🌞Phillip Somerville

Quasi-Contrarian, Crypto, Quantisation. My heroes have always been engineers.

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

Dulce et decorum est
Mori pro re quae iam non est
#anecstasyofgaslighting

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

This interview by @pmarca explains what is really behind Jensen Huang's ouster as Nvidia CEO.

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@DevaPete @FarRightSkip Mike, in his London ‘Fog of War’ jacket, consulting a map in order to bravely lead the press corp out of a Tunbridge Wells car park by Landrover. That’s where we need today’s Tory-Light leadership, on the front line, in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, WW3 and parking spaces!

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@TheEconomist Elon Musk came to believe that he was too important for the normal rules to apply to him. This culture of impunity must end. It has damaged one of America’s great corporate successes and undermined its national security

[周子愉 Fausto Chou @FaustoChou]

@WSJ @JensenHuang just got shown the door at @Nvidia. @spacexai already has him running their chip R&D — before the press release even dropped. The timeline we didn’t see coming. 🚀

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

"The entire coup against Jensen Huang can be halted by asking a single question. What evidence is there that Alice Huang is actually a Chinese spy? The answer, unsurprisingly, is absolutely zero."

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@kuhhbin @TheEconomist Boardroom not inclusive enough for USUK? Not as easy to drain as Binance?

[Will Kingston @WillKingston]

“The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from jailers”.
- Clive James

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@ukhomeoffice Where do I find a list of current Mini Hates? I don’t want to accidentally disrespect anybody I should be respecting.

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@Dr_M_Davis Luckily we’ve always been at war with Eastasia

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@ggreenwald NVIDIA, like Binance before it, obviously not an ‘inclusive’ enough boardroom for Ismerica.

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@GrayConnolly How is Australia any different?

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@berlin_bridge Should be an easy run into Moscow just in time for the 84th. Anniversary.
Achtung baby!

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

This bloke’s three flags to the breeze.

[Dr. Malcolm Davis 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @Dr_M_Davis]

This applies in the Indo Pacific in relation to #China and is essentially what I argue for in my new report out for ASPI on the ADF projecting power forward. See https://t.co/hqzrXpSwmc

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@haynesdeborah Was he speaking from Airstrip One or Airstrip Two?

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

"This One Smells": Ex-CIA Analyst Says Russian Death Toll Leak Arrived Right On Cue https://t.co/Cn8yhFD938

[Chamberlain's Ghost @RSA_Observer]

‼️King’s College London War Studies PhD Alexander Grable just published a paper that directly challenges the core Western claim about the Ukraine war: that Russia is taking multiples of Ukrainian casualties and is being steadily attrited.

The article appears in the official 2026 Russia Seminar proceedings of the Finnish National Defence University.

Using open-source data only, Grable argues the opposite is true - Ukrainian irretrievable losses are substantially higher, both absolutely and relatively.

The most striking indicators:

➡️ Ukrainian Ministry of Health / National Institute of Strategic Studies amputee figures, even when deliberately adjusted downward to match the best U.S. medical performance in the War on Terror, imply 400,000–520,000 Ukrainian KIA by late 2024.

➡️ Parallel Russian military-hospital data (obtained via a defector) shows far fewer amputees relative to admissions.

➡️ Body exchanges across the war average roughly 12.5 Ukrainian dead returned for every 1 Russian.

➡️ Open-source Russian death tallies (Mediazona and similar) show serious inflation when cross-checked against obituaries and probate records. A 2025 prisoner cohort of ~4,000 produced only ~112 corroborated deaths by late summer — incompatible with claims of 30–50k Russian dead per month.

Grable’s conclusion: Russian KIA/MIA are very probably lower than most Western estimates, Ukrainian losses are very probably higher, and Ukraine is on the wrong side of the attritional gradient. Russia has used superior firepower, training, and its reconnaissance-strike complex to impose highly unfavorable ratios.

Full paper (free PDF): https://t.co/iBcAyxmkm8

This is not a fringe blog or a politicised claim. It is a published contribution to a major military university’s research series.

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@MelanieBennet_ @LeeRespecter Can’t have the decolonized building dams and power stations when they can weave wicker effigies at a fraction of the cost.

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@AlboMP Help me out. Somebody that we used to know?

[🌞Phillip Somerville @unitambo]

@remnantsofpast 2013 remake was better.

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