I talk to a lot of Americans (and I don't pester them about it) but its striking they don't and can't imagine that their nation's standing wrt the Rest of the World is changing.

Europe currently has naval and marine resources deployed to Greenland to deter and defend against Trump's stated ambitions (which worked). Now, Trump is asking Europe to send naval assets to support him in the Iran War. This is Caligula shit.

Woke Hoth is the new Iraq right down to the blame game when things go off the rails.

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It's 2032 and the spirit of the USA-Europe alliance is kept alive by a commemorative line of Hallmark get well soon cards

The ethical, moral and governance questions about AI are being decided in healthcare and the life sciences.

Steeling myself against hostile mentions when America wakes up.

Trump appoints his golf cart with a built in chatbot as ambassador where half its output is inexplicably all caps. Teenagers get it to divulge state secrets through a prompt injection they heard about on TikTok.

The tide might turn. I recently signed a contract to do marketing for an AI services firm. The contract stipulates that I'm not to use AI in any of my writing.

If you get or already have cancer the people working to save your life are using every "AI" technology (yes even the evil ones). Knowing this virtually no patient boycotts treatment. There is robust debate about this techs role in healthcare. Where is "Boycott AI" in that debate?

The funny thing about Oracle is that most people who work in tech don't understand what Oracle does save for the fact they have best in class sales training.

Russia has Trump as an ally. But Trump is largely useless. What they've done is galvanize their real rival, the EU, and unshackled them from America's restraint.

Never was a truer word said

The UK thinks that it's the European country the USA respects most but right now big pharma is putting the screws to the UK because of the IRA (passed under Biden) and being now outside of the EU they are vulnerable. With friends like that you don't need enemas

Cross country road trips in Spain are surreal. The interior is empty but not isn't wilderness either. An empty place curated by an unseen human presence. A walled graveyard, well maintained but with no sign of human habitation for over 20 km in any direction. Stuff like that constantly.

What folks need to realize about "peace talks" is that this is all theater for Washington. Ukraine knows that Russia has no intention of stopping the war, and the Russians know the Ukrainians know that. So this is just all a performance for Trump, hoping he blames the other for the lack of peace.

RIP carbon dating.

The "AI bubble" (actually a hyperscaling data centre model) has popped. It may not lead to a market crash but I can't see investor confidence recovering.

The UK wants the EU to treat them as equals. But the EU is composed of 27 member states. By demanding equal status with the EU in toto the UK is demanding it be treated as the most important country in Europe over and above the interests of EU member states.

It basically skins bacteria alive and has a very simple molecular structure. Pencillin needs to get into a bacteria and jam a organelle inside the bacteria like gum in a lock. Powerful but also evolutionarily tenuous. Interesting source, nothing kills bacteria better than other bacteria.

If you were wondering what "old fashioned" AI researchers think of Sam Altman check this video out. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Most things called AI now weren't called AI back in 2022.

Star Trek: How I Met Your Mother #TwoShowsInOne

Theranos scale frauds happen 6x a year in health tech. It's such a regular occurrence that it doesn't even make the news.

While everyone is fretting about GenAI machine learning and NLP have taken the lead like the turtle overtaking the hare.

Every once in a while I check in on an old friend's Twitter feed, he's a good weather vane for the conspiracy MAGA crowd. He's pivoted to politicaly neutral conspiracy theories and doesn't mention Trump anymore. Trump is losing his grip on hardcore MAGA.

AI coding tools are having a massive effect on the outsourced offshore software engineering market. Firms are often just to add finnishing touches to something made on lovable. Not sure how people plan on maintaining this code. It's all a bit fake it until you make it.

There is an interesting thing about solar that most people don't realize. Panels are so cheap now that the highest cost by far is the installation which is local labour. So money spent on solar boosts the local economy and improves a nationals transfers of payments in its favour.

Spain is thriving now because 1898, and then 1975, left it as the big Western state with the fewest illusions about its place in the world. That's why, today, it's the European player with the most globally open and realistic foreign policy.

I met someone via LinkedIn (I work in digital health) and had a zoom meeting with her. This was earlier in the year. She was convinced ChatGpt was a god and that she had made several incredible scientific discoveries because it told her so. She seemed like a good person recently turned mad.

You wouldn't see them making such threats or exerting such pressure on a EU member state. Baby it's cold outside.

People treat public health as a "cost" but it is the ultimate revenue generator for government. Save someone's life today and you can tax them for the rest of their life.

What Madmani and Powlanski represent is a new heuristic for persuasion. I also I see it in my world of B2B healthcare/pharma. Aligned on values paramount. "Vibe checking" for trust. Unscripted interactions on video. Transparent strategy and goals.

Musk thinks he understands Tolkein because he played Dungeons and Dragons and is a Gary Gygax fan. Gary Gygax famously didn't understand Tolkein's work either.

Technocracy is scissors. MAGA is rock. Rock beats scissors. Technocracy is great if a society is high trust and there isn't a deep divide in what the population wants.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Philip K Dick

You can only fight post truth politics with technocratic means if: a) the post truth forces are small and lack support and b) the society is high trust with strong institutions. Otherwise it means mass political engagement.

We think of evidence based medicine as this time honoured tradition but contemporary evidence review is only thirty years old. Most people don't even know what it is. This makes it an easy target for attack by the far right (RFK etc) Defending it must be broad based not purely technocratic.

When my mother was a child (Franco Spain) one of her cousins (possibly autistic) was carted away to a facility like this. A week later our family was informed he died of natural causes. The community believed he was murdered.

Are Trumpism and Putinism coherent ideologies, and which will outlive its 'creator'? Post-truth politics is part of a profound transformation happening globally, leading to political crises in the West and Russia. Vlad Vexler thinks both will collapse. @vladvexler.bsky.social - youtu.be/PT3rESTV91c

Plot twist: Despite appearances the ballroom is fully operational.

RFK Jr nuked medical research from orbit. "Eat more vegtables" was his response to the furore over it. Now tens of billions of foreign investment is going to research in China while American labs gather dust.

Spanish politics is boring. What passes for scandal here would be considered too minor and tepid to warrant a mention in the USA. Any one of the USAs 30 daily scandals would raise such a hue and cry that it would topple any Spanish government and trigger an election.

The Bolivian election result finally ensures that the US has a secure supply chain for Lithium—the key element in a bipolar world.

I work in Health AI and I believe the tech has applications but I eyeroll when senior leaders say "faster" No. Go slower.

Reality is that which once you stop believing in it doesn't go away - he left behind a lot of all timer quotes

There's pent up and building demand for greater independence from and legal oversight of American Big Tech. The only thing checking it has been American security guarantees. Not just in Europe either.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

I work in Health AI and a lot of the cool use cases don't require a lot of compute. They combine LLMs with rules based systems, machine learning and human expertise. But this involves labour and nicheing down, the hyperscalers are allergic to that because it doesn't lend itself to a monopoly.

Doctors are constantly finding new applications for medical technology.