Isaac

[Isaac @irg111]

apropos of nothing in particular

[max tempers @maxtempers]

Astonishing fact: Only 4% of all small boat arrivals have ever been removed from the UK; of those, 71% were Albanian.

Strip out Albania, and the UK has deported just 1 in 100 illegal small boat arrivals since 2018. This is how good your odds are if you make the trip.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025.

In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft.
https://t.co/0xpILXnURG

[Isaac @irg111]

"the Brits"

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

No one who believes that Irish families do not deserve justice should be anywhere near Labour leadership. And disgracefully smearing those families is of a part with the arrogance that made the Brits feel they were untouchable.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

The U.S. will allow Iran to immediately begin selling oil and fuel under the peace agreement - WSJ

The MoU includes an immediate sanctions waiver on Iranian oil and covers necessary services including banking, transportation and insurance needed to facilitate the sales.

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

Some kind of maritime operation in the channel involving the Russian frigate Grigorovich, I'm told, after allegations shots fired

[Isaac @irg111]

We are getting back to the double-edged sword of personalisation that eventually killed Google Search.
The more you personalise responses, the harder it gets for people to get semi-replicable outputs from the same input, which can limit the usefulness in a productivity context.

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

I’m interested in the degree to which memory & specifically knowledge of the user seems to play a role in shaping model attitudes to sensitive questions. Curious if Opus 4.8 behaves similarly for others.

[Navy Lookout @NavyLookout]

Rich Knighton, CDS freely saying to a House of Lord Committee that the DIP settlement that @JohnHealey_MP resigned over does not provide enough RDEL budget (day-to-day running expenses) for defence - operations and training will have to be cut.

If this is imposed, a resignation matter for Knighton and @DanJarvisMBE ?

[Isaac @irg111]

@Discoplomacy Yep. We've had confirmed cases with IRI/IRGC and Russian Federation gov & affiliates publicly, plus likely a dozen other places engaging in varying levels of activity.
Attribution is usually dependent on exceptionally poor opsec by contractor, so not rly of use.

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

The UK now has the highest (18-24 year old) NEET rate compared to the 22 EU economies in the OECD ➡️ https://t.co/2qZYWEL2iW

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

NEW: No.10 sources confirm @Tony_Diver's ace scoop that there will be no more money for the Defence Investment Plan.

So what was Lisa Nandy talking about yesterday?

https://t.co/SBuGKk0tf1

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

The Royal Society for Blind Children and the National Deaf Children's Society have both come out against the Starmer social media ban.

"Internet bad" is a trendy, upper-middle-class opinion for people with extracurricular budgets that ignores legions of people who rely on it.

[fareed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @it_is_fareed]

Perhaps a social media curfew for over-65s, or at least mental faculty tests for access? Do our pensioners not deserve similar protections to our teenagers?

[Isaac @irg111]

Rare case of public action against Russia marked by the commencement of UK action against Shadow Fleet, but the response to the attacks on the Starmer residence will be a lot less publicly visible, but very sharply felt, I suspect.

[SK Media @SpaghettiKozak]

Guys you can just retaliate against russia. You don't have to tolerate terrorism.

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

Perhaps Putin hit Lavra Pecherska because the Orthodox monastery in Kyiv was already famous while Moscow was still a forest.
I hope that this outrageos attack disabuses Christians the world over of the absurd idea that the old KGB colonel is a defender of the faith.

[Isaac @irg111]

I struggle to see how this doesn't cause massive problems down the line...

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

[Jack Watling @Jack_Watling]

HMG is lining itself up for a punishing month with its allies. The UK has been at the heart of designing NATO's defence plans. Those plans specify what allies agreed was necessary to ensure deterrence. Allies made commitments as to what part of the plan they would resource. 1/9

[Financial Times @FT]

Arson targeting Keir Starmer properties originated in Russia https://t.co/dKTlGm69PD

[max tempers @maxtempers]

As the formula used to set social rents is still anchored to 1999 prices, they've fallen a lot in relative value since.

Social rents are now just 41% of market rents across England, falling to just 33% in London. Hugely distortionary and means massive subsidies for a select few.

[Tony Dowson @TonyDowson5]

"Ban on Palestine Action was lawful, court of appeal rules

"Judges overturn decision of high court that government proscription of group under Terrorism Act was wrong"

https://t.co/R5wlAFQl0Q

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Including YouTube in the list of banned 'social media' websites is going to be the governments biggest single own goal.

More people watch YouTube than the BBC.