It was a pleasure to ask the Shadow Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy and others to set out foreign policy visions for Britain last Sat. Decisive positions on Ukraine, Russia, China, the US, and Europe. Watch back the whole @thefabians conversation below. https://t.co/979Zn4pwlH

C Yombinator: want nothing someone makes 🗿

If you picked A you’re ngmi Wish I could do my time at @UniofOxford again but without COVID this time tyvm

Would Have you seen prices and housing quality in SF? 🥴

founder of a bank promotes DEBT... suspicious...

We'll never be able to count how many small, beautiful ideas get crushed because the planning process is too big a hurdle. It's likely in the millions.

"The American middle class is shrinking, specifically because they make too much money to be considered middle class any more" is one of those things that's true but makes people irate when you say it out loud.

I met a lecturer at a top Euro university last week who was desperately trying to stop AI in his field. The usual cope - everyone’s gonna be online, AI can only repeat what it’s learnt, etc. If you can’t see the benefits of an infinitely patient teacher exactly tailored to each

A perfect example of how these pseudo-taxes on developers should become normal taxes collected by the council and spent according to the council's priorities. The pooled money could fund a far better public art endeavour than this haphazard, tokenistic effort.

Garry’s one of the good ones that actually cares about the founder, not just the unicorn exit. I once told him about a pivot I thought could make a few million, but I’d dismissed it since YC had already invested in me expecting a bigger VC-scale outcome. He said something along

Taxing people more because “they won’t leave because they grew up here and their family is here” is kinda rent-seeking tbh. You’re counting on those who won’t / can’t move to shoulder the burden of govt, rather than competing on growth. Govts being competitive is fair for

bro, you realize Tolkien literally based Rivendell on his trip to this place in Switzerland right? Elves are laughing all the way to their bank in the mountains, founding AI B2B SaaS on 25% marginal income tax rates and 0% CGT Getting there by train which is so punctual that 3

Chad IDE (@cladlabs) is the brainrot code editor. AI coding takes 1–5 min between prompts—too long to ignore, too short to start something new.  Chad integrates your brainrot (X, IG, Stake, Tinder, etc) into your agentic coding workflow and helps to manage your

Current housing and planning systems in the UK are extremely undemocratic. Decided by a very small number of people in central & council planning depts, with a very heavy bias towards active NIMBYs / objectors who have the time to write in (maybe 0.1% of residents) Loosening

Someone probably thought they were clever by kite-flying / testing the public reaction to the exit tax. In reality, you already send a huge negative signal because you just told everyone you’re considering amputating your own arm, and you gave the overall perception of decline a

A German court ruling that an LLM is not allowed to recall song lyrics is … bad.

Here's something fascinating happening in the apartment market right now. The cheapest, oldest apartments (Class C) are getting crushed right now. But ONLY in cities that just delivered tons of new apartments. Let me show you the numbers: Denver: Class C rents down 13.9%

Dear NIMBYs, please read basic economic studies