Justin Lovell

System and Data Integration Lunatic. aka 'the integrator'. Don't tell me it can't be done! #DataManagement #Analytics and #Integration

[The Finance Ghost @FinanceGhost]

My Copilot bundled with Office 365 has gotten worse again. Much lazier with terrible shortcuts and literal defiance when a prompt requires work.

Convinced the free stuff is being throttled to try bring in more paid subs and revenue.

The tide is going out.

[MyBroadband @mybroadband]

Rhys Summerton has received no salary since he took over CEO of iOCO.
https://t.co/SHXoDSsCtn

[MyBroadband @mybroadband]

We calculated the cost of an electric vehicle plus a solar-and-battery system to keep it charged.
https://t.co/OiGWYzdkyc

[Michael Jordaan @MichaelJordaan]

Growth is a choice

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Rwanda is building a track completely from scratch, and Formula 1 is so sure they will deliver that they have already put pen to paper on a 10-year contract.

Meanwhile, South Africa, with an existing track that has fallen out of shape, isn't trusted to get anything done because the South African risk premium is simply too big.

Global capital now views South Africa as a dangerous, untrusted hazard while treating Rwanda as the absolute gold standard for institutional trust.

Formula One Group does not sign a decade-long agreement on raw hope.

They signed with Rwanda because Kigali has built an unshakeable reputation for flawless executive execution.

When the Rwanda Development Board guarantees a timeline, the regulatory red tape is liquidated overnight by a disciplined, single-window executive.

Global capital knows that a promise made in Kigali is a mathematical certainty.

Rwanda turned a blank plot of dirt in Bugesera into a low-risk, elite-aligned asset. Conversely, modern South Africa has become a dangerous, volatile bet that international investors simply refuse to underwrite.

Having the physical layout of Kyalami means absolutely nothing when your entire state apparatus is viewed as a structural liability. You cannot invite a multi-billion dollar global enterprise to a country crippled by terminal municipal decay, and deep institutional rot.

F1 teams cannot run their multi-million dollar telemetry systems on the gamble that local public utilities won't collapse mid-race.

South Africa's existing track falling out of shape is just a symptom of a much larger, systemic pathology.

The state is so deeply fractured by bureaucratic infighting, political posturing, and chaotic policy vectors that it cannot provide a credible, bulletproof sovereign financial guarantee to underwrite hosting fees.

The institutional decay is so severe that South Africa can no longer be trusted to manage, maintain, or secure projects of this level of complexity.
In the brutal arena of global statecraft, historical prestige is completely worthless if you are priced out of the market as an operational danger.

Rwanda won this contract because it aggressively engineered international trust, while South Africa mismanaged its massive head start into total structural irrelevance.

F1 didn't bypass South Africa because of politics, it bypassed South Africa because of math.

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

Well. Here it is: a new book that has been keeping me busy for a while. The Seventh Continent: Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. Past, Present and Future 1/5

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

I’ve been working on a new book for the last few years. It's (finally) done.
On Thursday, I'll announce it here
A very quick 🧵

[Justin Lovell @JustinLovell]

KuMakhola on N2 to Mt Frere. Local roadworks mafia are blocking N2 burning tyres and rocks because Land Affairs closed them down yesterday because they don't have relevant paperwork. Now 4 hours in 30 degrees hundres of people sit waiting government and locals to reach resolution. #chaos #WelcomeToSA

[Junior Smith @JuniorBuffett]

Sanlam and GoTyme (TymeBank) teaming up.

Sanlam will launch a super app to its clients in a few months.

Sanlam owns 30% of EasyEquities and owns Satrix, the SatrixNow platform is run by EasyEquities.

There's a very high probability that the new Sanlam Super app will have EasyEquities inside it at some point.

The world is changing.

@CharlesHSavage
@bradgt247 😉

https://t.co/OVvjiPxrh2

[Steve Wozniak @stevewoz]

I’ve decided it’s time to have a little more fun on X this year! 😄⚡

I get to speak at some amazing events, meet fascinating people, hear great stories, and occasionally find myself in places I never expected to be. So I figured… why not share some of those moments here?

And there’s more!

I’m also excited to launch my new merch. A little Woz spirit, a little fun, and hopefully a few things bring a smile to your face.

This is just the beginning. More adventures, more stories, and more surprises to come!

https://t.co/eoTmcRRVh4

[Roger @rdd147]

OpenAI cancels IPO plans until at 2027, saying now isn’t the time to IPO as we plan to slow down Ai model development for safety reasons.

Musk and Dario the same this weekend.

This isn’t safety, this is severe stress in bond markets and the realization they can’t meet their commitments where operating expenses are vs token prices.

They finally realized they were the bubble.

$ORCL $SPCX $NVDA

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Anthropic and OpenAI delaying their IPO, because their S-1 will reveal that they are bleeding money, and have no path to profitability.

Solution? "AI slowdown", so they cut costs for training new models.

It has everything to do with IPO, and nothing to do with safety.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Not only I am tired of these wild AI speculations of impeding doom from self important people:

I resent them.

I actively resent people proposing to crash the economy or proposing authoritarian control over my life and other people's lives with idiotic and dangerous ideas like chip control or bans or tracking researchers.

Every idiot in history who's taken the approach of "the ends justify the means" to solve an imaginary future disaster created the very disaster they wanted to stop.

See Population Bomb leading to the one child policy and Communism leading to Mao's mass famines and Fascism leading to the death of tens of millions of people and war.

These solutions are evil and worse than any disease that they propose to solve.

It you believe you can actually predict the end of the world then you are as insane as the Heaven's Gate cult that killed themselves in the 90s thinking UFOs were coming to transcend them.

Not only should we not take your policies and fear mongering seriously, we should actively throw out any and all of your proposed solutions because they come from a place of delusion.

I don't give a shit that you work in the industry or think you saw something or that you want to virtue signal on X. You are actively contributing to a horrible future based on baseless speculation that has no grounding in reality.

Don't confuse expertise in a domain with ability to predict impact of that domain or frankly to make predictions a decade out better than a dart throwing monkey.

They are orthagonal skills.

How's Hinton's "we don't need to train Radiologists anymore" working out? How did the Population Bomb work out? The global cooling second ice age? Peak oil?

Just because someone is a bridge engineer does not mean they can predict the impact of bridges on society or that they have any actually useful insight at all on the complex, ever changing system called life.

There are people dying in wars right now. Children starving. Homelessness. Dictatorships.

In short, real problems. And we're supposed to drop everything to stop a made up problem in your head?

Pound sand.

We don't care. And we are not going to remake society based on you scary monsters under the bed delusion.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

@DarioAmodei We must IGNORE YOU! You're pushing fear, censorship and government regulation because Anthropic is threatened by the fast-moving open source movement. It's crystal clear. And your psyops are failing.

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Most Popular Videogames (1976–2026): The 50-Year Battle for No. 1

[PIERRE GASLY 🇫🇷 @PierreGASLY]

First ever F1 pole position! 🙏❤️

[Formula 1 @F1]

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

PIERRE GASLY TAKES POLE AT MONZA!!!!

#F1 #ItalianGP

[BWT Alpine Formula One Team @AlpineF1Team]

PIERRE GASLYYYYYY ON POLE 🤩🙌

[Justin Lovell @JustinLovell]

Don't get me wrong it is for me, just we faced with so many decisions these days where good content especially accurate and informative like the daily brief is now behind a pay wall. I understand we all got to make a living but don't under estimate the impact something freely accessible like this has. The choice now is what's more important for people to pay for entertainment or too be informed? Thinking more along the lines of average Joe than CEO Piet.