Peter Robson

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

My reaction to Keir Starmer's last ditch press conference - an unsurprising reaction but possibly a helpful one (at least to those who, like me, consider him an abysmal PM).

Like many, I approached Keir Starmer's prime ministership with deep-seated pessimism, my expectations already set at rock bottom. Yet, I confess: I failed to foresee the clinical precision with which he and his inner cabal would sabotage their own administration and scar Britain.

The crux of their debacle lay, first, in a distinctly dictatorial, authoritarian reflex. And second—crucially—in a seething contempt for those who lent them their votes, while simultaneously performing a grotesque pantomime of flattery toward those who never would, and never will, support them.

Having exorcised from the Labour Party its most authentic voices—people of unimpeachable integrity, such as Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, a purge that eluded even Tony Blair’s repertoire—Starmer embarked on a rampage:

He slashed disability benefits; armed and fed intelligence to the Israeli government as it executed genocide in Gaza; channeled his own inner Farage, perhaps his inner Enoch Powell, to vilify migrants and treat refugees as vermin; gutted international aid to masquerade as a defender of defence spending; bulldozed wildlife and their habitats; unveiled a new lexicon of draconian anti-protest laws; left trans people suspended in legal limbo; clung with religious fervour to absurd, socially ruinous fiscal rules; allowed Rachel Reeves to squander £100 billion covering the Bank of England’s outrageous and wholly unnecessary Quantitative Tightening losses—a gift that keeps giving to the City’s banks—while imposing yet another round of austerity on government departments and public services.

Once the great hope of the downtrodden, Starmer’s Labour has become the villain - the genuinely nasty party.

Once a human rights lawyer, he has single-handedly plunged Britain into a shoddy, incompetent authoritarianism.

https://t.co/wIjnc9NfmJ

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Let me be clear…I broke numerous promises. I invented a £22 billion black hole to punish pensioners, farmers, the disabled, small businesses and students. I tried to give away Chagos and pay £35 billion to do so. I increased unemployment. I increased the government deficit. I appointed Peter Mandelson despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein having already been published in various media outlets. I promised to cut energy bills and council tax, but instead, the opposite happened. I did absolutely nothing to resolve the cost of living crisis and made it worse by increasing the tax burden to record levels. I prioritised hanging out with the Davos / BlackRock clique rather than genuinely ‘fixing the foundations’. I promised a ‘transparency revolution’, but instead, operated under smoke and mirrors and sacked colleagues and threatened suspending Labour MPs who voted against me. I spaffed £30 billion away on carbon capture machines. I failed to sort out the small boats / hotels for illegal immigrants. £3 billion a year to Ukraine and big hugs from Volodymyr. I smeared anyone who dared to criticise me a ‘far-right’. I sanctimoniously lectured everyone like they were naughty children. And I have absolutely no intention of resigning after disastrous local election results because I am right and everyone else is wrong. Me first. Country second.”

[Peter Robson @plrobson]

@JamesMelville @MariEdinburgh Absolutely

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Independence is Normal @jim45cotland]

“If I was a Scot, I would probably vote for #ScottishIndependence🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. England has gone too far in the direction of Thatcherism”👇

Economist Yanis Varoufakis

#voteSNP

[Scotland’s Story @80_mcswan]

The UK government continues to block the Scottish Government from taking any action at all on independence. If you believe it is up to Scotland to decide, please RT and show your support. #Scotlandsrighttodecide

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Tesla is building a chip factory bigger than anything TSMC, Samsung, or Intel has ever put under one roof. Logic, memory, and advanced packaging in a single facility. 2nm process technology. Domestically. The name alone tells you the ambition: Tera. A thousand Gigas.

Rewind to 2014. Elon announced a $5 billion battery factory in the middle of the Nevada desert when Tesla sold 35,000 cars a year. Analysts called it delusional. That factory now produces more lithium-ion cells than every other American manufacturer combined and completely restructured global battery supply chains. The Gigafactory was never about batteries. It was about removing the constraint that would have killed Tesla at scale.

Terafab is the same bet, one level deeper in the stack.

On the January earnings call, Elon laid it out: even projecting the most optimistic chip production from TSMC and Samsung, supply still falls short. FSD needs custom silicon. Cybercab needs custom silicon. Every Optimus robot needs dozens of AI chips. One million Optimus units per year means tens of billions of chips annually. No supplier on the planet has committed to that volume.

So Tesla is doing what it always does. Building the supply chain that doesn’t exist yet.

The scale they’re targeting: 100,000 wafer starts per month ramping toward one million. TSMC’s entire Arizona complex, six fabs, $165 billion invested, will represent about 30% of TSMC’s advanced capacity. Tesla wants to match that in a single facility.

The AI industry runs on three inputs: energy, data, and compute. Tesla already generates and stores energy at scale through Solar and Megapack. xAI already has Grok training infrastructure and the Memphis supercluster. Terafab closes the loop. One ecosystem controlling the full vertical from photon to silicon to autonomous machine.

Tesla is sitting on $44 billion in cash. Capex this year exceeds $20 billion, the largest annual investment in company history, and the CFO said Terafab is on top of that. This is a company spending like the window is measured in quarters, not decades.

Every major platform shift has been won by whoever controlled the bottleneck. Standard Oil controlled refining. TSMC controlled fabrication. Elon is betting that the bottleneck for the AI era is custom silicon at tera-scale, and that the company that owns energy production, chip fabrication, and robotics deployment in a single vertical will set the terms for the next 30 years.

March 21. Terafab breaks ground. The last time Elon moved this fast on infrastructure, he was building Starship and Gigafactory Berlin at the same time. Both shipped.

[Peter Robson @plrobson]

@UKwantsmore @alex_avoigt His feet will bursting out of his clown shoes

[Peter Robson @plrobson]

@EdwardJDavey @MrMatthewTodd Joke of man

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

It really is! And the upcoming tech will make it even more so.

[Peter Robson @plrobson]

@joshsimonsmp Are you sure 🫤

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

🚨WhatsApp, Signal, Messenger, Instagram…
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[Chris Littlewood @chrislittlewoo8]

Today AWS servers went down and so did the government One Login digital ID system

Millions of people were suddenly locked out of vital services just because all authentication now runs through one central system hosted on a single commercial cloud.

Could there be a clearer warning

This is not a theoretical risk.

This is what happens when all access to government services depends on a single provider and a single platform.

One outage and the whole country grinds to a halt
If AWS can crash and take out government logins nationwide.

What happens during a cyberattack?

What happens in a crisis?

What happens when there is just a technical glitch?

We are being told to put our trust our business our legal status and our most sensitive personal information into one digital basket

Today proves just how fragile and risky that model is.

Digital ID is not about convenience or security.

It is about centralising risk and making everyone more vulnerable to outages attacks and bureaucratic mistakes.

It only takes one outage to lock the country out.

#NoToDigitalID

[Cole Grinde @GrindeOptions]

If you’re a $TSLA shareholder, this is a must read.

[Peter Robson @plrobson]

@MattPocius2 Missed you too, please keep going !!!

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Linking Digital ID with access to financial institutions is one obvious way central authorities will use it to curtail individual freedom.

Sometimes dangerous policies are dressed up to make them look less threatening, ie, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Digital ID is not that; it is a wolf presenting itself as a wolf.

[BBC Debate Night @bbcdebatenight]

“The Prime Minister… deciding what is or what is not is an acceptable sort of protest, that’s a really slippery slope”

The SNP’s @AlynSmith says the right to protest is “fundamental” to “free society”, and the UK government has an “increasingly authoritarian edge”

#bbcdn

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A few rumours beginning to float around that the Labour government will scrap their plans for mandatory digital ID. This is because a huge public backlash. Keep the pressure on. Just say no to digital ID.

[eva comrie @mickbrick54]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿is bursting with brains. My Dad went to Algeria & built the Sahara pipeline. He helped build the Ballachulish bridge, worked at Kishorn, Nigg & Grangemouth. We’ve the talent to construct a new 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Quit the excuses, stand up & get the job done now.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Penny Mordaunt says that people protesting yesterday took police resources away from protecting Jewish people & those resources are finite.

So why wasn't the premier league asked to cancel football matches yesterday?

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

You know what is fundamentally un-British? Further clamping down on the right to peacefully protest — a hard-won democratic freedom secured over generations by some of the greatest movements in our history, including the Chartists, Trade Unions and the Suffragettes.