Kir Slavin

Co-founder (credential layer for the agentic web)

[Jordan Bardella @J_Bardella]

Le règlement retour est adopté.

Après des années de déni, l’Union européenne se dote enfin d'instruments à la hauteur des enjeux pour sortir du laxisme migratoire.

C’est un premier pas dans la bonne direction, obtenu grâce à la mobilisation constante des députés du Rassemblement National.

Nous continuerons le combat en organisant un référendum en 2027 pour reprendre pleinement le contrôle de notre politique migratoire.

[Panchu @Panchu2605]

The agentic economy is bigger than a bot buying groceries.

@jerallaire explains the more useful shift: agents that complete specialized work, get paid programmatically, and operate more like services than subscriptions.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

I was pleased to speak in Parliament today on the topic of Sharia councils and how they are used to oppress, exploit and abuse Muslim women.

Britain is the "Western capital" of Sharia councils and helps set up councils in other countries.

60%-80% of Muslim marriages in the UK are sharia-only marriages, with no British civil registration (and thus no protection for the wives, who can be quickly divorced and left penniless by the husband, who also has priority over custody of the children).

This is far higher than anywhere in the Western world.

Far too little is known about how some of these completely unregulated councils are led by extremists and Islamists.

Some councils condone wife beating, ignore sexual and honour based violence, and allow forced, child and cousin marriage - and can deny mothers access to their children. And that's just the start!

Sharia law and councils have no place in Britain or any advanced Western nation.

Around 50 in attendance today including MPs, Peers and other notable figures such as Sir William Shawcross who led the critical review into the Government's "Prevent" programme.

Thank you to the Women's Policy Centre & Paola Diana for inviting me and to Sarah Pochin MP for hosting.

Brilliant speeches from Dr. Anna Loutfi, Camilla Tominey and Khadija Khan.

[Kobi Hackenburg @KobiHackenburg]

New w/ @AISecurityInst & @UniofOxford:

Frontier AI can now out-persuade expert humans in conversation - incl. world-champ debaters and professional canvassers.

This held even when humans chose their topics, prepared in advance, and competed for £1,000 prizes 🧵

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Oggi l’Italia ha ottenuto un grande successo: il Parlamento europeo ha approvato il nuovo Regolamento europeo sui rimpatri. Un provvedimento storico che consente di rimpatriare velocemente chi non ha titolo a stare nell’Unione europea.

[Billy Thalheimer @billythalheimer]

The world’s first seaglider factory is complete!!

A quarter million square feet dedicated to bringing our product to the world.

Today: A blank canvas

By this time next year: Viceroy and Squire seagliders on the assembly line

1 Seaglider Way

Game on

[Panchu @Panchu2605]

Uniswap is coming to @Arc and this is massive.

The biggest onchain swap venue in the world. $4.4T in volume. Deploying on a chain where USDC is gas, settlement is sub-second, and CCTP V2 moves native stablecoins crosschain. No wrapped assets. No volatile token needed for fees. Just stablecoins doing what stablecoins should.

This is not just another deployment for @Uniswap . This is the largest DEX looking at the landscape and deciding that a stablecoin-native L1 is where the liquidity goes next.

For anyone building on Arc this changes everything. More liquidity depth. More composability. More reason for users and protocols to show up. The flywheel starts spinning the moment $4.4T in swap volume lands on a chain that was built for exactly this kind of flow.

Arc built the rails for stablecoin finance. Now the venues that move stablecoins are showing up. Still testnet. Already pulling.

[Kir Slavin @Academator]

@kwok_phil @dom_kwok The funniest thing about donors in Cambridge is the dichotomy between colleges and departments. When I gave five (5) quid to my college I was on all donor lists and news for the whole year. When I donated five (5) fig. sum to my department, I was just pitched for more 🤣

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

the purpose is not to remove young people from the internet. the purpose is to remove anonymity from the internet in a country where the government routinely punishes dissent with jail. the british caliphate is no longer free.

[Abhishek Saha @ObhishekSaha]

I'm looking forward to this one-day conference at UCL next week in (belated) celebration of Alan Sokal's 70th birthday! There will be talks on the philosophy of science, academic freedom, the replication crisis, and related topics.

https://t.co/FQcOUcYuU6

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨 Serco - the government contractor that runs large parts of Britian's immigration and justice operation - has taken the extraordinary position of saying it would oppose Reform's plan to deport illegal migrants from Britain.

Having read the Telegraph's report making this claim, I have written to Serco's CEO asking him to urgently clarify their position.

Serco is the firm the Home Office uses to deposit unvetted men from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq into British housing estates without the knowledge nor consent of local residents.

Serco is the firm that launches huge bids for rental homes, outbidding local residents by such a vast amount that lifelong residents - including veterans - have been served eviction notices by landlords. All to house illegal migrants.

Serco has expressed no moral concern about any of this.

Yet they apparently take exception to our plan to actually uphold immigration law and remove those who break it.

Moreover, if the Telegraph's reporting is correct, a company so enmeshed in the British state it even runs recruitment for British Armed Forces, says it will take a hostile position to a duly elected Reform government.

If the Telegraph’s reporting is correct, the only reasonable interpretation of Serco’s position is that it now believes itself to be an alternative power base to the duly elected government of the United Kingdom, and is willing to act contrary to the interests of the British electorate.

If this were true, a Reform government would be left with no choice but to view Serco as a threat to national security. 

I have given Serco until 6pm to clarify their position.

Should they fail to do so, we will take the following steps to decouple the British Government from Serco:

1) On forming a Government, we will initiate an accelerated review of all Government contracting with Serco with the aim of removing Serco as a public contractor within our first Parliamentary term.

2) Where Serco has breached contracts or break clauses are available, we will terminate those contracts and continue to exercise break clauses as they come due. 

My full letter below 👇

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Civil disobedience:

1) Non-violently transgress a law you believe unjust
2) Accept the legal consequences
3) A public shocked by the harshness of the punishment forces changes in the law.

Palestine Action:

1) Smash property and hurt people
2) Demand to be exempted from legal consequences
3) A public shocked by the violence of the crimes committed thinks, "actually these sentences seem rather light under the circumstances."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

UK is a police state

[Dom Kwok | EasyA @dom_kwok]

peace deal -> oil supply up -> oil prices down -> crypto prices up

it’s that simple.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Congrats to GB News on its 5th birthday for destroying Sky News ( twice its audience) and humiliating BBC News which even with billions of taxpayers money is beaten almost every night.
The secret?
Covering subjects the viewers are actually interested in.
The others should try it!!

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

I commend our Armed Forces for their interception operation in the Channel.

It proves the capability of the Armed Forces in interception which can also be used against illegal migration and illegal fishing under a Reform Government
https://t.co/LGyyPoFct7

[Ross Taylor @rosstaylor90]

A few words on the Sovereign AI debate, having built several LLMs in Meta while in the UK and now working as a UK based startup:

1. Lots of people are trying to do the right thing to make the UK a better place to start AI companies. Time lags until the benefit show, but you should judge on the intent now. I support the direction of travel!

2. DeepMind has been enormously beneficial for the UK, but it has muddied the waters for a sovereign LLM company to emerge as (until recently) the Government continued to celebrate it as a British achievement / push it as a national champion.

3. Similarly, people are now celebrating recent US investment in King’s Cross, while also wanting more UK sovereignty. Clearly some income effects here, but I would worry about the substitution effects too. AI is not like other types of foreign investment.

4. The relevant talent nexuses in UK that could develop a competitive foundation model are from GDM and old Meta AI GenAI. Also some folks from smaller groups, ex Conjecture, Stability. The talent is still there, although a lot was snapped up by US FM companies in the past year. I personally think it’s not too difficult to develop new talent either from UK universities, but you probably need an ex GDM or Meta core (Gemini or Llama). Or if not: show evidence first (technical reports) before claiming you can do it.

5. Building an LLM is very different from doing regular AI research - skillset is different. Former is closer to engineering; long hours, often unsexy work. Important to distinguish between these two types of talent in the UK ecosystem; arguably too much focus on the latter / ideas guys.

6. On research - DeepSeek R1 post-train cost $300k . Yes, they also needed an ablation budget and to train a base model, invest in infra and talent - and yes the cost of an R1 moment is increasing year on year - but the idea that you need $1bn plus immediately to show results is complete FUD. You need billions to scale, not to validate new directions.

7. In my experience, every failed LLM effort (from model results perspective) I witnessed in the past came from a combination of poor leadership, politics, unclear vision, and premature scaling. Good efforts usually started from small teams who had worked with each other for a long time, had shared thesis, and scaled progressively in bite-sized pieces. Some recent lessons here for neolabs as well.

8. Things take time. Eg we’ve spent ~12 months mostly on internal infra just to get into the position to be able to make big swings. It’s important to nurture new companies through the initial phase. Expectation management is also crucial. I think expecting new UK companies to have single big bang releases is very dangerous; sort of like overwatering a plant. The correct release pattern is “decent”. “decent”, “decent”, “quite good actually”, “holy shit”.

9. Please don’t allow politicians or journalists to kill recent or upcoming AI investment efforts. We will need way more - at the price of potential inefficiency in places - as AI is existential for the country. Ambitious projects are usually incredibly fragile in the early stages; look after them!

10. Mythos is a good triggering moment, but what’s coming will make it look like a toy, so it’s worth building for what’s coming in 5 years time - not a current generation model.

Very proud to be building in the UK - more to share on that soon - alongside many other great early stage AI companies! 🇬🇧

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Between 1982 and 2020, the number of the 100 richest Americans who got rich from inheritance decreased from 60 to 27. And yet on the left they think the mid 20th century was the good old days, because economic inequality was lower then.

https://t.co/ggPKu1gN8u

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

The left last week: Attacking police officers is outrageous.

The left this week: Fracturing a policewoman's spine is fine.

No-one should be taking these idiots seriously.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

What is playing out now with the Belfast attack, with Henry Nowak, is a grand symphony of gaslighting & dishonesty that is almost too stomach-churning to watch

We witnessed the same after Southport, with the rape gangs....and on & on

They KNOW their mass migration ideology caused these atrocities. So they choose to deflect on to right-wing politicians, GB News and what they call the "far right".

The public need to understand exactly how their game is played and the poisonous ideology that underpins it.

The cycle is always the same:

Fury erupts across Britain, driven not by public figures (as they claim), but by the atrocity itself. You know, the mad asylum seeker wielding a bloodied knife...

Footage is shared on social media, watched with our own eyes. The pure unvarnished truth that the legacy media can't spin.

Figures on the right respond with natural fury - indeed, rage - that the elite's callous disregard for reality and their fellow citizens has yet again unleashed carnage.

But the media and the political class can't talk about that reality. They can't talk about the incident itself. Because they would have to admit it is thanks to them that such people - such murderers - have entered the country.

The BBC, The Guardian, Sky News, Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems & many Tories, too --

What THEY CHOOSE to talk about, what they WANT YOU TO THINK the real story is about, is the anger and the choice of words of those of us who are utterly appalled and outraged by the latest atrocity -- an atrocity THEY enabled.

This is gaslighting propaganda of the most repellent and unforgivable kind.

With Southport, the real story was apparently not the son of a Rwandan refugee committing one of the most heinous crimes in British history.

No, the real story was Nigel Farage's reaction to that orgy of slaughter against little girls. When locals rioted, James O'Brien and others labelled it the 'Farage Riots'.

The small number of rioters suddenly became the story, used to dismiss the concerns of ALL protestors. "Far-right thuggery", was how Keir Starmer referred to law-abiding mothers and pensioners.

Anything to avoid talking about the crime itself and the ideology that brought its perpetrator into our country.

And now we see the same playing out with the Belfast attack and the murder of Henry Nowak.

Newsnight misleadingly quoted Nigel Farage as saying "white rage," a revealing and vile smear for which they have had to apologise yet again.

In lockstep, the media and political class rapidly converged on their narrative: this was to be a story about Nigel Farage's naughty words.

THIS is what has dominated their coverage.
This is what they want to talk about in Parliament, in the TV studios, and in the press. Farage's naughty words.

"Just how naughty were they? Should such bad words be tolerated? Should he be arrested?"
"Do we need to apply yet more censorship to protect the public against his mean, hurty words?"

These people are so far beneath contempt it is difficult to find words that do them justice.

This is a story not about Nigel Farage or the right, but the deeply ingrained anti-British and anti-white ideology that is destroying this nation.

This is an institutionally treasonous state, and Henry Novak and Stephen Ogilvie are its latest victims.

That is the real story our political and media class are attempting to bury under a mountain of pearl-clutching theatrics, lies, and misdirection.

They have blood on their hands. It's about time we said it.

Clip from my monologue. 👇
Full monologue linked in the second post. 1/2