willperring.bsky.social

Pro-EU, anti-Hate. Firm believer that there is more that unites us than divides us.

[Pete @ChatGPetey]

Rare proud moment for the UK.

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

🚨 This is getting seriously dangerous.

The @BBC is withdrawing educational material on climate change and migration following accusations of political bias.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION.

It's established science.

MIGRATION IS A FACT OF HUMAN HISTORY.

Its economic, social and cultural contributions are documented, as are the challenges it can create. Immigration policy is open to debate, but children deserve to understand the evidence, not have political uncomfortable facts filtered out.

Political impartiality must never mean treating established evidence as ideology.

Education should teach children to examine reality critically, not sanitise it to avoid political controversy.

#ClimateChange #Immigration

[Hiro Protagonist (至大) @augeeidos]

Elon wants chip fabs on the Moon now. Lunar soil is 20% silicon, he says, so you just mine it, refine it, stamp out solar cells and chips. Next level of the video game. His words.

He's a walking 1954 Popular Science cover. "Moon Factories by 1975!" You can picture him red-faced at some poor SpaceX engineer, jabbing a finger at a render: "I saw this in a magazine! Why can't you guys do this?" Because the magazine was fiction, Elon. That's why.

Boring question one: water. A single leading-edge fab burns through millions of gallons of ultrapure water every day, the kind filtered and polished until it turns chemically aggressive and rips ions out of anything it touches. Making it takes an industrial plant of its own. On the Moon you'd be chipping ice out of permanently shadowed craters at minus 230 C and feeding it through a purification chain that doesn't exist, powered by energy that also doesn't exist.

Boring question two: shaking. Lithography machines sit on tuned vibration isolation, springs and masses and counterweights engineered around Earth's gravity down to the millimeter. Lunar gravity is one sixth of that. Every spring rate and tuned mass in the stack assumes 1 g, and the Moon has its own moonquakes nobody has fully mapped. So forget shipping a fab up there. You'd have to redesign the entire physics package from scratch, in a hailstorm of charged abrasive dust that eats seals and bearings for breakfast.

And here's the part that makes it funny instead of just dumb. NASA studied all of this while Elon was still in college. Ignatiev and Freundlich published the actual paper in 1991: waste silicon from regolith processing, vacuum-deposited thin-film cells laid right on the surface. Serious work, fifteen years of it, and by 2005 the best anyone could promise was 5-8% efficient cells sprayed on melted moon glass, economical only at megawatt scale. Chips? Never in the plan. Not once, in thirty years of study. Then a 2006 follow-up walked back even the crude version, because melted regolith is too lumpy and dirty to make a decent substrate. The 2025 research gave up on purifying lunar silicon entirely and just ships the semiconductor layer from Earth.

Thirty years of papers saying "hard pass" and this guy shows up with the crayon version of a 1991 NASA study, calls it visionary, and the fanboys clap like he invented the Moon. He isn't a genius ahead of his time. He's a man who skips the reading, and it shows every single time he opens his mouth just to pump his cult stocks.

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Let me get this straight.

A guy keeps getting weirdly targeted ads on his new Samsung TV.

So he breaks into his own TV to find out why. 1.2M people watch.

42 hours later, OpenAI deactivates his account. Reason: "Cyber Abuse."

His words: "i have never used openai to exploit or find vulnerabilities, only local reverse engineering"

Same week, people on r/claude say Claude now cuts off reverse-engineering write-ups MID-SENTENCE:

"A safety check stopped my response partway through creating the playbook"

The TV is fine.

The guy who opened it is the problem.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Because they have the same beliefs as the Nazis but know the branding is terrible

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Every time I see another poxy AI Video, or someone asking AI what they'd look like as a Badger, I can't believe this is what we've chosen to destroy our Trees, Lakes, Nature & humanity for.
A speed Run to extinction instead.

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Google did this to build a data center in Finland.

It was illegal, but they did it anyway.

Big Tech is out of control.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Attacking your soldiers is legitimate armed resistance.

Demolishing civilian homes as punishment is a war crime.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

And the response — despite this fraudulent crisis — is to insist teachers discuss the genocide with “balance” — which actually means not with balance at all — because the reality is a genocidal apartheid state is committing unfathomable violations of nearly every article of IHL.

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

If SARS-CoV-2 was really damaging people’s frontal lobes, you’d be noticing people being more brazenly rude, hostile, bigoted, antisocial, and tribalistic. Both online & irl.

You’d notice people would be quicker to lose their temper, and unable to keep a lid on their emotions.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume I, Chapter IV (“Munich”):

“The problem of how the future of the German nation can be secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated.”

Let’s be clear: Elon Musk absolutely knows the history. He knows Hitler’s stated goal was to destroy Marxism. Pointing to “Socialist” in the party’s name to call Hitler far-left isn’t a mistake. It’s a calculated lie designed to gaslight gullible people who believe every word he says.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

1. The entire right of British politics is allowed to say all the time, including on LBC, unchallenged, that Labour is catering to and afraid of ‘sectarian Muslims’ and no one says anything.
2. The Board of Deputies is an influential lobby group. Pointing that out isn’t the same as saying the UK government is ‘controlled by Jews’ which would of course be antisemitic.
3. The leader of the Green Party is Jewish.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

In 2018, Musk called himself a socialist, then redefined the word to mean something else. When the Nazis added “Socialist” to their party’s name in 1920, largely to lure workers away from the real socialist and communist parties, Musk treats it as proof that Hitler was one.

A self-chosen label either settles the question or it doesn’t. He can’t have it both ways.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Elon Musk is promoting a video that rewrites the history of Nazism to suit today’s far right. Here’s what happened in 1933, who made the video, and why it matters.

Within weeks of Hitler taking power in January 1933, the organised left was being dismantled.

Communists, Social Democrats and trade unionists were rounded up, and Dachau opened in March, initially to imprison political opponents, above all Communists.

On 2 May the Nazis smashed the independent trade unions and replaced them with the state-controlled German Labour Front. A week later, students burned the works of Marx and Kautsky, with a fire oath declaring itself “against class struggle and materialism”.

Dachau’s first murders came on 12 April 1933, when the SS shot four Jewish prisoners: Rudolf Benario, Ernst Goldmann, Arthur Kahn and Erwin Kahn. Benario and Goldmann were young left-wing activists from Fürth.

The very rich were treated differently. Many industrialists had feared the Nazis were socialists, so in January 1932 Hitler addressed Düsseldorf’s Industry Club, playing down his antisemitism and stressing his anti-Marxism to reassure them. Few backed him openly until he took power.

On 20 February 1933, Hitler met leading industrialists, Gustav Krupp among them, and told them: “Private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy.” It was conceivable, he said, only where people had “a sound idea of authority and personality”. They contributed more than two million Reichsmarks to the election fund of Hitler’s coalition.

Private ownership was preserved for compliant industrialists, company profits rose sharply, and in the mid-1930s the regime even sold state stakes in banks, steelworks and shipping back into private hands.

In 1934, Hitler also had members of his own movement who took its anti-capitalist rhetoric seriously murdered during the Night of the Long Knives.

Yes, the Nazis controlled prices, wages and investment, as Britain did in wartime. State control tells you how an economy is run, and the question that matters is whom it serves.

The Nazi state crushed independent labour, protected compliant employers, and harnessed the economy to rearmament and conquest.

That is why historians place Nazism on the far right, including conservatives such as Ernst Nolte, who saw anti-Marxism as fascism’s defining feature.

The word in the party’s name was largely a recruiting device, designed to lure workers away from the real socialist and communist parties. A name settles nothing, any more than North Korea’s makes it democratic.

The man Musk is amplifying is Brivael Le Pogam, the Paris-based co-founder of Argil, a Silicon Valley-backed company selling AI video avatars, who boasts of using AI to win hundreds of millions of views.

His self-described “masterclass” spends minutes on price controls and the voting habits of American professors. It never once mentions the Holocaust. Race appears once, as “fuel”.

He is candid about why. With Hitler on the right, he complains, anyone defending “borders” or “the nation” is “one step away from fascism”. That is “why Milei is far right” and “why people call Elon Musk a Nazi”.

A nationalist politics is to be cleansed by relabelling history’s most murderous nationalist.

He even cites Leo Strauss’s “reductio ad Hitlerum”, the fallacy of condemning an idea because Hitler held it, and then commits it from start to finish. And his test of freedom is simply the free market, which would place Pinochet’s Chile, with its torture and disappearances, on the side of freedom.

So the world’s richest man is promoting an attempt to free the far right from its own history, turning the Nazis’ first victims into props for their persecutors.

History records which side Germany’s richest men chose in 1933. It’s worth noticing who is now keen to blur it.

It’s polished, confident and wrong, and it’s built to divide: anyone who objects is cast as the enemy of freedom. Freedom for whom?

Remember who filled Dachau first.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Deleting 15 years of climate change data WE paid for so big oil can keep raping us on high prices seems criminal.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Meta's "accidental" suspension of the No Kings Instagram account — at a time when the org was posting updates from ongoing marches — was not an anomaly. I found dozens of similar instances of Meta "mistakenly" targeting left-leaning activist accounts, often during crucial election windows.

My latest.

[Rima Isam Anabtawi 🪷 @rimaanabtawi]

So it begins. This is a far cry from an announcement of full siege, these are orders to empty Hebron of its inhabitants. It is 2 a.m. People are being ordered to evacuate.

To where?

Orders for full displacement for 21,000 people

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

British journalists keep asking whether Israel has the right to exist, while Israeli politicians openly declare that Palestine will never be allowed to exist.

Why is one side’s right to exist constantly questioned, while the other side’s right to exist is openly denied?