Luke MacLeod

[GL @gldivittorio]

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[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

A new name for the working class, 'lower-value human capital'.
They don't give a shit about you and your family.

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea.

🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion.
🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts.

Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes.

Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11.

That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference.

Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad.

The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets.
That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth.

The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal.

The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism.

North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget.

Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime.

The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund.

Where things stand in 2026?

Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone.

The UK is a net energy importer.
Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas.

One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth.

The other treated it as income.

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[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

.@ZackPolanski’s plan to freeze energy bills in June: £8.4bn. Labour politicians called it “catastrophic” saying he had “wrong answers on the economy”

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Christopher Nolan chose Wilson’s 2017 translation of Odyssey, one of the worst translations with a clear feminist woke agenda and a strong emphasis on the women in the Greek poem. Emily chose the "Ladies in Blue" for her cover, a Minoan fresco that has nothing to do with Odyssey

[ÉRH/UASC @[email protected] @GwylAnarchaidd]

In Britain, you can be sentenced for an offence you have been neither charged with nor convicted of.

[ClareFDoo @missdaisyfdoo]

These two women claim to be feminists, yet can’t bear to hear about mass rape & sexual violence when it’s committed by Israelis.

Morally bankrupt, certainly not feminist, they are just blind ideologues shilling for Israel & the Right.

Deplorable.

[Sprocket Springberry @sabatonfan69]

The meeting lasted 15 minutes

[Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel]

An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes

They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.

Story by @nabihbulos
https://t.co/sBVBNxOMnA

[Alex Marshall @alexmarshall81]

Israel’s efforts to influence the Eurovision vote were broader and started years earlier than previously known https://t.co/GWjVVyQM1W A story Mara Hvistendahl and I have worked on for a very long time!

[Jack D 🏳️‍🌈 @JackDunc1]

So if you suggest black people should be "melted down and used to fill potholes" you get elected a Reform councillor, but if you say "please stop killing Palestinians" you get called antisemitic and the government calls a cobra meeting. 🫠

[CD @cilliandoyle87]

I’d sit this one out

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

"We maintain dossiers on people critical of Israel" appears to be Labour's official election campaign strategy 🧐🧐🧐🧐

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

this is just how coordinated smears work, have the people in the uk learned nothing from the corbyn saga? the british elite from labor to reform do not fear racism and xenophobia, they welcome it over a real change to the status quo which the greens represent!!

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

@DPJHodges An anti-Muslim march is an anti-Muslim march because the people on the march say that they are anti-Muslim. The pro-Palestine marches are pro-Palestine. It's you and others saying that pro-Palestine is 'anti-Jewish' but that involves conflating 'Israel' with 'Jewish'.

[Gordon Dimmack @GordonDimmack]

They'll arrest your granny for holding up a sign and call her a terrorist, though.

[Lisa Moorish @LisaMoorish]

Yet they didn't catch him AFTER this, and he went on stab two other men hrs later??
And now we're having cobra meetings, banning protests, and avoiding dealing with a massive failing by our government. Again.
No wonder Rowley wants the focus on Palestine support.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

For more than 25 years, the Metropolitan Police has been repeatedly found by independent investigations to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.

The brass neck is staggering.

As Commissioner, Mark Rowley’s job is to serve the public, not to make political attacks.

Shame on him.