Lou

UI/UX Developer - JS/TS, Vue, Svelte, React, Figma, Deno, Node, Cloudflare, LLMs, Technology in general 🚀

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Nothing to see here, folks. Keep believing fossil fuel.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Zohran Mamdani's wealth tax raised $12bn a year in just New York City.

It's time to tax the rich everywhere.

[Lance Lachlan ✌🏻 @lancelachlan]

The UK's grid is doing something pretty remarkable today.

☀️ Solar: 31.5%
💨 Wind: 56.7%
🌱 Renewables: 88.5%
⛽ Gas: Just 11%
⚡ Power price: -£4.22/MWh

We're generating more electricity than we need, exporting the surplus, and wholesale prices have gone negative. Clean energy isn't just about cutting emissions - it's reshaping the economics of electricity.

[Al Smizzle @AlZeidenfeld]

This is possibly the most accurate tweet of all time.

[Lou @imlwi]

@au_tom_otive This has happened before. Companies know their products fail in hot climates, but they hope the public will blame net zero rather than their lack of investment in better refrigeration.

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

It rained every day for the first 4 months of the year. These pronouncements happen because of years of under investment in reservoirs by our privatised water industry. But at least it’s made a load of shareholders rich!

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The media can obfuscate all they like, but this is Keir Starmer's epitaph:

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The possibility that Josh Simons could be close to Andy Burnham's government raises some very serious questions.

Should a man who waged factional warfare, spied on journalists and then resigned in disgrace really be at the centre of Government?

Feels very Starmer 2.0

[Lou @imlwi]

@charles_maddock They purchased modems from Qualcomm but were reluctant to integrate them into M-series SoCs. Apple acquired Intel’s smartphone modem business and developed the C1 and C1X modems in-house. A C2 chip is likely to be included in the M6 MacBook Ultra.

[Jackie Walker - HRH, MP, MBE, ABC @Jackiew80333500]

This is how I know Burnham and Labour will fail

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

Always worth remembering that eugenics starts with fomenting hate against the sick and disabled, the 'useless eaters', as the Nazis called them. They're the first target, and never the last. Canaries are singing loud and clear in the coal mines. We should be attending to them.

[Lou @imlwi]

@floinkus Initial scan for broad search, then scoped scans of areas that need further inspection.

Combine that with compression of the raw data.

Maybe LTO Magnetic Tape for safely archiving scans.

[Lou @imlwi]

@MikeTappTweets @ZackPolanski Using the horror in Gaza to bait MPs into a 'gotcha' on a proscribed group isn't defending Britain, Minister

Shameful

[Daniel Gerke @drgerke1]

It would be *much* more socially transformative to ban social media for over-65s

[big john the boshfather @Johnfis08605918]

Talk is cheap. Help is needed now. Come on the government.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

How about zero? Meta’s strategy for ever growing state mandated privacy invasion is to try to shove the surveillance obligations off on Apple and Google. How about sticking up for citizens’ rights instead?

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

There’s a clear pattern here: removing trial by jury for a whole layer of cases; blocking Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the country; the Filton 4 being sentenced as terrorists but not charged as terrorists (yes, really); a British citizen in Russia having his citizenship removed without being charged with anything; stuff like this - constantly.

It’s becoming so normal now. There’s a great phrase ‘turnkey tyranny’: you might like the people doing this today, or despise those on the receiving end, but tomorrow it WILL be different. The end point is very obvious. And these tools, and this trajectory, in the wrong hands, is quite a terrifying thought.

[Kăskă (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️ @KaskaJessica]

Cops using & fabricating AI evidence of crimes is literally the plot of the new James Bond game.

[VEsper (extremely cool) @poundvision]

Banning GCSE students from youtube is fucking insane

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

What fresh hell is this? The Spectator goes all in on Palantir, calling its critics victims of "Palantir Derangement Syndrome". What the magazine won't say:

🔺Spectator is owned by Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace - which holds some 2.3 million shares worth $380m in... Palantir.

🔺Michael Gibson, who wrote this pro-Palantir screed for The Spectator, co-ran the Thiel Fellowship with Palantir owner Peter Thiel from 2010 to 2015. Thiel then backed Gibson's 1517 fund.

🔺Palantir's primary owner, Peter Thiel, was a happy business partner with convicted serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein - Epstein's other business partner, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, described Thiel and Epstein as "co-owners" of their venture fund. Thiel's investment w/Epstein contributed to the single largest asset in Epstein's estate.

🔺We don't need a democracy hating giant surveillance-defence contractor owned by Epstein's business partner and alleged fund "co-owner" to infiltrate the NHS. Estonia, Denmark, and Israel manage complex national electronic health records without reliance on private defence platforms.

🔺There is a war on for your mind being waged by investors and media owners who have benefited directly from Peter Thiel and Palantir.

Maybe Britain doesn't need friends and business partners of child rapists, nor people who would profit from them, running our health and security systems? Who is really deranged here? 👀