Steely jacks

[max tempers @maxtempers]

Mauritian media highlighting just how large a contribution the Chagos deal would make: a perpetual 1.3% of GDP / 4.5% of govt revenue line item. The govt snuck it into its equivalent of the OBR’s forecasts to get their last budget through.

[Epoch Nowell @chapofwessex]

Have the Royal Navy even tried claiming anxiety and getting a new fleet on the motability scheme?

[Christian May @ChristianJMay]

It hasn't been cancelled over "safety concerns." It's been cancelled because the council can't afford to comply with new rules around safety. Quite a different thing.

[Conks @conksresearch]

you couldn't make this up

[Steely jacks @dj6979]

@conksresearch Magical thinking

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

Two things the government is doing right now:

1) Launching a National Centre for Information Defence to battle 'far-Right narratives' and 'distorted and untrue' narratives about Britain.

2) Using legal action to prevent the release of crime data broken down by nationality.

[Jens Christiansen @jenshigh]

Fun fact: Sweden has four nuclear reactors that have each generated more electricity than all Danish wind turbines ever.

Forsmark 3 and Oskarshamn 3 started in 1985, the year Denmark banned nuclear. Both still ahead of Denmark’s entire wind fleet.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Six years ago, The Washington Post said that Atlantic hurricanes seasons are going to become much worse due to global warming. Stronger storms, especially near the coast. Hyperactive years like 2020 was said to be a “harbinger of the future.”

Last week, The Washington Post reported that the lack of hurricanes in the Atlantic this year is also potentially because of global warming.

Climate change has become a convenient scapegoat for climastrologists blame everything that happens with the weather on. They can't ever be wrong.

[Edward Teather @TeatherEdward]

What's depressing about the Botley Road Bridge is that thought was put into the design, but it still looks ugly.

Planning docs claim the "gothic themed shape" along the side of the bridge is "inspired" by and "sympathetic to" Oxford's character.

They could have done this:

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Official, reef-wide stat widely published as the Great Barrier Reef got worse

But when it got better, official stat stopped

Here is the optimal average (least-square) based on their own estimates from 1986-2020

https://t.co/gMlvcPBSwA

You can see all the references in my Twitter thread:
https://t.co/Q56SB4Pj0Y

[Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 @DuncanStott]

Read this article and you'd have no idea that collisions leading to death or serious injury are led by older drivers.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

It's almost like we are living in some parallel world. The idea that millions of young working-class British lads are going to be rushing to enlist to fight in a manufactured war for a ruling class that has spent the past three decades stigmatising and demonising them is just wild. Have our political and military leaders lost their minds? Do they know the slightest thing about the mood inside the country?

[Steely jacks @dj6979]

@antigaslight Why can’t we adopt French law that does not house people. It would be enough

[Matthew Lilley @MattGLilley]

Truly, the most robust result in modern economics is that, as ideology grows large, every theorem acquires a people-who-are-richer-than-me exception.

[Steely jacks @dj6979]

@DPJHodges @EssexPR It’s a debate and there are points of view. That’s all.

[Steely jacks @dj6979]

@snarwani FAFO

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

Took longer to build than the Titanic, cost over twice as much as the UK national supercomputer, and adds one new platform to Oxford station. (Oh, and the railings on either side of the road don't match.) A case study for our moment.

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

Norwegian researchers drove a Chinese EV into a mine to cut it off from the world. It still tried to call home.

The project is called Project Lion Cage. Tor Indstøy, a Telenor security executive, monitored his own NIO ES8 SUV for years. About 90% of the connections he logged went to Chinese servers, even though NIO tells European customers their data is processed in Europe.

The car carries cameras, microphones, location tracking and always-on modems. Most traffic is encrypted, so researchers could see where it went, not what it held. That is the gap. China's National Intelligence Law requires companies to assist state intelligence work. Nobody has proven spying. The question is who can be forced to hand over the feed.

A separate test by Oslo transit operator Ruter found the Chinese Yutong bus could be reached by its maker through software updates, including battery and power systems. Yutong says it cannot control steering or brakes.

Countries buying cheap Chinese EVs should expect to ask what else comes with the price.

Is a lower sticker price worth putting a Chinese-controlled sensor on every street?

[Steely jacks @dj6979]

@Telegraph Do one.