Jon Machtynger

Cognitive scientist into cloud, psych, AI/Ethics, data, people dynamics & tech.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In 1992, a 32-year-old historian became Prime Minister of Estonia.

He had read exactly one book on economics: Milton Friedman's Free to Choose.

He used it as a policy manual. Western advisors and Estonian economists told him it would fail. 🧵

[Ami Kozak @amiKozak]

Would be a nightmare having this Dad in your class

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Shabana Mahmood Called George Floyd's Death An Unspeakable Outrage. She Called Henry Nowak's A Political Grandstanding Opportunity.

On June 4th 2020, four days after George Floyd died in Minneapolis, Shabana Mahmood wrote to her constituents. She described his death as an unspeakable outrage. She shared the anger of the Black Lives Matter movement. She condemned Donald Trump in the strongest possible terms. She pledged to ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She signed it with a Black Lives Matter hashtag.

This week Shabana Mahmood stood at the despatch box and told the House of Commons there must be no two tier policing. She said the police have a sacred duty to act without fear or favour. She warned that anyone using Henry Nowak's murder to stoke division should be rejected.

Henry Nowak died on December 3rd 2025. Mahmood said nothing for days. The Commons Speaker had to order the government to make a statement. When she finally spoke she described the national outcry as political grandstanding and accused those naming the problem of stoking division.

Four days after George Floyd died she had already written to her constituents. Four days after Henry Nowak's killer was convicted she had to be ordered to speak by the Speaker of the House.

The letter she wrote in 2020 is worth reading carefully because it is the most precise document available for understanding what happened this week. She writes that her work deeply reflects the cause for social and racial justice. She writes that she will carry on working to ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She writes that she wants her work to continue to be reflective of black and ethnic minority experiences in Birmingham.

Not all voices. Black voices. Not all experiences. Black and ethnic minority experiences. That is the Home Secretary who told Parliament this week there must be no two tier policing. Her own letter is a precise description of two tier political engagement. One standard applied to George Floyd. A different standard applied to Henry Nowak.

The progressive institutional machinery was operational within hours of Floyd's death. The hashtag was ready. The language was ready. The political network was ready. Mahmood's letter was part of that machinery. It was produced within four days because the machinery runs automatically when the case fits the framework. Black Lives Matter had been founded in 2013. By 2020 it had dozens of local chapters, a global network, corporate donors worth hundreds of millions of dollars and political allies embedded across every major Western government. When Floyd died every node of that network activated simultaneously. Mahmood's letter was one activation among millions.

Henry Nowak's case does not fit the framework. His killer used the progressive framework as the murder weapon. His case does not vindicate the ideology of anti-racism training. It exposes it. And the Home Secretary whose entire political career has been built around that ideology found herself at the despatch box this week condemning its most visible consequence while declining to name its cause.

She wrote in 2020 that she would ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She has kept that promise. The question Henry Nowak's family is entitled to ask is which voices were heard at the heart of the institutions that trained the officers who handcuffed their son. The Hampshire Race Action Plan. The NPCC guidance. The College of Policing practice bank. The Metropolitan Police neutrality myth. All of it built by the same political framework Mahmood has spent her career advancing.

There must be no two tier policing. She is right. The letter she wrote in 2020 explains precisely why there is.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Great article.

“ The UN has become one of the most dangerous instruments in modern geopolitics. Authoritarian regimes are using the UN’s prestige to normalise their behavior, conceal their crimes and peddle anti-Western propaganda. It should terrify all of us that the world’s most trusted watchdog has been successfully leveraged as a PR firm for tyrants.”

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[Jon Machtynger @synapticity]

@BillTaiWang @ollama No way!!!! All this time, I've been missing out on some awesome models? Thank you.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Lord Frost on the madness of Ed’s “build more of everything” net zero madness.

“You can’t reduce enemy prices by Adding more of the very technology that increases the cost. More of everything just multiplies the cost of the most expensive and complicated part of the bill!

So ‘build more of everything’ is not a strategy. It’s a refusal to be intellectually honest. What is necessary is not layering on more and more renewables but halting renewables altogether before anymore damage is done”

Sense over ideology 🔥

[Jon Machtynger @synapticity]

Love this @lmstudio

[LM Studio @lmstudio]

Locally is now LM Studio’s mobile app. And today we're bringing LM Link to iPhone.

Use your largest local models over a secure, end-to-end encrypted connection, anywhere you go.

Download the app now: https://t.co/r7Cn8tNHqT

[Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG]

One child, one body, one girl. 15 grown men. 88 counts of rape. 11 years to bring a conviction. Why has it taken so long? Where are the protests?

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

They hate the fact that X lets British people discuss matters they would much rather be buried. Their three decade old spin apparatus is designed to deal with British newspapers, doesn’t work anymore, and they are having a tantrum because of that.

[JustDario @DarioCpx]

To go out publicly and say what he is saying, @edzitron has balls the size of the Las Vegas sphere

[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

Oxford Union President Arwa Elrayess has been exposed as a radical Islamist who hailed Hamas as “heroes” and called the October 7th massacre “proportionate.”

This after her predecessor George Abaraonye celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The Union is a complete disgrace.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Well, well, well.

There’s always a tweet.

[Jon Machtynger @synapticity]

Easy mistake to make. Sometimes one ust can't help but say the quiet part out loud..

"What was meant, in essence, was: "Not another fake booking. Just leave us alone." What came out was: "Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel."

Don't try to whitewash this @TobiasHuch

[Tobias Huch @TobiasHuch]

https://t.co/HgLWBuMnET

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

They deleted this post after the obvious irony was pointed out to them 😂😂😂

[Jon Machtynger @synapticity]

@WaveCut @antirez @0xSero Thanks for confirming. There seems to be a balance between speed/quality that still needs to be overcome. At that quantisation, it's almost worth running smaller models with good harnesses to get fast responses, and better outcomes. Optimisations are coming thick and fast though

[Jun Kim @jundotkim]

I just shipped oMLX v0.4.0, the first official release with the new native Swift macOS app.
https://t.co/AJT6hKvMPL

oMLX now ships with a redesigned onboarding flow, settings UI, Hugging Face cache discovery, and a much more native-feeling way to manage and run local models on macOS.
- Huge thanks to GitHub contributor popfido for the excellent work that drove the Swift transition.

My goal is still the same: I want oMLX to be the app someone can open on a Mac and immediately try Local AI with, without needing to understand all the machinery first.

If you try 0.4.0, I’d really appreciate feedback on the macOS app experience, especially first launch, model discovery, server start/stop, update checks, and anything that still feels confusing.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

There's a common thread that runs through the way police officers arrested Henry Nowak when his killer invoked "racism", the domestic propaganda unit wheeled out after terror attacks, the attempts to enforce Islamic blasphemy law, the cover-up of the grooming gangs, the clamp down on free speech, and it runs something like this:

The revealed preference for Britain's establishment is for unprecedented levels of migration. The repeatedly revealed preference of the population is for massive reductions in this number. Migration has been pushed on this country against its will.

The result is friction. Friction between people, friction between groups, increasingly sectarian politics as people begin to see the decision of 'who governs' as an existential one. And where there's enough friction, there's fire.

The way the state handles this is to refocus itself on reducing friction, rather than upholding what the law might actually say. A low-level counter-insurgency against its own people. A crime against an individual is unfortunate; a crime against a group is intolerable. Imperial style policing, brought home.

The difference that gives rise to the 'two-tier' element is the size of the groups involved. The 2010 and 2024 riots showed that the state would struggle to deal with any large scale disorder; by definition, any significant dissent from the majority would give rise to this disorder.

The way that the state has chosen to handle this is to treat minority groups with a certain deference and lenience, making "small" concessions with relatively limited impact that buy a degree of peace, and to treat the majority with utter ruthlessness. The Harehills riot saw the police retreat; the Southport riots less than two weeks later saw maximal deployment of state capacity and a "shared understanding" that the courts would do the bidding of Government with quick, tough sentences. This is not "policing by consent" in the old Peelian model. That was not "the public must consent to the law being enforced", but that the police would try to win the trust of the community, singular. Now there are communities, plural, with conflicting views and interests, and the result is that policing has retreated from what it sees as contested ground.

At times, the new reality is even stated bluntly. The National Police Chiefs Council states that its goal is "producing equality of policing outcomes", and that this "does not mean treating everyone 'the same' or being 'colour blind' (racial equality)".

From monitoring what you say online to reorienting policing around the management of "tensions" between groups to endless efforts to promote the idea of diversity as a good, or play down any identity-based element in incidents with a majority victim. Two-tier policing is a function of numbers. And it is by this point completely clear that the Establishment has committed to this strategy so completely that it cannot reverse it without totally discrediting itself.