Mike O'Neill

Software developer. Co founder NDL, founder KNX & founder with @minabird Baycloud Systems Labour 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

India said NO to Starlink.

Musk thought he could throw a public tantrum and bully India into handing him a telecom monopoly, but he completely miscalculated.

Thanks to Trump’s reckless betrayal of global allies and cozying up to dictators, the world is waking up to a terrifying truth: you simply cannot trust America—or its arrogant billionaires—with your national security anymore.

Fareed Zakaria:

“Elon Musk picked the wrong moment to lecture Indians.

Frustrated that Starlink had not been cleared to launch in that country, he accused the government of protecting Mukesh Ambani whose telecom network Jio will launch its own satellite service.

Musk cast himself as the champion of ordinary Indians against one of the country's richest men. It backfired. India's government dismissed his accusation as baseless.

An influential nationalist group close to the ruling party went further demanding that Starlink be kept out of India altogether citing national security. Media and online reactions were similarly hostile to Starlink.

Musk did not understand that in India as in much of the world, trust in America is collapsing. Indians have watched as Donald Trump has discarded 25 years of bipartisan outreach to New Delhi in favor of cozying up to Pakistan and its de facto dictator Field Marshal Asim Munir.

They have watched Trump essentially abandon Ukraine, where the military version of Starlink has been suspiciously restricted, thus crippling Ukraine's military response to Russian aggression.

Would India define itself in another crisis with Pakistan? Would it want its armed forces to be utterly dependent on a US satellite system controlled by Trump?”

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Initially Elon denied slowing down the Starlink data rates and said only the Pentagon had that authority. We don’t like being lied to.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

A nightmare for Putin and his tools like Musk, Farage, Le Pen and the AfD - Indefatigable Georgians waving St. George's Crosses, EU flags, and a Ukrainian flag in resistance to the ruling Putinist regime.

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Brexit’s days are numbered.

Burnham will ask the EU about the conditions for rejoining at the summit.

The EU will offer the UK an interim arrangement while accession is negotiated.

Europe’s support the UK’s return, as do over 60% of Britons.

Labour leads with 32%, will win the next election and will put rejoining the EU in its next manifesto.

Burnham will go down as Britain’s best prime minister in decades.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Okay that’s two guys who have said it now, if this is really the case coreweave is toast outside of whatever plan Blackstone can concoct

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

LLMs are not artificial intelligence.
They are the compressed digital output of humans.
They are a search engine of our PAST. They create a holographic snapshot of our relics. They do not create anything new.

Chatbots are a commoditized software feature, not a revolution. Sorry.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Lula victory speech:

"We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate.

We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results."

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous and ill thought out. That their Brexit was boosted by Putin makes it even more historically catastrophic. We mustn’t forget the people who did this or let them near power again

[Alastair Thomson @FinanceDirCFO]

For non-accountants, and people in tech who seem to have trouble understanding this, your unit revenues going down by 80% whilst all your costs increase and the interest you pay on borrowed money ramps up, generally puts you on the fast track to the bankruptcy courts...

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pulled off a dramatic comeback on Sunday as he clinched a re-election victory, but his rival Flavio Bolsonaro refused to accept the loss and said he would seek to annul the vote

https://t.co/5jVVSWIxQ7

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Kinda looks like the AI bubble's gonna start to unravel for real tomorrow. We will see what things look like in 24 hours for more signals... Watch CoreWeave / $CRWV

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Reform is finished.

The anti-EU party has fallen from first place a year ago to third.

Labour, the party bringing the UK back towards the EU, leads the polls at 30%.

Reform championed a Brexit that saw non-EU migration surge while European migration collapsed.

A Brexit sold on lies that held back productivity, growth and British wages.

Soon they will see the UK rejoin the EU and put an end to their sham.

Great news for Britain.

[visionaryvoid @Visionaryvoid]

Ralph Fiennes has been a very, very naughty boy! He had the absolute audacity to publicly defend J.K. Rowling, the author of a series that gave him one of his most iconic roles to date… that of Harry Potter’s nemesis, Voldemort. Everyone is expected to perfectly goose-step in line and denounce her for her original sin of ‘transphobia’ due to a series of Tweets.

Fiennes is not the sort of man to get dragged along in pointless slacktivism on the internet. He doesn’t Tweet about how woke he is, he doesn’t run around with little rainbows on his lapels… no, Ralph Fiennes is an actual professional. No nonsense, old-school — you’re here to act, so act! I like that. He’s an admirable chap

Meanwhile Radliffe, Watson and whatever-his-name-is who plays Ron, the ginger sidekick, have all spat out Rowling and publicly denounced her, because the Gods of Social Justice have put a fatwa on her name.
Voldie: “I find the level of hatred that people express about views that differ from theirs, and the violence of language towards others, disturbing.”
Beautiful! To the point. And oh-so true. It is disturbing how incredibly, extremely, over-the-top pissed people get at you when you go against the narrative and dare to criticise whatever’s the current hype. The very fact that Fiennes is now “under fire” for a comment so benign, in defense of a woman so marvelous, is… terrifying.
Half the millennial cast of the Harry Potter universe wishes to all-but cancel the very Creator of their own universe, the woman to whom each of them owe their lucrative careers. Not Fiennes. Fiennes was somebody before Voldemort, and continued to be somebody after. He doesn’t need to defend or attack anyone. But he does, anyway, because he’s a decent human being.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

What an extraordinary night for democracy!

In Brazil, Lula has defeated the far right in a dramatic electoral comeback.

In Serbia, a student-led movement has toppled Vučić’s authoritarian government after nearly two years of protests.

Two countries, thousands of miles apart, have delivered enormous blows to the nationalist right.

A powerful reminder of what ordinary people can achieve when they organise and refuse to give up.

Next up, it’s America’s turn.

[Mike O'Neill @incloud]

Website hacking has been going on for years long before AGI & LLMs. Deregulation & PE driven cost cutting has weakened cybersecurity & data protection where most commercial sites play compliance lip service while allowing everyone’s data to be needlessly hoovered-up & ransomed.

[Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 @Anna_Soubry]

At last a post #Brexit PM who is being honest with the British people about the benefits of free movement.

FWIW IMO @andyburnham is honest & determined to strengthen our economy & make the UK a better, fairer, more prosperous & safer place for all its people.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read more here:
https://t.co/I1lNTvIPgn

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

450 million currently have the right to settle in Amsterdam.

But don’t.

The full 69.5 million population of the UK plus the full 5.5 million population of Ireland currently have the right to work and settle in Brighton.

But don’t.

Reform are being very silly, again.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

And Reformers will start screaming polls count for nothing it's votes that count in 3-2-1

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 This is huge.

Andy Burnham is now openly saying that EU free movement would not be a red line.

Free movement was one of the central reasons Britain ruled out the Single Market after Brexit.

If that red line goes, the door to much deeper economic reintegration opens with it.

Burnham hasn’t committed to restoring free movement yet.

But he is now publicly questioning one of the fundamental assumptions on which hard Brexit was built.

And his argument is devastatingly simple:

Pre-Brexit European migration was often circular - people came, worked, and went home.

Post-Brexit Britain ended free movement and then experienced much higher net migration.

Brexit did not solve immigration. It changed its nature, while damaging trade at the same time.

Thank god we’ve moved beyond “make Brexit work” to reconnecting Britain.