Last time copper prices shot up, some enterprising chap decided to reopen an old copper mine in Yunnan. First he had to get six people to shovel bat guano out of the mine shaft. They get sick and three died: of a SARS-like virus. Virologists rushed to investigate. It was the…
This is why Net Zero is never going to happen. Renewables are very mineral intensive. Costs are going to rise exponentially as key material shortages come to light. Silver is up 3X & Copper up 37% since August 2025.
In 2015/16, 15,000 Brits studied abroad with Erasmus. In 2023–24, 40,000 Brits studied abroad with Turing.
For the cost of Erasmus you could give every child turning 18 a £1000 to spend how they like - instead the money will be shoveled into the mouths of a select few - all at a time when kids are already getting screwed by the state - this is utterly immoral on every level - the…
The government is set to pay £840 million a year for membership of Erasmus once the first-year discount ends. This is more than 10% of the entire £7.5 billion budget that the government spends on British universities per year. Truly the worst negotiators in history.
This is utterly DAMNING for David Lammy. "We are not looking to convict people as quickly as possible, we are looking for justice." A Barrister clinically dismantles David Lammy's disgraceful decision to scrap jury trials. Watch until the end. It wont even fix the backlog.
The OBR budget “leak” was irrelevant - all it did was deprive the Chancellor of some theatrics. But it gave a pretext for removing its chairman. And now these Labour MPs want to put a stooge in charge of it who will count extra disability benefit spending as “pro-growth”.
We now know that the 2010s were a lost decade for economic growth and productivity - characterised by low public and private investment. As my former @CommonsTreasury colleague says, our economic forecasts should properly count the benefits of spending and the damage of cuts.
"he's totally overweighting his personal experience in tech see when you're surrounded by a deeply incestuous web of AI-adjacent 'knowledge work' combined with a 'move fast and break things' mindset it's easy to forget that vast sectors of the economy are not trivially…
“SO THEN DWARKESH WAS LIKE BUT DONT YOU EXPECT GDP GROWTH TO STEP UP LIKE IT HAS BEFORE AND KARPATHY WAS LIKE NAH IDK AND ITS LIKE BRO OBVIOUSLY UNTETHERING THE COGNITIVE OUTPUT OF CIVILIZATION FROM HUMAN POPULATION WILL CREATE TREMENDOUS GROWTH WITHOUT NEARLY AS MUCH OVERHEAD”
Just had a call from a journalist who was trying to get a hold on another kite being flown from the Chancellor’s office. This is no way to manage an economy it really is not. God knows what damage budget paralysis is going to do to Christmas retail.
The 𝕏 recommendation system is evolving very rapidly. We are aiming for deletion of all heuristics within 4 to 6 weeks. Grok will literally read every post and watch every video (100M+ per day) to match users with content they’re most likely to find interesting. This should…
How the 𝕏 algorithm really works? The algorithm doesn’t boost or hide posts randomly, it just tries to figure out if your post will be interesting to people. That means: If you post a plain link with no words, the algorithm doesn’t have much to judge, so it won’t show it to…
Remember the scandal two years ago in the UK on how Parliament had been "infiltrated" by two "Chinese spies" and how this was indicative of the "threat" China posed? The two men in question have just been cleared of all charges. In fact, the case against them was so weak there…
Atheism for me but not for you
I've seen lots of atheists waking up to what Richard Dawkins said in 2010: "I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse."
It's a competitive field but so far setting up the Building Safety Regulator seems at least in the top 10 worst things done by the 2019–2024 Conservative govt.
It is remarkable that the Building Safety Regulator is rejecting 70% of applications. For comparison, the planning system rejects around 10% of applications, including on large sites. This is because delays are very costly for developers, so they try extremely hard to be…
8⃣Professor Gordon Hughes' paper for @netzerowatch suggests that the government's Clean Power 2030 plan will add £25 billion to bills each year. That means power at 40p/kWh as opposed to 25p today.
Reading about Javier Milei — paragraphs like this should be internalized by every public policymaker in the west
This Assisted Dying Amendment was just voted down: Amendment to mean someone substantially motivated by feelings of being a burden, a mental disorder, a disability, financial considerations, lack of access to treatment, or suicidal ideation – would not qualify for assisted dying
+Legalising things instead of exercising mercy in the special extreme case moves us away from the extreme case to a wide range of cases that aren't about mercy at all, where we wouldn't have chosen to be merciful under the old law, & that we don't actually want to permit.
I grew up in San Francisco, walking with my family by the Golden Gate Bridge. I still remember the thick and iconic chain railing that gave the place a sense of distinctiveness. Now the chains are gone, and they've been replaced by a soulless metal railing that's colder than a…
holy shit. it's happening you can now screen embryos for 900 diseases and traits including cancer, heart disease, IQ, and alzheimer’s, before they’re even born you don’t just pick a child. you rank them by longevity potential. 1/
Every parent wants to give their children more than they had. For the first time in human history, Nucleus adds a new tool to that commitment. Welcome to Nucleus Embryo. mynucleus.com/embryo/press
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