Calum Drysdale

an attendant lord l Anglofuturism podcast co-host

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

If you build a successful brand around ‘[thing] is bad and should be stopped’ you will eventually realise that your best interest is in continuing [thing] for as long as possible. You are working for the opposition even if you don't know it yet.

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

We are back and the next few months are going to be a banger. Prepare your ears and, more significantly now, your eyes

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Treasures of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Britain has two exploration contracts at the bottom of the Pacific. Now, we face a choice about whether we'll remain only a customer in the electrical age. Join @CalumDrysdale and @tomough as they travel from Victorian oceanographers and metallic potatoes to China’s critical-mineral dominance, asking whether seabed mining could turn Britain into an electrostate.

0:01:16 - Why critical minerals matter
0:05:02 - The first deep-sea expeditions
0:14:34 - HMS Challenger and the birth of oceanography
0:25:45 - Sponsor: @IsembardGroup
0:27:31 - Who controls the international seabed?
0:31:25 - China's domination of critical mineral supply
0:36:42 - Britain’s deep-sea exploration contracts
0:46:06 - How Britain can secure its mineral supply

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

Total Anglican victory

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

Anglofuturism's reading list for the summer break is out now. Featuring recommendations from @RianCFFWhitton, @thephilippics, @LouisElton96, @alexburghart, @Katie_Lam_MP, @AFitzgerald1992, @93vintagejones, @peterrhague, @Nina_Power_ , @DouglasCarswell, @apralky, & many more!

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

Filming at @IsembardGroup today. If you want to own and run your own factory, get in touch at https://t.co/vsDfX9VZVB.

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

1/ Jamie Rumbelow and Henry Dashwood raised venture capital to fix Britain's planning system with software. The company was called Tract. It no longer exists, but their postmortem is among the best a British startup has ever produced. We interviewed them about why Britain can't build. Their story:

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

We interviewed a defence start up in London, named after Lancelot's sword, building software to allow robots and soldiers to work together on the battlefield. Cross that one off your Anglofuturism bingo card

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

1/ Will Blyth spent twelve years in the British Army, then went to Palantir, then Helsing. Now he runs Arondite, the London defence company named after Lancelot's sword. We interviewed him about the software Britain's next war runs on. His story:

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

@ben_clark56 @tomough Sorry babe, we are talking to other critics rn xx

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

James Wise chairs the government’s Sovereign AI unit, a venture fund backing British AI startups. But what is AI sovereignty, and why does it matter?

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

The Sov AI unit aims to give Britain a place in the AI tech stack but beyond building a frontier lab, little else has been said.

@Jameswise joined us on the KCIII to talk about how to avoid the permanent underclass and the difference between sovereignty and autarky

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

Anglofuturism interviewed @Jameswise, Chair of the government's Sovereign AI Unit.

00:01:57 - Navigating AI from within government in Britain
00:11:30 - Why full-stack AI isn't the goal of sovereignty
00:24:59 - Are we investing enough in Britain's AI future?
00:33:19 - Overcoming capital constraints for British AI innovation
00:41:58 - How to leverage Britain's unique advantage in healthcare
01:10:52 - Britain needs an entrepreneurial culture shift

You can find more Anglofuturism on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Substack.

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

Is this Anglofuturism?

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

Reform’s @danny__kruger spoke to Anglofuturism about his ambition for Britain’s next fifty years.

[Wignel @ThickheadFinds]

>Hey, the Cummings pod part 1 is out
>Ah, so they cut their usual 1hr into two 30 min parts
>yeah, I would have enjoyed a longer discussion

>part 1 is 1hr40mins

[Oliver Stark @realOliverStark]

Had a great chat with the lads on the Anglofuturism podcast @CalumDrysdale @tomough

Everyone is filming robots doing dances and backflips, yet none of them can cook you a meal. We get into why the hand — not walking — is the hardest problem in robotics, and why we had to leave England for San Francisco.

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

Russians are painting their vehicles with stripes to fool autonomous ML target detection

Welcome back dazzle camo
https://t.co/A2k3SYC97s

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

Anglofuturism. Coming soon. @Dominic2306

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

RICU goes deeper than you can possibly imagine

[Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale]

@tomough I like pretty pictures

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

When I was at school (nearly twenty years ago now), the ethnic minority kids would visit all sorts of violence on white kids and say it was because of racism. They saw no consequences, and were often given rewards and special treatment while the victims were punished. White teachers could be made compliant and powerless to stop classroom disruption by accusations of racism. We had a black woman in a pastoral role who would come around and reprimand the teacher in front of the class for removing a disruptive black student, openly suggesting they were racially biased. Smarter students who couldn't benefit from this soon learned to find their own leverage: gay students would claim a right to be rude and defiant, students with diagnoses would claim it licensed any behaviour. The school was once a place where progressive and idealistic families would send their children to be given a comprehensive education, and it largely lived up to that ideal. Interesting, passionate teachers worked their to change the lives of poorer children. I joined as it started to go downhill. The school was placed in special measures by Ofsted because of issues in the lower years just as the sixth form achieved some of the best results in the borough. This decline happened rapidly under the leadership of a headteacher who peddled racial grievance in school assemblies and openly disdained white students who weren't struggling in some way or violent in nature. It has been a special horror of my life watching this ideology, which I presumed at the time to be particular to the needs of a failing comprehensive school on a council estate, become the national rule.

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

.@boys_nicholas shared a useful number on this week's Anglofuturism.

"If you look at the value per hectare of land in Poundbury compared to comparable normal houses elsewhere — Knight Frank's study, from a few years ago — it's a 55% premium. That's not 5 or 6%."

The market has been telling us, with cash, that beauty pays at scale.

[Tom Ough @tomough]

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