This is 4 mile tall mountain on Jupiter's moon Io

I believe that all NHS staff should speak fluent English - if they are unable to string a sentence together in our language, then they have no place working in our hospitals. To be frank, they shouldn't even be living in our country. If that makes me a racist, then so be it.

A quick message on what it means to me personally to win the Ballon d’Or!! 🙌🏆

Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks. By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time. Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.

The UK government may not want to release crime data broken down by ethnicity. I have been scraping daily court data to get first and surnames of all people who appeared in court in the country. This is day 46 here what i found: 🧵

Everyone should have at least a few penchants

This paper answers why confident idiots run the world. Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy. It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.” they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception. And the results are wild. participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile. they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence. the paper revealed a brutal paradox: the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain. if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing. this creates a dangerous systemic loop. the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions. meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse. top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else. they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add. we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence. the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't. the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.

This is why you need Sovereign AI. Sovereign Energy. Sovereign Heavy Industry. Massive Capital Markets reform. Planning reform. Protectionism for British jobs. Thatcherism now serves only as a temporary fiscal reset, but without the open market external predatory effects. Once you have a strong fiscal footing you signal to bond markets and foreign investors that you’re once again run by competent people and open for business. Then you can start the necessary borrowing and private FDI capex to fund it all. Lean highly competent statism à la Singapore. “The night is dark and full of terrors”. I have, for some time, posited that when China can no longer sustain its economy through internal consumption it will start to project power externally… All great powers go through 5 stages: 1. Regional consolidation – building internal strength, unity, cohesion. 2. Aggressive ascension – rapid expansion, military and economic, grabbing territory and influence. 3. Peak maturity – top of the heap, stable global dominance. 4. Overextension – internal decay, too many commitments, loss of collective will. 5. Decline and collapse – fragmentation, leaving whatever legacy behind. It’s fractal – applies to nations, alliances, whole civilisations. The West (US-led Anglosphere and democratic allies) – deep in stage 4, overextension tipping into decline. That post-Cold War unipolar moment has unravelled: societies polarised to breaking point, endless wars we never properly win, addicted to cheap goods from rivals, low quality unchecked immigration weakening the culture and the economy, and no stomach left for real deterrence. We’re appeasing challengers instead of crushing them early. China (CCP bloc) – squarely in stage 2, full ascension mode. Consolidated internally from Deng through to Xi, turned society into a unified militarised machine, and now expanding hard: Belt and Road debt traps, critical minerals and metals grabs in South America and the CIS via public mining companies to own resource choke points, massive military buildup, IP theft on industrial scale, seizing maritime chokepoints, dehumanising the West in propaganda. Xi’s made it a textbook expansionist empire – wolf warrior diplomacy, domestic repression, territorial claims everywhere. The world is now naturally splitting into 5 big regional compartments by culture and ideology: • Western democratic/Christian • Chinese communist • Russian orthodox • Islamic • Pan-Asian (India probably leading eventually…) Multipolarity isn’t some happy balanced system. History screams it’s unstable – rising powers always challenge the declining hegemon until a systemic war sorts out who runs the show (Napoleonic wars, WW2, same pattern). China IMO isn’t angling for peaceful coexistence. They want regional hegemony in Asia-Pacific first – Taiwan is the absolute fulcrum for controlling the First Island Chain, the Western Pacific, and the semiconductor and world’s key man chip manufacturing hub – then global dominance later. Tactics are pure empire playbook. Aggression still looks imminent. A move on Taiwan could come any time now unless the West deters properly and credibly. That would likely drag in allies and go full WW3 territory fast. Appeasement and “interdependence” have failed exactly like the 1930s with Hitler. The West has to wake up sharpish: massive rearmament, complete trade decoupling, rock-solid alliances (real Quad-plus, not half-measures), and clean out domestic influences. If we don’t, China exploits the weakness, secures hegemony, and liberal democracy gets rolled back in a proper clash of civilisations; as things stand it dies. This decade – the 2020s – is already the decade of maximum danger. Patterns don’t lie. We’re the declining empire unless we rediscover collective will and spine, and fast. Cold War 2.0 is well underway, except this time the East is ascending and unified while the West is divided and soft. Time to pick a side and mean it.

Today is a mathematical date we won't see again for 78 years. 10/24/26 10² + 24² = 26² It's called a Pythagorean Triple Day. There are infinitely many Pythagorean triples, but only 12 dates this century satisfy the equation.Today is the last. Next one: March 4, 2105.

🔥 CZ: “99% of ideas are good if the team can execute well. The problem is, 98% of teams fail at execution.” He urges founders to show execution instead of pitching ideas.