Mark Egan

Trying to stay well-calibrated 🇮🇪🇰🇷🇬🇧

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

This is superb

[Chris Bayliss @baylissbaghdad]

Britain has replaced free markets with an incoherent system of judicially enforceable rights and statutory obligations. My latest for @TheCriticMag

https://t.co/S0lfZ7GnIW

[Reuben Rodriguez @ReubenR80027912]

This is phenomenal. Whoever convinced the board “No seriously, this is how you play it” is an all star

I want to know:
-Who was the agency that pitched it?
-Was the board all in or did it take work?
-Did they already have Coldplay Ex-wife Paltrow onboard when they pitched?

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

@robertwiblin Disagree bro

The Matrix is the most impactful AI film ever and is very much about the danger of uncontrolled AI

It even includes the line "your civilisation became ours when we started doing your thinking for you"

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

the biscuit thing last year was an early tell Kemi would be another 'rigmarole' waste-of-time Tory leader

When the change comes it will arrive with a cannonade not HIGNFY wordplay chuckles

[Rael Braverman @raelbrav]

“Many who backed Badenoch enthusiastically a year ago have turned against her and her team of advisers, regarded as lightweights and sycophants. Worse still, they feel deceived about who she really is and what she represents. They are counting down the clock until November when she can be challenged under the party’s leadership rules. Kemi isn’t working.”
https://t.co/y6GnmQbJnn

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

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[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

There’s been debate about the Afghan leak super injunction. But the truth is simple: secrecy saved lives. Afghans who helped us risked execution. Brit Special Forces were exposed. I’d make the same call again in a heartbeat — and do whatever it takes to protect them.

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

HMG today https://t.co/slkCCE6mya

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

The kindest possible interpretation of the superinjunction revelations is that they are a cry for help

The system knows it is very sick & cannot heal itself

So it's now loudly threatening to kill itself, hoping someone finally intervenes to help

That's the kind interpretation.

[Anya Martin @AnyaM8_]

Little tidbit from James Dyson's autobiography "Invention", about being asked by one government body to build a new college, and then being aggressively obstructed by several other government bodies (including the one that suggested the site in the first place)

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

@AnEmergentI A system of error promotion rather than error correction

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

I was expecting populist handwaving here but my word, it turns out to be an honest to god deregulatory supply side reform. Someone send HMG please!

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Chicken over rice now costs $10 or more.

It's time to make halal eight bucks again.

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

@antoniogm Do you think that differs for professional life Vs public media? the former has become more writing-heavy driven in the hybrid work age even as most media trends to video/audio

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

@aswren The other obvious one is capital punishment coming back on the table. The state insisting on aggressive rights to terminate life for everyone except violent criminals is not a sustainable equilibrium.

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

Liverpool made £10m by allowing Trent to join Madrid with 29 days left on his contract

This makes him the most expensive player of all time

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

This is interesting. Sky News did a 1hr interview with Dom where they let him speak uninterrupted & didn't do any moronic gotcha questions or performative pearl clutching. I think its downstream of centrist nerves over Reform winning in 29

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

One thing I'll say about Stephen Miller - he really is a role model for what it means to be a good Minion. Man just absolutely brings his Minion A-game day-in, day-out, should inspire us all to greater Minionhood in our own lives

[Sólionath @Anarseldain]

Another gem from Miller. Great stuff here.

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

extraordinary age X gender effect in Korean presidential election

[Nine-tailed Fox 🇰🇷 @saber_k086]

Exit poll results, by age and gender:

For each age group top bar is men and bottom bar is women

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

How did he get so good at this so quickly? Is it really as simple as going on ozempic and hiring a bunch of very online staff

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Gerry Adams. Shamima Begum. Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man.

Lord Hermer has spent much of his life defending those who hate Britain.

Why on earth did Starmer hand-pick him to be Attorney General?

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

drone disruption feels much more data-supported than the 1930s, where you might reasonably debate whether aircraft could really take down battleships and carriers until Pearl Harbour / Repulse / Prince of Wales

+ their extreme cost asymmetry is a radically new dimension

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

What the Ukrainians did with small drones to strategic bombers has already been happening to tanks, trucks, individual infantrymen, and electrical substations for years, and will soon happen to aircraft carriers, F-35s, and individuals napping at home with an open window.

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

@followgrubby Watching Grubby made me realise how undermonetised AI is

He's too busy for coaching - could be quite lucrative but doesn't scale

But I would pay for an AI Grubby, with his mix of good humour and professorial acumen and trained on his corpus, to give me live tips during games

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

Neckbeard nerds who wasted their youth/life on gaming will soon be vindicated as their years of live streams become the high grade minerals needed to teach GPT6 how to reason in conditions of incomplete information

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

Someone like @followgrubby typically narrates his thought process on his streams

So the data is all there - full replays of the game from every angle + expert level commentary on why certain decisions are being made