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80s baby. SWE in the EV industry. Musk enthusiast. Early Monzo investor. AI experiments + side hustles.

London
Joined June 2023
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James Cook retweeted
Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise. 🏆
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Imagine a future with Rupert Lowe in charge. Brits getting prioritised for the first time. Deportations underway and the buzz from the hive slowly begins to calm. The spraying stops the sun comes out. Crime is massively reduced and a sense of positive zeitgeist starts to flourish. Small business starts to take off. People begin to feel united again. Electricity starts to become affordable and the country begins to normalise. The possibility of fun creeps back in. Pubs and restaurants start jumping and people are safely out in the parks again. Woke is gone. Morality and ethics are brought to the forefront again under a refreshed form of democracy. Pensioners are treated with respect and dignity and hard work and decency are rewarded once more. The future of a Restored Britain ✝️
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James Cook retweeted
writeup coming up on rooting your samsung tv (running tizen) is coming. everything about the methodology will be included (in 2 tiers of explanation: one technical, one intended as a way to enable as many people to do it themselves). your room should be yours. companies who yearn for every extractable data vector of your life should be shamed. on the bright side, now that we’re going to be freeing up their data centers from needing massive telemetry ingest capacity they can get back to making memory more affordable as an apology. :)
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This is absolutely INSANE! Meet Mohammed Yaseen. He was a member of an Al Qaeda group that beheaded Brit Ken Bigley. He then joined ISIS where he worked as a guard at two mass killings and a deadly public stoning. He was arrested in Germany and served nearly 5 years in prison for being a member of Isis. After he was released, Germany didn't deport him, so he broke into our country on a small boat because he heard we 'accept everyone'. He was jailed for 2 years for illegal entry, then released early after 6 months. This is despite hearing in court that he 'posed a danger to the whole of the UK' and he had a 'deep and lengthy involvement in terrorism and Islamic extremist ideology'. He's eligible for deportation, but the Foreign Office raised concerns that if we deport him to Iraq he could face 'mistreatment' for being a terrorist. He has reapplied to stay in the UK, which halts any deportation proceedings and it will cost taxpayers' £85,000 a year to keep him here. It get's worse... if and when he uses the ECHR to fight his case, we are potentially on the hook for another *£500,000* in legal aid. He's been put in a bail hostel in Windsor and able to walk the streets. WHAT TF ARE WE DOING TO OURSELVES?! This country is utterly broken.
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James Cook retweeted
"Das Pferd wird es immer geben, aber das Automobil ist nur eine Modeerscheinung – ein Spielzeug für Reiche." Michigan Savings Bank, 1903 "Ich denke, es gibt weltweit einen Markt für vielleicht fünf Computer." Thomas Watson, 1943 "No chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share." Steve Ballmer, 2007 "Das Internet hat für die Wirtschaft kaum wichtigere Auswirkungen als das Faxgerät." Paul Krugman, 1998 "Flugmaschinen, die schwerer sind als Luft, sind physikalisch unmöglich." Lord Kelvin, 1895 "Das Spam-Problem bei E-Mails wird in spätestens zwei Jahren gelöst sein" Bill Gates, 2004 "Der Fernseher wird sich auf dem Markt nicht halten. Die Menschen werden es bald leid sein, jeden Abend auf eine Sperrholzkiste zu starren." Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946 "Es gibt keinen Grund, warum jemand einen Computer in seinem Haus haben wollte." Ken Olson, 1977 "Wenn die Pariser Weltausstellung schließt, wird das elektrische Licht ausgehen und man wird nie wieder davon hören." Erasmus Wilson, 1878 "Die Amerikaner brauchen das Telefon vielleicht, wir aber nicht. Wir haben genug Laufburschen." William Preece, 1876 "Egal wie die Wissenschaft in Zukunft fortschreitet, der Mensch wird den Mond niemals erreichen." Lee De Forest, 1957 "Reisen mit hoher Geschwindigkeit ist nicht möglich, weil die Passagiere keine Luft mehr bekommen und an Erstickung sterben würden." Dionysius Lardner, 1830 "Mit Wechselstrom herumzuspielen ist reine Zeitverschwendung. Niemand wird ihn jemals nutzen." Thomas Edison, 1889 "Mobiltelefone werden die Drahttelefone absolut nicht ersetzen." Marty Cooper, 1981 #TeslaRoadster #Tesla
Der Tesla Roadster ist das beste Beispiel dafür, dass der Kapitalismus Dinge um ihrer selbst willen produziert, die niemand braucht.
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a car just did something straight out of science fiction and half the internet immediately started debating commercial viability not every engineering achievement needs a fucking business model. you are allowed to experience wonder
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I do not believe that the NHS should exist to serve millions of migrants from the third world. Walk into any waiting room, any emergency department, any specialist clinic, any maternity unity - you’ll see exactly what I mean. British men and women forced to wait months, even years, for an appointment or procedure, whilst the system gets clogged up by migrants who should not be in our country. I’ll get the usual screeching in response to this about how the NHS would collapse without immigration. Wrong. We can welcome the French oncologist or South Korean surgeon without also welcoming millions of zero-skilled migrants who use and abuse our generosity. We don’t have to do both, clearly. There is a better way. Here is Restore Britain’s six point plan to fix the NHS. Demand. - Most importantly, reverse mass immigration. - A financial penalty for missed appointments without an evidenced reason. Supply. - Remove caps on medical-school places so that more talented British young men and women have the opportunity to become doctors/professionals - apprenticeships, training schemes and more. - With the same effort for dentistry, which is equally important. - Work to retain experienced NHS staff, bringing them back into the service with incentives. - Maintain a selective route for genuinely exceptional overseas medical professionals. - Demand rigorous and consistent professional standards. - Ensure no qualified and capable British medical professional is out of work. - Introduce grants to attract emigrated qualified Brits back home. Access. - Work with the private sector on a massive scale to reduce waiting lists to manageable levels, alongside a 24/7 service in appropriate units. - Use AI to bypass the GP bottleneck, clearing the way for rapid diagnostic tests, with appropriate clinical safeguards. - Invest in community support to hasten discharges so that hospital beds aren't occupied by patients who no longer need the care. - End the 8am GP appointment scramble. Establish more accessible online booking systems, with urgent appointments appropriately prioritised and telephone access retained for those who need it. - A national infrastructure reinvestment scheme for technology, diagnostics, equipment and facilities. Patient experience. - Make hospital parking free for patients, visitors and staff, introducing sensible controls to protect availability. - Remove ALL foreign-language translation services across the health service. - Ensure all staff speak fluent English - OBVIOUSLY. - Improve complaint/whistleblowing processes so that patients and staff have a proper voice. - Invest in proper hospital food - British sourced, nutritious, and as natural as possible. - Respect continuity of care, making it easier for patients with complex or long-term conditions to see the same GP or clinical team. - Patients will receive clear, timely and understandable explanations of delays, cancelled operations, test results and changes to treatment plans. NHS culture - End every last DEI programmes and the politicisation of the health service - staff will leave their rainbow lanyards at home. - Require NHS staff to prioritise patient care, professional standards and political impartiality. - Sack the staff who breach these professional obligations. - Introduce salary-linked league tables for senior executives across the trusts. Again, remove those who are not performing. Efficiency - Radically reduce NHS bureaucracy. - Eliminate duplicated administrative roles, wasteful expenditure and unnecessary management layers. - Overhaul procurement - put qualified men and women with genuine private sector experience in charge of a total root and branch review of how our money is being spent. - Conduct an NHS-wide technology audit - drag it into 2026. A full Restore Britain policy is being worked on, but these are the principles on which it is based. In the medium to long term, we need a more fundamental conversation about how healthcare is delivered in Britain. But this is the basis of Restore Britain’s plan to ensure the health service provides timely and robust care to the people who need it. The British people.
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James Cook retweeted
What Bukele did in El Salvador is proof that having the courage to remove the bottom 1% of a population would eliminate virtually every problem and allow a country to look like a paradise but we are too scared to accept it because it would make some people sad
Broke: the bottom quintile Woke: the bottom permille This reminds me of the finding that a third of all shoplifting arrests in NYC in 2022 were of just 327 people–0.00385% doing 33%. We don't have to live like this!
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This week I realized rice, grains, seeds and potatoes all used to be peasant foods And the kings actually just ate a lot of fresh meat like beef, venison, wild boar, swan, and peacock, and imported fruits and spices like saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pepper A king's diet was high in protein A peasant's diet was low in protein So the question becomes, do you want to eat like a king or a peasant?
Replying to @levelsio @PromptLLM
Quinoa was a staple for Andean indigenous peasants for millennia and dismissed by Spanish colonizers as poor man's or Indian food. Rice has long been the primary sustenance of Asian peasant populations. Grains in general were historical peasant staples while meat favored elites. Claim checks out.
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James Cook retweeted
Is it just me or anyone else noticed social and spatial awareness completely vanishing? People freezing in doorways, hogging the entire sidewalk, planted in front of exits, blocking whole aisles, stopping at the top of escalators… Get out of the way. Other people exist here too.
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I will make the country a promise tonight. Any high-ranking public servant facilitating and deliberately enabling the invasion of Britain will be prosecuted by a Restore Britain Government. They will go to prison. Hundreds, if not thousands - this is their warning. This has now gone too far. We have the entire establishment weaponising the British state to import these men. In the thousands and thousands. Something has to be done, because this just cannot continue. So back us. Give the threat weight. Put the fear of God into them. Make them think twice. Force them to change course. Provide Restore Britain the electoral support to make the threat count. And when we win, they will go to prison. Your vote, your backing, your support. It matters, and it can make a difference now. Not in 2029. But now. Because this can't go on. It just can't. Use Restore Britain as your voice, your weapon, your threat. We will not let you down. That is my promise to the British people.
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James Cook retweeted
Now that I have the source code of Red Alert 2, I can add to it all the things I always wanted the game to have. "Codex, lets add tactical zoom and pan to the game. Should be controlled with the mouse wheel". 10 minutes later, done. Let me know what other things I should add to the game. (Yes there are still some minor visual bugs in the game itself).
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I’ll be shocked if GTA 6 doesn’t have @Tesla FSD or fleets of @robotaxi / @Waymo driving around
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Without a doubt, Britain is being Islamified. Deny it if you like. Then walk through Cardiff, Rochdale, Blackburn, Luton, parts of Birmingham, Bradford and large stretches of East London. It is not “multiculturalism.” It is one culture. Islam. British families have been pushed out. High streets have changed. Flags have changed. The atmosphere has changed. The establishment will call this “far-right.” They always do. The British public can see what is happening with their own eyes. I will not sit back and watch this country become something else. Neither should you.
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I have a niggling worry about political systems, that they can have a permanent failure mode once the “meta” is known. Once the optimal way of fighting and winning an election is figured out (I think it has been) then democracy doesn’t work any more. Once information about how to game the welfare system gets out it doesn’t work anymore. There isn’t a system which works for all time because there is always some cheat code that breaks it, and once the knowledge of it gets out, that system can never work right again.
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You know the beginning of zombie movies where normal people start noticing weird behaviour around them or strange news reports but they largely ignore it all and then the world quickly goes to shit? That feels like the UK right now.
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James Cook retweeted
The life of the goyim.
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I hate building frontends with AI. Claude, Codex, and Kimi can generate a dashboard in 30 seconds. Then I spend the next six hours explaining that the main button is invisible, the table breaks on mobile, and every screen looks like the same pile of rounded cards. I've installed the design skills. I've fed it screenshots from Linear and Stripe. I've used the “premium, minimal, Apple-level” prompts. It helps. It never removes the babysitting. AI is incredible at writing frontend code. It is still terrible at knowing when a product feels cheap, confusing, or annoying to use. One-shot AI frontend design is a lie. The first 70% takes 30 seconds. The last 30% ruins your Saturday.
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Yesterday, while driving back from Dover there were so many bad drivers. People who veered out of their lane, drove too fast or too slowly to be safe and stopped or tried to reverse in the middle of the road. I wondered what was going on until we stopped at a service station. Almost everyone was foreign, mostly South Asian. As we left the services, an Indian van driver took a wrong turn towards the petrol station and tried to reverse back onto the main exit road, almost slamming into our car. Most of the world’s roads are less safe than those in Britain because British drivers are some of the best in the world. We have plenty of terrible drivers, don’t get me wrong, but our standards to pass a driving test are far higher than in most countries. When people move to Britain, they can drive on their foreign license. They do not need to pass our test first. This is a huge safety issue. Those who arrive in Britain from countries with high levels of road fatalities should not be permitted to drive on our roads unless they pass our driving test first. By not having this policy, the government is endangering British people.
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Here are some black pills to shake your complacent bones inside out. (1) Nigeria by itself ALREADY exceeds the total births of Europe and Russia combined. (2) Pakistan by itself ALREADY exceeds the total births of Europe and Russia combined. (3) India by itself already exceeds the total births in the ENTIRE White world. Even if we were to assume that every birth in the Western world is of European descent, India's total birth in 2025 exceeds the total Western birth by more than Three Times. Meanwhile, almost all Western governments and institutions have decided that immigrants from India and Africa are essential to Western survival, and that Whites who oppose this should be banned from careers.
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