and literally accepted nothing. This is definitely not the future of social media.

Phone app only. No web i/f. How droll.