It's good that people in Africa are getting HIV drugs and mosquito nets But yeah probably doesn't need to be funded by the US tax payer So many rich people looking for ways to "make an impact". Okay, here are all these supposedly amazing programmes, what are you waiting for?

Fascinating to see a lot of tech people being won over by the Trump admin just because they're more "pro innovation" on AI. Money & power often seem to outrank principles.

Amazing how similar government aggression is across decades. Watching a documentary about Thatcher and the miners strike at Orgreave. She calls them "extremists" and "the enemy within". These miners are today celebrated by many in the Labour government, yet they call the protestors in Southport and people who are concerned about the Pakistani rape gangs "right wing extremists". Most are actually just working class people standing up for something they believe in, but if if you threaten the state you will be persicuted.

Have tried sms4sats.com so many times and never successfully received an SMS :/

This is really cool. I often check polymarket, but the whole complicated shitcoin thing is off-putting. Was able to easily place a bunch of bets here after signing in with lightning and giving a cashu lightning address - all with a few minutes.

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The commodification of general purpose AI models was fairly obvious given that all the training data is accessible to anyone. The real "black swan" will hit when the market realises that China will be able to prevent access to high quality labelled video data from factories that will result in their moat on robotics. The West has de-industrialised too much and won't have enough data to train their robots with. I don't like any of it, but seems inevitable.

We need to stop falling into the trap of defending Bitcoin > crypto. The two aren't comparable. Bitcoin solves the problem of fiat money - shitcoins *are* fiat money.

"Communists are stupid!" "China keeps doing smarter things than us!"

Good to see Bitcoiners engaging with solid publications like The Spectator. Pity we always get asked about "crypto", but it's fascinating to see the concept of Bitcoin maximalism enter the conversation. Nice one @Peter McCormack

Jonkershuis at Groot Constantia in Cape Town must be one of the most beautiful restaurant venues in the world

Fiat money ruining the London high street "One reason for the decline in most high streets is that the property management chains are so tightly geared, that to accept a new tenant at a lower rent would mean that the ‘mark-to-market’ value of the property would drop accordingly, potentially putting the value of the firm’s assets dangerously below that of their liabilities. So even though they lose money month to month, they hold out for a big chain, because the mom ’n’ pops can’t pay what they’d need to keep their balance sheet afloat."

The Spectator

Britain’s railway arches are getting hollowed out

Railway arches are functional. If you want to keep a railway bridge horizontal, you’re going to need arches. Once, Network Rail owned these bits ...

As much as I appreciate the RHS facilities, and especially Wisley, I'm totally against this demand of a government bail out. Sorry, but this is not what tax payer money is for. Raise entrance prices or cut expenses.

RHS calls for compensation as A3/M25 roadworks cause devastating financial impact on charity

The ongoing A3/M25 roadworks have caused huge losses to funding for vital RHS projects in science research, community outreach and education

Just logged into LinkedIn for thr first time in a month. My god, what a cesspool.

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