Bullish.
Could the news be much more dramatic? History teaches that an AI crash is likely. But clues from manias past suggest it would not be a financial cataclysm bit.ly/4zCkJyp
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China is hiring the dumbest kids you knew in high school to sabotage American tech infrastructure by telling them data centers are stealing water from dehydrated African children.
~60% of data centers are air-cooled/closed loop systems. Meaning they waste no water. 95% of new data centers being built use these same cooling methods. The remaining data centers that do “waste” water are aging and require renovation/replacement. So when you stop the construction of a new waterless data center, you are actually the one causing data centers to “waste” water unnecessarily.
It’s incredible how many people are anti-data-center for reasons a quick grok search can easily debunk.
Fun fact: The woman pictured here credited the viral success of her campaign to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a China proxy organization operating here in the United States.
PSL is the political arm of the Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, an avowed Marxist multimillionaire who has bankrolled anti-American, pro-CCP nonprofits to the tune of $278 million.
Singham’s political foot soldiers have been boots on the ground in dozens of anti-data center fights across the country. But striking down the $5 billion data center campus in Landover, MD, was by far their biggest scalp.
In the ongoing campaign against American AI, cui bono?
More than anyone, it’s our chief political adversary.
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Tell your kids that Santa can't bring them presents this year because Muslims destroyed his bones and he cannot return to the North Pole until retribution has been achieved.
🔴🇫🇷 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 — Des OSSEMENTS attribués à saint Nicolas, évêque de Myre, conservés depuis 1098 à Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, en Meurthe-et-Moselle, ont été VOLÉS dans leur reliquaire, au sein de la basilique, puis DÉTRUITS.
Le suspect, interpellé à son domicile, a reconnu avoir BRISÉ la vitrine protégeant le reliquaire, avant d’en voler le contenu, de BRÛLER les ossements puis de les ÉCRASER par « désir de destruction ».
(Source : L'Est Républicain)
The Economist again…
Panic about Islam in Europe is spreading. Yet the continent faces no Islamic takeover, no mass radicalisation of Muslims and no erasure of its culture. The real danger is different bit.ly/4xferTy
Illustration: Peter Dench
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I feel a personal sense of loss here.
BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a “desire to destroy.”
(Source: L'Est Républicain)
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5 months of these balancing costs would buy you a 1Gw Kepco nuclear power station.
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Saint Obama lost more seats at the midterms than Trump.
But hey, facts don’t matter.
#Midterms
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I have written about the decline in hedgehogs. There's a huge amount of evidence that badgers are the cause. This thread spells out that evidence.🧵
Something is plainly going wrong for hedgehogs in farms, woods, gardens and parks despite a general improvement in the management of these habitats. Farmers leave more uncut grass and shrubs; gardeners leave more leaf piles, foresters are planting more native trees. Yet still the prickly beasts get rarer and rarer...
Replies off. I hate him. Is that Islamophobic of me? No it’s not. He’s just hateful.
Let me be absolutely clear: anyone who targets Londoners because of their faith will be held to account.
I'll continue working with the Met Police and partners to tackle faith-based hate crime, such as Islamophobia, protect our communities and ensure there is zero tolerance for this kind of prejudice in our city.
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4 men were recorded chanting antisemitic slurs threatening murder and rape.
The vehicle was tracked and the occupants arrested.
Despite all of the evidence, the case was dropped by the CPS.
They targeted Londoners based on their faith. They were not held to account.
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Literally everywhere on earth is just one big long example of left wing ideology being a complete and disastrous failure and they learn absolutely nothing from it, ever
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Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
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What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
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Churchill authorised & sent over 900,000 tons of grain to India between mid 1943 to end of 1944 to alleviate the famine, despite the concurrent shipping crisis & Japanese naval threat. You’re an associate professor at Cambridge. The Churchill Archives are literally in Cambridge. Do better. Utterly embarrassing & shameful.
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