The Ev

we are all Charlie Kirk! Am Yisrael chai!

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

Spare a thought for our PM this morning. It can’t be easy. He’s done so much “taking personal responsibility” lately that he’s got almost nobody left to sack!

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

AI will create more jobs than any other technology in history.

The doomers' fundamental error isn't just the lump of labor fallacy. It's deeper than that.

They assume a finite problem space.

This is the fundamental error of AI and job doomers. They look at the economy and see a fixed amount of work to be done, a pie that can only be sliced thinner as machines take bigger bites. They see humans a competitive resource for a finite amount of work and a finite amount of problems to solve that must be eliminated.

This is fundamentally, totally and completely wrong.

The pie isn't fixed. It never was. And the reason it isn't fixed is baked into the very nature of technology itself.

Technology is nothing but abstraction stacking. And abstraction stacking is infinite. Therefore the work is infinite.

The hammer didn't reduce the amount of work. It moved the work up the stack. And the new work was more complex, more varied, and more interesting than the old work.

Complexity breeds more complexity and more variety.

Once you have houses instead of mud huts, you have a cascade of new problems that didn't exist before. Plumbing. Wiring. Insulation. Roofing materials that don't rot. Drainage systems so the foundation doesn't flood. Fire codes so your neighbor's bad wiring doesn't burn down the whole block.

Each of those problems becomes a job. A plumber. An electrician. An insulator. A roofer. A civil engineer. A building inspector. None of those jobs existed when we lived in mud huts.

They exist because we solved the mud hut problem.

Think of all of human technological development as a stack of abstraction layers, each one built on top of the ones below it.

At the bottom: raw survival. Finding food. Building shelter. Making fire. These are the base-layer problems.

Each major technology wave solved a base-layer problem and in doing so created an entirely new layer of problems above it:

Agriculture solved "how do we reliably eat?" — and created problems of land ownership, irrigation, crop rotation, storage, trade, taxation, and governance.

Writing solved "how do we remember things across generations?" — and created problems of literacy, education, record-keeping, law, bureaucracy, and literature.

The printing press solved "how do we spread knowledge at scale?" — and created problems of intellectual property, censorship, journalism, publishing, public opinion, and democratic discourse.

The steam engine solved "how do we generate mechanical power without muscles?" — and created problems of factory design, worker safety, urban planning, railroad engineering, coal mining, labor relations, and environmental pollution.

Electricity solved "how do we deliver energy anywhere?" — and created problems of grid design, power generation, appliance manufacturing, electrical safety codes, utility regulation, and an entire consumer electronics industry.

The Internet solved "how do we connect all human knowledge?" — and created problems of cybersecurity, digital privacy, online commerce, content moderation, network infrastructure, cloud computing, social media dynamics, and an entire digital economy that employs tens of millions.

Notice the pattern?

Each solution didn't just solve a problem.

It created an entirely new problem space that was larger, more complex, and more varied than the one it replaced.

The stack grows. It never shrinks.

It's turtles all the way down and all the way up.

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@nexta_tv Quoting George Galloway has to be one of the most serious blows to your credibility as a worthy news source on X

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@PeterOuld Baked beans

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@PeterOuld 🤣🤣🤣

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@shanaka86 You missed out that F22 raptors weren’t deployed in Israel during world war 1 or 2 either! Incredible!

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@nexta_tv 😂

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@Keir_Starmer This is a CHRISTIAN country in case you’d forgotten!

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

I suspect historians will have a lot of fun questioning who ever thought teaching the robots kung fu would be a fun idea!!

[Evrim Kanbur @WhileTravelling]

Are you watching the Chinese New Year Gala? The Robot Kungfu show is mind blowing!!!

They just executed a coordinated martial arts routine with spatial precision, rhythm control, and dynamic balance adjustments in real time.

Kung fu, one of China’s most iconic traditional art forms , performed by machines built with cutting-edge AI control systems, advanced actuators, and high-speed feedback loops. Ancient discipline meets algorithmic precision.

Last year, humanoid robots stepped onto the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time. This year, they held synchronized kung fu stances with balance that would humble half of us after leg day.

And they did it live!!! On the most-watched television event on the planet.

The progress in just one year is magical.
That’s what we call China speed.

What makes it even sweeter is where this happened.

I love how the progress is integrated in culture. In celebration. In a Lunar New Year gala watched by hundreds of millions.

It’s music to my ears.

The robots didn’t look like they were “trying” anymore. They looked like they belonged.

Their joint articulation was smoother.
Their formation timing tighter.
Their balance recovery almost elegant.
Their choreography is expressive.

That’s what happens when AI models improve, control systems get smarter, hardware stabilizes, and iteration cycles compress.

One year in robotics today is not the same as one year ten years ago.

It’s compounding.

If this is what 12 months looks like,
imagine 36.

The Chinese New Year Robot Kungfu Gala is just futuristic.

It was quite the statement!

The future is getting better very, very fast.

It was so beautiful to watch. What do you think?

[Chanley Shá Painter @ChanleySPainter]

Do YOU think these developments may lead to #NancyGuthrie ?

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@BellaWallerstei Are you off to a Gala or a Gallery? I can’t decide.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer signaled support for US strikes on Iran-Guardian.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@BBCNews History will record that on the day Time Magazine reported 30,000 killed in Iran over a two-day mass slaughter, your main page chose not to mention Iran even once.

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@StephanieYeboah They’ve removed the post. Perhaps you could too for the sake of the child?

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@adaenechi Perhaps you could remove this now that the school has taken down their post. By leaving this here you are perpetuating a potential risk to a child.

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@WarMonitor3 Mourning for? The people they’ve killed?

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

Might not be all bad if the UK bans Twitter. It’ll be great fun when we all rock up to that Blue Sky place, like barbarians descending on Rome.

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

@BBCNews Oh well done! You discovered there’s a country called Iran finally! Congratulations

[The Ev @EvanDavidC]

Hey @BBCNews any chance of you covering the actual news any time soon? You know, like maybe even vaguely glancing in the direction of Iran? Just a bit?

You have one job!

[Daniel Schatz @drdanielschatz]

It’s time to stand with the people of Iran who are fighting for their freedom✌🏻

So where is Greta?
Where are the flotilla activists?
Where are the self-righteous liberals who have spent the past two years condemning Israel on the streets of London, Stockholm, and New York?
Where are the loud, ever-present humanitarians and social justice warriors?

They are nowhere to be seen.

Because the truth is simple: they never cared about human rights. Their outrage was never about freedom, dignity, or universal values. It was selective political theater masquerading as moral conviction.

When the cause is not about spreading chaos in the streets, demonizing Israel, or posing with Palestinian scarves, the sense of urgency suddenly disappears. When women in Iran are beaten, imprisoned, and killed by an Islamist regime, there are no marches. No symbols. No moral sermons.

This silence exposes the entire project. For these activists, human rights are not universal principles but props in an ideological performance. They show up where it brings status, visibility, and the “right” enemy—and vanish when the struggle demands courage, consistency, and intellectual honesty.

Iran exposes them.
And the silence speaks volumes.