Software developer. Co founder NDL, founder KNX & founder with @minabird Baycloud Systems https://xitter.cf/t.co/pxJP71F7Ee. Labour 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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Mike O'Neill retweeted
There seems to be a direct correlation between how badly Trump is doing and how often he abuses a reporter (invariably a woman) for asking a perfectly legitimate question.
And it feels he’s losing his shit more and more often, which suggests things are getting worse and worse
🚨NEW: Donald Trump lashes out at NBC reporter:
Q: Do the sexual allegations mean nothing to you?
Trump: “QUIET! Isn’t she a fresh person? You’re a horrible little reporter.”
(The reporter who press Trump on the sexual allegations was @albamonica)
Mike O'Neill retweeted
I wrote about a topic that does not get enough attention: AI industry has made choices about technology, product architecture, and capital expenditures that likely make financial success impossible.
Continuing on current path risks the whole economy.
thenerve.news/p/roger-mcname…
Mike O'Neill retweeted
Wake up!!!
@azeem is calling all these hacks “AI’s Wuhan moment”. Marc Benioff called it a code red.
And it is clear it is all going to get worse.
Yet the AI companies insist on shipping obviously dangerous products.
Meanwhile the U.S. government lacks the will and/or competence to do anything about it.
We are on an express train to hell.
Tell your congress people to temporarily ban AI agents, or brace for impact.
Mike O'Neill retweeted
In todays @HoCcommitteesUK Science and Technology Committee hearing, I held a quick fire round for Ministers to say who is responsible for what in AI, Digital and Cybersecurity, following the abolition of DSIT.
Mike O'Neill retweeted
泽连斯基点出了死结：乌克兰只要融入欧洲，俄罗斯就会散架。
他在接受采访时谈到了莫斯科发动战争的真正原因。
克里姆林宫官方宣称的理由，是防止北约东扩。
泽连斯基给出的因果链完全在另一个维度。
他说，俄罗斯的生存，彻底绑在控制乌克兰上面。
为什么？
如果乌克兰成了欧洲的一部分，俄罗斯内部就维持不住了。
多民族、多宗教，整个架构会直接坍塌。
这话听着像战时宣传。
但如果把俄罗斯的人口结构和历史账本翻开，就会发现他说的是大实话。
现在的俄罗斯联邦，版图横跨 11 个时区，内部包含上百个自治主体与民族。
境内生活着近 200 个不同的民族。
车臣人、鞑靼人、巴什基尔人、布里亚特人、图瓦人，各自有着完全不同的语言、宗教信仰和历史记忆。
维系这么庞大疆域的手段，说到底只有两样：
莫斯科中央集权的强力压制，
以及不断向边缘地区灌输一种认知，离开大莫斯科谁都活不下去。
乌克兰刚好卡在最要命的节点上。
两边同属东斯拉夫人，历史上纠缠了几百年，文化和生活习惯彼此知根知底。
乌克兰如果真能摆脱旧苏联模式，靠着自由市场和法治融入欧洲，过上富足体面的日子，
俄罗斯境内那些少数民族共和国会怎么看？
高加索和远东的年轻人会怎么看？
对比一旦形成，底层的质问就会立刻冒出来：
既然同为斯拉夫兄弟的乌克兰离开帝国能活得更好，
那各共和国凭什么要把石油、天然气和矿产源源不断输送给莫斯科，
最后换来自己的子弟被送去前线充当炮灰？
这种示范效应，打中的是帝国统治的神经中枢。
沙俄与苏联几百年的扩张逻辑，核心就是向外吞并、建立缓冲区，用外部对抗来掩盖内部治理的溃烂。
一旦乌克兰以现代文明社会的模样立在身边，
莫斯科中央抽血的合法性就会迅速归零。
紧接着，鞑靼斯坦、巴什科尔托斯坦到北高加索，离心倾向会接连抬头。
各民族和各地方的利益算盘一旦激活，
整个联邦版图的撕裂就会像雪崩一样停不下来。
所以普京必须拼命扼住乌克兰。
对克里姆林宫来说，乌克兰走通西方道路，意味着给莫斯科的帝国模式宣判了终结。
这无关所谓地缘安全屏障，
本质是一座靠强力捆绑起来的古老帝国，为了延缓内部解体，在现代文明门前做出的孤注一掷。
Mike O'Neill retweeted
Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."
"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.
So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.
People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?
He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!
When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.
He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"
- George Clooney
actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
Mike O'Neill retweeted
Brexit voter in Makerfield tells Beth Rigby,
"Everything seemed better when we were in the European Union. Boris Johnson just convinced everyone that we would be so much better off, didn't he"
Another says he didn't make the right choice to vote for Brexit because Brexit ended,
"The freedom of movement, the freedom of travel"
My view:
Johnson helped sell Brexit as a painless route to prosperity, then chose a version that put new barriers between British firms and their biggest nearby market. When the trade-offs became unavoidable, he blamed others rather than own the consequences.
Farage helped turn grievance into a political movement, but campaigning for a rupture is easier than taking responsibility for its aftermath. He could claim victory, leave others to manage the fallout and return whenever there was another grievance to exploit.
That is the populist trick: make a complicated choice sound effortless, dismiss anyone describing the costs as an enemy, then blame someone else when those costs arrive.
The people who believed the promises deserve honesty now. The politicians who made them owe the country an accounting.
And if Brexit voters in Makerfield have changed their minds, they are far from alone.
YouGov’s latest polling found 59% support for rejoining the EU, against 32% opposed.
With Britain needing stronger growth and more opportunities, the case for restoring closer ties—and the freedom to live, work and study across Europe—is stronger than ever.
#RejoinEU
Mike O'Neill retweeted
Donald Trump sued the BBC for $10bn.
Now a US judge has ordered him to sit for a videotaped deposition under oath by 11 December or risk sanctions potentially including dismissal of his own case.
That is the thing about suing people. You don’t just get to make the accusation. You also have to answer questions.
Under oath.
Mike O'Neill retweeted
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
Mike O'Neill retweeted
Mike O'Neill retweeted
“We invested in them. That’s different from backing them” why is there never anyone who asks “what the hell are you talking about?”
CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, on the business model of neoclouds and the possibility of bailing them out:
"Number one, we invested in them. That's different than backing them. We invested in them because we think it's a good investment. I can prove it. The reason for that is because all of the neoclouds, their demands are incredible. The demand of their compute is incredible. They have contracts from large companies, small companies. They are completely sold out."
"Needing to secure more land, power, shell. Needing to secure more compute, which is therefore, needing more capital, more working capital.'
"They need working capital. Because the demand for capital is so high, interest rates are starting to go up. Remember, it is because demand for capital is so high. Why is demand for capital so high? Because the demand for AI is so high. That's what's driving it."
"Everything else will get solved when demand is high."
Via @BloombergTV
$NVDA $IREN $NBIS $CRWV
“But even those who thought it was okay between friends, will have to concede that unbridled data sharing and uncritical cooperation with today’s US are not acceptable anymore”
sophieintveld.substack.com/p…
Mike O'Neill retweeted
The more I look back at 🇬🇧 history, the more it seems political tribalism helped create the tragedy.
Public ownership became left wing so it had to be dismantled.
Unions became the enemy so they had to be broken.
State investment became socialism, so assets had to be sold.
Europe became foreign control, so leaving became an article of faith.
Once economic policy becomes tribal identity, evidence stops mattering.
And decades later we are left asking why Britain sold strategic assets, lost productive capacity, hollowed out communities and became dependent on other countries for things we once produced ourselves.
Policy should be judged by whether it works not by which political tribe first proposed it.
Here is why population size misses the point. Norway’s fund is now worth about NOK 22 trillion.
By mid-2026 only around NOK 5.5 trillion of that represented net money paid in by the state. Around NOK 15.2 trillion came from investment returns.
That is what happens when you convert a finite natural-resource windfall into a permanent national asset.
It compounds.
It keeps earning.
It can support generations who were not even alive when the oil was extracted.
A fund does not become worthless because your population is larger.
The question is whether Britain could have built a sovereign asset worth hundreds of billions potentially far more over decades instead of consuming almost all the windfall as it arrived.
Norway proves the principle. Oil runs out. Capital does not have to.
🔥 And Britain was told privatisation would liberate us from the state.
Instead, in parts of our infrastructure, we ended up swapping our state ownership for somebody else’s 👇👇👇
Mike O'Neill retweeted
👏👏👏 Europe is ditching US tech and building its own.
ICEYE and @Nokia announced today a partnership with The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine to develop sovereign satellite communications. ICEYE has supported Ukraine since 2022 and delivers sovereign space capability at speed. This builds on that.
Read more: hubs.li/Q04C3bj-0
Mike O'Neill retweeted
Given Trump’s latest tilt to supporting Russian dictator Putin in his failing war of aggression against Ukraine, we Europeans must step up to the plate. UK, France and Germany can’t allow Moscow to prevail. It would be the death knell of our peace and security for a generation.
Mike O'Neill retweeted
Given Trump’s latest pivot to supporting Russian dictator Putin in his failing war of aggression against Ukraine, we Europeans must step up to the plate. UK, France and Germany can’t allow Moscow to prevail. It would be the death knell of our peace and security for a generation.
Mike O'Neill retweeted
🟡 MAGAZINE
Saying the ‘Unsayable’: Russian Interference
Andy Burnham has broken a decade of establishment silence over Putin’s plan to get Britain out of the EU. @peterjukes reports
bylinetimes.com/edition/91/s…
